November 3-9, 2002 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Northeastern University. You may send your announcement by e-mail (bapc@neu.edu) or FAX (617-373-2943). We cannot accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no later than 11:00 a.m. the Monday of the week proceeding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Monday, November 4, 2002 Monday, November 4, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Feynman graphs: combinatorics, numbers and gauge symmetry" Dirk Kreimer Boston University Refreshments will be served Monday, November 4, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "The Condensed Matter Physics of QCD" Krishna Rajagopal M.I.T. Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Tuesday, November 5, 2002 Tuesday, November 5, 2002, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics third floor, seminar room ``XPT for the discrete lattice" Gautam Rupak Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Refreshments will be served Tuesday, November 5, 2002, 2:00pm Brandeis University Theoretical Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "TBA" Professor Washington Taylor Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, November 5, 2002, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "The colliding bubble braneworld universe" Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado University of Cambridge Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, November 5, 2002, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "AMS-02 on the International Space Station" Professor Kate Scholberg Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, November 5, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge "High-Frequency X-Ray Oscillations from Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Probing Strong-Field Gravity and the Properties of Ultradense Matter" Professor Frederick Lamb University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tuesday, November 5, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT 26-214 "Bose-Einstein condensates on optical lattices" Pierre Meystre (University of Arizona) Wednesday, November 6, 2002 Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 1:30pm Brandeis University Theoretical Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Decapitating tadpoles" John McGreevy Princeton University Wednesday, November 6, 2002 at 12:45 p.m Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 "New supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model" Neal Weiner University of Washington, Seattle Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Third Floor Seminar Room "Inflationary Cosmology in M-theory Moduli Space"` Eric Novak Ben-Gurion University Wednesday, 6 November 2002, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar, BH- Room 555 To be announced Dr. Richard Easther (Columbia U) Wednesday, November 6, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Using Electronic Wavepackets to Probe Dynamical Processes in Atoms" Professor Robert Jones University of Virginia Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 6, 2002 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics third floor, seminar room ``Lattice Supersymmetry" David B. Kaplan INT, University of Washington Refreshments will be served at 4:15PM Thursday, November 7, 2002 Thursday, November 7th, 12pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Statistical-mechanical thoughts about proteins, evolution and origins of life" Eugene Shakhnovich Harvard University Thursday, November 7, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "The Magnetic Origins of Explosive Solar Activity" Spiro K Antiochos E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, November 7, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 190 "Out of Equilibrium and Back: Structure and Stability of Colloidal Pastes" Dr. Maria Kilfoil Harvard University Host: Professor James Valles Thursday, November 7, 2002, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Life at the Strange Boundary of Science and the News Media" David Kestenbaum National Public Radio Refreshments, 3:00 pm in 4-339 (Physics Common Room). Thursday, November 7, 2002, 4:15 PM Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Ideas about fundamental physics from A New Kind of Science" Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Research Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Friday, November 8, 2002 Friday, November 8, 2002, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 20 "The 'Friction' of Vacuum, and other Fluctuation-Induced Forces" Mehran Kardar MIT Refreshments will be served following the seminar. To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send an email to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe". 3 - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".