February 10 - 16, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, February 11, 2002 Monday, February 11, 2002, 12:00pm Special CIRCS Seminar Northeastern University Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Biochemical Studies on Recombinant Prion Protein-nucleic Acid Interaction" P.K. Nandi Pathologie Infectieuse at Immunologie Institut National de la Recherche Argonomique France *Refreshments served at 11:45am* Monday, February 11, 2002, 2:00pm Particle Theory Seminar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "The Light-sheet Formulation of the Holographic Principle: A Recent Application" Raphael Bousso ITP, UC, Santa Barbara Monday, February 11, 2002, 4:00pm University of New Hampshire DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B "Student Understanding of Conductivity" Michael Wittman University of Maine at Orono *Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in DeMeritt Hall, 105F* Monday, February 11, 2002, 4:15pm Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kolker Room, 26-414 "From M-Theory to the Real World: The Physics of G-2 Manifold" David Tong MIT *Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm* Monday, February 11, 2002, 4:30pm Physics Colloquium Brown University Barus & Holley Building, Room 168 182 Hope Street "Understanding the First Results from the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider" Dr. Mike Tannenbaum Brookhaven National Laboratory *Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm* Monday, February 11, 2002, 4:30pm Physics Loeb Colloquium Harvard University Jefferson 250 "Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background and the South Pole DASI Experiment" John Carlstrom University of Chicago & Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics (Harvard) *Tea in Jefferson 450 at 4:00pm* Tuesday, February 12, 2002 Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 2:00pm Nuclear Theory Seminar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "The Quark Mass Dependence of the Nuclear Force" Silas Beane University of Washington Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 3:00pm Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I Harvard University Jefferson 250 "CMB Polarization and Future Directions" John Carlstrom University of Chicago & Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics (Harvard) Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 3:30pm Physics Colloquium Boston University Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 590 Commonwealth Avenue "Superfluid Density, Heterogeneity and Condensation of High-Tc Superconductors" Y.J. Uemura Columbia University *Refreshments will be served at 3:15pm* *Please call one day in advance for parking (617.353.2600)* Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 4:00pm Physics Seminar Northeastern University Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Art and Science of Carbon Nano-devices" Dr. Michael Fogler MIT Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 4:00pm Physical Chemistry Seminar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 3, Room 105 "A Physicist's Approach to Quantum Computing" Edward Farhi Center for Theoretical Physics MIT Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 4:00pm Physics Colloquium Martin Weiner Lecture Series Brandeis University Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Strings, Matrices and Spacetime" Sanjaye Ramgoolam Brown University *Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm* Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 4:00pm MIT Astrophysics Colloquia MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street Cambridge, Massachusetts Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 "The Saga of Helium-3" Thomas Bania Boston University Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 4:30pm Joint Harvard-MIT Center For Ultracold Atoms Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 26, Room 214 "Theory of Vortex Formation in Bose-Einstein Condensates" James Anglin MIT *Refreshments will be served at 4:15pm* Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 4:30pm BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Boston University Physics Research Building 3 Cummington Street, Room 593 "String Inspired Techniques For Quantum Field Theory Computations" Christian Schubert University of Michocan, Mexico Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 7:30pm Optical Society of America Dinner Meeting New England Section On the Common, Route 131 Sturbridge, Massachusetts "Status and Prospects for Optical Components and Modules" Fred J. Leonberger, CTO JDS Uniphase *Social Hour at 5:45pm* *Dinner at 6:30 (reservations: reservations@nesosa.com)* Wednesday, February 13, 2002 Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 12:00pm Condensed Matter Seminar Brandeis University Physics Building, Room 333 "TBA" Dr. Horatio Castillo Boston University Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 2:00pm String Seminar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "TBA" Kentaro Hori Harvard University Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 2:30pm Theoretical Seminar Brown University Physics Department Barus & Holley, Room 555 "Deconstructing (2.0) and Little String Theory" Dr. Lubos Motl Harvard University Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 4:30pm Joint Theory Seminar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Cosmic Strings in a Braneworld Theory with Metastable Gravitons" Arthur Lue New York University Thursday, February 14, 2002 Thursday, February 14, 2002, 11am High Energy Theory Seminar Northeastern University Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Infinite Volume Extra Dimensions" Gregory Gabadadze University of Minnesota Thursday, February 14, 2002, 2:00pm Special Seminar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Higher Symmetris and Neutrino Oscillations" Bogdan Dobrescu Yale University Thursday, February 14, 2002, 3:00pm Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II Harvard University Jefferson 250 "Cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect" John Carlstrom University of Chicago & Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics (Harvard) Thursday, February 14, 2002, 4:00pm Physics Colloquium Northeastern University Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Scales of Gravity" Gregory Gabadadze University of Minnesota Thursday, February 14, 2002, 4:00pm Physics Colloquium Martin Weiner Lecture Series Brandeis University Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Tachyon Condensation in String Theory" Dr. Michael Gutperle Harvard University *Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm* Thursday, February 14, 2002, 4:15pm Duality Seminar Harvard University Jefferson 453 "A New Approach to N=1 Field Theory Dualities" David Berenstein IAS *Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor of Jefferson, at 3:45pm* Thursday, February 14, 2002, 4:15pm MIT Physics Colloquium Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 10-250 "Organic Molecular Crystals: New Perspectives for Science and Technology" (The David and Edith Harris Distinguished Lecture) Bertram Batlogg ETH, Solid State Physics Laboratory, Zurich *Refreshments at 3:00pm in 4-339 (Physics Common Room)* Friday, February 15, 2002 Friday, February 15, 2002, 12:00pm Condensed Matter Seminar Boston University Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 590 Commonwealth Avenue "Novel Computational Methods for Dynamical Properties of Strongly-Interacting Systems" Hartmut Monien Universitaet Bonn Friday, February 15, 2002, 2:00pm Special Particle Theory Seminar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "New Probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy" Lawrence Krauss Case Western Reserve University Friday, February 15, 2002, 4:00pm Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building NW17, Room 218 "Calculations of Alfven Wave Current Drive Efficiency" John Wright University of Wisconsin To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send an email to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe". 3