February 17 - 23, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 18, 2002 Tuesday, February 19, 2002 Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "Application of the overlap fermion regularization to lattice QCED" Claudio Rebbi Boston University Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 3:00pm Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture III Jefferson 250 "Probing the Dark Energy Equation of State with new SZE Surveys" John Carlstrom University of Chicago & Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics (Harvard) Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St. "High Energy Phenomena and Processes in the Galactic Center Region" Professor Q. Daniel Wang University of Massachusetts at Amherst Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm Sponsored by the Astrophysics Division of the MIT Department of Physics and the MIT Center for Space Research Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 4:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT, Building 26, Room 214 "Time dependent description of the Mott-insulator phase transition: Recent progress and open questions" Peter Zoller University of Innsbruck, Austria Tea and cookies will be served at 4:10pm More information available on http://cua.mit.edu/ Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 4:30pm Boston University BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Boston University, Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington St., Room 593 "Discreteness of Spectrum and Strict Positivity Criteria for Magnetic Schroedinger Operators" Mikhail Shubin Northeastern University Free parking available at the garage at 595 Commonwealth Ave, but requires an e-mail request to dmcote@bu.edu at least 4 hours in advance, stating your full name in the "Subject" field. Tell the parking attendant that you have come for the Mathematical Physics seminar. Wednesday, February 20, 2002 Wednesday, February 20, 2002, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "On Condensation of Localized Tachyons in Closed String Theories" Soonkeon Nam Kyung Hee University Wednesday, February 20, 2002, 4:30pm Harvard University Harvard University Physics Dept./Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Microscopic Bose-Einstein Condensates: Effects Beyond Mean-Field Theory" Professor Boerte Blume Washington State Tea will be served at 4:00pm Wednesday, February 20, 2002, 4:30pm Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "Global Charge Veto and Cosmological Term Relaxation with Euclidean Black Holes" Frank Wilczek Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be offered at 4:00pm in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th Floor Jefferson Thursday, February 21, 2002 Thursday, February 21, 2002, 12noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Lyman 425 "Disrupting DNA-protein binding by applied mechanical stress" Abhijit Sarkar University of Chicago Thursday, February 21, 2002, 4:00pm Clark University Physics Department Colloquium Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105 Ph.D. Dissertation Defense "Experimental Investigation of Linear and Nonlinear Wave Systems: A Quantum Chaos Approach" Toni Neicu Clark University Thursday, February 21, 2002, 4:15pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Toda integrable structure of 2D string theory perturbed by vortices" Vladimir Kazakov Ecole Normale Superieure Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th Floor Jefferson, at 3:45pm Thursday, February 21, 2002, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "The Superworld, the Braneworld, and Our World" Professor Raman Sundrum John Hopkins University Friday, February 22, 2002 Friday, February 22, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17, Room 218 "Microstability Analysis of NSTX Plasmas" Clarisse Bourdelle Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Friday, February 22, 2002, 4:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, Room 209 "TBA" Professor Young S. Lee Physics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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". 1