March 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, March 18, 2002 Monday, March 18, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Nuclear Effects in Deep Inelastic Scattering" Antje Bruell M.I.T. Monday, March 18, 2002 @ 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Science Center, Hall C "The Physics of Musical Instruments" John Huth Harvard University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 (library) @ 4:00 pm Tuesday, March 19, 2002 Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Kolker Room, 26-414* note location ``Lattice QCD and V_ub & V_cb" Andreas Kronfeld Fermi National Laboratory *Refreshments to be served* Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Dark Matter from Supersymmetry" Edward Baltz Columbia University *Refreshments served at 2:00 p.m.* Tuesday, March 19 2002, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 "Gamma Ray Bursts: Inside and Out" Dr. Nicole Lloy-Ronning Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "CP violation results from BaBar" Gabriella Sciolla Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm* Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 4:30 p.m. Boston University BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Physics Research Building 3 Cummington Street, Room 593 "On Grothendieck-Teichmueller (GT) Action on the Operad of Little Disks" Dmitry Tamarkin Harvard University *Free parking is available at the garage at 595 Commonwealth Avenue, 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.* Tuesday March 19, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT Building 26 Room 214 "Ground State Spectroscopy" Paul Berman University of Michigan See also http://cua.mit.edu/ *Tea and cookies served at 4:10 p.m.* Wednesday, March 20, 2002 Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Black Hole Entrophy and Spacetime from Quantum Mechanics" David Lowe Brown University Wed Mar 20, 2:30pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 Dimming Supernovae without Cosmic Acceleration Csaba Csaki Cornell Wednesday, March 20 2002, 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley Building, Room 555 182 Hope Street Providence, Ri "On the Power of Supersymmetry in Matrix Theory " Prof. Yoichi Kazama University of Tokyo Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Chip Trap" Dr. Wolfgang Hansel Harvard University Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "Reducing the Moose: Weakly Coupled Higgs as Pseudo Goldstone Boson" Ann Nelson University of Washington Thursday, March 21, 2002 Thursday, March 21, 2002, 1:00 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar The Turnbull Room, McKay Lab 402 "Stress and Cracking from Crystallization in Porous Materials" George W. Scherer Princeton University Thursday, March 21, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium and Research Presentation Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Title: TBA" Levan Babukhadia State University of New York-Stonybrook Thursday, March 21, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Chandra Observations of Extragalactic X-ray Jets" Daniel Schwartz Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics *Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.* Thursday, March 21, 2002 @ 12:00 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Special Particle Astro Physics Seminar Lyman 330 "Our Cosmological Model: Current Constraints and Consistency Checks" Matias Zaldarriaga NYU Thursday, March 21, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Series Room 10-250 Tissue Engineering; Can the "Human Body on a Chip" Replace in Vivo Therapies? Linda Griffith Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday, March 21, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW model" Hirosi Ooguri Caltech *Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 p.m.* Friday, March 22, 2002 Friday, March 22, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17, Room 218 "Ignition in Inertial Confinement Fusion" Riccardo Betti University of Rochester