March 31-April 06, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, April 1, 2002 Monday, April 1, 2002, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Deconstructing Electroweak Symmetry Breaking" Andrew Cohen Boston University/Harvard University Refreshments will be served Monday, April 1, 2002, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 What we know about QCD at Finite Temperature and Density from Lattice Simulations" Owe Philipsen MIT Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm Monday, April 1, 2002, 4:30pm Brown University Physics Department Colloquium Barus and Holley, Room 168 "Nematic Gels: Liquid and Rubber in a Single Material" Professor Robert Meyer Brandeis University Host: Professor Bob Pelcovits Refreshments served at 4:00pm Monday, April 1, 2002, 4:30pm Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Jets, Rogue Waves, Turbulence and Tornadoes" Daniel P. Lathrop University of Maryland Tea will be served in Jefferson at 450 at 4:00pm Tuesday, April 2, 2002 Tuesday, March 26, 2002, 1:30pm Harvard University Special Seminar Science Center 507 "Arithmetic of Calabi-Yau Manifolds" Philip Candelas Oxford University Tuesday, April 2, 2002, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "Chiral Corrections to the Nucleon Parton Distributions" Jiunn-Wei Chen University of Maryland Refreshments will be served Tuesday, April 2, 2002, 2:00pm Boston University Biological Physics Seminar Room SCI 352, Metcalk Science Center 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Micromachines Produced and Driven by Light" Dr. Pal Ormos Director, Institute for Biophysics, Szeged, Hungary Tuesday, April 2, 2002, 4:00pm Northeastern University CIRCS "Sensitivity of Wave Field Evolution and Manifold Stability in Chaotic Systems" Professor S. Tomosovic University of Washington at Pullman Refreshments available at 3:45pm Tuesday, April 2, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Astrophysics Colloquium Room 37-252, Marlar Lounge 70 Vassar St., Cambridge "Large Scale Structure from Redshift 2 to 5" Professor Lam Hui Columbia University Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm Tuesday, April 2, 2002, 4:30pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT Building 26 Room 214 "Photoassociation in a Sodium BEC" Kristian Helmerson NIST, Gaithersburg Tea and cookies served at 4:10pm See also http://cua.mit.edu/ Wednesday, April 3, 2002 Thursday, April 3, 2002, Brown University Theoretical Seminar, B&H 555, 2:30 "To be announced" Dr. Hong Liu Rutgers University Wednesday, April 3, 2002, 2:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, 3rd Floor Seminar Room "NS5-Branes, T-Duality and Worldsheet Instantons" David Tong MIT Wednesday, April 3, 2002, 4:30pm Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 593 (3 Cummington St.) "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Supersymmetry in 5 Dimensions" Professor Riccardo Barbieri Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Refreshments at 4:00pm Call (617)353-2600 for parking, at least 24 hours in advance Wednesday, April 3, 2002, 4:30pm Harvard University Harvard University Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Ultra-Slowing, Stopping, Compressing, and Processing Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates" Zachary Dutton Harvard University Tea will be served at 4:00pm Thursday, April 4, 2002 Thursday, April 4, 2002, 1:00pm Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Gordon McKay Lab 402, The Turnbull Room "Self-Organization in Alloy Thin Films Processed by Energetic Ions" Pascal Bellon University of Illinois Thursday, April 4, 2002, 4:00pm Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus and Holley, Room 190 "Tales of a Motor Enzyme: How Kinesin Keeps its Grip" Professor Jeff Gelles Brandeis University Host: Tom Powers Thursday, April 4, 2002, 4:00pm Clark University Physics Department Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Order out of randomness: the fate of quantum critical points" Professor Antonio Castro-Neto Department of Physics Boston University Thursday, April 4, 2002, 4:15pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Progress In Open String Field Theory" Leonardo Rastelli Princeton Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45pm Thursday, April 4, 2002, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "LISA: Gravitational Wave Detector in Space" Bernard Schutz Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert Einstein Institute, and University of Wales, Cardiff April 4, 2002, 12:00 Noon, Lyman 425 Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Professor Shou-Cheng Zhang Stanford University "A four dimensional generalization of the quantum Hall effect." Friday, April 5, 2002 Friday, April 5, 2002, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17, Room 218 "Electromagnetic Wave Studies in 2D and 3D Plasmas" Don Batchelor Oak Ridge National Laboratory Friday, April 5, 2002, 4:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Coherence Time and Excited-state Lifetime of a Cooper-pair Box" Dr. Konrad Lehnert Applied Physics, Yale University Refreshments will be served following the seminar