April 14-April 20, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 15, 2002 Monday, April 15, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley, Room 168 "TBA" Dr. Stewart Parkin IBM *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.* April 15, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Mechanical Devices for Single-Molecule and Single-Quantum Nanoscience" Michael Rourke CALTECH tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Tuesday, April 16, 2002 Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 10:00 a.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW16, Room 213 "Very High Power THz Radiation from Relativistic Electrons" George Neil Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Lab Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room Building 6, Third Floor ``Brane Embedding: The Shapes of Brane-Worlds in Six Dimensions'' Ali Nayeri Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Refreshments served at 2:00 pm in the same room.* Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "Transport in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems: Evidence for Quantum Liquid Crystal Phases?" Prof. Michael Lilly Sandia National Laboratory *Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.* **Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking.** Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Roo 114 "Collective Behavior in Mixtures of Molecular Motors and Microtubules" Dr. Andreas Hanke Oxford University Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Bragg-Glass Superconductivity" Prof. Sean Ling Brown University *Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.* Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge "TBA" Dr. Manasse Mbonye University of Michigan *Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.* Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Boston University BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Physics Research Building 3 Cummington Street, Room 593 "TBA" Dirk Kreimer Departments of Physics and Mathematics Boston 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 April 16, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT Building 26 Room 214 "Quantum state manipulation in optical lattices" Mark Kasevich Yale See also http://cua.mit.edu/ *Tea and cookies served at 4:10 p.m.* Wednesday, April 17, 2002 Wednesday, April 17, 2002, 1:05 p.m. Tufts University Special Colloquium Physics and Astronomy Department Cabot Auditorium "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" Dr. Seth Shostak SETI Institute *Refreshments in Robinson Hall, Room 251, 2:10 PM* Wednesday, April 17, 2002 Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256, 4:30 "Almost Invisible Extra Dimensions" Martin Schmaltz Boston University Wednesday, April 17, 2002, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor seminar room ``*_Wars" Jason Kumar University of California, San Diego Wednesday, April 17, 2002, 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar Barus and Holley , Room 555 "Vacuum Superstring Field Theory" Greg Landsberg Dr. Marcos Marino Harvard University Thursday, April 18, 2002 Thursday, April 18, 2002, 12:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 424 "Solitary Wave of Asexual Evolution: An Analytic Approach to Evolution of Many Linked DNA Sites in the Presence of Selection and Random Sampling of Progeny" Igor Rouzine MIT Thursday, April 18, 2002, 1:00 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Gordon McKay Lab 402, The Turnbull Room "'Smart' Metal-Insulator-Transition and Magnetic Nanocomposite Layers Formed by Ion Implantation: New Materials and New Applications" Lynn A. Boatner Oak Ridge National Laboratory Thursday, April 18, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 190 "Writing Electronic Nanofeatures and Electrostatic Modulation of High Tc Superconductivity" Professor Charles Ahn Yale University Thursday, April 18, 2002, 3:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``RX J185635: A Quark Star -- Perhaps Not" Professor James Lattimer SUNY, Stony Brook Thursday, April 18, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Might 'M' mean 'Moose'?" Sunil Mukhi Tata Institute/IAS, Princeton *Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 p.m.* Thursday, April 18, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Exploring the Quantum Vacuum Through the Casimir Effect" Umar Mohideenu University of California, Riverside Friday, April 19, 2002 Friday, April 19, 2002, 11:30am Brandeis University Joint Biophysics Journal Club/Condensed Matter Seminar Kosow 116 "Materials Physics Problems in Structural Genomics" Professor Robert Thorne Cornell University Friday, April 19, 2002, 12:00 p.m. Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. "TBA" Dr. Karsten Pohl UNH Friday, April 19, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17, Room 218 "Electron Bernstein Wave Emission Measurements on NSTX and CDX-U" Philip Efthimion Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Friday and Saturday, April 19 and 20, 2002 Sessions A-D Clark University A Celebration in Honor of Christoph Hohenemser Toward a Sustainable World: Physics and Technology Assessment All talks will be held in Room N-104, Sackler Sciences Center Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610 Friday, April 19, 2002, 2:00 p.m. Welcoming Remarks - John Bassett,President, Clark University SESSION A - Start time: 2:15 pm "Nuclear weapons, energy, and risks: Themes from Chris's research" Rob Goble, Clark University "Lessons from the efforts of independent scientists to promote responsible nuclear policies" Frank von Hippel, Princeton University "The struggle for a sensible national energy strategy" John Holdren, Harvard University SESSION B - Start time: 4:10 pm "Is the answer to climate change mitigation blowing in the wind?" Joseph DeCarolis, Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University "Hazard and risk: Transition anticipated, terror encountered, taxonomy revisited" Robert Kates, Co-convenor, Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability "Reflections on Chris' impact on physics" Joseph Budnick, University of Connecticut - Storrs 6:15 pm: Dinner Banquet in Tilton Hall (reservations required) Saturday, April 20, 2002 Saturday, April 20, 2002, 9:30 p.m. Clark University A Celebration in Honor of Christoph Hohenemser Toward a Sustainable World: Physics and Technology Assessment All talks will be held in Room N-104, Sackler Sciences Center Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610 SESSION C - Start time: 9:30 am "Electron backscatter diffraction studies of crystallographic texture in deformed metals" Robert Reno, University of Maryland - Baltimore County "Observations on the art, science, and business of making photomasks, a key ingredient for turning sand into gold" Tom Kachnowski, Intel Corporation. "Doing physics in Lebanon: Challenges and future prospects" M. Ali Kobeissi, Lebanese University "The NIST neutron spin echo spectrometer: How a Clark physics colloquium changed my life" Nicholas Rosov, National Institute of Standards and Technology. "Ultra-high density data storage and magneto-optic materials" Ataur Chowdhury, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. "Twenty-five years of defect studies" Gary Collins, Washington State University. SESSION D - Start time: 11:10 am "Three-dimensional X-ray diffraction microscopy: Shining a six-dimensional light on internal bulk microstructures" Robert Suter, Carnegie Mellon University "Online education: why it fails and why it shouldn't" Lisa Dundon, Project Manager, eCornell "SiC Diode Degredation Due To Stacking Fault Growth" Robert Stahlbush, Naval Research Laboratory "What is it like to be a high school physics teacher at a Waldorf School?" Janet Saylor, Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge, NY "DNA nanowires: scanning probe microscopy investigations of biomolecular nanostructures" James Vesenka, University of New England "An insider's perspective on Physical Review Letters" Reinhardt Schuhmann, Managing Editor of Physical Review Letters.