April 29-May 05, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 29, 2002 Monday, April 29, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Recent Results from a New High Intensity Gamma Source" Henry Weller Duke University Monday, April 29, 2002 4:00pm University of New Hampshire Physics Department Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B "Correlated Electron Materials By Design ~ Surface Physics in the New Millenium" Professor E. Ward Plummer University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Refreshments will be served at 3:30 in DeMeritt Hall, 105F Monday, April 29, 2002, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor seminar room ``Brane Worlds and Nonconformal Dual Theories" Tony Gherghetta University of Minnesota *Refreshments will be served* Monday, April 29, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson 250 "Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background: The Short Course" Steven Weinberg University of Texas Austin & Morris Loeb Visiting Professor of Physics *Tea in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m.* Monday, April 29, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley, Room 168 "New Results from BaBar" Professor Stewart Smith Physics Department Stanford University *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.* Tuesday, April 30, 2002 Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Harvard University New England Complex Systems Institute One Day Course: "Introduction to Complex Systems" Yaneer Bar-Yam President of the New England Complex Systems Institute Associate of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University Chairman of the International Conference on Complex Systems **Managing Editor of InterJournal REGISTRATION: Free for Harvard students, Postdocs and faculty, but registration is REQUIRED. Space is limited. Outside of Harvard: Student $50, Faculty $150, Corporate $300** http://www.necsi.org/education/harvard/ Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``Lattice Studies of Topological Charge and Chiral Symmetry in QCD" Harry Thacker University of Virginia *Refreshments will be served* Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "Seeing Solar Neutrinos with SNO" Prof. Eugene Beier University of Pennsylvania Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson 250 Lecture I: "Cosmological Fluctuations: From Inflation through the Era of Radiation Dominance" Steven Weinberg University of Texas Austin & Morris Loeb Visiting Professor of Physics Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Genomics and Proteomics Analysis Using Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry" Professor N. Chiu Department of Chemistry Northeastern University Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research 70 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA "Quasar Element Abundances as Probes of Galaxy Evolution" Professor Fred Hamann University of Florida *Refreshments are served at 3:45 p.m.* Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "The Rise of Complexity in Nature" Professor Eric Chaisson Tufts University *Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.* Tuesday April 30, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT Building 26, Room 214 "The History of the Two-Fluid concept and a New Look at the Bose-Einstein Condensation" Laszlo Tisza MIT See also http://cua.mit.edu/ *Tea and cookies served at 4:10 p.m.* Wednesday, May 1, 2002 Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Computer Simulation of Polymer Glasses and Their Blends: The Search for the Elusive Length Scale" Professor Sanat Kumar Pennsylvania State University Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "The Kapitza-Dirac Effect" Professor Herman Batelaan University of Nebraska *Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.* Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor seminar room ``Open Dielectric Branes" Mark van Raamsdonk Stanford, University Thursday, May 2, 2002 Thursday, May 2, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Series Room 10-250 "Observational Evidence for Dark Energy and an Accelerating Universe" Alex Filippenko University of California, Berkeley Thursday, May 2nd, 1:00 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Gordon McKay Lab 402 The Turnbull Room "Nanoscale Fabrication and Tomographic Techniques Using Focused Ion Beams" Robert Hull University of Virginia Thursday, May 2, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 Title: Singularities of 7-Manifolds with G_2 Holonomy Sir Michael Atiyah Edinburgh Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, May 2, 2002, 2:30 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Jefferson 250 Lecture II: "Cosmological Fluctuations: From the Era of Matter Dominance to Now" Steven Weinberg University of Texas Austin & Morris Loeb Visiting Professor of Physics Thursday, May 2, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley, Room 190 "Two Semi-Practical Problems in Micromagnetics" Dr. G. Grinstein IBM Watson Research Center Thursday, May 2, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Astronomy Department Phillips Auditorium Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy "The Demography of Massive Black Holes" Prof. Scott D. Tremaine Princeton University. *Preceded by refreshments at 3:30 p.m.* Friday, May 3, 2002 Friday, May 3, 2002, 12:00 noon Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Novel Kondo Physics in Quantum Dots" Dr. Robert Konik University of Virginia Friday, May 3, 2002, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Department of the History of Science Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "The Alternative Energy Movement of the 1970s: Context, Hopes and Aftermath" Dr. Steve Heims Independent Scholar