April 07-April 13, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 8, 2002 Monday, April 8, 2002, 2:00p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room ``Fermion Masses and Supersymmetry in Five Dimensions" Tim Tait Argonne National Laboratory *Refreshments will be served* Monday, April 8, 2002, 4:15p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium "Surprising Recent Results on the Electromagnetic Form Factors of the Proton" Kolker Room, 26-414 Kees de Jager Jefferson Lab Monday, April 8, 2002, 4:30p.m. Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus and Holley 168 "Viruses, Vesicles and Multi-Electron Bubbles: The Thomson Problem Revisted" Professor David Nelson Harvard University *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.* Monday, April 8, 2002, 4:30p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Many-Body Physics in Cuprate Superconductors Reports from Einstein's Photoelectrons" Zhi-xun Shen Stanford University *Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00p.m.* Tuesday, April 9, 2002 Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 2:00p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``Reality Checks for QCD at Finite Density" Jacobus Verbaarschot SUNY, Stony Brook *Refreshments will be served* Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 3:30p.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. Marc Kastner M.I.T. *Refreshments will be served at 3:15p.m.* **Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking** Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 4:00p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Quantum Optics with Coherent Phonons" Professor Michael Geller University of Georgia *Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30p.m.* Tuesday, April 9, 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 "Neutron-Capture Element Abundances in Halo Stars and the Age of the Galaxy" Professor John Cowan University of Oklahoma Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 4:10p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chez Pierre Seminar Building 12-134 (CMT conference room) ``Anyons in a Spin Model on a Honeycomb Lattice" Alexei Kitaev California Institute of Technology *Refreshments served at 4:00p.m.* Tuesday April 9, 2002, 4:30p.m. Harvard University Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson Lab 356 "Faster-Than-C Group Velocities, Negative group Delays, and Their Applications" Raymond Chiao U. C. Berkeley See also http://cua.mit.edu/ *Tea and cookies served at 4:10p.m.* Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 4:30p.m. BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Boston University Physics Research Building 3 Cummington Street, Room 593 "Dyson-Schwinger Summation by Hopf Algebra" David Broadhurst Departments of Physics and Astronomy Open University, UK **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** Wednesday, April 10, 2002 Wednesday, April 10, 2002, Brown University Theoretical Seminar, B&H 555, 2:30 " PP Waves, Enhanced Supersymmetry and DLCQ " Prof. Sunil Mukhi (Tata Inst./IAS, Princeton) Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 11:00a.m. Boston University Special Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. "The Glass Transition as Observed in Computer Simulations" Prof. Andreas Heuer University Muenster Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 12:00 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Universal Aspects of Disorder and Random Bosons" Dr. Victor Gurarie University of Oxford Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 2:00p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``The Spectrum of the Black Hole Conformal Field Theory" Jan Troost MIT Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 4:30p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``Quantum computation by anyons" Alexei Kitaev California Institute of Technology *Refreshments will be served at 4:15p.m.* Thursday, April 11, 2002 Thursday, April 11, 2002, 1:00p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Gordon McKay Lab, Room 402 The Turnbull Room "Attempting the Unthinkable: Replacing SiO2 with High-k Gate Dielectrics in CMOS" Glen D. Wilk Agere Systems, High-Speed Device Laboratory Murray Hill, NJ Thursday, April 11, 2002, 4:00p.m. Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus and Holley 190 "Watching Enzymes Fold and Function One Molecule at a Time" Professor Xiaowei Zhuang Harvard University Thursday, April 11, 2002, 4:00p.m. Clark University Physics Department Colloquium "Computer Simulation of Biomolecular Systems" Professor Shuanghong Huo Department of Chemistry Clark University Thursday, April 11, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Strings in homogeneous gravitational waves and null holography" Boris Pioline LPTHE, Paris VI Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, April 11, 2002 Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar "Random Bosons, Spin Chains and Pinned Charge Density Waves" Dr. Victor Gurarie Oxford University Thursday, April 11, 2002, 4:15p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 The Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture in Physics "New Perspectives on Cosmological Structure Formation" Chung-Pei Ma University of California, Berkeley Thursday April 11, 2002, 7:30p.m. Optical Society of America (www.nesosa.org) New England Section Shearaton Lexington Hotel Route 2A at 128/95 "Scanning Viscosity Microscopy" Mark Cronin-Golomb Tufts University *Social Hour at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30* Friday, April 12, 2002 Friday, April 12, 2002, 12:00p.m. Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Physics of Quantum Bits" Prof. Steven Girvin Yale University Friday, April 12, 2002, 4:00p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17, Room 218 "Magnetic Reconnection and the Third Dimension" Jerry Brackbill Los Alamos National Laboratory Friday, April 12, 2002, 4:00pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Carbon nanotubes in micro- and nano- electromechanical devices" Dr. Stergios Papadakis Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill