May 12 - May 18, 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ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, May 13, 2002

Monday, May 13, 2002, 4:!5 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Nucleon Instability, (B-L) Non-Conservation, and Neutron-Antineutron
Transitions"
Yuri Yamyshkov

Monday, May 13, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
" Manipulation of the Quantum State of an Electrical Circuit"
Michel Devoret
Applied Physics
Yale University
*Tea served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m.*

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor seminar room
``New Initiatives in the Many-Body Theory of Nuclear Matter"
Vijay Pandharipaude
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
*Refreshments will be served*

Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Spacetime quantum mechanics"
Jim Hartle
UC Santa Barbara
*Refreshments will be served at 2:00 p.m. in Knipp Library, Room 251*

Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Dana Research Center, Room 111
"Localized States and Biophysics"
Professor David R. Nelson
Lyman Laboratory of Physics
Harvard University

Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquia
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
MIT Center for Space Research
70 Vassar St., Cambridge
"Galaxies and Mass: SDSS Measurements on Halo Scales"
Professor Timothy Mckay
University of Michigan

Tuesday May 14, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
MIT Building 26 Room 214
"Scaling the Ion Trap Quantum Computer"
Chris Monroe
Univerisity of Michigan
See also http://cua.mit.edu/
*Tea and cookies served at 4:10 p.m.*

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor seminar room
"Tachyon dynamics in string theory"
Ashoke Sen
MRI
India/MIT

Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
CIMS Seminar
Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures
Lyman Labs, Room 424
"Spin Dependent Transport in Manganite/Ferrite Based Junctions"
Professor Yuri Suzuki
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Cornell University

Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Physics Department/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"Quantum-Field Effects in Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensates"
Dr. Amichay Vardi
ITAMP - Harvard University
*Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.*

Wednesday, May 15, 2002,  4:30 p.m.
Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar
Physics Research Building
3 Cummington Street
"A Tentative Theory of Large Distance Physics"
Daniel Friedan
Rutgers University

Thursday, May 16, 2002

Thursday, May 16, 2002, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics Colloquium Series
Room 10-250
"Challenging Physics Problems in Biology: Noise, Self-Organization, and
Pattern Formation"                                  Alexander Van


Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Harvard University
Physics Department=20
May 16, 2002
Chinlin Guo
University of California San Diego
"Non-native beta sheet formation: into mad cow disease."
Lyman 424
12pm, Thursday, May 16, 2002

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 424
"Multi-electron Bubbles-Properties of a Spherical 2D Electron Gas
Coupling to Ripplons"
Jacques Tempere
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
SPECIAL SEMINAR
SPEAKER:        S. Peter Rosen
                 Department of EnergyTITLE:          
                 "Solar Neutrinos Since SNO"
DATE:           Wednesday, May 15, 2002
TIME:           4:15 p.m.
PLACE:  Kolker Room 26-414



Thursday, May 16, 2002, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"TBA"
John McGreevy
Stanford University
*Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45 p.m.*