May 19 - May 25, 2002
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Tuesday May 21, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
Jefferson Lab 356
"Bose-Einstein condensates on optical lattices"
Pierre Meystre
University of Arizona
See also http://cua.mit.edu/
*Tea and cookies served at 4:10 p.m.*

Wednesday, May 22 , 2002

Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor seminar room
``String/Field Correspondence from summing Planar Diagrams"
Charles Thorn
University of Florida

Thursday, May 23, 2002

Thursday, May 23, 2002, 4:00pm
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"A New Phase of Matter in the Cuprates : Orbital Antiferromagnetism"
Prof. Hae-Young Kee
University of Toronto
*Refreshments served at 3:45pm*


Thursday, May 23, 2002, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Weakly coupled supersymmetric string vacua without geometry II"
Simeon Hellerman
Stanford University
*Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45 p.m.*
Friday, May 24, 2002, 3:00pm

Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Department of Physics
Lyman Lab, Room 425
"Direct Trajectories and Interference in Quantum Dots"
Dr. Aashish Clerk
Applied Physics,
Yale University