September 30 - October 5, 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
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Monday, September 30, 2002

Monday, September 30, 2002, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6,
Third Floor Seminar Room
``Inventory and Agenda (reprise of ICHEP 2002 summary)"
Frank Wilczek
MIT


Monday, September 30, 2002, 4:15 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Room 26-414
"The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment:
Recent Theoretical and Experimental Developments"
William Marciano
BNL
Refreshments will be served at 4:00, 26-414


Monday, September 30, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University, Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Lab, Rm. 250
Colloquium: "Prospects for Quantum Computation"
David DiVincenzo
IBM Watson Research Center
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m.

Monday, September 30, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Barus & Holley, rm. 168, *
"Cold Glasses and Their Mysteries"
Professor Christian Enss
Host:   Professor George Seidel
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m

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Tuesday October 1, 2002

Tuesday, October 1, 2002 1:30PM note new time
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, 3rd floor seminar room
``Pomeron-Odderon interference in hard diffractive
  electroproduction of two pions"
Philipp Haegler
MIT
Refreshments to be served


Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Building 26 room 414 (Kolker Room) Note new room)
``A New Measure, The Cosmological Constant, Fermion Families,
Strings and Branes"
Eduardo Guendelman
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM (same room)

Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University, Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Lab, Rm. 250
Loeb Lecture I:   "Exchange Gates for Spin Qubits"
David DiVincenzo
IBM Watson Research Center


Tuesday, October 1, 2002 3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Department Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107
"Fermi Liquids Made Simple"
Prof. R. Shankar
Yale University
Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.
Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking.


TUESDAY, October 1, 2002, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"My Manhattan Project: A Physicist's Adventures
on Wall Street"
Professor Nigel Goldenfeld
University of Illinois, Urbana
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm


Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 4:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophyics Colloquia
MIT Center for Space Research
70 Vassar Street, Cambridge
Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
"The Issue of Angular Momentum Transport At All Scales in the Universe"
Professor Bruno Coppi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Tuesday, October 1, 2002 at 4:30 p.m
Mathematical Physics Seminar at Boston University
Physics Research Building, Room 595
"Chern-Simons Perturbation Theory and Matrix Models"
Marcos Marino, Harvard University


Wednesday, October 2, 2002

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2002, 1:30pm
Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Single molecule DNA-protein interactions"
Professor Mark Williams
Northeastern University

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2002
 Harvard University
 Joint Theory Seminar
 Jefferson 256
 4:30
 A Little Higgs from a Simple Group"
 David E. Kaplan
 Johns Hopkins
 
Thursday, October 3, 2002


Thursday, October 3, 2002, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University, Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Jefferson Lab, Rm. 250
Loeb Lecture II:  "The New Quantum Cryptography"
David DiVincenzo
IBM Watson Research Center

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Condensed Matter Seminar
Department of Physics
Dr. Seth Fraden, Brandeis University
Thursday, October 3rd
Jefferson 453
1pm
B2 or not B2 

Thursday, October 3, 2002, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The Milli- and Micro-lensing of Macrolensed Quasars"
Paul Schechter
Astrophysics Division, MIT
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.


Thursday, October 3, 2002, 4:00 pm
Clark University, Department of Physics
Colloquium, Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"Superfluid Helium Avalanches"
Adrienne Wootters
Mass College of Liberal Arts

Thursday, October 3, 2002, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
Title: TBA
Ofer Aharony
Weizmann Institute
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45


Thursday, October 3, 2002, 7:00 p.m.
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
Boston University
Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Avenue
"The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most
Famous Scientist"
Fred Jerome
(Science Journalist and Author of _The Einstein File_)
Refreshments to be served

Thursday, October 3, 2002, 4:15 PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar

Jefferson 453
"Clean time-dependent string backgrounds from bubble baths"
Ofer Aharony
Weizmann Institute