January 19-25, 2003
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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Monday, January 20, 2003


Monday, January 20, 2003, 1:30pm
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Abelson 229
"On Decay of K-theory"
Professor Emil Martinec
University of Chicago


Tuesday, January 21, 2003


Tuesday January 21, 2003, 4pm
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Engineering Josephson junction circuits for quantum information tasks"
Dr. Caspar can der Wal
Department of Physics Harvard University previously at Delft University of
Technology
Refreshments at 3:45pm



Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 4:30pm
Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar
Physics Research Building, Room 595
3 Cummington Street

"Soft-Collinear Effective Theory:
Power Corrections and Endpoint Singularities"
Prof. Iain Stewart (MIT)

                                  
Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Professor Kevin
Smith, Boston University

"Soft X-Ray Emission and Resonant Inelastic 
X-Ray Scattering: Novel Probes of Electronic Structure 
in Complex Materials"
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Higgins Hall, Room 310
4:05p.m.



Thursday, January 23, 2003


Thursday January 23, 2003, 4pm
Northeastern University
Room 114 Dana Research Building
Physics Colloquium
Title to be announced
Professor Arshad Kudrolli
Department of Physics Clark University
Refreshments at 3:45pm

Thursday, January 23, 2003, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
Title: TBA
Vijay Balasubramanian
UPenn

Harvard University Physics Department
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Thursday, Jan. 23rd
Lyman 424
12pm
"Full Counting Statistics of a Superconducting Beam Splitter"
Prof. Christoph Bruder
Universitaet Basel, Switzerland


Friday, January 24, 2003

Friday, January 24th, 4pm
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Condensed Matter Seminar
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce 209
"Understanding Protein Phase Behavior"
Neer Asherie
MIT
Refreshments will be served following the seminar.


Friday, January 24, 2003, 12:00PM
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Competing degrees of freedom in the physics of high temperature
superconductors"
Prof. Alessandra Lanzara
UC Berkeley

Abstract:
Here we report a detailed study of temperature, doping and momentum
dependence of the quasiparticle dynamics in high temperature
superconductors using high-resolution angle resolved photoemission
spectroscopy (ARPES).  We report direct evidence of coupling of
quasiparticle to phonons and we discuss the peculiar doping dependence
observed in different materials, there where the critical temperature
varies by a factor of three or more. The existence of a universal behavior
for the nodal Fermi velocity in high temperature superconductors is
discussed.