January 26-February 1, 2003
      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, January 27, 2003

Monday, January 27, 2003, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Joint Math/Physics Everyperson Seminar
Math Building, Goldsmith 317
"Feynman Diagrams"
Pavel Etingof
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Monday, January 27, 2003, 4:30pm
Brown University
Barus and Holley 168
"Fish Swim and Birds Fly: Continuum Theories of Two Different Kinds of
Flocking"
Professor John Toner
University of Oregon
Refreshments served at 4pm



Tuesday, January 28, 2003

Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 1:30pm
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Abelson 229
"The little Higgs"
Professor Martin Schmaltz
Boston University

Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 4pm
CIRCS Seminar
Northeastern University
Room 114 Dana Research Building
"Towards an Anatomical, Physiological and Behavioral Model of Vertebrate
Descending Motor Control: Raw Materials"
Professor Don O'Malley
Department of Biology
Northeastern University


Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 4:00pm
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"The Festering Problem of Elementary Particle Mass Generation"
Professor James Wells
University of Michigan
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm



Wednesday, January 29, 2003


Wednesday, January 29, 2003 4pm
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Colloquium
Olney room 218
"Probing Opto-Electronic Polymers by Solid State NMR"
Dr. Ashkok L. Cholli
Umass Lowell

Thursday, January 30, 2003, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Duality Walls in String Theory"
Amihay Hanany
MIT


Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics,Building 6, Third Floor seminar room
``Matrix models and the geometry of strings"
Marcos Marino
Harvard University
Refreshments to be served at 4:00PM



Wednesday, January 29, 2003  6:00 pm
Harvard Sackler Museum, sponsored by Harvard Bookstore
485 Broadway (end of Quincy)
Cambridge
Joao Magueijo, London's Imperial College, author of Faster Than the Speed
of
Light:  A Scientific Speculation
Talk and slide presentation on Magueijo's Varying Speed of Light theory and
the scientific process
Cocktail reception immediately to follow sponsored by SEED Magazine, open
to
the public



Thursday, January 30, 2003

Thursday, January 30, 2003, 12pm
Harvard University Physics Department
Condensed Matter Theory seminar
Lyman 424
Title: Discreteness, noise and pattern formation in reactive systems
Nadav Shnerb,
Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Thursday, January 30, 2003, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street, Cambridge
"The Formation of Planetesimals"
Frank Shu
Tsinghua University
Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, January 30, 2003, 4:15 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Duality Walls in String Theory"
Amihay Hanany
MIT
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th
floor Jefferson, at 3:45


Friday, January 31, 2003

Friday, January 31, 2003, 12:00PM
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Rm. 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Enhancement of long-range magnetic order by magnetic field in
superconducting La2CuO(4+y)"
Dr. Boris Khaykovich
MIT

Friday, January 31st, 4pm
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Condensed Matter Seminar
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Pierce 209
"Non linear transport in a clean one-dimensional wire"
Rafi de Picciotto
Bell-Labs, Lucent Technologies