February 2-8, 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 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Boston College Department of Physics February 2, 2002 Professor Ian Affleck, BU Exotic Quantum Effects in One-Dimensional Magnet Colloquium 4:00 pm Higgins 310 Monday, February 3, 2003 Monday, February 3, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Joint Math/Physics Everyperson Seminar Math Building, Goldsmith 317 "Typical dynamics for volume preserving homeomorphisms" Raj Prasad UMass-Lowell Monday, February 3, 2003, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology 26-414, Kolker Room "Universal Aspects of Particle Production in Heavy Ion Collisions" Dr. Peter Steinberg Fulbright Visting Professor Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, South Africa (Currently on leave from Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) Refreshments served at 4pm Tuesday, February 4, 2003 Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Kolker Room 26-414 ``Dark matters: the milli-and micro-lensing of macro-lensed quasars" Paul Schechter MIT Refreshments served at 2:00PM Tuesday February 4, 2003, 4:00 PM, Harvard University, Jefferson 356 Center For Ultracold Atoms Seminar Isaac Chuang (MIT) Title: "TBA" 10 Min Talk: Tomohiro Ueno, "New Hydrogen Cryostat" Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 4PM Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Room 114 Dana Research Building "Dynamic Instability of Calcium Cycling under Rapid Pacing" Dr. Johannes Shiferaw Northeastern University Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson 356 "Quantum Information Processing: from NMR to Trapped Ions" Isaac Chuang (MIT) Wednesday, February 5, 2003 Wednesday, February 5, 2003, 1:30pm Brandeis University Joint Condensed Matter/High Energy Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Stochastic Conformal Maps - a new approach to a fractal geometry" Paul Wiegmann University of Chicago Wednesday, February 5, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics,Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Gauge Theory Description of String Interactions in a PP-Wave" Jaume Gomis California Institute of Technology Wednesday, February 5, 2003, 6PM Cafe Scientifique Red Line Bar 56 JFK St, Cambridge MA "The Extravagant Universe: exploding stars, dark energy and the accelerating Cosmos" Professor Robert Kirshner Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Thursday, February 6, 2003 Thursday, February 6, 2003, 12pm Lyman 424 Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Physics Department "Diffusive and stochastic models of influenza virus evolution" Dr. Joshua B. Plotkin Institute for Advanced Study Thursday, February 6, 2003, 2:30pm(Note new time) Harvard University Materials Science Seminar 9 Oxford Street McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room "Li-Intercalation Cathode Material" Professor Byungwoo Park Seoul National University Thursday, February 6, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "N=2 Seiberg-Witten theory and the Dijkgraaf-Vafa program" Howard Schnitzer Brandeis Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Thursday, February 6, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Understanding the Statistics of Extrasolar Planetary Systems" Phil Armitage University of Colorado Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Friday, February 7, 2003 Friday, February 7, 2003, 12:00PM Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center Rm. 352 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Inelastic X-ray Scattering: a new probe of electrons in motion" Dr. Young-June Kim Brookhaven National Lab Friday, February 7, 2003, 4:00pm Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building Condensed Matter Theory Seminar "Quantum Spin Chains and Number Theory" Professor V.E. Korepin State University of New York Stony Brook Host: Professor F. Wu Refreshments available 3:45pm Friday, February 7th, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Droplet Engineering with microfluidic devices" Darren Link Harvard University Refreshments will be served following the seminar. To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send an email to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe". 2 - To unsubscribe from the BAPC announcement list, send mail to bapc-request@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu and in the body put "unsubscribe".