February 9-15, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Monday, February 10, 2003 Monday, February 10, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar room ``Large Distance Gravity and the Cosmological Constant" Gregory Gabadadze CERN Refreshments will be served Theoretical HEP seminar Monday, 2/10, 12:45 Boston University, PRB 595 " Neutrino Masses in Theories with Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking" Speaker: Prof. Robert Shrock Institution: Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY Stony Brook Monday, February 10, 2003, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kolker Room, 26-414 "Dark Matter from Beyond the Standard Model" Ted Baltz Columbia University Refreshments at 4pm Monday, February 10, 2003, 4:00pm Worcester Polytechnic Institute,Worcester MA Olin 107 "Does the Electron Bread Into Pieces in Some Materials?" Dr. Courtney Lannert Wellesley College Monday, February 10, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 168 "Rain Down Dirty Windshields and Vortices in Superconductors: The Dynamics of Driven Disordered Systems" Professor Christina Marchetti Syracuse University Host: Professor Michael Kosterlitz Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, February 10, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Making Sense of the New Cosmology" Michael Turner University of Chicago Tea will be served at 4:00 pm Tuesday, February 11, 2003 Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 1:30pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Abelson 229 "Gravity in theory space" Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard University Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Precision Physics with Inclusive B Decays" Christian Bauer UC, San Diego Refreshments will be served Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Anderson 210 "Brane Inflation: From Superstring to Cosmic Strings" Henry Tye Cornell Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "Plateaus and Jumps in Single Molecule DNA Unzipping Experiments" Prof. David Nelson Harvard University Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 4:00pm Joint CIRCS/Physics Colloquium Room 114 Dana Research Building "Probing single enzyme molecules at work" Professor Sunney Xie Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University Refreshments available 3:45pm Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "The ongoing saga surrounding the velocity fluctuations in sedimentation" Professor Michael Brenner Harvard University, Dept. of Engineering and Applied Science Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT 26-214 "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Optically Trapped Cesium" Rudolf Grimm Insbruck University, Austria Wednesday, February 12, 2003 Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 4pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Olney 218 "The World as a Hologram A Principle for Quantum Gravity" Professor Raphael Bousso Harvard University Refreshments at 3:30pm Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 1:00pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Directed Percolation" Rajesh Ravindran Oxford University Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``The Challenging Cosmic Singularity" Hong Liu Rutgers Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 4pm University of Massachusetts at Lowell Olney 218 "Probing Electro-active Polymers by Solid State NMR" Dr. Ashok L. Cholli Umass Lowell Refreshments at 3:30pm Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Special Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Scaling of Cyclical Roughness and Maximal Height of Growing Surfaces" Subhadip Raychaudhuri University of California-Berkeley Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 4:30pm Special Joint Theory Seminar on the *new MAP results*: Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Street "Implications of the MAP results" Kev Abazajian (Fermilab) Thursday, February 13, 2003 Thursday, February 13, 2003, 2:30 P.M. Materials Science Seminar "A Statistical Mullins von Neumann Relation for Grain Growth and Froth Coarsening in 3D" Professor David T. Wu Yale University McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street 12pm, Thursday, February 13, 2003 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 424 "Electron energy and phase relaxation on magnetic impurities" Maxim Vavilov Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota Thursday, February 13, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Primordial Nucleosynthesis in Light of the Cosmic Microwave Background" Brian Fields University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tea and Cookies At 3:30pm Thursday, February 13, 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "The Architecture of Complexity: from the Topology of the World Wide Web to the Cell's Genetic Network" Albert-László Barabási University of Notre Dame Time: 4:15 PM Refreshments @ 3:45 PM in Room 4-339 (Physics Common Room) Thursday, February 13, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Matter from G(2) Manifolds" Per Berglund University of New Hampshire Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Friday, February 14, 2003 Friday, February 14, 2003, 12 noon Brandeis University Special Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Fluctuating manifolds with type specific interactions: from a toy problem to recognition in immunology" Yuko Hori University of California, Berkeley Friday, February 14, 2003, 4:p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Black silicon: using lasers to make novel materials" Catherine Crouch Harvard University Refreshments will be served following the seminar.