February 16-22, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 17, 2003 Monday, February 17, 2003, 4PM Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Worchester, MA Olin 107 SPIN-UP: The Current State of Undergraduate Physics Dr. Robert Hilborn Amherst College Tuesday, February 18, 2003 Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 12:45PM Boston University Theoretical High Energy Physics Seminar PRB 595 "Little Higgs Phenomenology" Tao Han University of Wisconsin Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Fluctuation Induced Critical Behavior at Non-Zero Temperature and Chemical Potential" Kim Splittorff SUNY, Stony Brook Refreshments will be served Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 2:00PM Radcliffe Institute/Cfa Chronkhite Graduate Center on Ash Street "First Results From MAP" David Spergel Princeton University Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity" Professor Frank Wilczek Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 4:00PM Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Agassiz House Theater 10 Garden Street Cambridge "Cosmic Inflation and the Accelerating Universe" Alan Guth Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Are Neutrinos worthy of CTP? Gabriela Barenboim Fermi Lab Theory Group Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 4:00 PM Harvard University Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Harvard Jefferson 356 " Scalable Quantum Architectures and Neutral Atom Quantum Computing" Carl Williams NIST, Gaithersburg 10 min talk: Yong Il Shin "Formation of coreless vortices in spinor BEC" Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson 356 "Scalable Quantum Architectures and Neutral Atom Quantum Computing" Dr. Carl Williams NIST Gaithersburg Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Solving matrix models using holomorphy" David Berenstein IAS Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar: Barus & Holley 555 "Asymptotic Quasinormal Frequencies of Black Holes" Dr. Andrew Neitzke (Harvard) COLLOQUIUM Department of Physics Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Professor Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University Jamming in a Model Gass: Interplay of Dynamics and Thermodynamics Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Higgins Hall, Room 310 4:00p.m. Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics,Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Supernova 1987A forward electrons: If not fluctuation, then new physics" Fred Goldhaber MIT/SUNY Stony Brook Refreshments to be served at 4:00PM Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 4:00p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Olney 218 "Superconducting Magnets for Fusion and Other Large Scale Application" Professor Joseph Minervini Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30pm Thursday, February 20, 2003 Thursday, February 20, 2003, 2:30 P.M. Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street Materials Science Seminar "Materials for High-Field Magnets" Ke Han National High Magnet Field Lab, Tallahassee McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room Thursday February 20th, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 307 "Surface induced ordering and the kinetics of the isotropic-smectic phase Transition in colloidal liquid crystals" Zvonimir Dogic University of Pennsylvania Refreshments will be served following the seminar. Thursday, February 20, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "News on Nus: A Neutrino Universe" John Learned University of Hawaii Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, February 20, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Putnam House, 69 Brattle Street, Radcliffe Yard Title: TBA Zheng Yin CERN Refreshments will be offered in Putnam House at 3:45 Thursday, February 20, 2003 New England Section Optical Society of America (www.nesosa.org) Sheraton Lexington Hotel "Active Organic Materials and Nanostructures" Vladimir Bulovic, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept. Networking at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30, Meeting at 7:30 Dinner reservations by Noon, Monday February 17 to nesosa@lambdares.com Thursday, February 20, 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Quantum Criticality: New Frontier in Strongly Correlated Materials" Piers Coleman Rutgers University Time: 4:15 PM Refreshments @ 3:45 PM in room 4-339 (Physics Common Room) Friday, February 21, 2003 Friday, February 21st, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Conductance of molecular nanojunctions" Nikolai Zhitenev Refreshments will be served following the seminar.