March 16-22, 2003 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academi= c 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 l= ater 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, March 17, 2003 Monday, March 17, 2003, 8:30am-4:30pm Northeastern University Sugra20 Conference For full program please see attachment at the bottom of the calendar. Monday, March 17, 2003, 12:45PM Boston University Theoretical high energy physics seminar PRB 595 TBA Csaba Csaki Cornell University HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Maxwell-Dworkin G125 " Geometrically Driven Buckling Cascade Observed in Free Sheets" Eran Sharon Center for Nonlinear Dynamics University of Texas at Austin Monday, March 17, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``WIMPs and super-WIMPS" Jonathan Feng University of California, Irvine Refreshments will be served Monday, March 17, 2003, 4:30 pm Barus and Holley 168, Dr. Rudolph Oldenbourg Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole "Architectural Dynamics of Living Cells Revealed by Polarized Light Imaging: or is it the other way round? Professor James Valles Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday,March 17, 2003 ,4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Antiferromagnets: A Laboratory for Low Dimensional Quantum Field Theor= y" Ian Affleck Boston University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Monday, March 17 2003, 6pm Cafe Scientifique Red Line Bar, 59 JFK St, Cambridge "The origin of mass in the universe" Professor Steve Reucroft Northeastern University Tuesday, March 18, 2003 Tuesday March 18, 2003, 8:30am-4:30pm Northeastern University Sugra20 Conference For full program please see bottom of the calendar. Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Chiral Perturbation Theory for Staggered Fermions: Theory and Results= " Claude Bernard Washington University, St. Louis Refreshments will be served Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology JointTufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Kolker Room Building 26-414 ``Monopoles and Strings from Gauge Theory Phase Transitions" Artuu Rajantie DAMTP, Cambridge University Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM Tuesday, March 18, 2003 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem: A Watershed in Computational and Nonlinear Physics" Prof. David Campbell Boston University Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 4:00 p.m., Harvard, Jefferson 356 Yoshihisa Yamamoto Stanford University "Quantum Information Processing with Single Photons" 10 min. talk:Julia Steinberger MIT, Kleppner/Greytak group Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "How to catch a photon: Controlling light with light" Susanne Yelin Harvard/Smithsonian and University of Connecticut Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, March 18th, 3pm HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Crystals and clusters of micron-sized spheres: Optical materials assembled from colloidal dispersions" Vinny Manoharan Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Tuesday, March 18, 10:30am HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Cruft 318 Photonic Crystal Devices for Bio-Chemical and Photonics Applications Marko Loncar California Institute of Technology Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson 356 "Quantum Information Processing With Single Photons" Prof. Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Stanford University) Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 8:00PM Harvard University David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Hall D "Fun with Muons, GPS, Radar, etc." Richard L. Garwin IBM Fellow Emeritus Thomas J. Watson Research Center Refreshments after lecture in Science Center Basement in front of Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Wednesday, March 19, 2003 Wednesday March 19, 2003, 8:30am-4:30pm Northeastern University Sugra20 Conference For full program please see bottom of the calendar. Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Chronology Protection in String Theory" Lisa Dyson MIT Refreshments will be served Wednesday, 19 March 2003, 2:30pm Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "The Thermodynamics of Spacelike Branes Dr. Alex Maloney Harvard University Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Bragg Spectroscopy of the Multi-Branch Excitation Spectrum of Elongat= ed Bose-Einstein Condensates" Jeff Steinhauer Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wednesday, March 19, 2003 Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 4:30 "Grand Unification in Higher Dimensions: Flat or Warped" Yasunori Nomura Fermilab Wed March 19th, 2:00pm Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 595 The ICARUS experiment: status and prospects Marta Felcini CERN Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "TBA" Dr. Jeffrey Steinhauer Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, March 20, 2003 Thursday March 20, 2003, 8:30am-4:30pm Northeastern University Sugra20 Conference For full program please see the bottom of the calendar. Thursday, Mar 20, 2003, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 424 "How to make semiconductors ferromagnetic: A first course in spintronics" Sankar Das Sarma University of Maryland Thursday, March 20, 2003, 2:00PM Boston University Biological Physics Seminar Physics department Room PRB 595 (TBC) 3 Cummington Street "Raft Formation in Lipid Membranes Containing Cholesterol" Prof. Sarah L. Keller University of Washington Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli, Boston University (shyam@bu.edu) Thursday, March 20, 2003, 2:30 P.M. Materials Science Seminar "Carbon Nanotubes and ZnO Nanowires" Professor Zhifeng Ren Boston College McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street Thursday, March 20, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Measuring AGN Black Hole Masses by Reverberation Mapping" Bradley Peterson The Ohio State University Tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20, 2002, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Putnam House, Radcliffe Yard Title: TBA Albion Lawrence Brandeis University Refreshments will be offered in the living room of Putnam House, Radcliffe Yard, at 3:45 Thursday, March 20, 2003 New England Section Optical Society of America (www.nesosa.org) Sheraton Lexington Hotel "Modern Light Microscopy - some examples" Robert H. Webb, Mass General Wellman Laboratories and Schepens Eye Research Institute Networking at 5:45, Dinner at 6:30, Meeting at 7:30 Dinner reservations by Noon, Monday March 17 to nesosa@lambdares.com Date: March 20, 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "X-ray Astronomy: the Early Pioneering Years" Walter H.G. Lewin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Time: 4:15 PM Refreshments @ 3:45 PM in Room 4-339 (Physics Common Room) Friday, March 21, 2003 Friday, March 21st, 4pm HARVARD UNIVERSITY Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Visualizing infection of single influenza viruses" Xiaowei Zhuang Harvard University Friday March 21, 2003, 8:30am-4:30pm Northeastern University Sugra20 Conference For full program please see bottom of the calendar. Friday March 21, 2003, 4PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW16-213 "Recent progress in heavy-ion fusion research" B. Grant Logan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary SUGRA20 Scientific Program Session: Pre-Registration, Sunday March 16, 4:00 PM, 153 Snell Engineering Session: Registration, Monday March 17, 8:30 AM, 153 Snell Engineering Session: I - Conference Opening, 108 Snell Engineering Pran Nath mSUGRA, search for SUSY and unification Richard Arnowitt mSUGRA At The NLC Session: II, 108 Snell Engineering Xerxes Tata mSUGRA Phenomenology: Current Constraints and Future Prospects Howard Baer Phenomenology of Models from mSUGRA to Yukawa Unification Klaus Desch Searches for mSUGRA and related SUSY at LEP Session: Lunch Break, Monday March 17, 12:30 PM, Session: III, Monday March 17, 2:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering Frank Paige Discovery Potential for SUGRA/SUSY at ATLAS Stefano Villa Discovery potential for SUGRA/SUSY at CMS Carlos Savoy Lepton Flavour violations in mSUGRA Antonio Masiero SUGRA FCNC 20 years after: still hope for SUSY hints? Session: IV, 108 Snell Engineering Keith Olive SUGRA Dark Matter Mary K. Gaillard Supergravity from the Weakly Coupled Heterotic String S.J. Gates How Things Old Become New Again: From Formality to Phenomenology Alfred D. Shapere TeV-Scale Black Holes from Colliders and Cosmic Rays Session: Reception, Monday March 17, 7:30 PM, Curry Center Ballroom Session: V, Tuesday March 18, 8:30 AM, 108 Snell Engineering Brent Nelson Linking string theories to experiment via supergravity models Yutaka Ushiroda Flavor Changing Neutral Current Processes at KEK B-Factory Apostolos Pilaftsis Phenomena of Radiative Higgs-Sector CP Violation in the MSSM Tarek Ibrahim Corrections to b, t quark masses and t lepton mass in SUGRA including CP phases Session: VI, 108 Snell Engineering Carlos Wagner Electroweak Baryogenesis in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Konstantin Matchev Focus Point Supersymmetry Gordon Kane Issues in Learning High Scale Physics from Data Session: Lunch Break, Tuesday March 18, 12:30 PM, Session: VII, Tuesday March 18, 2:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering Daisuke Nomura The SM prediction of g-2 of the muon James Wells Top bottom tau Yukawa unification Stephen Martin The Higgs sector of minimal supersymmetry at two loops Hitoshi Murayama Anomaly mediation without extra dimensions Session: VIII, Tuesday March 18, 4:30 PM, 108 Snell Engineering Hans-Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus First Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay from the Heidelberg-Moscow Experiment - and Implications Alessandro Bottino Relic Neutralinos Rita Bernabei Results and perspectives from the DAMA experiment David Cline Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Galaxy and Universe Jonathan Feng WIMPs and superWIMPs Session: IX, Wednesday March 19, 8:30 AM, 108 Snell Engineering Scott Oser Review of Solar Neutrino Results and Implications Stuart Raby Unification in 5D SO(10) Satyanarayan Nandi Gauge Higgs Unification in Extra Dimensions Stephen Barr Large atmospheric neutrino mixing and µ ? e? Session: X, 108 Snell Engineering Jogesh Pati CP Violation, Neutrino Oscillation and Leptogenesis within SUSY Grand Unification Rabindra Mohapatra Minimal SUSY SO(10) : a completely predictive model for neutrinos Qaisar Shafi Where Does the Standard Model Come From ? Session: Lunch Break, Wednesday March 19, 12:30 PM, Session: XI, Wednesday March 19, 2:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering Bruno Zumino Quantum field theories on noncommutative spaces Ali Chamseddine Spontaneous symmetry breaking for massive gravitons Michael Duff M-theory vacuum supersymmetries: How Many? Session: XII, 108 Snell Engineering Sergio Ferrara Fluxes, reduced supersymmetry and gauged supergravity interpretation Carlos Nunez Dualities between Gauge and Supergravity (String) Theories Tim Jones Supersymmetric beta-functions, Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking and Yukawa Textures Session: Banquet, Wednesday March 19, 7:30 PM, Curry Center Ballroom Session: XIII, Thursday March 20, 8:30 AM, 108 Snell Engineering Chung Kao Discovering Higgs Bosons of Minimal Supergravity with Muons Alon Faraggi Phenomenological survey of M-theory Mirjam Cvetic Particle physics from Supersymmetric Intersecting D6-branes and M-theory on $G_2$ Holonomy Spaces Paul Frampton Grand Unification at About 4 TeV Session: XIV, 108 Snell Engineering Hans Peter Nilles Hidden sector axions: physics and cosmology John March-Russell Extra Dimensional Unification and SUSY Breaking Haim Goldberg Black hole evaporation in theories with large extra dimensions Session: Lunch Break, Thursday March 20, 12:30 PM, Session: XV, Thursday March 20, 2:00 PM, 108 Snell Engineering Marcela Carena Electroweak Physics and Bulk Gauge Fields Michael Schmitt SUGRA results from CDF Gerard Sajot Recent Results on Searches for New Phenomena from DŲ Goran Senjanovic Proton Decay and Fermion Mass Problem in Supersymmetric Grand Unification Session: PA1, Thursday March 20, 4:30 PM, 108 Snell Engineering Andreas Birkedal-Hansen Relic Neutralino Densities and Detection Rates with Nonuniversal Gaugino Masses Bumseok Kyae Inflation and Leptogenesis with Five Dimensional SO(10) Brandon Murakami Ancillary abelian symmetry solution to the AMSB slepton problem Yudi Santoso The MSSM with Non-Universal Higgs Masses Claudio Verzegnassi Higgs production in the 1 TEV domain as a probe of Supersymmetric models. Liantao Wang Re-examination of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in Supersymmetry and Implications for Light Superpartners Session: PA2, Thursday March 20, 4:30 PM, 168 Snell Engineering Eun-Joo Ahn Nonperturbative gravitational events in high-energy collisions Marco Cavaglia Nonperturbative gravitational events in high-energy collisions Christophe Grojean Standard Model Higgs from Higher Dimensional Gauge Fields Grant Mathews Cosmological Evidence for Decaying Matter in Brane-World Cosmology Anupam Mazumdar Early Universe Cosmology and Supergravity Filipe Moura Quantum corrections to supergravity Caio Polito Supersymmetric Field-Theoretic Models on a Supermanifold. Andreas Rathke Will LIGO see RIGOs? - Radion-induced graviton oscillations in the two-brane world Ion Vasile Vancea D-Brane Boundary Conditions in Pure Spinor String Theory Session: XVI, Friday March 21, 8:30 AM, 108 Snell Engineering Roberta Arcidiacono An overall review of the Kaon physics results from NA48 Wim de Boer Positron Fraction from Dark Matter Annihilation in the CMSSM Emilian Dudas Time and space dependent backgrounds from nonsupersymmetric strings Andrea Perrotta Search for GMSB, AMSB and R-parity violation at LEP Marta Felcini Exotic searches from LEP, including indirect constraints Session: XVII, 108 Snell Engineering Pascal Gay Higgs Searches from LEP Martin Schmaltz Little Higgs Heather Logan Phenomenology of the Littlest Higgs Session: Lunch Break, Friday March 21, 12:30 PM, Session: XVIII, Friday March 21, 2:00 PM, 168 Snell Engineering Alberto Iglesias Toward Solving the Cosmological Constant Problem? Tony Gherghetta Anomaly Cancellation in Seven-Dimensional Supergravity with a Boundary Paul Langacker TeV Physics from the Top Down