March 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Monday, March 3, 2003 Monday, March 3, 2003, 12:45pm Boston University Theoretical High Energy Physics Seminar PRB 365 "Grand Unification in RS1, Naturally" Kaustubh Agashe John Hopkins University Monday, March 3, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``New Supersymmetric Extensions of the Standard Model" Neal Weiner University of Washington, Seattle Refreshments will be served. Monday,March 3, 2003 @4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Antiferromagnets: A Laboratory for Low Dimensional Quantum Field Theory" Ian Affleck Boston University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Monday, March 3, 2003, 4:15-5:00pm MIT Lab for Nuclear Science Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Looking for Mr. Glueball" Fred Goldhaber MIT/Stony Brook *Refreshments at 4:00pm Contact (617)253-2395 for more information Monday, March 3, 2003, 4:30pm (Date changed to March 17) Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Antiferromagnets: A Laboratory for Low Dimensional Quantum Field Theory" Ian Affleck Boston University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00pm Tuesday, March 4, 2003 Tuesday, March 4, 2003, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "Inflation and de Sitter Thermodynamics" Lev Kofman University of Toronto Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, March 4, 2003, 4:00pm Harvard University Jefferson 356 "Recent Experiments at NIST on Trapped-Ion Quantum Information Processes" David Wineland NIST Boulder 10 minute talk "Does E = cm^2?:: single ion mass comparisons at 10^-11" James Thompson Pritchard group MIT Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 4:30pm Boston University - Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 3 Cummington Street "de Sitter vacua in string theory" Shamit Kachru (Stanford) Wednesday, March 5, 2003 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 2:30PM "The eta Signal from Partially Quenched Wilson Fermions" Prof. Hartmut Neff (Boston U) Thursday, March 6, 2003 Thursday, March 6, 2003, 2:30 P.M. Materials Science Seminar "Whiskers, Electromigration and a Crystal Zoo" Michael M. Burns Rowland Institute at Harvard McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street Thursday, March 6, 2003, 4:15pm Harvard University Duality Seminar Putnam House, Radcliffe Yard "Covariant Superstrings in 10 Dimensional Target-Space with and without Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds" Pietro Antonio Grassi Stonybrook Refreshments will be offered in the living room, Putnam House, Radcliffe Yard, at 3:45pm Thursday, March 6, 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 4-370 (Please note change of usual location) "Quantum Games with Trapped Atomic Ions; Whither Quantum Computation?" David Wineland National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO Time: 4:15 PM Refreshments @ 3:45 PM in room 4-339 (Physics Common Room) Thursday, March 6, 2003, 1:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``Confinement from merons?" Frieder lenz University of Erlangen Thursday, March 6, 2003, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science "PERSPECTIVES ON QUANTUM GRAVITY: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN STACHEL" Moderator: ROBERT S. COHEN, Boston University Morning Session, 9 a.m.-noon JOHN STACHEL, Boston University A Brief History of Spacetime TIAN YU CAO, Boston University Philosophical Issues in Attempts at a Quantum Theory of Gravity CARLO ROVELLI, Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille Loop Quantum Gravity Afternoon Session, 2-6 p.m. GIOVANNI AMELINO-CAMELIA, University of Rome La Sapienza Measurability Analysis and the Search for Observable Consequences in Quantum Gravity ABHAY ASHTEKAR, Pennsylvania State University Physical Ramifications of Quantum Geometry BRIAN GREENE, Columbia University Spacetime in String Theory ROGER PENROSE, University of Oxford Why Gravity Must Change the Rules of Quantum Mechanics March 6, 2003 Boston University Colloquium Room, 9th Floor B.U. Photonics Center 8 Saint Mary's Street Refreshments will be served Free and Open to the Public Sponsored by the Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science. For more information, please call (617) 353-2604. Friday, March 7, 2003 Friday, March 7, 2003, 4PM - CANCELLED MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW16-213 "Disruption Mitigation on Tokamaks using High-Pressure Gas Injection" Dennis Whyte University of Wisconsin