March 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, March 10, 2003 Monday, March 10, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``Inflation and Pseudo-Goldstone bosons" Paolo Creminelli Harvard Refreshments will be served Monday, March 10, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Joint Math/Physics Everyperson Seminar Math Building, Goldsmith 317 "Solitons and Many-Body Systems in Algebraic Geometry" Dr. David Ben-Zvi University of Chicago Monday, March 10, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Charge Inversion and Gene Delivery" Boris Shklovskii University of Minnesota Tea in Jefferson 450 @4 pm Monday, March 10,2003 4:15PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Parton-Hadron Transition in Nuclear Physics" Haiyan Gao, Duke/MIT Refreshments at 4PM Monday, March 10, 2003 Barus and Holley 168, 4:30 p.m. Dr. Bogdan Dobrescu Fermi National Laboratory "Everything in More Dimensions" Professor Greg Landsberg Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Tuesday, March 11, 2003, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``Precision Electroweak Measurements and Supersymmetry" Michael Ramsey-Musolf California Institute of Technolgoy/U of Connecticut Refreshments will be served Tuesday, March 11, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "TBA" Gregory Tucker Brown University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, March 11, 4 p.m. MIT, 26-214 Canter For Ultracold Atoms Seminar JOHN THOMAS  (Duke University) UNIVERSAL BEHAVIOR IN A STRONGLY-INTERACTING FERMI GAS 10 MINUTE TALK Brian Odom (Gabrielse group, Harvard) Toward an improved electron g-2 measurement Tuesday, March 11, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT 26-214 "Universal Behavior in a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas" Prof. John Thomas (Duke University) Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Wednesday, March 12, 2003, 1:00pm Brandeis University Joint Condensed Matter-Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Quantum Systems are Incomprehensible"_ Professor Leon Gunther Tufts University Wednesday, March 12, 2003, 2:30PM Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 to be announced Prof. Albion Lawrence Brandeis U Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Award Symposium sponsored by the The Federation of American Scientists & the MIT Department of Physics 2:30-4:30PM, MIT Building 1, Room 190 "What Limits Should Be Placed On Biomedical Research in Response to New Security Concerns?" John Rennie Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American Kumar Patel, Vice-Chancellor of Research at UCLA, Inventor of the Carbon Dioxide Laser, Chairman & CEO, Pranalytica, Inc. Recipient of the First Annual Hans Bethe Science in Public Service Award Philip Morrison Institute Professor, Emeritus and Professor of Physics, Emeritus at MIT Manhattan Project Physicist and Co-Founder of the Federation of American Scientists Wednesday, March 12, 2003, 4pm Colloquium University of Massachusetts at Lowell Olney 218 "DNA in a Tight Spot" Professor Jane Kondev Brandies University Refreshments served at 3:30pm Wednesday, March 12, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Quantum Information Processing with Ultracold Atoms" Professor Ivan Deutsch University of New Mexico Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, March 13, 2003 12pm, Thursday, March 13, 2003 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 424 "Novel continuum modeling of the evolution of crystalline material" Daniel Kandel Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Thursday, March 13, 2003, 2:30 P.M. Materials Science Seminar "Thermo-mechanical Behavior of Nanostructured Materials for MEMS: Coated Au-Si Beams and Shape Memory Polymer-Based Composites" Kenneth Gall University of Colorado McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street Thursday, March 13, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Putnam House, Radcliffe Yard "Weeding out Loop Space " Antal Jevicki Brown Refreshments will be offered in the Putnam House Living Room, Radcliffe Yard, at 3:45 Thursday March 13, 2003, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Colloquium Room 10-250 "Escher and the Droste Effect" Bart de Smit Universiteit Leiden Refreshments at 3:45 in room 4-339 (Physics Common Room) Thursday, March 13, 2002, 11:a.m. Physics Department Boston University Title: "Patterns in melting snow" Speaker: Prof. Deepak Kumar Affiliation: Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, INDIA Friday, March 14, 2003 Friday, March 14, 2003, 4pm MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 "On Operational Power Reactor Regime and Ignited Spherical Tokamaks" Leonid Zakharov Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory