April 27-May 3,2003 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, April 28, 2003 Monday, April 28, 2003, 1:30pm (Note change of day and room) Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "On the Status of Highly Entropic Objects" Professor Donald Marolf Syracuse University Monday, April 28, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``G_2 manifolds: on dualities and unificiation" Tamar Friedmann Princeton University Refreshments will be served Theoretical HEP seminar Monday, 4/28, 12:45 Boston University, PRB 595 Katherine Benson Emory University/Radcliffe fellow "A Closer Look at Hierarchy in Extradimensional Defect Models" Monday, April 28, 2003, 4pm Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University Supercluster Lecture Askwith Hall in Longfellow Hall Appian Way, Cambridge "Climate Change and the History of Water on Mars" Maria T. Zuber Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, April 28, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Joint Math/Physics Everyperson Seminar Math Building, Goldsmith 317 "Some aspects of random matrix models" Dr. Niclas Wyllard Brandeis University, Department of Physics Monday, April 28, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Barus and Holley, 168, Dr. Boaz Klima Fermi National Laboratory Title: "TBA" Host: Professor Greg Landsberg Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, 2003 Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Maxwell Dworkin 221 "Heat conduction in one dimension" Onuttom Narayan UC Santa Cruz Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Gluon Propagator and Magnetic Screening Mass in Non-Equilibrium" Gouranga Nayak Los Alamos National Lab Refreshments will be served Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT 26-214 "Tests of CPT and Lorentz symmetry using noble gas and hydrogen masers" Prof. Ronald Walsworth (Harvard University) Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 2:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology JointTufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Kolker Room 26-414 "Gravitational Leakage into Extra Dimensions: How the sun can shed light on dark energy" Arthur Lue Case Western Reserve University Refreshments will be served at 2:00PM Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Cosmic Acceleration and the String Theory Multiverse " Professor Shamit Kachru Stanford University and SLAC Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Wednesday, April 30, 2003 Wednesday, April 30, 2003, 1:00pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Local perturbations of colloidal suspensions" Dr. Piotr Habdas Emory University Wednesday, April 30, 2003 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third floor seminar room ``Tachyon condensation and non-trivial NS B-background" Debashis Ghoshal Harish-Chandra Research Institute/Harvard Wednesday, 30 April 2003, 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555 "The Thermodynamics of Spacelike Branes" Prof. Alex Maloney Harvard University Thursday, May 1, 2003 Thursday, May 1, 2003, 2:30 P.M. Materials Science Seminar "Dealloying and Corrosion of Aluminum Alloy 2024-T3" Miomir Vukmirovic Brookhaven National Laboratory McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street Thursday, May 1, 2003, 4:00 pm Harvard University Astronomy Department Science Center Hall A Oxford St. Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecturein Astronomy. "The Rise of X-ray Astronomy". Riccardo Giacconi, Associated Universities Inc. Thursday, May 1, 2003, 4:15 PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Dimensional deconstruction and new theories for physics at the TeV scale" Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard University Refreshments @ 3:45PM in room 4-339 (Physics Common Room) Thursday, May 1, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Putnam House, Radcliffe Yard Title: TBA Yuri Shirman Los Alamos Refreshments will be offered in Living Room, Putnam House, at 3:45 Friday, May 2, 2003 Friday, May 2nd, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 "Josephson Current Through Magnetic Interfaces" Yuri Barash Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow Refreshments will be served following the seminar. 3:00pm, Friday, May 2nd Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Pierce 223 "Mesoscale Interaction Effects in Quantum Dots and Carbon Nanotubes" Prof. Harold Baranger Duke University May 2, 2003, 4PM MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW16-213 "Turbulent Heating in Collisionless Astrophysical Plasmas" William Dorland Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland