May 4-10, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, May 4, 2003 Please join us in celebrating the distinguished accomplishments of our esteemed colleague, Professor Fred Wu. We are hosting a conference honoring Professor Wu's achievements on May 4, 2003 at Northeastern University's Egan Amphitheatre. Please see the following link for all relevant information. http://www.fywufest.neu.edu Professor Wu's contributions in many-body theory have been an influential for years and are still being cited. In the late 1960s, he began working in statistical mechanics with a special interest in exact solutions of lattice models of phase transitons and critical phenomena. He has over 210 publications and has authored a number of important review articles and monographs, including a 1982 review on the Potts model which over the years has drawn over 1,000 citations, and an equally important 1992 review on statistical mechanics and knot theory. He has also made definitive contributions in graph theory and in combinatorics, clarifying and elucidating the interplay of number theory and combinatorics in statistical physics. Monday, May 5, 2003 Monday, May 5, 2003, 12noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar Building 26-414 Kolker Room ``The Dilute, Cold Bose Gas" Elliott Lieb Princeton University Monday, May 5, 2003, 1:30pm Biophysics Seminar Boston University Rm 352 Metcalf Science Center "Synchronized Systems: Stability and Pattern Formation" Professor Govindan Rangarajan Department of Mathematics and Centre for Theoretical Studies Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India Theoretical HEP seminar Monday, 5/5, *12:30* Boston University, PRB 595 Note special time - 15 minutes earlier than usual. David Smith, MIT Warped supersymmetric guts and their phenomenology. Monday, May 5, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Recent Progress in Precision Perturbative Calculations" Zvi Bern UCLA Refreshments will be served 12pm, Monday, May 5th Harvard University Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 330 "Concerning the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity" Steven Kivelson UCLA Monday, May 5, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Locally Crystalline Electron Liquids" Steven Kivelson UCLA Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm Tuesday, May 6, 2003 Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 1:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Sudakov Logarithms and Structure Functions in Quarkonium Decay and Production" Sean Fleming Carnegie Mellon University Refreshments will be served Tuesday May 6, 2003 3:30 PM Boston University Department of Physics RM 352 Metcalf Science Center Special Condensed Matter Seminar Monte Carlo simulations of quantum antiferromagnets Anders Sandvik, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 4:00pm Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Room 114 Dana Research Building "Darwinian Evolution as Front Propagation on the Fitness Landscape" Professor Herbert Levine Refreshments at 3:45pm Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson 250 "A Closer Look at Hierarchy in Extradimensional Defect Universes." Katherine Benson Emory / Radcliffe Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 4:00pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17, Room 218 "Measurement of Equilibrium and Fluctuating Magnetic Fields in High-Temperature Plasmas by Faraday Rotation" David Brower University of California, Los Angeles Refreshments will be served Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms Jefferson 356 "Laser Spectroscopy and Cold Atom Physics" Professor Wim Hogervorst Vrije University, Netherlands Wednesday, May 7, 2003 Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, third floor Seminar Room ``Variations on a theme by Dijkgraaf-Vafa" Yang-Hui He University of Pennsylvania Refreshments will be served Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Quantum Cascade Lasers" Dr. Claire Gmachl Bell Labs Lucent Technologies Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, May 8, 2003 Thursday, May 8, 2003, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 424 "Darwinian Evolution as Pulse Propagation on the Fitness Landscape" Herbert Levine Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UCSD Thursday, May 8, 2003, 4pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Room 114 Dana Research Building "How Kinesin Keeps It's Grip: The Mechanism of a Molecular Motor" Professor Jeff Gelles Refreshments at 3:45pm Thursday, May 8, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Putnam House, Radcliffe Yard "Closed strings from decaying D-branes" Hong Liu Rutgers University Refreshments will be offered in the Living Room, Putnam House, at 3:45. Thursday, May 8, 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Messengers of the Extreme Universe" Angela Olinto University of Chicago Time: 4:15 PM Refreshments at 3:45 PM in room 4-339 (Physics Common Room) Friday, May 9, 2003 Friday, May 9, 2003, 4pm Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce 209 Biophysics of the DNA molecule Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii Boston University Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar Friday, May 9, 2003, 4pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW16-213 "Nonlinear Radio Frequency Generation of Sheared Flows" James Myra Lodestar Research Corporation