PLEASE NOTE THIS CALENDAR IS FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF JUNE 2003

June 2003
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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Mondays, June, 2003

Monday, June 2, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor Seminar Room
``Cold atomic optical lattices and quantum"
Jiannis Pachos
Imperial College London


Monday, June 2, 2003, 4:00PM please note time and day
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third floor seminar Room
``Unstable D-branes and fundamental Strings"
Ashoke Sen
Chandra Institute, India


Monday, June 9, 2003, 1:30pm
Brandeis University
Theory Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Abelian and non-abelian stars and black holes"
José P. S. Lemos
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon
(Sabbatical: Columbia University)



Tuesdays, June, 2003


Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 2:30pm
Tufts University
Robinson 250
"Testing Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime with the
Accelerating Universe"
Leonard Parker
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee



Particle Theory Seminar 
Tuesday, June 3rd, 12:30pm
Boston University, PRB 595 
Dima Levkov
Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS
"Transmission of bound systems through a potential barrier: complex way
to the top."
 

Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 6pm
Cafe Scientifique
Redline Bar, 59 JFK Street, Cambridge
"From Beethoven to Beatbugs: New Technology for Musical
Creativity"
Tod Machover
MIT's Media Lab



Wednesdays, June, 2003

Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor Seminar Room
``From Unstable p-brane to (p-1)-branes through Tachyon Condensation"
Yoonbai Kim
Sungkyunkwan University