November 3-9, 2003 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Boston University. You may send your announcement by e-mail (bapc-events@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu ) or FAX (617-353-9393). 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, November 3, 2003 Monday, November 3, 2003 4:00pm University of New Hampshire Physics Department Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B "A New Look at Driven Magnetic Reconnection at the Terrestrial Subsolar Magnetopause" Dr. John Dorelli NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in DeMeritt Hall, 105F Monday, November 3, 2003 Brown University COLLOQUIUM Barus and Holley 168, 4:30 p.m.* Dr. Leonid Levitov MIT Title: "TBA" Host: Professor Dmitri Feldman *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, November 3, 2003 @ 4:15p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Neutrino Oscillations: What We Know, What We Want to Know, and How We Get From Here to There" Gary Feldman Harvard University tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, November 3, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Seeking the Truth and Beauty of Single-Top Quark Production" Zack Sullivan Fermi National Laboratory Refreshments will be served Tuesday, November 4, 2003 Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Event Shapes and Deep Inelastic Scattering" Aneesh Manohar University of California, San Diego Refreshments will be served Tuesday, November 4, 2003 2:00 PM Rowland Institute at Harvard Seminar Series 100 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA 02142 "Transport of DNA and proteins through nuclear pores" Yitzhak Rabin Bar Ilan University, Israel Refreshments served following the seminar Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 7:30 pm Clark University, President's Lecture Series Traina Center for the Arts, Razzo Hall "Einstein's Biggest Blunder? A Cosmic Mystery Story" Professor Lawrence M. Krauss Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics Case Western Reserve University Reception to follow. Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 4:00 PM MIT Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Dr. Mike Gladders Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Optically Selected High-Redshift Galaxy Clusters Tuesday, November 4, 2003 4:00 PM Boston University Mathematical Physics Seminar Series Dept. of Mathematics, 111 Cummington St., MCS Room 153 "From Baxter to Baxter" Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard Bonn University and Boston University Refreshments will be served Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 4:00pm Dana 114 CIRCS "Moving Through Fluids: Experimental Hydrodynamics of Locomotion in Fishes" Professor George V. Lauder Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University Refreshments available 3:45pm Wednesday, November 5, 2003 Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Effective temperature of driven systems" Professor Andrea Liu UCLA Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Information Processing Using Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Systems" Dr. Dana Anderson Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology String Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Kaluza-Klein Monopoles in M-theory" James Sparks Imperial College, London Refreshments will be served Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 4:30PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room ``Two-Loop Superstrings" Eric D'Hoker University of California, Los Angeles Refreshments will be served Thursday, November 6, 2003 Thursday, November 6, 2003 Brown University CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR Barus and Holley 190, 4:00 p.m. Professor Ido Braslavsky Ohio University Title: "Step by step up the DNA Ladder: From Visualization of DNA Polymerase Activity to Single Molecule DNA Sequencing" Host: Professor Sean Ling 12pm, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003 Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Crossover from Non-Equilibrium to Equilibrium Behavior in the Time-Dependent Kondo Model" Dr. Stefan Kehrein, University of Augsburg Thursday, November 6, 2003 4:00 p.m. Seminar Room Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Nernst Effect and In-Plane Vortex-Like Excitations in Pseudogap Region of Cuprate Superconductors Professor Hai-Hu Wen National Lab for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China Nernst effect has been measured for an underdoped and an optimally doped La2-xSrxCuO4 single crystal with the magnetic field applied along different directions. For both samples, when H || c, a significant in-plane Nernst voltage appears above Tc and keeps measurable up to a high temperature ( 100 K ) as reported earlier [ Nature 406, 486(2000) ]. However, when H || a-b plane the Nernst signal along c-axis drops below the noise level quickly above Tc for the underdoped sample. This may suggest that the superconducting condensation is established simultaneously with the Josephson coupling ( or the coherent motion of Cooper pairs ) along c-axis. Moreover, the in-plane Nernst data with field at different angles shows a nice scaling behavior with the c-axis component of the field. All these give strong indications for strictly in-plane vortex-like excitations in the pseudo-gap region. Thursday, November 6, 2003, 4:00pm Dana 114 Physics Colloquium "Tightness of Knots in Polymers" Professor Mehran Kardar MIT Refreshments available 3:45pm Thursday, November 6, 2003 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Cosmic censorship violation and negative energy in string theory" Gary Horowitz University of California, Santa Barbara Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Friday, November 7, 2003 Friday, November 7, 2003 Harvard University Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Co-sponsored by the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Ctr) Pierce 209 4:00 PM Louis Bruis Columbia University "Single Molecule Raman spectroscopy at the Junctions of Large Ag particles." Friday, November 7, 2003 4:00pm University of New Hampshire Physics Department Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B "Challenges for Ion Implementation in the Semi-Conductor Industry" Dr. John Poate Axcelies Technology, Inc. Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in DeMeritt Hall, 105F Friday, November 7, 2003, 4:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series Building NW17, Room 218 "What the Quiet Times Tell Us About the Storms" Benjamin Carreras Oak Ridge National Laboratory Refreshments served at 3:45PM _______________________________________________ bapc mailing list http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/bapc.html