From bapc@neu.edu Mon Feb 3 13:27:34 2003 Return-Path: Received: from cosmos.phy.tufts.edu (IDENT:root@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu [130.64.83.16]) by later.het.brown.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h13IQRHo013015 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:26:27 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cosmos.phy.tufts.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h13IOGQ00930 for bapc-outgoing; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:24:16 -0500 Received: from neuhub02.neu.edu (neuhub02.neu.edu [155.33.17.117]) by cosmos.phy.tufts.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h13IOF000926 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:24:15 -0500 From: bapc@neu.edu Subject: BAPC Week of February 9-15 To: bapc@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 September 22, 2000 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:25:27 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on NEUHUB02/Server/NEU(Release 5.0.10 |March 22, 2002) at 02/03/2003 01:25:26 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by cosmos.phy.tufts.edu id h13IOG000927 Sender: owner-bapc@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu Precedence: bulk Status: RO February 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, February 10, 2003 Monday, February 10, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Particle Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Building 6, Third Floor Seminar room ``Large Distance Gravity and the Cosmological Constant" Gregory Gabadadze CERN Refreshments will be served Monday, February 10, 2003, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kolker Room, 26-414 "Dark Matter from Beyond the Standard Model" Ted Baltz Columbia University Refreshments at 4pm Monday, February 10, 2003, 4:00pm Worcester Polytechnic Institute,Worcester MA Olin 107 "Does the Electron Bread Into Pieces in Some Materials?" Dr. Courtney Lannert Wellesley College Monday, February 10, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Barus and Holley 168 "Rain Down Dirty Windshields and Vortices in Superconductors: The Dynamics of Driven Disordered Systems" Professor Christina Marchetti Syracuse University Host: Professor Michael Kosterlitz Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, February 10, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Making Sense of the New Cosmology" Michael Turner University of Chicago Tea will be served at 4:00 pm Tuesday, February 11, 2003 Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 1:30pm Brandeis University Theory Seminar Physics Building, Abelson 229 "Gravity in theory space" Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard University Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 2:30pm Tufts University Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar Anderson 210 "Brane Inflation: From Superstring to Cosmic Strings" Henry Tye Cornell Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, (590 Commonwealth Ave.), Room 107 "Plateaus and Jumps in Single Molecule DNA Unzipping Experiments" Prof. David Nelson Harvard University Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 4:00pm Dana 114 Joint CIRCS/Physics Colloquium "Probing single enzyme molecules at work" Professor Sunney Xie Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University Refreshments available 3:45pm Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT 26-214 "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Optically Trapped Cesium" Rudolf Grimm Insbruck University, Austria Wednesday, February 12, 2003 Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 1:00pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Directed Percolation" Rajesh Ravindran Oxford University Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 1:30pm Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Scaling of Cyclical Roughness and Maximal Height of Growing Surfaces" Subhadip Raychaudhuri University of California-Berkeley Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Special Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Scaling of Cyclical Roughness and Maximal Height of Growing Surfaces" Subhadip Raychaudhuri University of California-Berkeley Thursday, February 13, 2003 Thursday, February 13, 2003, 2:30 P.M. Materials Science Seminar "A Statistical Mullins von Neumann Relation for Grain Growth and Froth Coarsening in 3D" Professor David T. Wu Yale University McKay Lab 402, The David Turnbull Room Harvard University, 9 Oxford Street Thursday, February 13, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "Primordial Nucleosynthesis in Light of the Cosmic Microwave Background" Brian Fields University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tea and Cookies At 3:30pm Thursday, February 13, 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "The Architecture of Complexity: from the Topology of the World Wide Web to the Cell's Genetic Network" Albert-László Barabási University of Notre Dame Time: 4:15 PM Refreshments @ 3:45 PM in Room 4-339 (Physics Common Room) Thursday, February 13, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Matter from G(2) Manifolds" Per Berglund University of New Hampshire Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45 Friday, February 14, 2003 Friday, February 14, 2003, 12 noon Brandeis University Special Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Fluctuating manifolds with type specific interactions: from a toy problem to recognition in immunology" Yuko Hori University of California, Berkeley . 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