The Boston Area Physics Calendar
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THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the
academic year by The Martin Fisher School of Physics at Brandeis
University. You may send your announcements by e-mail
(bapc@binah.cc.brandeis.edu) or FAX (617-736-2915). We cannot
accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no
later than 11:00 am on the Monday preceding the week of the event.
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Week of October 23-October 29, 1994
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 4:30 pm
Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Manipulating Matter with Light"
PROFESSOR MARA PRENTISS
Harvard University
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 5:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
"QCD With Unconstrained Degrees of Freedom"
FRIEDER LENZ
Erlangen and MIT
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 11:00 am
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"The One-Atom Laser"
KYUNGWON AN
Massachsuetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served following the seminar
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 12:30 pm
Boston University
Molecular Biophysics Seminar
The Metcalf Science & Engineering Building
590 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 352
"Liquid Crystalline Order in Colloidal
Suspensions of Viruses"
PROFESSOR SETH FRADEN
Brandeis University
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2:00 pm
Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Two-Dimensional Yang-Mills Theories
are String Theories"
PROFESSOR HOWARD J. SCHNITZER
Brandeis University
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 4:00 pm
Clark University
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"Molecular Dynamics Study of Supercooled
Liquids in Two Dimensions"
ANDREW I. MEL'CUK
Clark University
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
4-163
"Proton Capture Reactions Below 80keV and the
Implications for Nuclear Astrophysics"
PROFESSOR H. WELLER
Duke University
Refreshments at 3:45 in the LNS Kolker Room, 26-414
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge (37-252), 70 Vassar Street
"Supersoft Xray Sources"
PROFESSOR SAUL RAPPAPORT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 4:30 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theoretical Physics Seminar
CTP Seminar Room, Third Floor, Building 6
"General Effective Actions and Cohomology
of Homogeneous Spaces"
PROFESSOR ERIC D'HOKER
UCLA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 12 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Macroscopic Level Occupation and Oscillatory
Metal-Insulator Transitions in a Magnetic Field"
PROFESSOR MARK AZBEL
Tel Aviv and Harvard University
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 4:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics Seminar
Room 136, Richardson Conference Center, Medford Campus
"Magneto-Structural Correlations in d4-Mn (III) Systems"
PROFESSOR F. PALACIO
University of Zaragoza, Spain
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 pm in Room 124
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 4:15 pm
Harvard University
Special Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"String Dilatons and Background Independence"
BARTON ZWIEBACH
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Super-Accurate Mass Measurements for
Fundamental Physics and Metrology"
DAVID E. PRITCHARD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 4:30 pm
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 751
"The Metal-Insulator Transition, and Magnets in Random
Fields: an Unexpected Connection"
PROFESSOR DIETRICH BELITZ
University of Oregon
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 12:30 pm
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"Edge Excitations in the Quantum Hall Effect"
PROFESSOR L.R. PITAEVSTII
University of Chicago and formerly of the Landau Institute
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 4:00 pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
209 Pierce Hall
"Squeezing Light from Silicon"
DR. PETER SAETA
N.I.S.T. Boulder
Refreshments follow the talk in the Brooks Room