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 
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later than  11:00 am on the  Monday  preceding the week of the 
event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.

Week of December 4-December 10, 1994

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 3:00 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
**Please note change of time**
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"The Seiberg-Witten Equation and 4-dimensional Topology"
PROFESSOR CLIFFORD TAUBES
Harvard University

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 4:00 pm

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Pattern Formation in Phase Separating Mixtures and 
Polymer Blends"
DR. SHARON GLOTZER
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 pm

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 4:00 pm 

Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Remembering Julian Schwinger (1918-1994): A Symposium"
VICTOR F. WEISSKOPF
Professor of Physics, Emeritus: MIT
HERMAN FESHBACH
Professor of Physics, Emeritus: MIT
ROY J. GLAUBER
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics: Harvard University
PAUL MARTIN
Dean of Applied Physics: Harvard University
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm in Jefferson 461

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 168
"The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect With a Twist"
DR. HORST STORMER
AT&T Bell Laboratories

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 5:00 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Renormalization of the Gluon Operator"
DR. RANDALL J. SCALISE
Pennsylvania State University

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 11:00 am 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"On the Theory of Optical Quantum Measurement"
HERMANN A. HAUS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1:30 pm 

Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar
High Energy Physics Laboratory, 42 Oxford Street
Third Floor Conference Room
"Atmospheric Neutrinos in Kamiokande-II:
Experimental Aspects"
DR. ED FRANK
University of Pennsylvania

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2:00 pm 

Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"On the Configuration Space of Gauge Theories"
DR. CRISTOPH SCHWEIGERT
NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 4:00 pm

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Understanding or Memorizing: Are We Teaching the 
Right Thing?"
PROFESSOR ERIC MAZUR
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 pm

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 4:00 pm 

Northeastern University
High Energy Physics Seminar
114 Dana
"Particle Physics Using Non-Commutative Geometry"
PROFESSOR ALI CHAMSEDDINE
ITP University of Zurich, Switzerland
Refreshments will be serve at 3:45 pm

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge (37-252), 70 Vassar Street
"Accretion Disk Winds in Active Galactic Nuclei"
PROFESSOR NORM MURRAY
CITA
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 4:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Room 2-131
"To be announced"
R. DIJKGRAAF
University of Amsterdam

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 3:00 pm 

Boston University
Postmodern Theoretical Physics Seminar
Physics Research Building
3 Cummington Street, Room PRB 593
"Model Building and Gravity in Non-Commutative Geometry"
PROFESSOR ALI CHAMSEDDINE
ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 4:00 pm 

Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
114 Dana
"From Infinite Symmetry Groups in Statistical Mechanics 
to Discrete Dynamical Systems"
DR. GENEVIEVE ROLLET
Northeastern University
Refreshments will be serve at 3:45 pm

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 4:30 pm 

Boston University
Joint Theoretical Physics Seminar
Physics Research Building
3 Cummington Street, Room PRB 593
"Heavy Quarks on the Lattice, and a Precise Determination 
of \alpha_strong"
PROFESSOR JUNKO SHIGEMITSU
Ohio State University
Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Electromagnetic Response in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime"
STEVE SIMON
Harvard University

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 4:00 pm 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"Long Carbon Chains in the Intersteller Gas"
PROFESSOR PATRICK THADDEUS
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Heavy-quark Physics - From Rare Decays to CP Violation"
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Spectroscopic Studies of Correlated Electron Systems"
DR. ZACK SCHLESINGER
IBM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 12:30 pm 

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"Superconducting Properties of High T_c YBa_2Cu_3O_7 
Ultrathin Films and Superlattices"
PROFESSOR QI LI
University of Maryland

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 3:00 pm

Harvard University
Department of the History of Science
Joint Seminar for the History and Philosophy of
20th Century Science
Science Center 226
"Exercising the Student Body: Mathematics and Athleticism 
in Victorian Cambridge"
DR. ANDY WARWICK
Imperial College, London, currently at The Dibner Institute

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
209 Pierce Hall
"The Mechanical Properties of Thin Films and Multilayers"
ANTHONY EVANS
Harvard University