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 December 11-December 17, 1994
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 9:00 am
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Lattice Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
"Systematic Expansion for Full QCD Based on the Valence
Approximation"
DR. DON WEINGARTEN
IBM, Yorktown Heights
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 12 noon
Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
Room PRB 593
"Resummation of End Point Logs and the Extraction of V_ub"
DR. IRA ROTHSTEIN
University of Michigan
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2:00 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
"2-d Gauge Theories in the Functional Schr\"{o}dinger
Representation"
SUNG KU KIM
Ewha University, Seoul, Korea
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 4:30 pm
Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 168
"Hot Gas and Holes in the Microwave Background Radiation"
PROFESSOR MARK BIRKENSHAW
Harvard University
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 4:30 pm
Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"The Great Comet-Jupiter Collision"
DR. HEIDI HAMMEL
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 11:00 am
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"Using Size-Selective Spectroscopy to Study the Evolution
of Quantum Dot Electronic States"
DAVID J. NORRIS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served following the seminar
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1:30 pm
Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar
High Energy Physics Laboratory, 42 Oxford Street
Third Floor Conference Room
"The Production of D^* + \pi^- in Semileptonic B Decay"
DR. LEO BELLANTONI
Harvard University
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2:30 pm
Tufts University, Medford Campus
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Anderson Hall - Room 309
"Gravitational Lensing Limits on CDM and its Variants"
DR. CHRIS KOCHANEK
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
Refreshments will be served in the Knipp Physics Library,
Robinson Hall at 2:15 pm
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge (37-252), 70 Vassar Street
"The Brobdingnagian Beast in the Galaxy NGC4258"
DR. LINCOLN GREENHILL
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 4:30 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Room 2-131
"On the Dynamical and Statistical Content of Critical
Field Theories: Some Questions of an Unabashed Novice"
R. LANGLANDS
Institute for Advanced Study
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 4:30 pm
Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Building, Room 356
"The Use of Ultra High Intensity Lasers in Modern
Atomic Physics"
DR. RICHARD R. FREEMAN
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 4:30 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theoretical Physics Seminar
CTP Seminar Room, Third Floor, Building 6
"Higher Level Current Algebra in String Theory"
SHYAMOLI CHAUDHURI
Institute for Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 12 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Capillary Wave Scattering: The Rayleigh Problem
in Almost Two Dimensions"
TOM CHOU
Harvard University
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 4:00 pm
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"Report on the Progress in Stellar Evolution to 1957"
PROFESSOR OWEN J. GINGERICH
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 4:00 pm
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana
"Random Walking During Quiet Standing"
DR. JIM COLLINS
Boston University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 4:00 pm
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
209 Pierce Hall
"From One to Two Dimensions in Strongly Correlated
Electron Systems"
T. MAURICE RICE
ETH (Zurich) and AT&T Bell Laboratories
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 4:15 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge (37-252), 70 Vassar Street
"Ionization and Abundances of Interstellar Gas"
DR. DAVID TYTLER
University of California, San Diego
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm