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. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Week of January 8-January 14, 1995 MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 12:30 pm Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue "Surface Growth in Systems with Quenched Disorder" PROFESSOR ITAMAR PROCACCIA Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 4:30 pm Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Building, Room 250 "The Physics of Self-Assembling Helical Ribbons and the Problem of Cholesterol Crystallization" PROFESSOR GEORGE BENEDEK Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 4:30 pm Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson Building, Room 256 "Symmetry Breaking in Three-Dimensional QED" JOHN TERNING Boston University