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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Week of March 5-March 11, 1995

MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Infrared Regularization of String Theory and the One Loop 
Calculation of Coupling Constants"
ELIAS KIRITSIS
CERN

MONDAY, MARCH 6, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250
"Gamma Ray Bursts: Facts and Speculations"
PROFESSOR BOHDAN PACZYNSKI
Princeton University
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

MONDAY, MARCH 6, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley, Room 168
"The Quantum Hall Effect: Universal Physics From Dirty Devices"
PROFESSOR STEVEN M. GIRVIN
Indiana University

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2:30 pm

Tufts University, Medford Campus
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Anderson Hall - Room 309
"Supersymmetric Quantum Cosmology, the Matrix Approach"
PROFESSOR OCTAVIO OBREGON
Universidad de Guanajuato
Refreshments will be served at 2:15 pm in the
Knipp Physics Library, Robinson Hall, Room 251

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 3:00 pm

Harvard University
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Lecture I
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250
"Theory of Gravitational Lensing and Microlensing"
PROFESSOR BOHDAN PACZYNSKI
Princeton University

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
Room 4-163
"BOLTZMANN-LANGEVIN TRANSPORT THEORY:
A means for addressing the dynamics of
CATASTROPHIC PROCESSES IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS"
JORGEN RANDRUP
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Refreshments at 3:45 in Kolker Room, 26-414

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge (37-252)
"Peculiar Compact Radio Sources in Orion-Lots of Them"
PROFESSOR CARL MENTON
Harvard College Observatory/CfA
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Science Center 507
"On the Reduction of Topological Yang-Mills to 
Topological Sigma Model"
C. VAFA
Harvard University

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana
"Quantized Hall Transport of Vortices in Josephson 
Junction Arrays"
DR. ADY STERN
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 4:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theoretical Physics Seminar
CTP Seminar Room, Third Floor, Building 6
"The Search for Dark Matter"
PROFESSOR MARC KAMIONKOWSKI
Columbia University

THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 12:00 pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Quenched Randomness and Helium Mixtures in 
Porous Media"
PROFESSOR NIHAT BERKER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 12:30 pm

Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
Room PRB 593
"Monopoles, Dirac Sheets, and Phases in U(1) 
Gauge Theory"
PROFESSOR WERNER KERLER
University of Marburg

THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 3:00 pm

Harvard University
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Lecture II
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250
"Gravitational Lensing and the Search for Dark Matter"
PROFESSOR BOHDAN PACZYNSKI
Princeton University

THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 3:30 pm

Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
The David Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Laboratory
Room 402, 9 Oxford Street
"Kinetics of Solid-Phase Epitaxy in Si: What Happens 
When We Add Ge?"
TONY E. HAYNES
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Solid State Division

THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 4:00 pm 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"SN 1987A: Past, Present and Future"
DR. NINO PANAGIA
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Radioactive Waste: Science, Technology & Politics"
HENRY W. KENDALL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250

THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Picosecond Resolution in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy"
DR. GEOFF NUNES
Dartmouth College

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Division of Applied Sciences: Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Phase Transitions in Double Layer Quantum Hall Systems"
STEVEN GIRVIN
University of Indiana

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 4:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Planetary Sciences Seminar
Room 54-915 (The Green Building)
"Chemical Consequences of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9"
DR. ROGER YELLE
NASA Ames Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 pm