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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 March 12-March 18, 1995 MONDAY, MARCH 13, 12:30 pm Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Room 593, Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington Street "New Results on the Top Quark from CDF" AVI YAGIL Fermilab Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room Building 6, Third Floor "New Eikonal Representations" H. FRIED Brown University MONDAY, MARCH 13, 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room Building 6, Third Floor "A Simple Confinement Mechanism in Light-Front QCD" PROFESSOR R. PERRY The Ohio State University MONDAY, MARCH 13, 4:30 pm Brown University Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the 10th Dimension" PROFESSOR M. KAKU City University of New York MONDAY, MARCH 13, 4:30 pm Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson Building, Room 250 "Magnetic Vortices in Type II Superconductors - Why all the Fuss?" DR. DAVID BISHOP AT&T Bell Laboratories Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461 TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 11:00 am Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building "Testing Fundamental Symmetries with Molecules" EDWARD A. HINDS Yale University Refreshments served following the seminar TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2:30 pm Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics CfA-Tufts-MIT Cosmology Seminar Pratt Conference Room "Gravitational Lensing and the Physical Condition of the Hot Gas in X-ray Halos" DR. JORDI MIRALDA-ESCUDE Institute for Advanced Study TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 3:00 pm Harvard University MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS Lecture III Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250 "Results and Interpretation of the Searches for MACHOs" PROFESSOR BOHDAN PACZYNSKI Princeton University TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 3:30 pm Boston University Physics Colloquium Room SCI-107, 590 Commonwealth Avenue "The Unusual Properties of Beryllium Surfaces" PROFESSOR E.W. PLUMMER University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 4:00 pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Electrophoretic Motion of Charged Polymers" PROFESSOR DAVID A. HOAGLAND University of Massachusetts-Amherst Department of Polymer Science Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 pm TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Colloquium Room 4-163 "QCD at LEP" PROFESSOR HOWARD STONE Princeton University Refreshments at 3:45 in Kolker Room, 26-414 TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 4:30 pm Harvard University Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Science Center 507 "Feynman Graphs and Graph Complexes--An Introduction to Modular Operads" EZRA GETZLER Massachusetts Institute of Technology WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 4:00 pm Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana "Infinite Discrete Symmetries of Vertex Models" DR. J.M. MAILLARD University of Paris, Jussieu Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 4:00 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Special Seminar Room 1-190 "The Discovery of Top Quark by D0" RAJENDRAN RAJA D0 at Fermilab Refreshments at 3:30 in Kolker Room, 26-414 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 4:30 pm Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "Nontopological Monopoles and Nonsymmetric Black Holes" ERICK WEINBERG Columbia University WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 4:30 pm Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Building, Room 356 "Quantum Optics with Strong Coupling" DR. JEFFREY H. KIMBLE California Institute of Technology Tea will be served at 4:00 pm THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 10:30 am Boston University Photonics Seminar Room 593, 3 Cummington Street "LED and Laser Fabrication" JOHN EPLER The Paul Scherer Institute Refreshments will be served THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 12 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Flux Entanglement in Vortex Solid and Liquid Phases" DR. ANDREAS SCHOENENBERGER Theoretische Physik, ETH-Hoenggerberg, Switzerland THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 3:00 pm Harvard University MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS Lecture IV Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250 "Diverse Astrophysics from Massive Photometric Projects" PROFESSOR BOHDAN PACZYNSKI Princeton University THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 3:30 pm Harvard University Materials Science Seminar The David Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Laboratory Room 402, 9 Oxford Street "Magnetic Applications of Nanocomposite Materials" ROBERT D. SHULL NIST-Gaithersburg THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 4:00 pm Clark University Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Hydrodynamic Cavitation: A New Route to the Preparation of Nanostructured Materials" PROFESSOR WILLIAM R. MOSER Worcester Polytechnic Institute Department of Chemical Engineering THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 4:00 pm Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium "Cosmology and the Evolution of Galaxies: The Work of Beatrice Tinsley" DR. JOANN EISBERG University of California, Santa Barbara Tea will be served at 3:30 pm THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 4:00 pm Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "Structure-Function-Dynamics of Ligand-Binding Heme Proteins: New Results from Femtosecond Mid-IR Spectroscopy" PROFESSOR PHILIP A. ANFINRUD Harvard University Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 4:15 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Positron Production in Heavy Ion Collisions - Current Status of the Problem" RUSSELL R. BETTS Argonne National Lab Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250 THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 4:15 pm Harvard University Special Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "Wormholes, Matrix Models and Liouville Gravity" IGOR KLEBANOV Princeton University FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 10:30 am Boston University Photonics Seminar Room 593, 3 Cummington Street "Flat Panel Displays" MARK SPITZER Koppen Systems Refreshments will be served FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 4:00 pm Harvard University Division of Applied Sciences: Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Surface Layering in Liquid Metals: X-ray Reflectivity Studies" MICHAEL REGAN Harvard University