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. 
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Week of May 7-May 13, 1995

MONDAY, MAY 8, 2:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"The Short Distance Behavior of the Energy-Momentum Tensor 
in Field Theory"
DR. HIDENORI SONODA
UCLA

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 11:00 am 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
FOURTH ANNUAL RICHARD C. LORD LECTURE
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"`Structure' of the Nitric Oxide Ionization Continuum"
RICHARD ZARE
Stanford University
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2:30 pm

Tufts University, Medford Campus
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Anderson Hall - Room 309
"Predictions from Quantum Cosmology"
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER VILENKIN
Tufts University
Refreshments will be served at 2:15 pm in the
Knipp Physics Library, Robinson Hall, Room 251

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 4:00 pm

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Quenched Bond Randomness and Helium Mixtures in Aerogel"
PROFESSOR NIHAT BERKER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 pm

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
Building 4-163
"Phenomenology of Light Gauginos"
GLENNYS FARRAR
Rutgers University
Refreshments at 3:45 pm in 26-414

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Science Center 507
"Free Entropy"
DAN VOICULESCU
University of California, Berkeley

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 12:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heavy Ion Collision Seminar
Second of Two Talks
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Mean Field Theory for Nonequilibrium Quantum Fields, II"
ROMAN JACKIW
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and
SO-YOUNG PI
Boston University

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 4:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"The Fall and Rise of Lattice QCD"
G. PETER LEPAGE
Cornell University
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 pm

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 5:00 pm 

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Building, Room 356
"Special Relativity and the Single Antiproton: 
Forty-fold Improved Comparison of Antiproton and 
Proton Charge-to-Mass Ratios"
PROFESSOR GERALD GABRIELSE
Harvard University
Tea will be served at 4:30 pm

THURSDAY, MAY 11, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"On Singularities in the Composite Fermion Description 
of a Partially Filled Landau Level"
DR. ADY STERN
Harvard University

THURSDAY, MAY 11, 3:30 pm

Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
The David Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Laboratory
Room 402, 9 Oxford Street
"Learning About Bonding from Spectroscopy"
ROGER H. FRENCH
Center for Research & Development, Dupont Company

THURSDAY, MAY 11, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"Resonance Scattering of Seismic Waves by 
Sedimentary Basins"
DR. JOSE LOUIS MATEOS
Northeastern University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

THURSDAY, MAY 11, 4:00 pm 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"The Remarkable Type II Supernova 1993J in M81"
DR. ALEXEI V. FILIPPENKO
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Astronomy
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

THURSDAY, MAY 11, 4:00 pm 

Clark University
Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"Traveling in the Sahara: The Physics of 
Quasi-Low-Dimensional Molecular Conductors"
NATHANAEL FORTUNE
Smith College

THURSDAY, MAY 11, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Gamma-ray Bursts - A Complete Mystery"
GERALD J. FISHMAN
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 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
"Testing Theories of Scientific Change"
DR. FRANK SULLOWAY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Division of Applied Sciences: Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Photolithography and Optical Interferometry at 130 
Angstrom Wavelength"
JEFFREY BOKOR
University of California, Berkeley