THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of January 19 - January 25, 1997
 
The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during 
the academic year by the Department of Physics and Astronomy 
at Tufts University.  You may send your announcements by 
e-mail (bapc@tuhepa.phy.tufts.edu) or FAX:(617-627-3878).  
We cannot accept announcements by telephone.  Entries should 
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of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.

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Monday, January 20, 1997
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Monday, January 20, 12:00 p.m.

Clark University
Colloquium 
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
``Carbon Allotropes: Properties and Applications''
DR. HADI GHAEMI
NEC Research Institute

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Monday, January 20, 4:00 p.m.

Worcester Polytechic Institute
Colloquium 
Olin Hall, Room 107
``Pulse Dynamics in Nonlinear Fiber Optic Arrays''
DR. ACEVES ALEJANDRO
Brown University
Coffee will be served in Olin 118 at 3:45 p.m. 

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Tuesday, January 21, 1997
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Tuesday, January 21, 2:30 p.m.

Tufts University
Joint Tufts-M.I.T.-CfA 
Robinson Hall, Room 153
``Detecting Non-Gaussianity in CMB Maps''
DR. JOAO MAGUEIJO
Imperial College
LONDON 
Refreshments will be served in the 
Knipp Physics Library at 2:00 p.m.

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Tuesday, January 21, 3:45 p.m.

Boston University
Joint Colloquium of the Physics Department 
and Center for Teaching Excellence 
Metcalf Science Center
590 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 107
``Active Learning and Interactive Lectures''
PROFESSOR ERIC MAZUR
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 3:20 p.m. 

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Tuesday, January 21, 3:45 p.m.

Northeastern University
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems (CIRCS)
CIRCS Seminar 
Dana Research Center, Room 114
``Can Ambient Noise Improve Sensory Encoding\char63 ''
DR. JACOB LEVIN
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences 

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Wednesday, January 22, 1997
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Wednesday, January 22, 4:00 p.m.

Northeastern University
Colloquium 
114 Dana
``Engineering Entropy: Building Order with Disorder''
PROFESSOR SETH FRADEN
Brandeis University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.

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Wednesday, January 22, 5:00 p.m.

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar 
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
``Physics of Discharges for Lighting''
DR. GRAEME LISTER
OSRAM/Sylvania
Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m.

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Thursday, January 23, 1997
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Thursday, January 23, 4:00 p.m.

Clark University
Colloquium 
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
``Near Field Optical Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Semiconductors''
DR. PING ZHOU
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania

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Thursday, January 23, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
``Solar Wind Composition Measurements:
        Guidepost to Solar and Heliospheric Processes''
       
        Abstract:
      
        The solar wind is an extension of the solar corona (the sun's
    "atmosphere") into interplanetary space and beyond.  The first
    measurement of the composition of the solar wind was accomplished
    35 years ago.  It was determined that the ion components
    typically consist of 95% singly ionized hydrogen, 4% doubly
    ionized helium, and less than 0.5% other ions.  These "other
    ions", usually designated as "minor ions", nonetheless hold
    a wealth of information on solar and heliospheric processes.
    Beginning with the launch of the Ulysses spacecraft in 1990,
    and continuing with the launch the WIND spacecraft in 1994 and
    of the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SoHO) in 1995, new
    instrumental techniques for advanced solar wind composition studies
    have become available, yielding exciting new results, and sometimes
    new questions. 
     
DR. ANTOINETTE B. GALVIN
Space Physics Group, University of Maryland
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.


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Friday, January 24, 1997

No Scheduled Events
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A Friendly Reminder: 

The Deadline for the January 26-February 1, 1997 Issue is: 

MONDAY, January 20, 1997 at 11:00 a.m. 

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