THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of Monday, March 9 - March 15, 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 
reach us no later than 11:00am on the Monday preceding the week 
of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.

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Monday, Monday, March 10, 1997
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Monday, March 10, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``Chern-Simon Coefficient at Finite T''
GERALD DUNNE
University of Connecticut


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Monday, March 10, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Colloquium 
Barus & Holley Building, Room 168
``The Atomic Scale Origins of Friction''
PROFESSOR JACQUELINE KRIM
Northeastern University
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.


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Monday, March 10, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics 
Jefferson 250
``COLLOQUIUM: The Superworld''
PROFESSOR NATHAN SEIBERG
Rutgers University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.


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Tuesday, March 11, 1997
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Tuesday, March 11, 12:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy 
Marlar Lounge (37-252)
Ronald E. McNair Building
``Supramolecular Assemblies and Sensory Materials''
TIMOTHY W. SWAGER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 


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Tuesday, March 11, 2:30 p.m.

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar 
Phillips Auditorium
Ronald E. McNair Building
``Self-Similarity, Mixing, and Violent Relaxation in
N-body Systems''
LARRY WIDROW
Queens University 


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Tuesday, March 11, 3:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics 
Jefferson 250
``LECTURE I: Supersymmetric Dynamics I''
PROFESSOR NATHAN SEIBERG
Rutgers University


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Tuesday, March 11, 3:45 p.m.

Northeastern University
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems (CIRCS)
CIRCS Seminar 
Dana Research Center, Room 114
``Bulk Spin Resonance Quantum Computation''
PROFESSOR N. GERSHENFELD
Physics and Media Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 


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Wednesday, March 12, 1997
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Wednesday, March 12, 4:00 p.m.

University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Spring Colloquia 
Olney 428
``Manipulating Matter With Light''
PROFESSOR MARA PRENTISS
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m.
Contact Prof. Albert Altman [altmana@woods.uml.edu] for more information.


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Wednesday, March 12, 4:15 p.m.

Boston College
Physics Colloquium 
Higgins Hall, Room 354
``Superfluid He^3: Technology in Search of a Nobel Prize''
PROFESSOR G. ZIMMERMAN
Boston University
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.


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Wednesday, March 12, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar 
Jefferson 256
``Susy Gauge Theories and RG Fixed Points in Various Dimensions''
DR. KEN INTRILIGATOR
Institute for Advanced Studies
Refreshments will be served in Lyman 330 at 4:00 p.m.


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Thursday, March 13, 1997
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Thursday, March 13, 12:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Pierce 100F
``Non-linear Dynamics of a Nematic Liquid Crystal in a Rotating Magnetic
Field''
BOB MEYER
Brandeis University


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Thursday, March 13, 3:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics 
Jefferson 250
``LECTURE II:  Supersymmetric Dynamics II''
PROFESSOR NATHAN SEIBERG
Rutgers University


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Thursday, March 13, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
``Deciphering the Nature of the Youngest Stellar Objects;
        And the Need for an Infrared Spectrograph for the MMT''        
DR. CHARLES LADA
Radio and GeoAstronomy Division
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics


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Thursday, March 13, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5th Annual David H. Harris, '22 Lecture 
MIT Room 10-250
``Crisis for Science--the Case of Russia''        
SERGEY P. KAPITZA
P.L. Kapitza Institute, MOSCOW
Reception to follow lecture in Room 26-110.


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Thursday, March 13, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Barus & Holley Building
Room 751
``Colossal Magnetoresistance in Manganese Perovskites''
DR. ARUNAVA GUPTA
IBM, Watson Research Center 


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Friday, March 14, 1997
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Friday, March 14, 12:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NFL Friday Seminar 
MIT Room 12-132
``Diamagnetic Response and Density of States of Proximity Double Layers''
DR. CHRISTOPHER BRUDER
University at Karlsruhe


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Friday, March 14, 2:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science 
Science Center, Room 226
``What is Technological Change?  Then and Now''
PROFESSOR KENNETH R. WILSON
Ohio State University


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Friday, March 14, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Friday Condensed Matter Seminar 
Pierce Hall, Room 209
``Vortex Pinning: Statics and Dynamics''
VALERII VINOKUR
Argonne National Laboratory
Refreshments will be served following the seminar in the Brooks Room.
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A Friendly Reminder:

The Deadline for the March 16 -  March 22, 1997 Issue is:

MONDAY, March 10, 1997 at 11:00 a.m.


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