THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Boston College. You may send your announcements by e-mail (bapc@bc.edu) or FAX (617-552-8478). We cannot accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no later than 11:00 a.m. on the Monday preceding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _______________________________________________ Week of October 5 - October 11 _______________________________ Monday, October 6, 1997 Monday, October 6, 1997, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar CTP Seminar Room, Building 6 - Third Floor "0-Branes, 8-Branes and Creation of Strings" Oren Bergman Harvard University Monday, October 6, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Worcester Polytechnic Institute Colloquium Olin Hall, Room 107 "Energy from Fuel Cell" Dr. Michael Pien ElectroChem, Inc., Woburn MA Coffee will be served at 3:40 in Olin 118. Monday, October 6, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Boston University Astrophysics Colloquium Series Astronomy Department, Room 500 "Luminous Supersoft X-ray Sources" Dr. Saul Rappaport Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, October 6, 1997, 4;00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Physics of Computation Seminar MIT Building NE43 (545 Tech Sq), 8th floor, AI Playroom "Quantum Computation and Decision Trees" Edward Farhi Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served after the talk. Monday, October 6, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "DNA-Cationic Lipid Complexes: Higher Order Self Assembly and Gene Therapy" Cyrus Safinya U.C.S.B. Tea in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m. Monday, October 6, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium B&H, Room 168 "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Lithium: It's Not Just Another Condensate" Professor Randall Hulet, Rice University _____________________________________________ Tuesday, October 7, 1997 Tuesday, October 7, 1997, 12:00-1:00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar McNair Building, Marlar Lounge, (37-252) "Buckets of Light" Daniel G. Nocera Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served following the seminar. Tuesday, October 7, 1997, 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor "Stochastic Effects in Semiclassical Gravity: A Realistic Cosmological Example" Antonio Campos Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, October 7, 1997, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 "Physics IQ Test" Dr. Richard Berg University of Maryland This talk is co-sponsored by Boston University's Science and Mathematics Education Center Refreshments will be served before the talk (3:20 p.m.) Tuesday, October 7, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Synchronization and Noise in a Neuronal Network Model of the Hippocampus" Dr. Paul Tiesinga CIRCS, Northeastern University Coffee at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, October 7, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium Building 37-252 (70 Vassar Street) "The Dark Mass in the Center of the Milky Way" Professor Reinhard Genzel Max Planck Institute, Garching Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. _____________________________________________ Wednesday, October 8, 1997 Wednesday, October 8, 1997, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "Progress in Ligo" Dr. Peter Fritchel Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 8, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "Experimental Probes of Spin Textured Excitations in a Quantum Hall Ferromagnet" Professor Bennett Goldberg Boston University Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, October 8, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "Q-Balls in Theories Beyond the Standard Model" Dr. Alexander Kusenko CERN Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. in Lyman 330. Wednesday, October 8, 1997, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Electromagnetically Induced Transparency" Professor Steve Harris Stanford University Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. ___________________________________________ Thursday, October 9, 1997 Thursday, October 9, 1997, 12:00 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Going from the Chern-Simons Theory for the Fractional Quantized Hall Effect to the Tomonaga-Luttinger Model of Its Edges" Dr. Dror Orgad, Weizmann Institute, Israel Thursday, October 9, 1997, 2:00 p.m. Boston University Biophysics Seminar Metcalf Science and Engineering Center, Room 352 "Probing Structure and Disorder in Proteins Using Infrared Crystallography", Professor Timothy Sage Northeastern University Thursday, October 9, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Dephasing and Loss of Quantum-Mechanical Interference" Professor Yoseph Imry Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Refreshments available in MIT Room 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. ______________________________ Friday, October 10, 1997 Friday, October 10, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Order Out of Chaos: Colloid Crystal Self Organization and Dynamics at the Air Water Interface" Dr. Hollis Wickman National Science Foundation/Naval Research Laboratory Refreshments will be served following in the Brooks Room. _____________________________ Reminder Deadline for the October 12-October 18 Issue is: Monday, October 6, 1997 at 11:00 a.m. _____________________________ 1997 FALL MEETING OF THE NEW ENGLAND SECTION OF THE APS: PHYSICS IN INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT Register before October 15, 1997 The 1997 Fall Meeting of the New England Section of the APS will be held at the Science Center, Air Force Phillips and Rome Laboratories, Bldg. 1106, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-3010, on Friday and Saturday, October 24 and 25. Plenary sessions will be held on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. For information on Abstract submission and publication, contact: Dr. Lionel Friedman, Contributed Papers friedman@maxwell.rl.plh.af.mil by October 14, 1997 For registration and further information, contact Dr. Paul H. Carr Dr. Steven D. Mittleman 617 377-3686 or 4038 carr@maxwell.rl.plh.af.mil mittleman@maxwell.rl.plh.af.mil Dr. Shu T. Lai Phillips Laboratory 617 377-2932 lai11@amber.plh.af.mil Prof. Aram A. Karakashian University of Massachusetts, Lowell 508 934-3750 karakasha@woods.uml.edu ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College