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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 November 2-November 8,1997 _____________________________ Monday, November 3, 1997 Monday, November 3, 1997, 12:00 noon Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 "The Structure of the Photon" Jan Lauber University College, London Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance. Monday, November 3, 1997, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor "Non-Relativistic Maxwell Chern-Simons Solitons" P. Horavathy University of Tours Monday, November 3, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Worcester Polytechnic Institute Colloquium Olin Hall, Room 107 "3D Imaging Using Tunable Lasers" Dr. Lyle Shirley Coffee will be at 3:40 in Olin 118. Monday, November 3, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Boston University Astrophysics Colloquium "Black Holes in X-ray Binaries" Jeffery McClintock CfA Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Monday, November 3, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Chemistry and Physics Seminar Sackler Sciences Center, Room N-105 "The Elementary Events in Liquid Dynamics" Professor Richard Stratt Brown University Monday, November 3, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Skyrmions and Skyrme Crystals in Quantum Hall Ferromagnets" Professor Allan MacDonald University of Indiana Tea in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m. Monday, November 3, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium B&H, Room 168 "High-Frequency Studies of Nanoscale Electron Systems: physics and new devices" Professor Daniel Prober Yale University _____________________________________________ Tuesday, November 4, 1997 Tuesday, November 4, 1997, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar McNair Building, Marlar Lounge (37-252) "NMR Quantum Computers Explained" Seth Lloyd Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, November 4, 1997, 2:30 p.m. Brandeis University Theoretical Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Large N WZW Field Theory of N=2 Strings" Dr. Joao Nunes Brown University Tuesday, November 4, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Pattern Formation Processes in Lattice Gas Models: A Dynamic Mean-Field Approach" Dr. M. Plapp CIRCS, Northeastern University Coffee at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, November 4, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium Building 37-252 (70 Vassar St.) "Measuring Cosmological Parameters" Dr. Wendy Freedman Carnegie Observatories Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, November 4, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Math/Physics Seminar M.I.T. Room 4-159 "Operator Product Expansion and Conformal Algebra" Professor Victor Kac Massachusetts Institute of Technology _____________________________________________ Wednesday, November 5, 1997 Wednesday, November 5, 1997, 4;00 p.m. Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana "Short Coherence Length Superconductors and Pseudogap Phenomena in Underdoped Cuprates" Jan Engelbrecht Boston College Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, November 5, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 593 (3 Cummington St.) "On Being Almost Lorentz Invariant" Professor Sheldon Glashow Harvard University Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance. Wednesday, November 5, 1997, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Statistical and Thermodynamic Behaviour of Trapped Bose Gases" Dr. Sandro Stringari Trento University Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. ______________________________________________ Thursday, November 6, 1997 Thursday, November 6, 1997, 12:00 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Novel Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Interfacial Liquid Films: The Beauty and the Beast" Professor Sandra Troian Princeton University Thursday, November 6, 3:30 p.m. Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 "Analysis of the Z0 Line Shape in General Rxi Gauges" Massimo Passera NYU Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance. Thursday, November 6, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Space Physics Seminar Room 500 (5th fl., 725 Comm. Ave.) TBS Bill Oliver Boston University Thursday, November 6, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Seminar Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Polarons in CMR Perovskites" Heinrich Roder Los Alamos National Laboratory Thursday, November 6, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "Understanding the Proton from Quarks and Bits of Glue" J. Negele Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, November 6, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 TBA Dr. Vera G. Luth Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Refreshments available at 3:45 in Room 26-110. Thursday, November 6, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 751 "Electron Tunneling Studies of the Hexaboride Kondo Insulators" Professor Fred Sharifi University of Florida _________________________________________________ Friday, November 7, 1997 Friday, November 7, 1997, 12:00 noon Brandeis University Theoretical Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Supersymmetry in Quantum Mechanics and String Bit Models" Professor Charles Thorn University of Florida Friday, November 7, 1997, 3:30 p.m. Tufts University Physics Department Colloquium Sci/Tech Room 136 "Negative Energy, Wormholes and Warp Drive" Professor Lawrence Ford Tufts University Friday, November 7, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Controlling Interfacial Interactions to Manipulate Polymeric Nanostructures" Professor Tom Russell University of Massachusetts, Amherst Refreshments served following in the Brooks Room. Friday, November 7, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "The Pomeron in the Modern World" Peter Schlein University of California, Los Angeles Refreshments: 3:45 p.m., 26-414. _____________________________ Reminder Deadline for the November 9-November 15 Issue is: Monday, November 3, 1997 at 11:00 a.m. _____________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College