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 mail your announcements to Maureen Meyer,
Physics Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254;
however we would prefer it if you would send them by e-mail
(bapc@binah.cc.brandeis.edu) or FAX (617-736-2915).  We
cannot accept announcements by telephone.  Entries should 
reach us no later than 11:00 am on the Monday preceding the 
week of the event.  ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE
WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.

Week of September 25--October 1, 1994

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor, Seminar Room
"Exact Results in 4D Supersymmetric Gauge Theories"
DR. KENNETH INTRILIGATOR
Rutgers University

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 4:00 pm

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Physics Colloquium
Olin Hall (Physics), Room 107
 "The Alcator C-Mod Tokamak Plasma Fusion Experiment"
PAUL C. STEK
MIT Plasma Fusion Center
Coffee will be served at 3:45 pm in Olin 118

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Nature's Most Nonlinear Oscillator: Synchronous 
Picosecond Sonoluminescence"
PROFESSOR SETH PUTTERMAN
University of California, Los Angeles
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 5:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor, Seminar Room
"A Very Low Energy Solar Flux of Antineutrinos 
and Heavy Flavor Neutrinos"
DR. WEI LIN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 11:00 am

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37--252), Ronald E. McNair Building
 "The Wonderful World of Photonic Crystals"
JOHN JOANNOPOULUS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2:30 pm

Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics
CfA--Tufts--MIT Cosmology Seminar
Pratt Conference Room
"Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background 
and the Ionization History of the Universe"
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER POLNAREV
Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 3:30 pm

Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Room SCI--107, 590 Commonwealth Avenue 
"Universality and Scaling in Fully Developed Turbulence"
PROFESSOR MARK NELKIN
Yale University and NYU

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge (37--252), 70 Vassar Street
"VLBI Observation of the Galactic Center at 3mm Wavelength"
DR. ALAN E.E. ROGERS
Haystack Observatory
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 4:30 pm

Boston University
Joint Theoretical Physics Seminar
Room 593, Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington Street
"Eternal Inflation and the Initial Singularity"
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER VILENKIN
Tufts University
Parking: Call 353--2600 24 hrs. in advance

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Simultaneous Bunching and Debunching of Surface Steps:
Theory and Relation to Experiments"
DR. DANIEL KANDEL
Harvard University

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 4:00 pm

Harvard--Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
THE ANNUAL JAMES ARTHUR LECTURE ON THE SUN
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street
"What Ulysses is Learning About Solar Wind"
DR. MARCIA NEUGEBAUER
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 4:00 pm

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 751
"The Mott Transition: Recent Theoretical and Experimental 
Developments"
PROFESSOR GABI KOTLIAR
Rutgers University

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 4:15 pm


Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10--250
"The Remarkable Flagellar Rotary Motor in Bacteria"
PROFESSOR HOWARD BERG
Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10--250

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 12.30 pm

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Room SCI--352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"A Self-Organized Algorithm for Equilibrium Critical Points"
PROFESSOR J. MACHTA
University of Massachusetts--Amherst

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 3:00 pm

Boston College
Physics Department Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Magneto Optical Properties of Coupled Double Quantum Wells"
PROFESSOR KRISHAN BAJAJ
Emory University

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 4:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, \& Planetary Sciences Seminar
Room 54--100 (The Green Building)
"Hubble Space Telescope Observations of
the Swan Song of Comet Shoemaker--Levy 9"
DR. HEIDI B. HAMMEL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 pm

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
209 Pierce Hall
"Half-Integer Flux Quanta in Tricrystal YBCO Rings: 
Evidence for d-Wave Pairing Symmetry"
DR. CHANG C. TSUEI
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center