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 send your announcements 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ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 October 2-October 8, 1994

MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 4:30 pm

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 168
"Ordered Phases from Topological Defects"
PROFESSOR TOM LUBENSKY
University of Pennsylvania

MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Let There be Dark: Laser Manipulation 
of Three Level Atoms"
ARTHUR CHU
Harvard University
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 11:00 am

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"Laser Cooled Clocks and Cold Collisions"
KURT GIBBLE
Yale University
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Nonlinear Approaches to Structure Formation"
DR. BHUVNESH JAIN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Munich

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge (37-252), 70 Vassar Street
"The Stickman, The Great Wall, and the Hectospec: 
Redshift Surveys at the Center for Astrophysics"
PROFESSOR MARGARET GELLER
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 4:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
Building 2, Room 190
"Electric-Magnetic Duality in Four
Dimensional Gauge Theories"
EDWARD WITTEN
Institute for Advanced Study

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 4:30 pm

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
 "Semiclassical Hydrogen Atom Collisions:
Calculation and Experiment"
PROFESSOR STUART CRAMPTON
Williams College
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"The Renormalization Group in Condensed
Fermi Systems:  Fullerenes and Beyond"
PROFESSOR GANPATHY MURTHY
Boston University

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Reflections on the Fate of Space-Time"
EDWARD WITTEN
Institute for Advanced Study
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 10:30 am

Boston University
Photonics Seminar
Room 593, Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington Street
"Semiconductor Optoelectric Devices"
PROFESSOR ELIAS TOWE
University of Virginia

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 12:30 pm

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"Chaos and Correspondence for the Propagator"
PROFESSOR L. SCHULMAN
Clarkson University

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 12:30 pm

Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 258, Medford Campus
"The Recovery of Locality in Causal Sets"
PROFESSOR ALAN DAUGHTON
Syracuse University

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 3:00 pm

Harvard University
Department of the History of Science
Joint Seminar for the History and Philosophy of
20th Century Science
Science Center 226
"Pascual Jordan: Positivism, Religion and
the Redemption of Science"
DR. RICHARD BEYLER
Harvard University

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
209 Pierce Hall
"Magnetic Flux-Line Lattice Structures and 
Pinning in High Temperature Superconductors"
DR. HONGJIE DAI
Harvard University
Refreshments follow the talk in the Brooks Room

Wiener Symposium - October 8-14, 1994
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Norbert Wiener was an important figure in mathematics and its applications.  
He was also an important figure at M.I.T.  We are celebrating the centennial 
of his birth with a week-long Symposium, October 8-14.

Specific information about the Symposium can be requested from Susan Worton
(e-mail address below). In short, the Columbus Day weekend (3 days) is
devoted to current mathematics research in which Norbert made fundamental
contributions.  A day each will be devoted to physics, electrical engineering
and computer science, financial economics, and biology, which have strong and
growing relationships to mathematics.  Banquets are scheduled Sunday and
Thursday evenings.  Special evening sessions will be devoted to Wiener at
M.I.T. and Wiener's philosophy on science and society.

You are cordially invited to join the celebration.  We also urge you to
inform your colleagues and students about the Symposium.

If you have any questions or would like detailed information, please contact
Susan Worton (e-mail: susany@math.mit.edu).  If you plan to attend
either banquet, please make your reservation with Ms. Worton.  We hope you
will celebrate the Wiener Symposium with us.