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
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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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 16-October 22, 1994

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 10:30 am

Boston University
Special Seminar
Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue 
"Statics of Self-Organized Criticality
in Forest-Fire Models"
PROFESSOR C. HENLEY
Cornell University

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Special Physics Seminar
Department of Physics and Project SEED
114 Dana
"Constructivism and Science Education:
Some Epistemological Problems"
DR. MICHAEL R. MATTHEWS
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 4:30 pm

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 168
"Physical Properties of Nanometer-scale Magnets"
PROFESSOR DAVID D. AWSCHALOM
University of California, Santa Barbara

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Taking the Measure of the Universe"
PROFESSOR ROBERT P. KIRSHNER
Harvard University Center for Astrophysics
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 5:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
"Perfect Lattice Actions for the Gross--Neveu Model"
DR. WOLFGANG BIETENHOLZ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 11:00 am

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"Periodic Orbit Spectroscopy in Quantum Chaos"
MICHAEL COURTNEY
Massachsuetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2:30 pm

Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics
CfA--Tufts--MIT Cosmology Seminar
Pratt Conference Room
"CMB Anisotropies and the Geometry of the Universe"
DR. MARC KAMIONKOWSKI
Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 4:00 pm

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Symmetry Breaking in a Colloidal System?
Electrohydrodynamic Instability in 
Aqueous Suspensions of Microspheres"
PROFESSOR YUE HU 
Wellesley College
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 pm

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge (37-252), 70 Vassar Street
"Where's Waldo?: The Radio Counterparts
of Gamma Ray Bursters"
DR. DALE FRAIL
NRAO
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
4-163
"Atomic Parity Nonconservation in Pb, Tl, and 
Ba^+: New Results and Future Directions"
DR. PROTIK K. MAJUMDAR
Williams College
Refreshments served at 3:45 in the LNS Kolker Room

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 3:00 pm

Boston University
Postmodern Theoretical Physics Seminar
Room 593, Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington Street
"The Topological B Model as a Twisted Spinning Particle"
PROFESSOR NEIL MARCUS
Tel Aviv University
Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hrs. in advance

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 4:30 pm

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Quantized Hall Effect in a Two-dimensional Array 
of Josephson Junctions"
DR. ADY STERN
Harvard University

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 4:30 pm

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"Spectroscopy of Ultracold Atom Collisions"
DR. RANDY HULET
Rice University
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 4:30 pm

Boston University
Joint Theoretical Physics Seminar
Room 593, Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington Street
"The Low Energy Effective Theory of Supersymmetric 
Gauge Theories with (Almost) Flat Directions"
PROFESSOR LISA RANDALL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hrs. in advance

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Actin Filaments - A Model Polymer for 
Semiflexible Chains"
DR. JOSEF KES
Harvard Medical School

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana
"Feynman's Vision and His Last Blackboards: 
Quantum Mechanics and the Bethe Ansatz"
PROFESSOR JAMES McGUIRE
Florida Atlantic University
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 4:15 pm

Harvard University
Special Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"High Energy QCD as a Completely Integrable Model"
GREGORY KORCHEMSKY
SUNY, Stony Brook

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10--250
"The Science of Radioactive Ion Beams"
BRAD SHERRILL
Michigan State University
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 4:30 pm

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 751
"To be announced"
PROFESSOR MARK TUOMINEN
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 10:30 am

Boston University
Photonics Seminar
Room 593, Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington Street
"Fast Reversible Electron Transfer Photochromics 
Measured by Femtosecond Laser Techniques"
DR. MICHAEL WASIELEWSKI
Argonne National Laboratory

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 12:30 pm

Tufts University
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 258, Medford Campus
"Is Locality Compatible with Discreteness
and Lorentz Invariance?"
PROFESSOR RAFAEL SORKIN
Syracuse University

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 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
"Strategic Curiosity: Semi-Conductors in the 50s"
PROFESSOR H. EHRENREICH
Harvard University

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
209 Pierce Hall
"Phase Separation in Complex Fluid Mixtures"
DR. PIERRE WILTZIUS
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Refreshments follow the talk in the Brooks Room