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 Mondaypreceding the week of the 
event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.

Week of October 30-November 5, 1994

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Quantum Mechanics of Electrical Charge"
DR. A. STARUSZKIEWICZ
University of Cracow

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 4:30 pm

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 168
"The Superclean Limit in Vortex Dynamics 
in Cuprate Superconductors"
PROFESSOR N.P. ONG
Princeton University

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Hot Electrons, Cold Electrons, and 
Cryogenic Elementary Particle Detectors"
PROFESSOR MICHAEL NAHUM
Harvard University
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 11:00 am

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"New Physics Issues in Indirect Drive Laser Fusion"
TED ORZEKOWSKI
Livermore National Laboratory
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1:00 pm

Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
PRB 593
"Measures of Fine Tuning"
DR. GREG ANDERSON
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2:00 pm

Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Aharonov-Bohm Flux Which Has a Well Defined 
Electric Charge"
DR. A. STARUSZKIEWICZ
University of Cracow

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2:30 pm

Tufts University
CfA-Tufts-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Anderson Hall, Room 309 - Medford Campus
"An Open Universe from Inflation"
DR. MARTIN BUCHER
Princeton University
Refreshments will be served at 2:15 pm in Knipp 
Physics Library, Robinson Hall, Room 251

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 4:00 pm

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Atomic Structure and Electronic Properties 
of ZnSe(110)"
PROFESSOR ANTOINE KAHN
Princeton University
Department of Electrical Engineering
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 pm

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge (37-252), 70 Vassar Street
"Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: How Well
Do We Know the Hubble Constant?"
PROFESSOR WILLIAM PRESS
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 4:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Room 2-131
"Quantum Space Time at the Planck
Scale and Quantum Field Theory"
SERGIO DOPLICHER
University of Rome

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 12 noon

Northeastern University
Special Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
114 Dana
"Molecular Dynamics Computation of Free Energy Variations in 
the Dissociation of a Protein-Protein Complex in Solution"
DR. JEAN DURUP
Toulouse
Refreshments will be serve at 11:45 am

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana
"Virtuality & Reality: From the Double Slit Experiment to 
the Top Quark and Beyond"
DR. JOHN SWAIN
Northeastern University/CERN
Refreshments will be serve at 3:45 pm

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 4:15 pm

Boston College
Physics Department Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Neutrino Mass and Neutrino Oscillations Experiments"
TIMOTHY TOOHIG, S.J.
The Jesuit Institute at Boston College
Tea served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall, Room 354

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Spin-Flavor Structure of Large N Baryons"
ANEESH MANOHAR
UC San Diego and Princeton University

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 4:30 pm

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"Photoionization and the Autoionization 
of a Model Helium Atom"
DR. MICHAEL PINDZOLA
Auburn University
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Cyclotron Resonance in the Extreme Quantum Limit"
DR. NIGEL COOPER
Harvard University

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 4:00 pm

Clark University
Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"Muon Spin Rotational Studies of Doping in High 
T_c Superconductors"
DR. JOSEPH BUDNICK
University of Connecticut - Storrs

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"The Dark Mass of our Galaxy"
ALVARO DE R\'UJULA
BU and CERN
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 4:30 pm

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Thin Film Light, Superconductors and the
Probing of Order Parameter Symmetry"
DR. JONATHAN SUN
IBM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 10:30 am

Boston University
Photonics Seminar
Room 593, Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington Street
"Demand Pull and Industry/Academic Interaction"
DR. THEOREN SMITH, III
Director of Physical Sciences, IBM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 12:30 pm

Boston University
Condensed Matter/Biophysics Seminar
Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"Defects in Surfactant Bilayers, and 
Holes in Lipid Vesicles"
PROFESSOR WILLIAM GELBART
Chemistry Department, UCLA

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 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
"Politics, Religion, and Cosmological Controversy: 
Steady State vs Big Bang"
PROFESSOR H. KRAGH
University of Roskilde, Denmark and the Dibner Institute

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
209 Pierce Hall
"Applications of Intense Coherent Hard X-ray Beams"
DR. BRIAN STEPHENSON
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Refreshments follow the talk in the Brooks Room