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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 November 6-November 12, 1994

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2:00 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor 
"A Kaluza-Klein-Type Framework for
Non-Relativistic Chern-Simons Theory"
DR. PETER HORVATHY
France

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 4:00 pm 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Physics Colloquium
Olin Hall (Physics), Room 107
"What Physical and Chemical Properties of Liquid 
Droplets Can We Learn From Optical Spectroscopy"
RICHARD K. CHANG
Yale University
Coffee will be served at 3:45 pm in Olin 118

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Some Magnetic Moments"
PROFESSOR ALEX PINES
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Chemistry
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 168
"Symmetry of Superconducting States in Heavy 
Fermions and High Temperature Superconductors"
DR. CHANDRA VARMA
AT&T Bell Labs

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 5:00 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
"Disoriented Chiral Condensates at RHIC"
DR. SEAN GAVIN
Brookhaven National Laboratory

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 11:00 am 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"Mass Measurements on Single Trapped Ions"
DAVID E. PRITCHARD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2:30 pm 

Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"QCD_2 and Topological String Theory"
DR. SANJAYE RAMGOOLAM
Yale University

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2:30 pm 

Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics
CfA-Tufts-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Pratt Conference Room
"Power Spectra and Cosmic Microwave Background 
Anisotropies in Cosmic Strings Cosmologies"
DR. PEDRO FERREIRA
Imperial College, London

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 3:00 pm 

Harvard University
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Lecture I
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"NMR With and Without Magnets"
PROFESSOR ALEX PINES
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Chemistry

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 4:00 pm

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Schr\"{o}dinger Waves Are Observable After All"
PROFESSOR YAKIR AHARONOV
University of South Carolina, Boston University,
and Tel Aviv University
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 pm

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 4:30 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard-MIT Mathematics/Physics Seminar
Room 2-131
"The Power of Holomorphy - Exact Results 
in Four Dimensional Field Theory"
PROFESSOR NATHAN SEIBERG
Rutgers University and I.A.S.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 3:00 pm 

Boston University
Postmodern Theoretical Physics Seminar
Physics Research Building
3 Cummington Street, Room PRB 593
"QCD_2 and Topological String Theory"
SANJAYE RAMGOOLAM
Yale University
Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 4:00 pm 

Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
114 Dana
"Vortex-Antivortex Plastic Flow in
Disordered Josephson Junction Arrays"
DANIEL DOMINGUEZ
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Refreshments will be serve at 3:45 pm

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 4:30 pm 

Boston University
Joint Theoretical Physics Seminar
Physics Research Building
3 Cummington Street, Room PRB 593
"The Information Paradox in Black Holes"
PROFESSOR SAMIR MATHUR
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 12 noon 

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"A Cascade of Structure in a Drop
Falling from a Faucet"
DR. MICHAEL BRENNER
Department of Physics and the James Franck
Institute, University of Chicago

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2:30 pm 

Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 555
"Operator Expansion for High-Energy Scattering"
IAN BALITSKY
Pennsylvania State University

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 4:00 pm 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"Laboratory Astrophysics: A Tool for Answering Some 
Open Questions About Carbonaceous and Silicatic Grains"
PROFESSOR EZIO BUSSOLETTI
Director of the Istituto di Fisica
Istituto Universitario Navale, Napoli, Italy
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 4:00 pm 

Clark University
Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"Ensemble Simulations and Restraints 
from High-Resolution NMR"
PROFESSOR DALE MIERKE
Department of Chemistry, Clark University

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"The Spin Structure of ^3He"
RICHARD MILNER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 4:15 pm 

Harvard University
Special Theory Seminar
Jefferson Building, Room 256
"Global Anomalies Induced by Deformed Quantization"
RANDY BAADHIO
LBL, Berkeley and UC, Berkeley

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 751
"What To Do When 1 Microkelvin Is Not Cold Enough?"
DR. ERIC CORNELL
JILA

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 12:30 pm 

Boston University
Condensed Matter/Biophysics Seminar
Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"Non-Linear Optical Studies of Electronic 
Structure at Metal/Liquid Interfaces"
PROFESSOR R. GEORGIADIS
George Washington University,
Chemistry Department