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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 November 27-December 3, 1994

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 9:00 am 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Lattice Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Theory of Heavy Quarks on the Lattice"
DR. ANDREAS KRONFELD
Fermilab

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2:00 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Loop Space Hamiltonians and Non-Critical Strings"
PROFESSOR ANTAL JEVICKI
Brown University

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Atoms With Attitude: Epitaxial Growth for Physicists"
PROFESSOR ANDREW ZANGWILL
Georgia Institute of Technology
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 168
"To be announced"
DR. A. COHEN
Boston University

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 5:00 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Determination of the Strong Coupling from Quarkonia"
DR. ANDREAS KRONFELD
Fermilab

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2:30 pm 

Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics
CfA-Tufts-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Pratt Conference Room
"Inflation Confronts the Cosmic Microwave Background"
PROFESSOR PAUL STEINHARDT
University of Pennsylvania

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
Marlar Lounge (37-252), 70 Vassar Street
"Tools for Galactic Astronomers"
DR. WYN EVANS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
4-163
"Flow Studies in Ultra Relativistic Heavy 
Ion Collisions"
DR. J. WESSELS
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Refreshments at 3:45 in the LNS Kolker Room, 26-414

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson Building, Room 256
"Effective Lagrangians for Supersymmetric
Nambu-Goldstone Bosons and Matter"
MARKUS LUTY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 4:30 pm

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"High Harmonic Generation in Strong Laser Fields"
DR. MACIEK LEWENSTEIN
ITAMP - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Pinning and Flux Flow in Disordered Media"
DR. DENIZ ERTAS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 12:30 pm 

Boston University
Particle and Fields Seminar
PRB-593
"Flavor Unification and Discrete Non-Abelian 
Symmetries"
MARTIN SCHMALTZ
University of Washington

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2:30 pm 

Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 555
"Modular Invariance, Finiteness, and Misaligned 
Supersymmetry"
DR. KEITH DIENES
Institute for Advanced Study

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 4:00 pm 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"Searching for Black Holes"
DR. HOLLAND FORD
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Half-integer Flux Quanta"
JOHN KIRTLEY
IBM
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 4:15 pm 

Harvard University
Special Theory Seminar
Jefferson Building, Room 256
"Aspects of Target Space Geometry in String Theory"
PAUL ASPINWALL
Cornell University

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Department, Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Diffusive and Vibrational Motion of Adatoms 
on Solid Surfaces"
PROFESSOR SEE-CHEN YING
Brown University

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 10:30 am

Boston University
Photonics Seminar
Room 593, Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington Street
"Applications of Liquid Crystals in Optical Processing"
PROFESSOR KRISTINA JOHNSON
Director, Optical Computing Center
University of Colorado

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 12:30 pm 

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Charge-Charge 
Interactions Underlying Catalytic Activity in 
Superoxide Dimutase"
PROFESSOR A.F. MILLER
Johns Hopkins University

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
209 Pierce Hall
"Image States on Single-Crystal-Metal Surfaces: 
High-Resolution Probing of Condensed Matter"
RICHARD M. OSGOOD
Columbia University
Refreshments follow the talk in the Brooks Room