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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Week of January 15-January 21, 1994

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
114 Dana
"Unusual Properties of Electrons in Two Dimensions"
DENISE FREED
The Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 4:15 pm

Boston College
Physics Department Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Ultrafast Laser Initiation of Surface Reactions"
DR. SHRENIK DELIWALA
DR. WALTER MIEHER
Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Tea served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall, Room 354

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 4:30 pm

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"The Time Evolution of Autoionizing Rydberg States"
PROFESSOR WILLIAM E. COOKE
Southern California University
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 4:30 pm

Boston University
Joint Theoretical Physics Seminar
Room 593, Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington Street
"Solar Neutrinos"
PROFESSOR PAUL LANGACKER
University of Pennsylvania
Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PHYSICS OF LABORATORY 
AND SPACE PLASMAS IN HONOR OF BRUNO COPPI
Room 34-101
Refreshments will be served at each break time
First Day of Two Day Symposium
8:45-9:15 am
"Welcome" 
MIT & DOE

9:15-10:00 am
"TBA"
M.N. ROSENBLUTH
University of California, San Diego

10:00-10:45 am
"Non-Energy Applications of Deuterium-Helium(3)"
J.M. DAWSON
University of California, Los Angeles

BREAK

11:00-11:45 am
"High-Field Tokamaks" 
D.B. MONTGOMERY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:45-12:30 pm
"Superconducting Tokamaks (TRIAM-1M)"
S. ITOH
University of Kyushu, Japan

LUNCH

2:00-2:45 pm
"TBA" 
R.Z. SAGDEEV
University of Maryland

2:45-3:30 pm
"Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection in Space Physics"
G. LAVAL
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

BREAK

3:45-4:30 pm
"A Different Kind of Tearing Mode" 
J.M. GREENE
General Atomic, San Diego

4:30-5:15 pm
"Collective Modes in Galactic Plasmas"
G. BERTIN
Scuola Normale S., Pisa, Italy

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 4:00 pm 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"Obervations of Far-uv Absorption Lines at 
2 km/s Resolution with IMAPS on ORFEUS-Spas"
PROFESSOR EDWARD B. JENKINS
Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, NJ
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PHYSICS OF LABORATORY 
AND SPACE PLASMAS IN HONOR OF BRUNO COPPI
Room 34-101
Refreshments will be served at each break time
Second Day of Two Day Symposium

9:00-9:45 am
"Pulsars and Gravitationally Collapsed Objects" 
R. RUFFINI
University of Rome, Italy

9:45-10:30 am
"Energetic Particles & MHD Stability"
F. PEGORARO
University of Torino, Italy

BREAK

10:45-11:30 am
"Chaotic Orbits and the Power Spectrum of Passive Scalars" 
T.M. ANTONSEN
University of Maryland

11:00-12:15 pm
"On the Problem of Detection of Turbulence in Tokamaks"
S. MAZZUCATO
Princeton University

LUNCH

2:00-2:45 pm
"Ion Temperature Gradient Driven Turbulent Transport" 
C.W. HORTON
University of Texas, Austin

2:45-3:30 pm
"Nonlinear Extensions of Neoclassical Theory to 
Tokamak Plasmas with Impurities"
D. SIGMAR
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BREAK

3:45-6:00 (or so) pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
(current problems & challenges in plasma physics 
in laboratory & space) 
I.B. BERNSTEIN, Yale University
W.E. DRUMMOND, University of Texas, Austin
D. DUECHS, Max Planck Institute, Germany
H.P. FURTH, Princeton University
G.H. MILEY, University of Illinois, Urbana
K. PAPADOPOULOS, University of Maryland
N. ROSTOKER, University of California, Irvine

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 12:30 pm

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"Experiments on Inelastic Scattering in the Quantum 
Hall Regime"
PROFESSOR H.-P. WEI
Indiana University