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ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.

***CORRECTION-CHANGE OF SPEAKER***

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Division of Applied Sciences: Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Spectroscopic Measurements of Discrete Electronic States 
in Single Metal Particles"
DAN RALPH
Harvard University

Week of February 12-February 18, 1995

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Quantum Aspects of Supersymmetric Chern-Simons Vortices"
HYUNSOO MIN
Seoul University

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley, Room 168
"Onset of Metallic Behavior in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Films"
PROFESSOR JAMES VALLES
Brown University

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Helium on Cesium: Novel Wetting Behavior"
PROFESSOR ROBERT HALLOCK
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2:30 pm

Tufts University, Medford Campus
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Anderson Hall - Room 309
"Electroweak Baryogenesis from a Classical Force"
DR. TOMISLAV PROKOPEK
University of Lancaster
Refreshments will be served at 2:15 pm in the
Knipp Physics Library, Robinson Hall, Room 251

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Science Center 507
"Chern-Simons Theory and Mapping Class Groups"
VOLKER SCHOMERUS
Harvard University

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 4:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theoretical Physics Seminar
CTP Seminar Room, Third Floor, Building 6
"Topological Reduction of 4-D Supersymmetric Yang-Mills 
to 2-D Sigma Models"
CUMRUN VAFA
Harvard University

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Building, Room 356
"Photodissociation Spectroscopy: Making Molecules from 
Ultracold ATOMS"
DR. CARL J. WILLIAMS
University of Chicago & ITAMP
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Twist-Grain-Boundary Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions and 
the Analogies to High Temperature Superconductivity"
PROFESSOR CARL GARLAND
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Chemistry

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 4:00 pm

Clark University
Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"Nonlinear Optical Studies of Electronic Structure at 
Metal/Liquid Interfaces"
PROFESSOR ROSINA GEORGIADIS
George Washington University
Dept. of Chemistry & Materials Science Institute

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"The United Nations Nuclear Inspections of Iraq"
JAY C. DAVIS
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 4:15 pm

Harvard University
Special Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Spacelike Singularities and String Theory"
EMIL MARTINEC
University of Chicago

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Quantum Cascade Laser: Infrared Radiation Going Vertical?"
JEROME FAIST
AT&T Bell Labs

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 12:30 pm

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"A Self-Avoiding Walk Through Exactly Solved Lattice Models"
PROFESSOR MURRAY BATCHELOR
Australian National University

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 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
"The G\"ottingen Electron"
PROFESSOR G. RUDENBERG
Harvard University

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Division of Applied Sciences: Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Crossover Phenomena in Near-Critical Fluid Mixtures"
MIKHAIL ANISIMOV
University of Maryland