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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 February 19-February 25, 1995

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 4:00 pm 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Physics Colloquium
Olin Hall (Physics), Room 107
"Evidence Violating Relativistic Electrodynamics in 
the Macroscopic Domain"
GERALD N. PELLEGRINI
Coffee will be served at 3:45 pm in Olin 118

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 12 noon

Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Cruft 318
"Mesoscopic Spin-Magnetism"
DR. HARSH MATHUR
AT&T Bell Laboratories

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2:30 pm 

Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics
CfA-Tufts-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Pratt Conference Room
"The Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
PROFESSOR GILLIAN KNAPP
Princeton University

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 4:00 pm

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Neural Dynamics in Visual Cortex: The Role of Lateral 
Connections in Information Processing"
DR. MARIUS USHER
Carnegie-Mellon University
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 pm

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Science Center 507
"Staggered Charge Order in the Extended Hubbard Model"
CHRISTIAN BORGS
Institute for Advanced Study and
Freie Universitat Berlin

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana
"Low and High Temperature Correlation Lengths in 
Potts Models"
PROFESSOR JENNIFER CHAYES
UCLA
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Diffusion and Electroweak Baryogenesis"
ANDREW COHEN
Boston University

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Universal Relation Between Conductivity Tensor 
Components in the Quantum Hall Effect"
DR. IGOR RUZIN
UCLA

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2:30 pm 

Brown University
Theoretical Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 555
"Are String Backgrounds and Conformal Theories One 
and the Same Thing?"
BARTON ZWIEBACH
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 4:00 pm

Clark University
Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"NMR Studies of High Temperature Superconductors"
PROFESSOR TAKASHI IMAI
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Internal Spin Structure of the Nucleon"
VERNON W. HUGHES
Yale University
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 751
"New Particles in Condensed Matter Physics"
PROFESSOR JAINENDRA JAIN
SUNY - Stony Brook

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 10:30 am 

Boston University
Photonics Seminar
Room 593, 3 Cummington Street
"Magnetic Resonance Studies of Electron Transfer and Proton 
Transfer in Photosystem II and Superoxide Dismutase"
ANNE-FRANCES MILLER
The Johns-Hopkins University
Chemistry Department

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Division of Applied Sciences: Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"III-V Heterostructures and Their Application to Infra-red 
Sources and Detectors"
RICHARD H. MILES
Hughes Research Laboratory