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. 
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Week of March 12-March 18, 1995

MONDAY, MARCH 13, 12:30 pm

Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
Room 593, Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington Street
"New Results on the Top Quark from CDF"
AVI YAGIL
Fermilab
Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance

MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"New Eikonal Representations"
H. FRIED
Brown University

MONDAY, MARCH 13, 4:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"A Simple Confinement Mechanism in Light-Front QCD"
PROFESSOR R. PERRY
The Ohio State University

MONDAY, MARCH 13, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley, Room 168
"Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel 
Universes, Time Warps and the 10th Dimension"
PROFESSOR M. KAKU
City University of New York

MONDAY, MARCH 13, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Magnetic Vortices in Type II Superconductors - 
Why all the Fuss?"
DR. DAVID BISHOP
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 11:00 am 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"Testing Fundamental Symmetries with Molecules"
EDWARD A. HINDS
Yale University
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2:30 pm 

Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics
CfA-Tufts-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Pratt Conference Room
"Gravitational Lensing and the Physical Condition
of the Hot Gas in X-ray Halos"
DR. JORDI MIRALDA-ESCUDE
Institute for Advanced Study

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 3:00 pm 

Harvard University
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Lecture III
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250
"Results and Interpretation of the Searches for MACHOs"
PROFESSOR BOHDAN PACZYNSKI
Princeton University

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 3:30 pm

Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Room SCI-107, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"The Unusual Properties of Beryllium Surfaces"
PROFESSOR E.W. PLUMMER
University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 4:00 pm

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Electrophoretic Motion of Charged Polymers"
PROFESSOR DAVID A. HOAGLAND
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Department of Polymer Science
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 pm

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
Room 4-163
"QCD at LEP"
PROFESSOR HOWARD STONE
Princeton University
Refreshments at 3:45 in Kolker Room, 26-414

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Science Center 507
"Feynman Graphs and Graph Complexes--An Introduction
to Modular Operads"
EZRA GETZLER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana
"Infinite Discrete Symmetries of Vertex Models"
DR. J.M. MAILLARD
University of Paris, Jussieu
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 4:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Special Seminar
Room 1-190
"The Discovery of Top Quark by D0"
RAJENDRAN RAJA
D0 at Fermilab
Refreshments at 3:30 in Kolker Room, 26-414

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Nontopological Monopoles and Nonsymmetric Black Holes"
ERICK WEINBERG
Columbia University

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Building, Room 356
"Quantum Optics with Strong Coupling"
DR. JEFFREY H. KIMBLE
California Institute of Technology
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 10:30 am 

Boston University
Photonics Seminar
Room 593, 3 Cummington Street
"LED and Laser Fabrication"
JOHN EPLER
The Paul Scherer Institute
Refreshments will be served

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Flux Entanglement in Vortex Solid and Liquid Phases"
DR. ANDREAS SCHOENENBERGER
Theoretische Physik, ETH-Hoenggerberg, Switzerland

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 3:00 pm 

Harvard University
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Lecture IV
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250
"Diverse Astrophysics from Massive Photometric Projects"
PROFESSOR BOHDAN PACZYNSKI
Princeton University

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 3:30 pm

Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
The David Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Laboratory
Room 402, 9 Oxford Street
"Magnetic Applications of Nanocomposite Materials"
ROBERT D. SHULL
NIST-Gaithersburg

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 4:00 pm

Clark University
Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"Hydrodynamic Cavitation: A New Route to the
Preparation of Nanostructured Materials"
PROFESSOR WILLIAM R. MOSER
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Department of Chemical Engineering

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 4:00 pm 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"Cosmology and the Evolution of Galaxies: 
The Work of Beatrice Tinsley"
DR. JOANN EISBERG
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana
"Structure-Function-Dynamics of Ligand-Binding 
Heme Proteins: New Results from Femtosecond 
Mid-IR Spectroscopy"
PROFESSOR PHILIP A. ANFINRUD
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Positron Production in Heavy Ion Collisions - 
Current Status of the Problem"
RUSSELL R. BETTS
Argonne National Lab
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 4:15 pm

Harvard University
Special Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Wormholes, Matrix Models and Liouville Gravity"
IGOR KLEBANOV
Princeton University

FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 10:30 am 

Boston University
Photonics Seminar
Room 593, 3 Cummington Street
"Flat Panel Displays"
MARK SPITZER
Koppen Systems
Refreshments will be served

FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Division of Applied Sciences: Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Surface Layering in Liquid Metals: 
X-ray Reflectivity Studies"
MICHAEL REGAN
Harvard University