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 March 19-March 25, 1995

MONDAY, MARCH 20, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Putting Out Oil Fires in Kuwait"
ROBERT GRACE
Grace, Shurson, Moore, and Associates
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 11:00 am 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"Adaptive Optics for Astronomy"
RONALD R. PARENTI
Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 11:15 am

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Lattice Seminar
**Note change of day and time**
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Lattice QCD: New Results and Future Plans"
PROFESSOR N. CHRIST
Columbia University

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2:00 pm

Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Renormalization Group Flows in the Space of Gauged 
Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten Models"
DR. OLEG SOLOVIEV
Queen Mary College, London

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Recovering Cosmology from the Microwave Background 
Power Spectrum"
ARTHUR KOSOWSKY
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 3:00 pm

Harvard University
Special Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson 356
"Analogues of Seiberg--Witten Invariants for Counting 
Curves on Calabi--Yau Manifolds"
DAVID MORRISON
Duke University

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
Room 4-163
"Nucleon-Antinucleon Annihilation; A Classical Problem"
PROFESSOR R.D. AMADO
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments at 3:45 in Kolker Room, 26-414

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Science Center 507
"Some Meta-Problems in Dimension 4"
CLIFFORD TAUBES
Harvard University

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 4:30 pm

Boston University
Joint Theoretical Physics Seminar
Room 593, Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington Street
"Topcolor Models"
DR. CHRIS HILL
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance

THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Universal Scaling Functions in Critical Phenomena"
DR. CHIN-KUN HU
Academia Sinica, Taipei

THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 3:30 pm

Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
The David Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Laboratory
Room 402, 9 Oxford Street
"Roughening Instability and Enhanced Surface 
Transport on Sputtered Surfaces"
ERIC H. CHASON
Sandia National Laboratories

THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 4:00 pm 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"Binary Radio Pulsars as Astrophysical Tools"
DR. STEPHEN E. THORSETT
Princeton University
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Chaos and Wave Equations - From Quantum Dots 
to Concert Halls"
ERIC J. HELLER
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Refreshments served at 3:45 pm outside Room 10-250

FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 10:30 am 

Boston University
Photonics Seminar
Room 593, 3 Cummington Street
"The Strategic Research & Education Initiative in 
Photonics at NSF"
DEBORAH CRAWFORD
NSF
Refreshments will be served

FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1:00 pm

Tufts University, Medford Campus
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall - Room 258
"Averaged Energy Conditions, Quantum Inequalities, 
& Evaporating Black Holes"
DR. THOMAS A. ROMAN
Central Connecticut State University

FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 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 First Steps Toward the Moon: Some Skeletons in the 
Closet of Soviet Cosmolautics"
PROFESSOR ALEX GURSHTEIN
History of Science Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences