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 April 9-April 15, 1995

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 12 noon

Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Physics Building, Room 333
"Real Space Structure of Hard Sphere Colloidal Glasses"
DR. ALFONS VAN BLAADEREN
AT&T Bell Laboratories-Murray Hill

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Fun With (0,2) String Models"
DR. SHAMIT KACHRU
Harvard University

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 4:00 pm

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Physics Colloquium
Olin Hall (Physics), Room 107
"H_2^+ in Super-Intense Laser Fields: Alignment and 
Spectral Restructuring"
JANINE SHERTZER
College of the Holy Cross
Coffee will be served at 3:45 pm in Olin 118

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 4:00 pm 

Harvard School of Public Health
Free Lecture
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
"Understanding Complexity: Use of Biomathematics in 
Public Health"
(A presentation that will explore use of biomathematics in areas
such as sudden death and cardiac arrhythmias, screening for
disease, and the potentiality of new infectious diseases.)
TAMARA AWERBUCH, PhD and RICHARD LEVINS, PhD, 
Harvard School of Public Health;
MARVIN ZELEN, Department of Biostatistics,
Harvard School of  Public Health; and
ARY GOLDBERGER, MD, Director of Electrocardiography, 
Beth Israel Hospital
Information: 432-3863

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
THE 1995 HERMAN FESHBACH LECTURES IN PHYSICS
First in a Series of Three Talks
Room 10-250
"Symmetries and Asymmetries"
T.D. LEE
University Professor & Enrico Fermi Professor of Physics, 
Columbia University

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250
"Long-distance Transmission for the Information Age: 
Solitons in Optical Fibers"
DR. LINN F. MOLLENAUER
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley, Room 168
"Particle Physics from the Primordial Soup"
PROFESSOR ROCKY KOLB
Fermilab

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 11:00 am 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"Getting into the Display Business (Again)"
RICHARD GOTTSCHO
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Reconstructing the Inflaton Potential"
E.W. (ROCKY) KOLB
Fermilab/University of Chicago

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 3:00 pm 

Harvard University
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Lecture I
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250
"The Non-Linear Schr\"odinger Equation and Solitons"
DR. LINN F. MOLLENAUER
AT&T Bell Laboratories

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 4:00 pm

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Electronic Structure of Insulating and Superconducting 
Copper Oxides"
DR. BARRY WELLS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 pm

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 4:00 pm

Boston College
Special Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Ion Acoustic and Transverse Modes in Dense Plasmas"
DR. MIKHAIL A. BERKOVSKY
University of Florida

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
Room 4-163
"Pion Scattering Above the 3-3 Resonance and Delta's 
in Nuclei"
CHRISTOPHER L. MORRIS
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Refreshments at 3:45 in Kolker Room, 26-414

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 4:15 pm

Tufts University, Medford Campus
Elementary Particle Physics Seminar
Room 124/136, Richardson Conference Center
Science & Technology Center, 4 Colby Street
"Overview of the CMS Experiment at the CERN LHC"
DR. JAMES HANLON
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 4:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Planetary Sciences Group, Lecture
Room 54-915 (The Green Building)
"Remarkable New Changes in the Atmospheres of Neptune, 
Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter"
DR. HEIDI HAMMEL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments at 3:30 pm

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana
"Depinning Transitions of Flux Lines and Interfaces"
PROFESSOR MEHRAN KARDAR
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 4:30 pm

Boston University
Joint Theoretical Physics Seminar
Room PRB 593
"N=2 Superstring Lagrangians"
PROFESSOR TOMASZ TAYLOR
Northeastern University
Call 353-2600 24 hrs in advance for parking

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 5:00 pm 

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Building, Room 356
"H^+_2 in Superintense Laser Fields: Alignment and 
Spectral Restructuring"
DR. JANINE SHERTZER
College of Holy Cross
Tea will be served at 4:30 pm

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Field-Theoretic Approximation for Diffusion in Random 
Liquids and Solids"
DR. MICHAEL DEEM
Harvard University

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 12:30 pm

Boston University
ParticleS and Fields Seminar
Room PRB 593
"Observation of the Top Quark"
RICHARD PARTRIDGE
Brown University
Call 353-2600 24 hrs in advance for parking

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 3:00 pm 

Harvard University
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Lecture II
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250
"The Rate-Limiting Effects of Amplifier Spontaneous 
Emission, and Amelioration with `Guiding' Filters"
DR. LINN F. MOLLENAUER
AT&T Bell Laboratories

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 3:30 pm

Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
The David Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Laboratory
Room 402, 9 Oxford Street
"Multilayers as Microlabs for Point Defects: Effect of 
Strain on Diffusion in Semiconductors"
FRIEDER H. BAUMANN
AT&T Bell Laboratories-Murray Hill

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 4:00 pm 

Clark University
Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"Maxwell's Equations in a Rotating Medium: A Conflict 
Between Theory and Experiment"
PROFESSOR ARTHUR SWIFT
University of Massachusetts-Amherst

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 4:00 pm 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"Microlensing Towards the Galactic Bulge and the Large 
Magellanic Cloud"
DR. DAVID P. BENNETT
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Inst. of 
Geophysics & Planetary Physics, Livermore, CA
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana
"Lepton Oscillations"
PROFESSOR ALLAN WIDOM
Northeastern University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
THE 1995 HERMAN FESHBACH LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Second in a Series of Three Talks
Room 10-250
"The Importance of Condensates (RHIC Physics \& 
Superfluidity), A Physics Colloquium"
T.D. LEE
University Professor & Enrico Fermi Professor of Physics, 
Columbia University 

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Two Channel Kondo Model for Real Materials"
PROFESSOR DANIEL COX
Ohio State University

FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 12 noon

Tufts University, Medford Campus
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall - Room 258
"Amplifying Vacuum Fluctuations"
PROFESSOR LARRY FORD
Tufts University

FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 12:30 pm

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"Optical Probing of Bandstructure and Carrier Relaxation 
in Semiconductors and Heterostructures"
DR. JEFF KASH
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 3:30 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
THE 1995 HERMAN FESHBACH LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Third in a Series of Three Talks
Room 6-120
***Note change in time and location***
"Elimination of Spurious Lattice Fermion Solutions & 
Noncompact Lattice QCD"
T.D. LEE
University Professor & Enrico Fermi Professor
of Physics, Columbia University

FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Division of Applied Sciences: Condensed Matter Seminar
Aiken Hall, Room 101, 33 Oxford Street
***Note change of location - this week only***
"Real Space Structure of Hard Sphere Colloidal Glasses"
ALFONS VAN BLAADEREN
AT&T Bell Laboratories