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 April 16-April 22, 1995 

MONDAY, APRIL 17, 4:00 pm

Worcester Polytechnic Institute  
Physics Colloquium  
Olin Hall (Physics), Room 107 
"Intra-Molecular Energy Transfer Mechanisms"  
GRANT McGIMPSEY  
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
Chemistry Department  
Coffee will be served at 3:45 pm in Olin 118

MONDAY, APRIL 17, 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, APRIL 18, 11:00 am 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar  
Marlar Lounge (37- 252), Ronald E. McNair Building 
"Single Atoms in Cavities"  
HERBERT WALTHER  
Max-Planck-Institut Fur Quantenoptik  
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2:30 pm

Tufts University, Medford Campus  
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar  
Anderson Hall - Room 309 
"Higher-Order Gravitational Perturbations of the 
Cosmic Microwave Background"  
DR. SEAN CARROLL  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Refreshments will be served at 2:15 pm in the 
Knipp Physics Library, Robinson Hall, Room 251


TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 3:00 pm 

Harvard University  
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS  
Lecture III  
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250 
"Soliton-Soliton Interactions: Nearest Neighbor Effects, 
and Collisions in Wavelength-Division Multiplexing"  
DR. LINN F. MOLLENAUER  
AT&T Bell Laboratories 

TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University  
Condensed Matter Seminar  
114 Dana 
"Morphology of Defects in Block Copolymer Films"  
DR. BRUCE CARVALHO  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 4:15 pm 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
LNS Colloquium  
Building 4-163 
"M_c, M_b \alpha_s As We Know Them"  
PROFESSOR M. VOLOSHIN  
University of Minnesota  
Refreshments at 3:45 pm in 26-414

TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 4:30 pm

Harvard University  
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar  
Science Center 507 
"Quantized Moduli Space of Flat Connections on a 
Riemann Surface"  
ANTON ALEKSEEV  
ETH-Zurich and Harvard University 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 12 noon

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Special Seminar  
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room 
Building 6, Third Floor  
"Can Gauginos Condense?"  
HAIM GOLDBERG  
Northeastern University 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 4:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Joint Theory Seminar  
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room 
Building 6, Third Floor  
"Multi-Boson Production by Weak Coupling"  
M. VOLOSHIN  
University of Minnesota 

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 12 noon

Harvard University  
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar  
Pierce 100F 
"Bosonization in Dimension Greater Than One and the 
1/2-Filled Landau Level"  
PROFESSOR ANTHONY HOUGHTON  
Brown University 

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 3:00 pm 

Harvard University  
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS  
Lecture IV  
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250 
"Fiber Birefringence and Polarization in Soliton 
Transmission"  
DR. LINN F. MOLLENAUER  
AT&T Bell Laboratories 

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University  
Physics Colloquium  
114 Dana 
"Quantum Mechanics in Your Face"  
PROFESSOR SIDNEY COLEMAN  
Harvard University  
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 4:15 pm

Harvard University  
Special Theory Seminar  
Jefferson 256 
"Strong/Weak Coupling Duality from the Dual String"  
MICHAEL DUFF  
Texas A&M University 

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 4:30 pm 

Brown University  
Condensed Matter Seminar  
Barus & Holley, Room 751 
"Waves on a Metal Surface Quantum Corral"  
PROFESSOR MICHAEL CROMMIE  
Boston University 

FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 10:30 am 

Boston University  
Photonics Seminar  
Room 593, 3 Cummington Street 
"Diffractive Optics Technology and Its Applications"  
G. MICHAEL MORRIS  
University of Rochester  
Refreshments will be served

FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 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 
"Postwar Solar Physics: Establishing a Military-Academic 
Connection"  
MS RUTH LIEBOWITZ  
Geophysics Research Directorate, Bedford 

FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 4:00 pm

Harvard University  
Division of Applied Sciences: Condensed Matter Seminar  
Pierce Hall, Room 209 
"Bose-Einstein Condensation of a Nearly Ideal Gas: 
Excitons in a Semiconductor"  
JAMES WOLFE  
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign