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 
accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no 
later than 11:00 am on the  Monday  preceding the week of the event. 
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Week of April 23-April 29, 1995

MONDAY, APRIL 24, 3:00 pm

Brandeis University
MARTIN A. FISHER LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Public Lecture
Silver Auditorium, Sachar International Center
"Frontiers of Nanotechnology"
PROFESSOR DANIEL E. PROBER
Yale University, Department of Applied Physics

MONDAY, APRIL 24, 4:00 pm

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Physics Colloquium
Olin Hall (Physics), Room 107
"A Model for High T_c Superconductivity: Electron 
Scattering from Interacting Tunneling Units"
MICHAEL W. KLEIN
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Coffee will be served at 3:45 pm in Olin 118

MONDAY, APRIL 24, 4:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"A Chiral Fermion on the Lattice"
PROFESSOR UWE-JENS WIESE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MONDAY, APRIL 24, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley, Room 168
"Women in Physics: Why So Few? What Can We Do About It?"
DR. JUDITH FRANZ
Executive Officer, American Physical Society

MONDAY, APRIL 24, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Ice Ages and the Earth's Orbit: Most Theories are Wrong"
PROFESSOR RICHARD A. MULLER
University of California-Berkeley
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 11:00 am 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"Photon Migration for Spectroscopy and Imaging"
LEV PERELMAN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Spectroscopy Laboratory
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2:30 pm 

Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics
CfA-Tufts-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Pratt Conference Room
"Updated Prospects from Neutralino Dark Matter"
DR. GERARD JUNGMAN
Syracuse University

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 3:00 pm 

Brandeis University
MARTIN A. FISHER LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Quantum Chaos in Electronic Devices"
PROFESSOR DANIEL E. PROBER
Yale University, Department of Applied Physics
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 2:30 pm

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Special Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"Exact Solution of the Infinite-State Potts Model in d 
Dimensions and Restricted Partitions in Number Theory"
PROFESSOR FRED WU
Northeastern University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 4:15 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
Room 4-163
"Physics with Forward Muons in L3 at LEP"
DR. PAUL DE JONG
CERN
Refreshments at 3:45 in Kolker Room, 26-414

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Science Center 507
"4D Avatars of 2D-CFT"
GREG MOORE
Yale University

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 3:00 pm 

Brandeis University
MARTIN A. FISHER LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"New Superconducting Detectors for Astronomy"
PROFESSOR DANIEL E. PROBER
Yale University, Department of Applied Physics
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 2:30 pm

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana
"Phase Transitions for a Model of Oriented Flux Lines"
PROFESSOR CHRIS KING
Northeastern University, Department of Mathematics
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 4:15 pm

Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Nonlinear Optics: Historical Perspectives"
PROFESSOR N. BLOEMBERGEN
Harvard University, Division of Applied Sciences
Tea, 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall, Room 354

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Speculations on the Origin of the GUT Scale"
JOHN MARCH-RUSSELL
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 5:00 pm 

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"Collisions Between Rydberg Atoms in Radiation Fields"
DR. THOMAS F. GALLAGHER
University of Virginia
Tea will be served at 4:30 pm

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 8:00 pm 

Harvard University
MORRIS LOEB LECTURES IN PHYSICS
Historical Lecture
Science Center Hall C
"Energy in the Stars"
PROFESSOR HANS A. BETHE
Cornell University
Reception following lecture in front of Historical 
Instruments Museum, Science Center Basement

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"An Overview of DNA Sequencing and the Human 
Genome Project"
DR. FRANCOIS IRIS
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 3:30 pm

Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
The David Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Laboratory
Room 402, 9 Oxford Street
"Metal-Ceramic Microstructures for High Temperature 
Structural Applications [by In-Situ Processing]"
STEPHEN L. SASS
Cornell University, Dept. of Materials Science 
& Engineering

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 4:00 pm 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"Radio-Optical Alignments and Disks in Dominant 
Galaxies Centered in X-Ray Luminous Clusters"
DR. BRIAN McNAMARA
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"Measuring the Universe with Supernovae"
PROFESSOR ROBERT KIRSHNER
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Colloidal Liquid Crystals"
PROFESSOR SETH FRADEN
Brandeis University

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 12:30 pm

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"Recent Advances in Soft X-ray Magnetic Circular 
Dichroism"
DR. VAROUJAN CHAKARIAN
Naval Research Laboratory

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 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
"Social Empiricism as Social Epistemology"
PROFESSOR MIRIAM SOLOMON
Temple University and Dibner Institute

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Division of Applied Sciences: Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Near Field Spectroscopy of Quantum Wells"
HAROLD HESS
AT&T Bell Laboratories

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
High Energy Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
"Possible Candidates for SUSY SU(10) GUD with an 
Intermediate Scale"
DR. JOE SATO
Kyoto University, Japan
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm