THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR 
                   Week of October 29 -November 4, 1995

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		Monday, October 30, 1995
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Monday, October 30,1995, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Monday Research Seminar  
Building 6, Third Floor
"Duality as a Canonical Transformation" 
DR. YOLANDA LOZANO
Princeton University  
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Monday, October 30,1995, 2:30 p.m. 

Brown University 
Theoretical Seminar  
Barus and Holley Building, Room 555
"4d Avatars of 2d RCFT" 
PROFESSOR SAMSON SHATASHVILI
Yale University  
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Monday, October 30,1995, 4:30 p.m. 

Brown University 
Physics Colloquium  
Barus and Holley Building, Room 168
"Is There Any Physics in Mitosis?" 
PROFESSOR STANISLAS LEIBER
Princeton University  
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. 
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Monday, October 30,1995, 4:30 p.m.
 
Harvard University 
Physics Colloquium  
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"Much Ado About The Spin Of The Proton" 
PROFESSOR ROBERT JAFFE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m. 
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Monday, October 30,1995, 4:30 p.m. 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
Colloquium 
Olin Hall, Room 107
"Critical Behavior and Length Scales of 
Layered Superconductors" 
DR. STEPHEN W. PIERSON
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 
Refreshments will be served in Olin Hall,
Room 118 at 4:15 p.m. 

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		Tuesday, October 31, 1995
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Tuesday, October 31,1995, 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy  
Ronald E, McNair Building
Marlar Lounge (37-252)
"Cavity QED Lineshapes for a Single 
Intracavity Atom" 
PROFESSOR JAMES CHILDS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Refreshments will be served following the Seminar. 
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Tuesday, October 31,1995, 2:30 p.m. 

Harvard University 
CfA-Tufts-MIT Cosmology Seminar  
Jefferson 461, Harvard Physics Department
*** Note change of venue.  This week only ***
"Nonperturbative Effects on Bubble Nucleation" 
DR. ANDREW HECKLER
Fermilab 
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Tuesday, October 31,1995, 3:30 p.m. 

Boston University 
Colloquium  
590 Commonwealth Avenue
Room SCI-107
"Fluid Dynamics on a Lattice" 
PROFESSOR B. BOGHOSIAN
Boston University 
Center for Computational Science and Physics Department 
Refreshments will be served following the talk. 
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Tuesday, October 31,1995, 3:30 p.m. 

Northeastern University 
High Energy Seminar  
114 Dana
"Lepton-Violating Decays in Supersymmetric 
Grand Unified Theories" 
MARIO GOMEZ
Northeastern University 
Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. 
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Tuesday, October 31,1995, 4:00 p.m. 

Brandeis University 
Colloquium, Martin Weiner Lecture Series  
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"The Introductory University Physics Project:
What Have We Learned?" 
PROFESSOR DONALD F. HOLCOMB
Cornell University 
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. 
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Tuesday, October 31,1995, 4:00 p.m. 

Northeastern University 
Center for Interdisciplinary Research of Complex Systems  
Room 114 Dana
Recognition of Antigen by T Lymphocytes involves 
lattice formation between CD4, MHC classII 
and TRC molecules" 
PROFESSOR ELLIS REINHERZ
Dana Farber Research Institute  
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Tuesday, October 31,1995, 4:15 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
LNS Colloquium  
LNS Kolker Room, 26-414
What can we learn from the Microwave Sky?" 
PROFESSOR NEIL TUROK
Princeton University  
Refreshments will be served in Room 26-414 at 3:45 p.m. 
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Tuesday, October 31,1995, 4:15 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Astrophysics Colloquium  
The Marlar Lounge (37-242)
Binary Radio Pulsars in the Physicist's Toolbox" 
PROFESSOR STEPHEN E. THORSETT
Princeton University  
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Tuesday, October 31,1995, 4:30 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar  
Room 2-131
Black Holes and Calabi-Yau Manifolds" 
PROFESSOR DAVID MORRISON
Duke University
  
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		Wednesday, November 1, 1995
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Wednesday, November 1,1995, 4:00 p.m. 

Northeastern University 
High Energy Seminar  
114 Dana
High-Rate Operation of Micro-Strip Gas Chambers" 
DR. FABIO SAULI
CERN 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Wednesday, November 1,1995, 4:15 p.m.
 
Boston College 
Physics Department Colloquium  
Higgins Hall, Room 262
The Devilish World of Surfaces" 
PROFESSOR J. JOANNOPOULOS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Tea will be served in Higgins Hall, Room 354 
at 3:30 p.m. 
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Wednesday, November 1,1995, 4:30 p.m. 

Harvard University 
Joint Theory Seminar  
Jefferson 256
The geometry of N = 1 SUSY Yang-Mills vacua" 
DR. WATI TAYLOR
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
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		Thursday, November 2, 1995
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Thursday, November 2,1995, 12:00 noon 

Harvard University 
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar  
Pierce 100F
Dynamical Localization Near Quantum Anti-Resonance" 
DR. NADAV SHNERB
Harvard University  
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Thursday, November 2,1995, 2:30 p.m.
 
Brown University 
Theoretical Seminar  
Barus and Holley Building, Room 555
The Gauged Vector Model and the Higgs:
A Resolution of an Old Problem" 
PROFESSOR HOWARD SCHNITZER
Brandeis University  
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Thursday, November 2,1995, 4:00 p.m.
 
Northeastern University 
Condensed Matter Seminar  
114 Dana
Fluctuation Effects and Vortex Dynamics of 
High Tc Superconductors" 
DR. DONG HO WU
University of Maryland 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Thursday, November 2,1995, 4:00 p.m. 

Harvard University 
Scientific Colloquium  
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
Absorbing Outflows in AGN" 
DR. SMITA MATHUR
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. 

Abstract:  

 For 20 years, intrinsic ``associated" absorption has
been a well known but little understood phenomenon in ultraviolet and
X-ray observations of active galactic nuclei.  We have recently shown
that the ionized absorption seen in X-rays arises in the same gas
responsible for associated UV metal line absorption.  Since the
discovery of a joint XUV absorber in an X-ray `quiet' quasar 3C351, we
have found that the X-ray and UV absorbers are also one and the same
in other, quite different, AGN.  This identification allows us to
combine the constraints provided by both UV and X-ray data and so
understand the physical conditions in the absorber and probe the
geometry of the circumnuclear matter. This is a previously unknown
component of nuclear material: high column density, low density,
highly ionized outflowing material situated outside the broad emission
line region.  This talk will discuss a variety of associated
absorption systems including "exotic" Broad Absorption Line quasars (with
outflow velocites up to 0.1c) and their physical properties.
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Thursday, November 2,1995, 4:15 p.m. 

Brown University 
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Sponsored by the Department of Chemistry  
Barus and Holley Building, Room 166
Tailoring Light to Fit Chemistry" 
PROFESSOR STUART A. RICE
University of Chicago  
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Thursday, November 2,1995, 4:15 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Physics Colloquium  
ROOM 10-250
Topological Orders and Edge Excitations in
Fractional Quantum Hall Liquids" 
XIAO-GANG WEN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Refreshments will be served in Room 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. 

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		Friday, November 3, 1995
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Friday, November 3,1995, 12:30 p.m. 

Boston University 
Condensed Matter Seminar  
590  Commonwealth Avenue
Room SCI 352
Identity Crisis in Metals" 
PROFESSOR BRAD MARSTON
Brown University  
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Friday, November 3,1995, 12:30 p.m. 

Boston University 
Condensed Matter Seminar  
590  Commonwealth Avenue
Room SCI 352
"Identity Crisis in Metals" 
DR. SUKANYA SINHA
IUCAA
Pune, India  
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Friday, November 3,1995, 1:00 p.m. 

Tufts University 
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar  
Robinson 258
"A Stochastic Approach to Semiclassical Cosmology" 
PROFESSOR BRAD MARSTON
Brown University  
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Friday, November 3,1995, 3:30 p.m. 

Tufts University 
Colloquium 
Science and Technology Center (4 Colby Street)
Room 135
Fluctuation Effects and Vortex Dynamics of 
YBa_2Cu_3O_7-delta" 
DR. DONG HO WU
University of Maryland 
Refreshments will be served in Room 114 at 3:00 p.m.  
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Friday, November 3,1995, 4:00 p.m. 
 
Brown University 
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
Sponsored by the Department of Chemistry  
Geochem, Room 351 
"oQuasi 2D Liquids" 
PROFESSOR STUART A. RICE
University of Chicago  
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Friday, November 3,1995, 4:30 p.m. 

Please note permanent change of time 
Harvard University 
Seminar on Probability, Analysis and Mathematical Physics  
Jefferson 356 
Introduction to the Renormalization Group: A  Non-Gaussian
Fixed Point of phi to the 4th in 4 to the -epsilon Dimensions" 
PROFESSOR JONATHAN DIMOCK
State University of New York at Buffalo  


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