THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
          Week of December 3-December 9, 1995 

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during 
the academic year by the Department of Physics and Astronomy 
at Tufts University.  You may send your announcements by 
e-mail (bapc@tuhepa.phy.tufts.edu) or FAX:(617-627-3878).  
We cannot accept announcements by telephone.  Entries should 
reach us no later than 11:00am on the Monday preceding the week 
of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.           
                
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                Monday, December 4, 1995 
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Monday, December 4, 1995, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
``R^2 Quantum Gravity in Two Dimensions'' 
THOMAS WYNTER 
Ecole Normale Superieure, FRANCE  
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Monday, December 4, 1995, 3:00 p.m. 
 
Harvard University 
Special Materials Science Seminar 
McKay Laboratory, Room 402 
 ``Si-containing Crystalline Carbon Nitride 
Formed by Microwave Plasma Enhanced CVD'' 
DR. LI-CHYONG CHEN 
 Center for Condensed Matter Sciences 
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan  
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Monday, December 4, 1995, 4:00 p.m. 
 
Brown University 
Physics Colloquium 
Barus & Holley Building, Room 168 
``Exact Results in Four Dimensional Field Theory'' 
PROFESSOR NATHAN SEIBERG 
 Rutgers University  
 Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Monday, December 4, 1995, 4:30 p.m. 
 
 Harvard University 
 Physics Colloquium 
Jefferson Building, Room 250 
 ``Topological Defects and the Large Scale 
Structure of the Universe'' 
PROFESSOR ROBERT BRANDENBERGER 
 Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m. 
 
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                Tuesday, December 5, 1995 
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Tuesday, December 5, 1995, 12:00 noon 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy  
Ronald E. McNair Building 
The Marlar Lounge, Room, 37-252 
 ``Laser Studies of Cold Trapped Hydrogen'' 
CLAUDIO CESAR 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
 Refreshments will be served following the Seminar. 
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Tuesday, December 5, 1995, 12:15 p.m. 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
LNS Special Seminar  
LNS Kolker Room, 26-414 
``Using e, e'gamma to Probe Nuclear Structure in 16-Oxygen'' 
ROBERT DENINGER 
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  
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Tuesday, December 5, 1995, 2:30 p.m. 
 
Tufts University 
Joint Tufts-M.I.T.-CFA Cosmology Seminar  
Robinson Hall, Room 153 
``Large-scale anisotropy of cosmic background
radiation in experiment (COBE) and in Theory'' 
IGOR SOKOLOV 
University of Toronto, CANADA  
Refreshments will be served in the Knipp Physics Library 
at 2:00p.m. 
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Tuesday, December 5, 1995, 3:30 p.m. 
 
Boston University 
Physics Colloquium 
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 
``Physics at LEP 200'' 
PROFESSOR BING ZHOU 
Boston University 
Refreshments will be served following the talk 
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Tuesday, December 5, 1995, 4:00 p.m. 
 
Brandeis University 
Colloquium, Martin Weiner Lecture Series  
Physics Building, Abelson 131 
``The MeshSP, a Desktop Supercomputer'' 
DR. IRA GILBERT 
Chief Scientist,  
Integrated Computing Engines (ICE)  
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. 
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Tuesday, December 5, 1995, 4:15 p.m. 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Astrophysics Colloquium  
The Marlar Lounge, Room, 37-242 
``A New Class of Binary Pulsars'' 
DR. VICTORIA M. KASPI 
IPAC/Caltech  
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Tuesday, December 5, 1995, 4:15 p.m. 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
LNS Colloquium  
LNS Kolker Room, 26-414 
``Status and Prospects of B-Physics'' 
HITOSHI YAMAMOTO 
Harvard University  
Refreshments will be served in Room 26-414 at 3:45 p.m. 

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               Wednesday, December 6, 1995 
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Wednesday, December 6, 1995, 4:30 p.m. 
 
Boston University 
Joint Theory Seminar  
Physics Research Building, (3 Cummington St.) 
Room 593 
``Induced Magnetic Mass in Hot QCD'' 
PROFESSOR ROMAN JACKIW 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 
Abstract:  
 
While the induced ELECTRIC mass in hot QCD can be readily calculated
in perturbation theory, and shown to coincide with the well known
Debye screening mass of an Abelian plasma, a possible induced
MAGNETIC mass has resisted determination.  A self-consistent
calculational procedure, involving a gauge invariant gap equation,
has been proposed.  I review this subject, and report on stability
tests that have been carried out, which question the reliability of 
the gap equation.
 
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. 
Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking.

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Wednesday, December 6, 1995, 5:00 p.m. 
 
Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics 
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar  
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 
``Exciting Molecules: Calculations of Photon- and
Electron-Induced Excitation of Small Molecules'' 
DR. JONATHAN TENNYSON 
University College, LONDON  
Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m.  

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Wednesday, December 6, 1995, 8:00 p.m. 
 
Harvard University 
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics 
Historical Lecture  
Science Center Hall C 
``Nonlinear Optics: A Historical Perspective'' 
NICOLAAS BLOEMBERGEN 
Gerhard Gade University Professor Emeritus, 
and Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics, Harvard University   
Refreshments will be served in Science Center,
Basement 06 following the lecture. 

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               Thursday, December 7, 1995 
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Thursday, December 7, 1995, 12:00 noon 
 
Harvard University 
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar  
Pierce 100F 
``Is Turbulence Universal?'' 
BORIS SHRAIMAN 
AT & T Bell Labs  
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Thursday, December 7, 1995, 2:30 p.m. 
 
Brown University 
Theoretical Seminar  
Barus & Holley Building, Room 555 
``Non-Equilibrium Evolution of Field Theories: 
Dissipation and Defect Formation'' 
PROFESSOR LUIS BETTENCOURT 
Imperial College  
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Thursday, December 7, 1995, 4:00 p.m. 
 
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
Scientific Colloquium  
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) 
 ``Planets Around Neutron Stars and Elsewhere'' 
DR. ALEKSANDER WOLSZCZAN 
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics 
Pennsylvania State University 
 
 Abstract: 
 
The first extrasolar planets, orbiting a billion year old, rapidly spinning
neutron star, the 6.2-millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12, have been found in
1992 with the world largest radiotelescope located at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
Since then, the pulsar planets have been confirmed by detection of their
mutual perturbations. Further systematic timing observations of the pulsar
have been made to study the new planetary system and to detect more planets.
Analyses of neutron star planetary systems using the extraordinarily precise
pulse timing technique as a tool may help to achieve a deeper understanding
of planetary dynamics. This knowledge can be applied to improve strategies
for planetary searches around Sun-like stars.
  
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. 
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Thursday, December 7, 1995, 4:15 p.m. 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Physics Colloquium  
MIT Room 10-250 
``The Gravito-Weak Interaction: Using Photons to 
Find Dark Matter in the Universe'' 
ROGER BLANDFORD 
Caltech 
Refreshments will be served in Room 26-110 at 3:45 p.m.  
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Thursday, December 7, 1995, 4:30 p.m. 
 
Brown University 
Condensed Matter Seminar  
Barus & Holley Building, Room 751 
``Luminescence in Silicon-Based Heterostructures'' 
PROFESSOR JAMES STURM 
Princeton University  
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Thursday, December 7, 1995, 4:30 p.m. 
 
Harvard University 
NIGEC Seminar  
209 Pierce Hall (29 Oxford Street)  
``Measuring and Modelling Carbon Dioxide and Trace Gas
Fluxes Over a Temperate Deciduous Forest'' 
DR. DENNIS BALDOCCHI 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  

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                Friday, December 8, 1995 
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Friday, December 8, 1995, 12:30 p.m. 
 
Boston University 
Condensed Matter Seminar  
Room SCI 352 (590 Commonwealth Avenue) 
``Theory of Polyelectrolyte Interactions'' 
DR. GERALD MANNING 
Rutgers University   
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Friday, December 8, 1995, 1:00 p.m. 
 
Tufts University 
Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar  
Robinson Hall, Room 258 
``The Casimir Effect for Arbitrary Bodies'' 
DR. IGOR SOKOLOV 
University of Toronto, CANADA  
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Friday, December 8, 1995, 3:00 p.m. 
 
Harvard University 
Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science  
Science Center 226 
``Igor Tamm and Lev Landau: The Theoretical
Physicist in Soviet Practice'' 
DR. GENNADY GORELIK 
Boston University   
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Friday, December 8, 1995, 4:00 p.m. 
 
Harvard University 
Division of Applied Sciences: 
Condensed Matter Seminar  
Pierce Hall, Room 209 
``Computational Challenges in Designing Novel Catalysts'' 
DR. KENNETH C. HASS 
Ford Motor Company Science Lab   
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the lecture. 
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Friday, December 8, 1995, 4:30 p.m. 
 
Harvard University 
Seminar on Probability, Analysis & Mathematical Physics  
Jefferson 356 
``Introduction of a Laplacian of Spaces of Paths'' 
PROFESSOR DANIEL STROOCK 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology   
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            A Friendly Reminder: 
 
The Deadline for the Dec.10-Dec.16, 1995 Issue is: 
 
Monday, December 4, 1995 at 11:00 a.m. 

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