THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
        Week of March 3-March 9, 1996

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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.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, March 4, 1996
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Monday, March 4,1996, 11:45 a.m. 
 
 Northeastern University 
 High Energy Seminar  
218 Dana
``Inclusive \eta Production and the Branching 
Ratio  BR(\eta \rightarrow \mu^+\mu^-)'' 
DR. PIERRICK HANLET 
 University of Virginia  
 Refreshments will be served at 11:30 a.m. 

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Monday, March 4,1996, 2:00 p.m. 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Monday Research Seminar  
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room 
Building 6, Third Floor 
 ``Gauge theory without ghosts'' 
BRIAN DeWITT 
 University of Texas at Austin  
 

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Monday, March 4,1996, 3:00 p.m. 
 
 Clark University 
 Colloquium  
Sackler Science Center 
Room N-104 
 ``Reproducibility and correlations of magnetic avalanches'' 
DR. JEFFREY URBACK 
 Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin  
 

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Monday, March 4,1996, 4:00 p.m. 
 
 Boston University Philosophy Department 
 Seminar  
School of Theology 
745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 625 
 ``Some Philosophical Considerations on Quantum Gravity'' 
PROFESSOR JEEVA ANANDAN 
 University of South Carolina  
 

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Monday, March 4,1996, 4:30 p.m. 
 
 Brown University 
 Colloquium  
Barus & Holley 168 
 ``Gamma Ray Bursts:  The ETI Hypothesis'' 
PROFESSOR JOHN BALL 
 MIT Haystack Laboratory  
 

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Monday, March 4,1996, 4:30 p.m. 
 
 Harvard University 
 Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics 
Colloquium  
Jefferson Lab 250 
 ``Atoms in Electromagnetic Fields'' 
PROFESSOR CLAUDE COHEN-TANNOUDJI 
 Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de l'Ecole Normale Superieure and
Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics  
 Refreshments will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m. 
 

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Monday, March 4,1996, 5:00 p.m. 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Nuclear Theory Seminar  
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room 
Building 6, Third Floor 
 ``The Nuclear Shell Model:  Quantum Chaos, 
Complexity, Thermalization'' 
PROFESSOR VLADIMIR ZELEVINSKY 
 Michigan State University 
NSCL  
 

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Tuesday, March 5, 1996
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Tuesday, March 5,1996, 12:00 noon 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Rowland Institute for Science 
 Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy  
Ronald E. McNair Building 
Marlar Lounge (37-252) 
 ``Laser Spectroscopy of Human Breath for Ulcer Detection'' 
DANIEL MURNICK 
 Rutgers University  
 Refreshments will be served following the Seminar. 
 

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Tuesday, March 5,1996, 2:30 noon 
 
 Brandeis University 
 Theoretical Seminar  
Physics Building, Room 229 
 ``The Gauged Vector Model in Four Dimensions: Resolution
of an Old Problem?'' 
PROFESSOR HOWARD J. SCHNITZER 
 Brandeis University  
 

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Tuesday, March 5,1996, 2:30 noon 
 
 Tufts University 
 Joint Tufts-M.I.T.-CFA Cosmology Seminar  
Anderson Hall, Room 211 
 ``Doppler Peaks from Cosmic Texture'' 
DR. ROBERT CRITTENDEN 
 Princeton University  
 Refreshments will be served in the Knipps Physics Library
at 2:00 p.m. 
 

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Tuesday, March 5,1996, 3:00 p.m. 
 
 Harvard University 
 Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics 
Lecture I  
Jefferson Lab 250 
 ``Laser Manipulation of Atoms: Methods, Problems and
Perspectives'' 
PROFESSOR CLAUDE COHEN-TANNOUDJI 
 Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de l'Ecole Normale Superieure and
Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics  
 

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Tuesday, March 5,1996, 4:15 p.m. 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Astrophysics Colloquium  
The Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 
 ``Accretion Flows Around Black Holes'' 
PROFESSOR RAMESH NARAYAN 
 Harvard University 
 Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.  
 

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Tuesday, March 5,1996, 4:30 p.m. 
 
 Harvard University 
 Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar  
Science Center 507 
 ``Questions about Spin Glasses'' 
DANIEL FISHER 
 Harvard University  
 

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Wednesday, March 6, 1996
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Wednesday, March 6,1996, 3:00 p.m. 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Joint Lattice Seminar  
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room 
Building 6, Third Floor 
 ``Higgs Potential inside Lattice Gluodynamics'' 
MISHA POLYKARPOV 
 ITEP, MOSCOW 
 

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Wednesday, March 6,1996, 4:30 p.m. 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Joint Theory Seminar  
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room 
Building 6, Third Floor 
 ``U(1) Anomalies and Duality of Type I Strings'' 
ROBERT LEIGH 
 Rutgers University 
 Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.  
 

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Thursday, March 7, 1996
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Thursday, March 7,1996, 12:00 noon 
 
 Harvard University 
 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar  
Pierce 100F 
 ``The Mott Transition in Transitional Metal Oxides: Recent
Theoretical and Experimental Developments'' 
DR. GABI KOTLIAR 
 Rutgers University  
 

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Thursday, March 7,1996, 1:30 p.m. 
 
 Harvard University 
 Materials Science Seminar  
The David Turnbull Room 
Gordon McKay Laboratory, Room 402 
 ``Irradiation-driven structural transformations 
and mass transport in silicon:
Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations'' 
DR. TOMAS DIAZ de la RUBIA 
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  
 

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Thursday, March 7,1996, 3:00 p.m. 
 
 Harvard University 
 Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics 
Lecture II  
Jefferson Lab 250 
 ``Laser Manipulation of Atoms: Methods, Problems and
Perspectives'' 
PROFESSOR CLAUDE COHEN-TANNOUDJI 
 Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de l'Ecole Normale Superieure and
Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics  
 

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Thursday, March 7,1996, 3:00 p.m. 
 
 Harvard University 
 Special String Group Seminars  
Room 256 
 ``Scattering off Extremal Black Holes and p-Branes'' 
PROFESSOR IGOR KLEBANOV 
 Princeton University  
 

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Thursday, March 7,1996, 4:00 p.m. 
 
 Clark University 
 Colloquium  
Sackler Science Center 
Room N-105 
 ``Dynamics of driven superconducting vortices'' 
DR. STUART FIELD 
 University of Michigan  
 

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Thursday, March 7,1996, 4:00 p.m. 
 
 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
 Scientific Colloquium  
 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) 
 ``Stellar Interferometry in the Mid-infrared'' 
DR. CHARLES TOWNES 
 University of California, Berkeley  
 
 Abstract: 
 
The two-telescope 10-micrometer interferometer installed by the
Berkeley group on Mt. Wilson will be described, along with
results obtained from it.  The discussion will include technology
and experimental work, atmospheric characteristics, and observations
of stellar shells, stellar activity, and stellar diameters. 
 
 Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. 
 

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Thursday, March 7,1996, 4:05 p.m. 
 
 Northeastern University 
 Condensed Matter Seminar  
114 Dana 
 ``Patterns in Alloys: Bridging the Atomic and Continuum
Length Scales'' 
PROFESSOR BULBUL CHAKRABORTY 
 Brandeis University  
 Refreshments will be served at 3:50 p.m. 
 

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Thursday, March 7,1996, 4:15 p.m. 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Colloquium  
Room 10-250 
 ``Matter at High Energy Density - Insights
from Heavy Ion Collisions'' 
BARBARA V. JACAK 
 Los Alamos National Laboratory 
 Refreshments will be served in Room 26-110 at 3:45 p.m.  
 

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Thursday, March 7,1996, 4:30 p.m. 
 
 Brown University 
 Condensed Matter Seminar  
Barus & Holley 751 
 ``Finite temperature crossovers near quantum critical points:  
application to ferromagnets'' 
PROFESSOR SUBIR SACHDEV 
 Yale University  
 

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Friday, March 8, 1996
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Friday, March 8,1996, 1:00 p.m. 
 
 Tufts University 
 Lunchtime Cosmology Seminar 
Robinson Hall, Room 258 
 ``The Dynamics of Exotic Textures'' 
DR. SEAN CARROLL 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 

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Friday, March 8,1996, 4:00 p.m. 
 
 Harvard University 
 Division of Applied Sciences: 
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Pierce Hall, Room 209 
 ``New Class of Resonances at the Edge of a Two Dimensional
Electron Gas'' 
PROFESSOR RAYMOND ASHOORI 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Refreshments will be served following the seminar in the Brooks Room. 
 

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Friday, March 8,1996, 4:30 p.m. 

 Harvard University 
 
 Seminar on Probability, Analysis and Mathematical Physics 
Jefferson, 356 
 ``Analogies Between Dispersive Effects in Kinetic, 
Schroedinger and Gas Dynamic Equations'' 
PROFESSOR B. PERTHAME 
 CNRS and  
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, PARIS 
 

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A Friendly Reminder: 
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The Deadline for the Mar. 10- Mar. 16, 1996 Issue is: 
 
MONDAY, March 4, 1996 at 11:00 a.m. 
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