THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of March 10-March 16, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.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 11, 1996
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Monday, March 11, 1996, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``Violation of Relativistic Electromagnetic Theory in the
Macroscopic Dom''
GERALD PELLEGRINI
Worcester, MA 
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Monday, March 11, 1996, 4:30 p.m.
 
Brown University
Colloquium 
Barus & Holley 168
``Sonoluminescence, the Casimir Effect, and a 
new method of particle acceleration''
PROFESSOR ALAN CHODOS
Yale University 
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Monday, March 11, 1996, 4:30 p.m.
 
Harvard University
Colloquium 
Jefferson Building, Room 250
``Randomness and Order in Amorphous and Crystalline Materials''
PROFESSOR FRANCES HELLMAN
University of California at San Diego
Tea will be served  in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m. 
 
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Tuesday, March 12, 1996
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Tuesday, March 12, 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)
``In situ Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Growth with
Monolayer Resolution''
PETER HESS
University of Heidelberg 
Refreshments will be served following the Seminar.
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Tuesday, March 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts--CfA--MIT Cosmology Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``On the Origin of Black Hole Thermodynamics''
GILAD LIFSCHYTZ
Brandeis University 
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Tuesday, March 12, 1996, 3:00 p.m.
 
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Lecture III 
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 12, 1996, 3:30 p.m.
 
Boston University
Colloquium 
Room SCI-107
``Relaxation at the Angle of Repose: The Physics of a Sandpile''
PROFESSOR S. NAGEL
University of Chicago
Refreshments will be served following the talk. 
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Tuesday, March 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.
 
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar 
The Dana Research Center, Room 114
``How does the Spiral Get its Curl? Experimental Observations
in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction''
ANDREW BELMONTE
Institute for Nonlinear Science
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Tuesday, March 12, 1996, 4:15 p.m.
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium 
The Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252
``Gravitational Wave Sources and the Information in Their Waves''
PROFESSOR KIP THORNE
Caltech
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Tuesday, March 12, 1996, 4:15 p.m.
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium 
The Kolker Room 26-414
``The QCD Phase Transition''
KRISHNA RAJAGOPAL
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served in Room 26-414 at 3:45 p.m. 
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Tuesday, March 12, 1996, 4:30 p.m.
 
Harvard University
Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar 
Science Center 507
``Towards Solving the Quantum Einstein Equations''
THOMAS THIEMANN
Harvard University

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Wednesday, March 13, 1996
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Wednesday, March 13, 1996, 11:45 a.m.
 
Northeastern University
 
***** Diamond Anniversary Lectures ***** 
 
A series of ten pedigogical lectures on Exactly Solvable Models
     in Statistical Mechanics by Professor Baxter:  Wednesdays, 
     March 6, 13, 27; April 3, 10,17, 24; and May 1, 8, and 15
 
114 Dana (Physics Department)
``Exactly Solvable Models in Statistical Mechanics''
DR. RODNEY J. BAXTER
Australian National University
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Wednesday, March 13, 1996, 4:00 p.m.
 
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series
Physics Colloquium 
Physics Building, Abelson 131
``Title: To Be Announced''
PROFESSOR SIDNEY R. NAGEL
University of Chicago
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. 
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Wednesday, March 13, 1996, 4:30 p.m.
 
Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar 
Physics Research Building, (3 Cummington Street)
Room 593
``Microscopic Origin of Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy''
PROFESSOR CUMRUM VAFA
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. 
 
Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking.
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Wednesday, March 13, 1996, 5:00 p.m.
 
Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar 
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
``Quantum Analog Computers''
DR. SETH LLOYD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. 
 
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Thursday, March 14, 1996
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Thursday, March 14, 1996, 12:00 noon
 
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Pierce 100F
``Theory of Strong Inelastic Tunneling''
DR. KOSTYA MATVEEV
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
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Thursday, March 14, 1996, 12:00 noon
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar 
Room 12-132
``Pair-tunneling in semiconductor quantum dots''
PHILIP PHILLIPS
University of Illinois-Urbana 
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Thursday, March 14, 1996, 1:30 p.m.
 
Harvard University
Division of Applied Sciences
Materials Science Seminar 
David Turnbull Room
Gordon McKay Laboratory, Room 402
``Electromagnetism in Metallic Conductor Lines: Mechanical
and Microstructural Effects''
DR. EDUARD ARZT
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Metallforschung
Stuttgart, GERMANY
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Thursday, March 14, 1996, 3:00 p.m.
 
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Lecture IV 
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 14, 1996, 3:00 p.m.
 
Harvard University
Special Seminars of the String Group 
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256
``Title: To Be Announced''
PROFESSOR D. MORRISON
Duke University
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Thursday, March 14, 1996, 4:00 p.m.
 
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium 

********** The James Arthur Annual Lecture on the Sun **********
 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
``Helioseismology: Probing the Invisible Interior of our Star''
DR. JOHN LEIBACHER
National Solar Observatory
National Optical Astronomy Observatories
Tucson, Arizona 
 
Abstract:
 
Helioseismology utilizes observations of the properties of waves that propagate
throughout its invisible interior, seen at the visible surface of the Sun, to
measure the structure and dynamics of this otherwise inaccessible physical
laboratory, archetypal stellar interior, and source of the heliosphere which we
inhabit.
 
This review will address the basic phenomenon itself (acoustic-gravity waves in
a thermocline), the methods by which inferences of the underlying properties
may be obtained from the observations ("inversions" of the frequencies of
resonant, normal modes of oscillation, as well as travel time delays of
propagating waves), the major new observational programs that have just come
online (the GONG network and the SoHO spacecraft), a sampler of what we have
learned to date ( the thermal structure of the interior and constraints on the
neutrino deficit, the nature of internal rotation and its bearing on tests of
General Relativity, as well as dynamo generation of the Sun's magnetic field,
the basic physics of stellar interior structure, ...), as well as the promise
for the future (studies of the mechanisms of solar variability, individual
structures within the interior, the search for deep-seated gravity modes, and
the search for stellar analogues.) 
 
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.
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Thursday, March 14, 1996, 4:15 p.m.
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium 
Room 10-250
``Even-Odd Electron Number Effects in Mesoscopic
          Superconductors: When One Electron in a Billion
          Makes a Difference''
MICHAEL TINKHAM
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served in Room 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. 
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Thursday, March 14, 1996, 4:30 p.m.
 
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Barus & Holley 751
``A Local Fermi Liquid:  Where have all the instabilities gone?''
PROFESSOR KEVIN BEDELL
Boston College 
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Thursday, March 14, 1996, 4:30 p.m.
 
Harvard University
*Special* Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Jefferson Lab 256
``(Non) Fermi liquid behavior of compressible states in 
the lowest Landau level''
DR. DMITRI KHVESHCHENKO
NORDITA 

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Friday, March 15, 1996
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Friday, March 15, 1996, 3:00 p.m.
 
Harvard University
Special Seminars on the String Theory Group 
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 256
``Aspects of Conifold Transitions''
PROFESSOR B. GREENE
Cornell University 
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A Friendly Reminder: 
 
The Deadline for the Mar. 17 -  Mar. 23, 1996 Issue is: 
 
MONDAY, March 11, 1996 at 11:00 a.m. 
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