THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of March 17-March 23, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.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 18, 1996
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Monday, March 18, 1996, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Monday Research Seminar  
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
`` gamma- gamma -collisions at the next linear collider'' 
OSCAR EBOLI 
University Sao Paulo  

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Monday, March 18, 1996, 4:00 p.m. 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
 Colloquium  
Olin Hall, Room 107 
 ``How Good is Newton's Law of Gravity'' 
DR. PHILIP MANNHEIM 
 University of Connecticut  
 Coffee will be served in Olin 118 at 3:45 p.m. 
 
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Monday, March 18, 1996, 4:30 p.m. 
 
 Brown University 
 Colloquium  
Barus & Holley 168 
 ``The Stickman, the Great Wall, and the Hectospec:  
Large-Scale Structure in the Universe'' 
PROFESSOR MARGARET GELLER 
 Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics  
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Monday, March 18, 1996, 4:30 p.m. 
 
 Harvard University 
 Colloquium  
Jefferson Building, Room 250 
 ``Searching for Very Massive Black Holes'' 
PROFESSOR JAMES MORAN 
 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  
 Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m. 
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Monday, March 18, 1996, 5:00 p.m. 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Nuclear Theory Seminar  
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room 
Building 6, Third Floor 
 ``Superloop Equation in Large N QCD'' 
PROFESSOR SASHA MIGDAL 
 Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies  
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Tuesday, March 19, 1996
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Tuesday, March 19, 1996, 2:30 p.m. 
 
 Brandeis University 
 Theoretical Seminar  
The Physics Building, Room 229 
 ``BF Theories and Group-Level Duality'' 
DR. JOSE ISIDRO 
 Brandeis University 
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Tuesday, March 19, 1996, 2:30 p.m. 
 
 Harvard University 
 CfA-Tufts-M.I.T. Cosmology Seminar  
The Pratt Conference Room, CfA 
 ``Hubble Trouble Still'' 
PROFESSOR JOHN HUCHRA 
 Center for Astrophysics 
 
 Abstract: 
 
After 5 years of effort with HST, the uncertainty in $H_0$ has
decreased but is still on the order of 50%.  Is there
a resolution in sight? 
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Tuesday, March 19, 1996, 3:30 p.m. 
 
 Boston University 
 The 1996 Benson T. Chertok Physics Colloquium 
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 
 ``The Unbelievable Lightness of Being'' 
PROFESSOR J. BAGGER 
 Johns Hopkins University 
  
 Abstract: 
 
The talk will discuss why we know there is
new physics at the TeV scale, why the standard Higgs
explanation is not natural and why supersymmetry is natural.

Refreshments will be served following the talk 

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Tuesday, March 19, 1996, 4:00 p.m. 
 
 Brandeis University 
 Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium 
 The Physics Building, Abelson 131 
 ``Hints of Quark Substructure'' 
PROFESSOR CRAIG A. BLOCKER 
 Brandeis University 
 Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.  
 
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Tuesday, March 19, 1996, 4:15 p.m. 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Astrophysics Colloquium  
 The Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 
 ``Stellar Explosions and Outflows'' 
DR. MARIO LIVIO 
 Space Telescope Science Institute 
 Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.  

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Wednesday, March 20, 1996
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Wednesday, March 20, 1996, 4:00 p.m. 
 
 University of Massachusetts at Lowell 
 Spring Colloquia 1996  
Olney Room 428 
 ``Experimental Cosmology'' 
PROFESSOR MARIE MACHACEK 
 Northeastern University 
 Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m.  
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Thursday, March 21, 1996
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Thursday, March 21, 1996, 1:30 p.m. 
*** Note the new starting time for the 1996 Seminars. ***
Harvard University/Division of Applied Sciences
Materials Science Seminar
David Turnbull Room
Gordon Mckay Laboratory, Room 402
"A Unified Approach to Solid State Amorphization"
DR. PAUL OKAMOTO
Argonne National Laboratory

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Thursday, March 21, 1996, 2:30 p.m. 
 
 Brown University 
 Colloquium  
Barus & Holley 555 
 ``CP violation and baryogenesis in the hot standard model'' 
DR. CHRIS KORTHALS ALTES 
University of Marseille  
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Thursday, March 21, 1996, 4:00 p.m. 
 
 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
 Scientific Colloquium  
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) 
 ``First Science from the FIRST Survey'' 
DR. DAVID J. HELFAND 
 Columbia University 
 
 Abstract: 
 
We began collecting Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm 
with the VLA in April of 1993. The goal is to construct the 
centimetric equivalent of the POSS over the same 10,000 square 
degrees of the northern sky to be covered by the Slaon Digital 
Sky Survey. The 5000 two-million pixel images we have produced 
to date cover 1550 square degrees and contain 135,000 radio sources
with subarcsecond positions down to the survey threshold of 1.0 mJy.
Approximately 15% of these sources have optical counterparts on the 
POSS I plates; identified objects range from stars within 10 pc 
to quasars at z~4.  Following a brief precis of the survey's 
design and implementation, I will preview some of the first science 
results we have obtained. These include the first significant angular 
correlation function for the radio sky and its variation with source 
type, the discovery of large-amplitude radio variability on timescales 
of days, a search for distant clusters using bent head-tail radio 
galaxies as tracers of high density environments, and a large
bright quasar survey. 
 
 Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.  
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Thursday, March 21, 1996, 4:15 p.m. 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Colloquium  
MIT Room 10-250 
 ``Tompe L'Oeil Critical Behavior in Random Field Magnets'' 
ROBERT J. BIRGENEAU 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 
 Refreshments will be served in Room 26-110 at 3:45 p.m.  
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Friday, March 22, 1996
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Friday, March 22, 1996, 12:00 noon 
 
 Boston University 
 Particles and Fields Seminar  
Physics Research Building (3 Cummington St.) 
Room 365 
 ``Metstable states, CP violation, and baryogenesis in 
the hot standard model'' 
DR. CHRIS KORTHALS-ALTES 
 University of Marseille  
 Call 353-2600 one day in advance for parking. 
 
 The complete schedule is available at 
 http://calvin.bu.edu/seminar.html 
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  A Friendly Reminder:

The Deadline for the Mar.- Mar. 30, 1996 Issue is: 

MONDAY, March 18, 1996 at 11:00 a.m. 
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