THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of October 12 - October 19, 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 
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Monday, October 12, 1996
*** Columbus Day ***
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Saturday, October 12, 9:00 a.m.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Conference sponsored by the Departments of Physics and History of 
Science, Harvard and the Academy 

Science In Culture:
A Conference in Tribute to the Work of
Gerald Holton

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon 
``Fear and Loathing of the Imagination in Science''
LORRAINE DASTON
Max Planck Institute-Berlin 

``Leonardo DaVinci: Art in Science''
JAMES ACKERMAN
Harvard University 

``Biology and the Social Science''
EDWARD O. WILSON
Harvard University 

``The Americanization of Unity''
PETER GALISON
Harvard University 

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2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
``Science and the Common Understanding\char63 \enskip Some Historical 
Remarks''
MARTIN KLEIN
Yale University 

``Themata as Themes in the History of Science''
YEHUDA ELKANA
ETH-Zurich/Tel Aviv University 

``Our Educational Dilemmas''
PATRICIA A. GRAHAM
Spencer Foundation 

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6:00 p.m.
Keynote Address 

``Physics and History''
STEVEN WEINBERG
University of Texas, Austin 
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Sunday, October 13, 1996

 No Scheduled Events.
 
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Monday, October 14, 1996
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Monday, October 14, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6 - Third Floor
``N-Body Solutions of (2+1)-Gravity in a Regular Gauge''
MARCELLO CIAFALONI
INFN 
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Monday, October 14, 4:00 p.m.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Colloquium 
Olin Hall, Room 107
``Electrophobia and Limits on the Biological Effects 
of Weak Environmental Electromagnetic Fields''
DR. ROBERT K. ADAIR
Yale University 
Refreshments will be served in Olin 118 at 3:45 p.m.

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Tuesday, October 15, 1996

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Tuesday, October 15, 12:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy 
The Marlar Lounge
Room 37-252
``Coherent Wave and Subrecoil Laser Cooling of Helium Atoms''
MICHELLE LEDUC
Ecole Normal Superieure, PARIS 
Refreshments will be served following the seminar.
For map see http://amo.mit.edu/mos.html

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Tuesday, October 15, 2:30 p.m.

Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar 
Physics Building
Room 229
``Small-x Gluon Anomalous Dimensions''
DR. MARCELLO CIAFALO
INFN, Florence and MIT 

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Tuesday, October 15, 4:00 p.m.

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium 
Physics Building, Abelson 131
``Generically Singular Correlations in Steady States 
of Non-Equilibrium Systems''
PROFESSOR R.K.P. ZIA
Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg, VA 
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.

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Tuesday, October 15, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard University
High Energy Physics (HEPL) Seminar 
HEPL Third Floor Conference Room
42 Oxford Street
``Status of the Belle Detector at KEK B Factory''
DAN MARLOW
Princeton University 
  
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Tuesday, October 15, 4:00 p.m.

Northeastern University
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems (CIRCS)
Scientific Seminar 
Dana Research Center
Room 114
``Does Protein Translocation Require a Motor?''
DR. J.F. CHAUWIN
Northeastern University 

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Tuesday, October 15, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Special Condensed Matter Seminars 
Barus & Holley Building
Room 751
``High Temperature Single Electron Transistors''
DR. YASUNOBU NAKAMURA
NEC Fundamental Research Lab, Tsukuba, Japan 

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Wednesday, October 16, 1996
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Wednesday, October 16, 4:15 p.m.

Boston College
Colloquium 
Higgins Hall, Room 354
``Magnetically Enhanced Thermoelectrics''
DR. ALBERT MIGLIORI
Los Alamos National Laboratory 
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, October 16, 4:30 p.m.

Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar 
Physics Research Building
(3 Cummington Street), Room 593
``Color-Octet Quarkonia Production''
DR. PETER CHO
Harvard University 
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.
Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking.


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Thursday, October 17, 1996
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Thursday, October 17, 2:30 p.m.

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Barus & Holley Building
Room 555
``Operator Product Expansion in 4D Superconformal Theories''
DR. MARC GRISARU
Brandeis University 
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Thursday, October 17, 2:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Duality Seminars 
Jefferson, Room 256
``Brane Probes and New RG Fixed Points in Four Dimensions''
DR. EVA SILVERSTEIN
Rutgers University 
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Thursday, October 17, 3:00-6:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Event 
MIT Lobby 13
``Fifth Annual Graduate Poster Session''
Refreshments will be served. 
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Thursday, October 17, 4:00 p.m.

Clark University
Colloquium 
Sackler Science Center
Room N-105
``Spin Polarized Fermi Liquids: Waiting to Exhale''
PROFESSOR KEVIN BEDELL
Boston College 
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Thursday, October 17, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
``The Ubiquity of Planets and the Diversity of Planetary Systems''

Abstract:

Recent discoveries of planets around solar type stars
suggest that planets are ubiquitous and their dynamical
properties are diverse.  We present formation mechanisms
for protoplanets and discuss post-formation planet-disk tidal
interaction which may have led the short-period planets
around 51 Peg and 55 Cnc to their present configuration.
We show evidences which indicate that a populations of
similar planets may have plunged into and contaminated the
stellar convection zone.  We argue that massive, eccentric
planets such as HD 114762 and 70 Vir were formed as
the merger products of planetary systems which became
dynamically unstable.   Finally, we speculate the giant
planets in the solar systems may be the survivors of
protoplanetary evolution in the primordial solar nebula. 

DR. D.N.C. LIN
Lick Observatory, University of California 
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.. 
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Thursday, October 17, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Barus & Holley Building
Room 751
``High-frequency Studies of Quantum-effect Devices''
DR. Qing Hu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.
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Friday, October 18, 1996
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Friday, October 18, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Pierce Hall, Room 209
``Mesoscopic Physics--Few Electron Quantum Dots''
DR. LEO KOUWENHOVEN
Delft University 
Refreshments will be served following the seminar in the Brooks Room.
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 A Friendly Reminder:

The Deadline for the October 20 -  October 26, 1996 Issue is:

 MONDAY, October 14, 1996 at 11:00 a.m.
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