THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of October 27 - November 2, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.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, October 28, 1996
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Monday, October 28, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``Holonomy Algebra Quantization in (2+1)-Dimensional Gravity''
JEANETTE NELSON
INFN 

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Monday, October 28, 4:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``Instantons and the Chiral Phase Transition in QCD''
THOMAS SCHAEFER
Institute for Nuclear Theory 

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Monday, October 28, 4:00 p.m.

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Room SCI-352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
``CAVITIES IN SPHERE PACKINGS: Statistical Geometry and the
Physics of Hard Spheres''
DR. SRIKANTH SASTRY
Princeton University 

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Monday, October 28, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Colloquium 
Barus & Holley Building
Room 168
``Distribution of Matter in the Universe Viewed through 
Gravitational Lenses''
PROFESSOR NICK KAISER
CITA, University of Toronto 
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.

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Monday, October 28, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University
The Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Colloquium 
Jefferson Lab 250
``Hard Spheres in Space:  Colloidal Crystals in Microgravity''
PAUL CHAIKIN
Princeton University 
Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.

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Tuesday, October 29, 1996
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Tuesday, October 29, 2:30 p.m.

Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar 
Physics Building
Room 229
``Introduction to Superstring-Bit Models''
DR. OREN BERGMAN
Brandeis University 

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Tuesday, October 29, 2:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar 
60 Garden Street, (Phillips Auditorium)
``Weak Lensing and Cosmology''
NICK KAISER
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics 

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Tuesday, October 29, 3:00 p.m.

Harvard University
The Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Lecture I 
Jefferson Lab 250
``Dynamic Light Scattering from Jello and Yogurt and 
Other Nonergodic Stuff''
PAUL CHAIKIN
Princeton University 

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Tuesday, October 29, 3:45 p.m.

Boston University
Colloquium 
Room SCI-107, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
``Light Emission from Hot Electrons in FET' - Physics and
Applications''
DR. J. KASH
IBM Yorktown Heights 
Refreshments will be served preceeding the talk at 3:15 p.m.

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Tuesday, October 29, 4:00 p.m.

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium 
Physics Building, Abelson 131
``Shake, Rattle and Roll: Exciting New Bose Condensates''
PROFESSOR DANIEL ROKHSAR
University of California, Berkeley 
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.

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Tuesday, October 29, 4:00 p.m.

Northeastern University
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems (CIRCS)
Scientific Seminar 
Dana Research Center
Room 114
``Synchronized Oscillations in the Brain''
DR. CARSON C. CHOW
Neuromuscular Research Center
Boston University 

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Tuesday, October 29, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium 
The Marlar Lounge
Room 37-252
``Pulsar Velocities: Fossils of Collapse Past''
PROFESSOR JAMES CORDES
Cornell University 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.

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Tuesday, October 29, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium 
Kolker Room, 26-414
``Electroweak Physics with D0''
D. WOOD
Northeastern University 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.

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Wednesday, October 30, 1996
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Wednesday, October 30, 12:00 p.m.

Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar 
HEPL Third Floor Conf. Room
42 Oxford Street
``Color-Octet Quarkonia Production''
PETER CHO
Harvard University 

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

Boston College
Departmental Colloquium 
Higgins Hall, Room 354
``Rotation of the Earth's Inner Core''
PROFESSOR ADAM DZIEWONSKI
Harvard University 
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.

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

Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar 
Jefferson 256
``Exact Results and Dynamical SUSY Breaking in N=1 SUSY Gauge Theories''
CSABA CSAKI
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

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Thursday, October 31, 1996
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Thursday, October 31, 12:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Pierce 100F
``T is for Twist: the Mystery of the Missing Chirality''
DR. RANDALL KAMIEN
University of Pennsylvania 

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Thursday, October 31, 2:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Duality Seminar 
Jefferson 256
``From Matrix Models to Membranes''
PROFESSOR ANTAL JEVICKI
Brown University 

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Thursday, October 31, 3:00 p.m.

Harvard University
The Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Lecture II 
Jefferson Lab 250
``Sedimentation and Fluidization: Turbulent Flow through Liquids and 
Crystals''
PAUL CHAIKIN
Princeton University 

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Thursday, October 31, 4:00 p.m.

Clark University
Colloquium 
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
``Eigenmodes and Correlation Functions in Quantum Chaos Experiments''
DR. DONG HO WU
University of Maryland 

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Thursday, October 31, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
``Nine New Carbon Chains''

Abstract:

Some of the most exciting, current problems in science, including the
discovery of the soccer ball molecule C$_{60$ (this year's Nobel Prize in
Chemistry), have come directly from laboratory studies of molecules
known or thought to occur in space.  With the radio discovery of OH some
30 years ago and the subsequent identification of more than 110 interstellar
molecules, we now know that the interstellar medium is a fascinatingly rich
source for many familiar and exotic molecules.  During the past few months we
have detected in the laboratory nine new long carbon chains, all of
astrophysical interest, using a high sensitivity microwave
spectrometer.  These highly reactive molecules, which include cyanopolyynes,
free radicals, and carbenes generally unfamiliar or unknown to the laboratory
physicist or chemist, are significant because carbon chains are the dominant
structural theme in space.  Two of our new chains -- possibly three -- have
already been detected astronomically.  In this talk our recent findings, the
experimental advances which made these discoveries possible, and future work
will be discussed. 

DR. MICHAEL C. McCARTHY
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.

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Thursday, October 31, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Colloquium 
MIT Room 10-250
``Search for Antimatter, Dark Matter, and Study of Cosmic
          Rays on the International Space Station''
SAMUEL TING
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Refreshments will be served in MIT Room 26-110
at 3:45 p.m.

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Thursday, October 31, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Barus & Holley Building
Room 751
``Peak Effect in Disordered Superconductors''
PROFESSOR X. LING
Brown University 
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.

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Friday, November 1, 1996
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Friday, November 1, 1:00-5:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Laboratory of Electronics
50th Anniversary Open House 
50 Vassar Street, Cambridge
(MIT Building 34, Room 401)

Lab tours and a poster session will be presented by the students, 
faculty, and staff at MIT's oldest interdisciplinary lab.

For more information please see:
http://rleweb.mit.edu/rle50th.htm or call 617-253-4653.

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Saturday, November 2, 1996
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Saturday, November 2, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Laboratory of Electronics 50th Anniversary Symposium 
MIT Tang Center (corner Wadsworth &  Vassar sts.), MIT Building E51

Six technical talks geared for general audiences will be presented by RLE
faculty. Afternoon plenary talks will be presented by MIT President
Charles M. Vest and science historian James Burke.

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Professor Dennis M. Freeman
``Watching Hearing: Measuring
Nanometer Motions of the Inner Ear with a Light Microscope''

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Professor James G. Fujimoto
``Biomedical Imaging and Diagnostics using Optical Coherence Tomography''

11:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Professor John D. Joannopoulos
``Predicting the Behavior of Materials''

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  11:30 a.m. - Break 

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11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Professor Marc A. Kastner
``The Single-Electron Transistor and Other Devices of the Future''

12:15 - 12:45 p.m.
Professor Wolfgang Ketterle
``Bose-Einstein Condensates: A New Form of Quantum Matter''

12:45 - 1:15 p.m.
Professor Gregory W. Wornell
``Signal Processing for Next-Generation Wireless Communications''

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
MIT President Charles M. Vest 
``Science Policy in America and the Role of Research 
Universities in Society''

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Award-winning television host and author James Burke will detail 
``The History of Communication''\enskip and describe\enskip 
``The Role That RLE Has Played.''

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A Friendly Reminder: 
 
The Deadline for the November 3-November 9, 1996 Issue is:

MONDAY, October 28, 1996 at 11:00 a.m.
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