THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of November 3 - November 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.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, November 4, 1996
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Monday, November 4, 12:00 p.m.

Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar 
Physics Research Building (3 Cummington St.)
Room 593
``Confinement in N=1 Supersymmetric Theories''
WITOLD SKIBA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

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Monday, November 4, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``Generalized Partition Functions (from Quantum Oscillators to 
Quasi-Periodic Fields)''
HENRIQUE BOSCHI FILHO
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
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Monday, November 4, 2:30 p.m.

Brown University
Special Theoretical Seminar 
Barus  Holley Building, Room 555
``5-D Gauge SUSY Theories and Integrability''
DR. NIKITA NEKRASOV
Harvard University 
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Monday, November 4, 4:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``Dynamics of Soft, Cool Pions''
ROBERT PISARSKI
Brookhaven National Laboratory 
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Monday, November 4, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Colloquium 
Barus & Holley Building
Room 168
``Protein Folding''
DR. HAO LI
NEC Research Institute 
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.
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Monday, November 4, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Colloquium 
Jefferson Lab 250
``Nucleation of Bubbles in Quantum Liquids''
PROFESSOR HUMPHREY MARIS
Brown University 
Tea will be served in Jefferson Lab 461 at 4:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, November 5, 1996
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Tuesday, November 5, 2:30 p.m.

Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar 
Physics Building, Room 229
``Chiral Solitons on a Line''
DR. DOMENICO SEMINARA
Brandeis University 
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Tuesday, November 5, 3:00 p.m.

Harvard University
The Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Lecture III 
Jefferson 250
``A Frustrating Game of Chinese Checkers:  Order from Disorder on a
Superconducting Kagome Lattice''
PAUL CHAIKIN
Princeton University 
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Tuesday, November 5, 3:45 p.m.

Boston University
Colloquium 
Room SCI-107, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
``Proteins Link Biology, Chemistry and Physics''
DR. H. FRAUENFELDER
CNLS, Los Alamos 
Refreshments will be served preceeding the colloquium at 3:15p.m.
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Tuesday, November 5, 4:00 p.m.

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium 
Physics Building, Abelson 131
``5-Fold Symmetry in Crystalline Quasi-Crystalline Lattices''
PROFESSOR D.L.D. CASPAR
Department of Molecular Biophysics
Florida State University 
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, November 5, 4:00 p.m.

Northeastern University
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems (CIRCS)
Scientific Seminar 
Dana Research Center
Room 114
``Local Circuit Modeling of the Visual Cortex''
DR. DAVID SOMERS
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT 
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Tuesday, November 5, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium 
The Marlar Lounge
Room 37-252
``Acoustic Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background''
DR. WAYNE HU
Institute for Advanced Study 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.
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Wednesday, November 6, 1996
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Wednesday, November 6, 12:15 p.m.

Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar 
HEPL Third Floor Conf. Room
42 Oxford Street
``RF Cavity Search for Dark Matter Axions''
LESLIE ROSENBERG
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
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Wednesday, November 6, 3:00 p.m.

Harvard University
The Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics
Lecture IV 
Jefferson 250
``The Umklapp Painter and Other Problems with Periodic Electrons and
Magnetic Fields in Organic Superconductors''
PAUL CHAIKIN
Princeton University 
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Wednesday, November 6, 5:00 p.m.

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar 
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
``Single and Two-Particle Atom Interference Experiments''

Abstract:

Recent experiments exploiting the interference of atom de Broglie waves
will be presented. Atom inteference techniques have been used to develop a
gyroscope of sensitivity 2x10^-8 rad/sec/(Hz)^{1/2} and to measure the
rotation of the Earth.  Two-particle atom counting techniques are being
used to study the quantum statistical properties of ultra-cold atom sources. 

DR. MARK KASEVICH
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 
Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m.. 
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Thursday, November 7, 1996
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Thursday, November 7, 2:30 p.m.

Brown University
Theoretical Seminar 
Barus & Holley Building, Room 555
``Probability Estimation of Nontopological Defect Production''
DR. M. NAGASAWA
Kyoto 
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Thursday, November 7, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
James Arthur Prize Lecture 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
``Energetics of the Solar Cycle''

Abstract:

The sun presents a complex system that is well understood in
some areas and poorly understood other areas.  The flow of energy
through the sun is a topic which encompases both these aspects --- it
is well established that nuclear transformations produce the energy in
the solar core.  However, flow of the energy through the convective
envelope to space heats not only the photosphere but also the chromosphere
and corona.  This energy flow is modulated by magnetic fields in such a way
that the sun radiates more energy in the presence of these fields than it
does without them.  Recent observations of magnetohydrodynamic waves with
properties of Alfven waves suggest a mechanism which may explain the role
of the magnetic fields in enhancing the solar output.  The dynamo process
responsible for the decay and regeneration of the sun's global magnetic
field is described by sketchy models.  Observations from Mt. Wilson
Observatory provide new details of the large scale motions associated with
the solar cycle.  Polar crossing flows are seen during periods when the
polar rotation rate changes.  A band of enhanced poleward meridional
circulation appeared in 1988 at N/S latitudes of 40 degrees and drifted to
N/S latitudes of 25 degrees by 1995.  The torsional oscillations discovered
by Howard and La Bonte can now be measured in detail and they have been
weaker this solar minimum than they were last solar minimum. 

DR. ROGER ULRICH
University of California 
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Thursday, November 7, 4:00 p.m.

Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
114 Dana
``Electron Scattering from Tunneling Units: A Model for High
Temperature Superconductivity''
MICHAEL W. KLEIN
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.
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Thursday, November 7, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Colloquium 
MIT Room 10-250
``Title: To Be Announced''
ROBERT KIRSCHNER
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
Refreshments will be served in MIT Room 26-210
 at 3:45 p.m.
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Thursday, November 7, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Barus & Holley Building
Room 751
``The Frustrated XY Model and Superconducting Arrays''
DR. COLIN DENNISTON
Princeton University & NEC 
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.
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Thursday, November 7, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Seminar 
209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street
``Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopes as Tracers of Atmospheric Chemistry
and Transport''
YUK YUNG
California Institute of Technology 
Dinner and Drinks will be served at 6:00 p.m. at the
Harvard Faculty Club on 20 Quincy Street.
Kindly make your reservations by November 4th to Karen Woodward.  Her 
E-mail Address is: ksw@io.harvard.edu, Phone: 617-496-2347, or Fax: 617-496-7247.
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Friday, November 8, 1996
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Friday, November 8, 12:30 p.m.

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
``New Perspectives on the Superconductor to Insulator Transition''
PROFESSOR JAMES VALLES, JR.
Brown University 
Please call 353-2600 to arrange for parking.
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Friday, November 8, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Condensed Matter Seminar 
209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street
``Vortices in a Bose Condensate in Confined Geometries''
DR. DANIEL ROKHSAR
University of California, Berkeley 
Refreshments will be served following the seminar in the Brooks Room.
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 A Friendly Reminder:

The Deadline for the November 10\char123  November 16, 1996 Issue is:

MONDAY, November 4, 1996 at 11:00 a.m.
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