THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of December 8 - December 14, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.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, December 9, 1996
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Monday, December 9,  2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``Gauge Coupling Unification in String Theory''
KEITH DIENES
IAS, Princeton University

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Monday, December 9, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Colloquium 
Jefferson Building, Room 250
 ``Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission''
PROFESSOR RUTH SIME
Sacramento City College 
Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.

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Monday, December 9, 4:30 p.m.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Colloquium 
Olin Hall, Room 107
 ``Transport Phenomena in Nano-Scale Contacts''
DR. DAVID L. CARROLL
Max Planck Institut for Solid State Physics
Stuttgart, GERMANY 
Refreshments will be served in Olin 118 at 4:00 p.m.

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Tuesday, December 10, 1996
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Tuesday, December 10, 12:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy 
The Marlar Lounge
Room 37-252
 ``Smart Gels''
TOYOICHI TANAKA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Refreshments will be served following the seminar.
For map see http://amo.mit.edu/mos.html

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Tuesday, December 10, 4:00 p.m.

Clark University
Colloquium 
The Sackler Science Center
Room N-105
 ``CeCu_6:  A Heavy Fermion in Search of a Ground State''
DR. LOIS POLLACK
Cornell University 


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Tuesday, December 10, 4:00 p.m.

Northeastern University
Colloquium 
114 Dana
 ``The Inflationary Universe: Problems and Progress''
DR. ROBERT BRANDENBERGER
Brown University 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.



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Tuesday, December 10, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium 
The Marlar Lounge
Room 37-252
 ``New Interferometric Measurements of the Sunyaev Zel'Dovich Effect''
PROFESSOR JOHN CARLSTROM
University of Chicago 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.



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Wednesday, December 11, 1996

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Wednesday, December 11, 12:15 p.m.

Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar 
High Energy Physics Laboratory, (42 Oxford Street)
Seminar Room, Third Floor
 ``SUNY Effects at B Factories''
ANDY COHEN
Boston University 
Refreshments will be served.



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Wednesday, December 11, 4:30 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
 ``Theoretical Surprises at HERA: Small-x Physics and the 
Infrared Region''
JEAN-RENE CUDELL
Universite de Liege 
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.


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Thursday, December 12, 1996
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Thursday, December 12, 2:30 p.m.

Brown University
Theoretical Seminar 
Barus & Holley Building, Room 555
 ``Understanding Gauge Coupling Unification in String Theory: A 
Review of Recent Developments''
PROFESSOR KEITH DIENES
Institute for Advanced Study

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Thursday, December 12, 3:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Duality Seminar 
Jefferson Room 256
 ``Softly broken N=2 QCD''
DR. MARCUS MARINO
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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Thursday, December 12, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
 ``Far Infrared Properties of Extragalactic Radio Sources''

Abstract:

Talk will review far-infrared emission mechanisms of quasars
and radio galaxies. The implications of far-infrared photometry
for AGN unification schemes, as well as the role of far-infrared
data in addressing the nature of the nuclear activity will be
discussed.

DR. PETER BARTHEL
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.

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Thursday, December 12, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Barus & Holley Building, Room 751
 ``Title: To Be Announced}''
Speaker: To Be Announced
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.

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Friday, December 13, 1996
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Friday, December 13, 12:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NFL Friday Seminar 
MIT Room 12-132
 ``Short Coherence Length Superconductors and the Pseudo-Gap in the Normal
State of the Cuprate Superconductors''
PROFESSOR JAN R. ENGELBRECHT
Boston College 

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Friday, December 13, 12:30 p.m.

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Physics Research Building, Room 352,
(590 Commonwealth Avenue)
 ``Electron Fringes on a Quantum Wedge''
DR. IGOR ALTFEDER
Rowland Institute 
Please call 353-2600 to arrange parking.


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Friday, December 13, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Pierce Hall, Room 209
 ``Artificial Proteins: A New Class of Macromolecular Materials''
DR. DAVID TIRRELL
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 
Refreshments will be served following the seminar in the Brooks Room.


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Friday, December 13, 4:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NFL Friday Seminar 
MIT Room 12-132
 ``Short Coherence Length Superconductors and the Pseudo-Gap in the
Normal State of the Cuprate Superconductors''
PROFESSOR JAN R. ENGELBRECHT
Boston College 

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A Friendly Reminder:

The Deadline for the December 15-December 21, 1996 Issue is:

MONDAY, December 9, 1996 at 11:00 a.m.

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