THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of January 26 - February 1, 1997
 
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, January 27, 1997
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Monday, January 27, 12:00 p.m.

Clark University
Colloquium 
Sackler Science Complex
Room N-105
``Tunneling Spectroscopy of Oxide Superconductors''
DR. SRIKANTH HARIHARAN
Northeastern University 

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Monday, January 27, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``Central Functions in Quantum Field Theory''
DAMIANO ANSELMI
Ecole Polytechnique, PARIS 

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Monday, January 27, 4:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``Neutrino-Induced Neutron Spallation and the Site of the R-Process''
YONG ZHONG QIAN
CalTech 

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Monday, January 27, 4:00 p.m.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Colloquium 
Olin Hall, Room 107
``Quantum Information, Quantum Coding and Quantum Entropy''
DR. WILLIAM K. WOOTERS
Williams College
Refreshments will be served in Olin 118 at 3:40 p.m. 

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Tuesday, January 28, 1997
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Tuesday, January 28, 2:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar 
Phillips Auditorium (60 Garden St., Cambridge)
``Gravitational Lensing by Clusters of Galaxies: Effect on the X-Ray
Background and on Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect''

Abstract:

Gravitational lensing by clusters of galaxies alters the observed
flux and density distribution of background sources. In practice, this
can affect the statistics both of resolved sources and of the
residual unresolved background. The implications of this effect for
the cosmic X-Ray Background, and the prospects of its observation with
the future X-ray mission AXAF will be presented. The lensing effect
can also affect radio sources, and thus systematically bias
measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and the resulting
estimate of the Hubble constant.

ALEXANDRE REFREGIER
Columbia University 

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Tuesday, January 28, 3:45 p.m.

Northeastern University
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems (CIRCS)
CIRCS Seminar 
Dana Research Center, Room 114
``A Neural Model of Honeybee Olfaction''
DR. CHRISTIANE LINSTER
Department of Psychology
Harvard University 

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Tuesday, January 28, 4:00 p.m.

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium 
Physics Building, Abelson 131
``What Happens When You Leave the Car Lights
on Overnight: Violation of Electroneutrality in
Slow, Steady Discharge of the Lead-Acid Cell''
PROFESSOR WAYNE M. SASLOW
Texas A & M University 
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, January 29, 1997
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Wednesday, January 29, 12:00 p.m.

Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar 
Physics Research Building, Room 593
``First Results From Super-Kamiokande''
DR. ED KEARNS
Boston University

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Wednesday, January 29, 12:15 p.m.

Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar 
3rd Floor Seminar Room
42 Oxford Street
``New Approaches to Semileptonic B Decay and 
Other Stories from CLEO''
DR. KEN BLOOM
Cornell University
Refreshments will be served.

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Wednesday, January 29, 4:00 p.m.

University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Spring Colloquia 
Olney 428
``Progress in Bi-Based High Temperature Superconductors
and Their Application in AC Environments''
DR. STEVE FLESHLER
American Superconductor Corporation
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m.
Contact Prof. Albert Altman [altmana@woods.uml.edu] for more information.

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Wednesday, January 29, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar 
Jefferson 256
``The Statistical Mechanics of Black Holes''
PROFESSOR ANDREW STROMINGER
University of California, Santa Barbara

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Thursday, January 30, 1997
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Thursday, January 30, 12:30 p.m.

Boston University
Biophysics Seminar 
Room 352 (590 Commonwealth Avenue)
``Synchrotron Infrared Spectroscopy:Biological Applications for
>Microscopy and Dynamics Studies''
PROFESSOR MARK CHANCE
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yeshiva University

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Thursday, January 30, 4:00 p.m.

Boston College
Special Colloquium 
Higgins Hall, Room 354
``Spin Glass Behavior in Pure UPt3, A Most Unusual Superconductor''
PROFESSOR GREGORY STEWART
University of Augsburg and University of Florida

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Thursday, January 30, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
``TeV Gamma-Rays from Blazars and Supernova Remnants''
DR. JAMES BUCKLEY
F.L. Whipple Observatory, Smithsonian
Tucson, Arizona
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.

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Friday, January 31, 1997

No Scheduled Events for Today.
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A Friendly Reminder:

The Deadline for the February 2-February 8, 1997 Issue is:

MONDAY, January 27, 1997 at 11:00 a.m.

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