THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of February 23 - March 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, February 23, 1997
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Monday, February 24, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``Decay Widths and Scattering Processes in the Massive Schwinger Model''
CHRISTOPH ADAM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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 Monday, February 24, 4:00 p.m.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Colloquium 
Olin Hall, Room 107
``So Many Galaxies, So Little Time''
DR. JOHN HUCHRA
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments will be served in Olin 118 at 3:40 p.m.


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 Monday, February 24, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Colloquium 
Barus & Holley Building, Room 168
``Recent Developments in Fullerene Physics''
PROFESSOR PETER NORDLANDER
Rice University
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.


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 Monday, February 24, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Colloquium 
Jefferson Building, Room 250
``Non-Linear Laser Microscopy Illuminates Biophysical Processes''
PROFESSOR WATT WEBB
Cornell University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.


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Tuesday, February 25, 1997
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 Tuesday, February 25, 12:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy 
Marlar Lounge (37-252)
Ronald E. McNair Building
``Three Dimensional Laser Cooling of Stored Ions''
HANS-JOACHIM MIESNER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 


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 Tuesday, February 25, 3:45 p.m.

Northeastern University
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems (CIRCS)
CIRCS Seminar 
Dana Research Center, Room 114
``Gamma Oscillation of Synaptic Inhibition in Hippocampal Interneural 
Network Models''
XIAO-JING WANG
Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University 


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 Tuesday, February 25, 4:00 p.m.

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium 
Physics Building, Abelson 131
``Kinetics of Phase Transformations in Polymer
Systems: Time Resolved X-Ray Scattering Studies''
PROFESSOR KARL F. LUDWIG
Boston University 
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.


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 Tuesday, February 25, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium 
Kolker Room 26-414
``Quantum Spins and Quantum Links: from Antiferromagnets to QCD''
UWE-JENS WIESE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.

 
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Wednesday, February 26, 1997
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 Wednesday, February 26, 12:00 p.m.

Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar 
Physics Research Building, Room 593
``Tau Physics Since 1990: Progress and Prospects''
DR. JON URHEIM
California Institute of Technology


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 Wednesday, February 26, 12:15 p.m.

Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar 
High Energy Physics Lab. (42 Oxford St.)
3rd Floor Seminar Room
``W Physics at LEP-II''
PROFESSOR PETER FISHER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served.


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 Wednesday, February 26, 4:00 p.m.

University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Spring Colloquia 
Olney 428
``Exploring Electronic Structure in One and Two Dimensional Metals''
PROFESSOR KEVIN SMITH
Boston University
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, February 26, 4:15 p.m.

Boston College
Colloquium 
Higgins Hall, Room 354
``The Universe and How We Get There''
DR. MICHAEL KURTZ
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.


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 Wednesday, February 26, 4:30 p.m.

Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar 
Physics Research Building, (3 Cummington Street)
Room 593
``The Chiral Phase Transition with Long Range Forces''
PROFESSOR THOMAS APPELQUIST
Yale University
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.
Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking.

 
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Thursday, February 27, 1997
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 Thursday, February 27, 12:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Colloquium 
Pierce 100F
``Ring, Aggregates, and Other Singular States of Chemotactically
Interacting Bacteria''
LEONID LEVITOV
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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 Thursday, February 27, 2:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Duality Seminar 
Jefferson 356
``Are the results of non-perturbative quantum gravity clues for
non-perturbative string theory?''
PROFESSOR LEE SMOLIN
Pennsylvania State University


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 Thursday, February 27, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium 
Phillips Auditorium
``Probing the Pandemonium: RXTE Observations of the 
Galactic Microquasars''
 
Abstract:
 
The two galactic `microquasars' with superluminal radio jets have been
quite active during 1996.  New results are reviewed with emphasis on
observations with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. GRS1915+105 has
displayed dramatic light curves and emission states unlike anything
previously seen, while GROJ1655-40 has displayed canonical X-ray
states.  Both have shown QPOs (0.1 to 22 Hz) that have been linked to
the origin of the X-ray power-law component.  In addition, both
sources exhibit transient yet stationary high-frequency QPOs that may
eventually constrain the mass and rotation of the accreting black
holes in these systems.
 
DR. RONALD REMILLARD
Center for Space Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.


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 Thursday, February 27, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Colloquium 
MIT Room 10-250
``The Atom Laser and the Latest Results on Bose-Einstein Condensation''
WOLFGANG KETTERLE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served in MIT Room 26-110 
at 3:45 p.m.


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Friday, February 28, 1997
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 Friday, February 28, 2:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science 
Science Center, Room 226
``What if the final theory is not unique?  Might
natural selection have played a role in cosmology''
PROFESSOR LEE SMOLIN
Pennsylvania State University


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 Friday, February 28, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Friday Condensed Matter Seminar 
Pierce Hall, Room 209
``Molecular Mechanisms in Smart Materials''
ROBERT NEWNHAM
Pennsylvania State University
Refreshments will be served following the seminar 
in the Brooks Room.
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A Friendly Reminder:

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

MONDAY, February 17, 1997 at 11:00 a.m.

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