THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of Monday, April 6 - April 12, 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 
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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Monday, April 7, 1997
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Monday, April 7, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Colloquium 
Barus & Holley Building, Room 168
 ``Physical Scaling for Biological Systems''
PROFESSOR GEOFFREY WEST
Los Alamos (LANL)
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Monday, April 7, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Colloquium 
Jefferson Building, Room 250
 ``Schroedinger's Cat Caught Between Life and Death''
PROFESSOR SERGE HAROCHE
L'Ecole Normal Superieure, PARIS
Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Tuesday, April 8, 1997
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Tuesday, April 8, 12:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy 
Marlar Lounge (37-252)
Ronald E. McNair Building
 ``Single Atoms in a Cavity: Entanglement, Schroedinger Cats
and Decoherence''
SERGE HAROCHE
Ecole Normale Superieure, FRANCE 
Refreshments will be served following the seminar.
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Tuesday, April 8, 3:45 p.m.

Boston University
Physics Colloquium 
SCI 107
 ``Entangled Photons: Applications to Microscopy and Spectroscopy''
PROFESSOR MALVIN TEICH
Boston University
Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical
             Engineering, Cognitive & Neural Systems 
Refreshments will be served at 3:20 p.m.
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Tuesday, April 8, 3:45 p.m.

Northeastern University
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems (CIRCS)
CIRCS Seminar 
Dana Research Center, Room 114
 ``To Be Announced''
DR. MICHAEL HASSELMO
Harvard University 
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Tuesday, April 8, 4:00 p.m.

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium 
Physics Building, Abelson 131
 ``The Origin of Universal Scaling Laws in Biology and the
Physics of the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems''
DR. GEOFFREY B. WEST
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Tuesday, April 8, 6:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Robert & Maurine Rothschild Distinguished Lecture in the History of Science 
Science Center, Lecture Hall A
 ``Cultural Roots of Modern Science: Einstein's 'Rebellion'''
PROFESSOR GERALD HOLTON
Harvard University 
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Wednesday, April 9, 1997
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Wednesday, April 9, 4:00 p.m.

University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Spring Colloquia 
Olney 428
 ``What Is A Glasschar? The Fluctuation Connection''
PROFESSOR NATHAN ISRAELOFF
Northeastern University
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m.
Contact Prof. Albert Altman [altmana@woods.uml.edu] for more information.]
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Wednesday, April 9, 4:30 p.m.

Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar 
Physics Research Building, (3 Cummington Street) Room 593
 ``Cross-Confinement and Obstructed Symmetry in 2+1 
Directional Theories''
PROFESSOR FRANK WILCZEK
Institute for Advanced Study
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.
Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking.
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Thursday, April 10, 1997
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Thursday, April 10, 12:00 p.m.

Boston University
Special Joint Boston University-Harvard University-M.I.T. Seminar 
Physics Research Building, Room 593
3 Cummington Street
 ``The LHC Project''
DR. C. LLEWELLYN SMITH
Director General, CERN 
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Thursday, April 10, 12:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Pierce 100F
 ``Spectral and Transport Properties of the Hubbard Model in Infinite
Dimensions''
DR. H.R. KRISHNAMURTHY
Harvard University and Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore 
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Thursday, April 10, 1:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar 
McKay Laboratory 402
 ``Stress Evolution in Real-Time: Segregation and
Islanding During SiGe/Si MBE Growth''
DR. JERROLD A. FLORO
Sandia National Laboratories 
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Thursday, April 10, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Colloquium 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
 ``The Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution under
        Charles Greeley Abbot: A Time of Expansive Dreams and Promise''
        
        Abstract:
   
Abbot was the second director (1906 - 1944) of the
Astrophysical Observatory opf the Smithsonian
Institution, succeeding its founder Samuel Pierpont
Langley, and Abbot ultimately became the fifth
secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1928 - 1944).
He was a deft instrument designer and observer, whose
lifelong goal soon became the refinement of Langley's
determination of the solar constant.  His preoccupation
became, again following Langley, confirming his
conviction that the solar constant varied and
influenced terrestrial weather. 
 
Following a well-established Smithsonian tradition,
Abbot established observing stations at the four
corners of the earth to keep constant watch on the sun.
As we take a visual tour of the many exotic observing
stations Abbot created during his tenure, we will
review how the SAO prospered under Abbot at a time when
the Smithsonian itself was undergoing retrenchment, and
examine Abbot's tactics for keeping SAO alive. 
 
DR. DAVID DE VORKIN
Curator of Astronomy, National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Thursday, April 10, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Barus & Holley Building
Room 751
 ``Organic Superconductors in Stron Magnetic Field''
PROFESSOR CHARLES AGOSTA
Clark University 
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Friday, April 11, 1997
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Friday, April 11, 2:30 p.m.

Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar 
Physics Building, Room 229
 ``Unitary Affine Coset Modules Associated with
Non-Compact Hermitian Symmetric Spaces''
DR. STEPHEN HWANG
Department of Natural Science
Karlstad University, SWEDEN
 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 Friday, April 11, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Pierce Hall, Room 209
 ``Signatures of Quantum Chaos in Microstructures: Porter-Thomas
Distributions and Wave Interference Effects''
ALBERT CHANGE
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Refreshments will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar.


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

A Friendly Reminder:

The Deadline for the April 13 -  April 19, 1997 Issue is: 

MONDAY, April 7, 1997 at 11:00 a.m.

NO ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE DEADLINE.

End of Document