THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of Monday, April 13 - April 19, 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 
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of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.

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Monday, April 14, 1997
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Monday, April 14, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6 - Third Floor
``Quantum Birkhoff Theorem in 2-D Dilaton Gravity''
DR. MARCO CAVAGLIA
Tufts University

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Monday, April 14, 4:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6 - Third Floor
``Chiral Power Counting in Nuclear Physics, Revisited''
PROFESSOR THOMAS COHEN
University of Maryland

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Monday, April 14, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Colloquium 
Barus & Holley Building, Room 168
``Quantum Computation''
DR. DAVID DI VINCENZO
IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.

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Monday, April 14, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Colloquium 
Jefferson Building, Room 250
``Some Physics that Motile Bacteria Know''
PROFESSOR HOWARD BERG
Harvard University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.



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Tuesday, April 15, 1997
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Tuesday, April 15, 12:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy 
Marlar Lounge (37-252)
Ronald E. McNair Building
******Sixth Annual Richard C. Lord Lecture******
``Spectroscopic Characterization of Intermolecular Potentials''
WILLIAM KLEMPERER
Harvard University 
Refreshments will be served following the seminar.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2:30 p.m.

Tufts University
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar 
Anderson Hall, Room 313
``Resolution of Cosmological Singularities in String Theory''
DR. FINN LARSEN
University of Pennsylvania 
Refreshments will be served in the Knipps Library in 
Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:00 p.m.


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Tuesday, April 15, 3:45 p.m.

Boston University
Physics Colloquium 
SCI 107
``Why Is This Quark Different From All Other Quarks?''
PROFESSOR ELIZABETH SIMMONS
Boston University 
Refreshments will be served at 3:20 p.m.

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Tuesday, April 15, 4:00 p.m.

Brandeis University
Martin A. Fischer Lectures in Physics
Public Lecture 
Science Library, Gerstenzang 123
``Warm-Blooded Plants and Freeze-Dried Fish''
FREEMAN J. DYSON
Professor Emeritus
School of Natural Sciences
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 

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Tuesday, April 15, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium 
Kolker Room, 26-414
``Observation of Deeply Bound pi-States in 207Pb
        and Deduction of Effective Pion Mass in the Nuclear
        Medium''
PROFESSOR T. YAMAZAKI
University of Tokyo 
Refresments will be served at 3:45 p.m.

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Wednesday, April 16, 1997
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Wednesday, April 16, 12:15 p.m.

Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar 
High Energy Physics Lab. (42 Oxford St.)
               3rd Floor Seminar Room
``Searching for Time Reversal Violation
                 in kmu3 Decays''
DR. MILIND V. DIWAN
Brookheaven National Laboratory 

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Wednesday, April 16, 3:00 p.m.

Brandeis University
Martin A. Fischer Lectures in Physics
Colloquium 
Physics Building, Abelson 131
``Does the Electron Charge Stay Constant
as the Universe Evolves\char63''
FREEMAN J. DYSON
Professor Emeritus
School of Natural Sciences
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 
Refreshments will be served after the talk.

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Wednesday, April 16, 3:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Lattice Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6 - Third Floor
``Colour Dielectric Gauge Theory on Transverse Lattice''
BRETT VAN DE SANDE
Universitat Erlangen

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Wednesday, April 16, 4:00 p.m.

University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Spring Colloquia 
Olney 428
``The World of Antimatter''
ALLEN MILLS
Lucent Technologies
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, April 16, 4:15 p.m.

Boston College
Physics Colloquium 
Higgins Hall, Room 354
``The Search for Planets''
DR. DAVID LATHAM
Harvard Smithsonian Center
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, April 16, 4:30 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Phyics Seminar Room
Building 6 -- Third Floor
``M Theory and Matrix Models''
STEPHEN SHENKER
Rutgers University
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.

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Wednesday, April 16, 5:00 p.m.

Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar 
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
``Metastable Antiprotonic Helium Atomcules''
DR. TOSHI YAMAZAKI
University of Tokyo and CERN
Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m.

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Thursday, April 17, 1997
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Thursday, April 17, 1:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar 
McKay Laboratory 402
``Surface Morphology and Instabilities in Epitaxial Growth''
PROFESSOR JACQUES G. AMAR
Department of Physics
Emory University 

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Thursday, April 17, 3:00 p.m.

Brandeis University
Martin A. Fischer Lectures in Physics
Lecture 
Physics Building, Abelson 131
``Mathematics and Machines''
FREEMAN J. DYSON
Professor Emeritus
School of Natural Sciences
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 
Refreshments will be served after the talk.

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Thursday, April 17, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
``The Formation of Galaxies''
DR. SIMON D.M. WHITE
Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik
Munich, Germany 
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.

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Thursday, April 17, 4:15 p.m.

Northeastern University
Colloquium 
114 Dana
``The Numerical Simulation of X-Ray Clusters''
DR. GREG BRYAN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.

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Thursday, April 17, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Colloquium 
MIT, Room 10-250
``Defining the Unknowns of Sonoluminescence''
SETH PUTTERMAN
University of California at Los Angeles 
Refreshments will be available in MIT 26-110 at 3:45 p.m.

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Thursday, April 17, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Barus & Holley Building
Room 751
``To Be Announced''
PROFESSOR ZLATKO TESANOVIC
Johns Hopkins University 

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Friday, April 18, 1997
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Friday, April 18, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Pierce Hall, Room 209
``Optical Vortex Phenomena in Linear and Nonlinear Media''
GROVER A. SWARTZLANDER, JR.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Refreshements will be served in the Brooks Room following the seminar.
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MONDAY, April 14, 1997 at 11:00 a.m.

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