THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of Monday, May 4 - May 10, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.

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Monday, May 5, 1997
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Monday, May 5, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6 - Third Floor
``World Sheet vs. Space-Time Instantons''
ALBION LAWRENCE
Harvard University

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Tuesday, May 6, 1997
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Tuesday, May 6, 12:00 noon

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy 
Marlar Lounge (37-252)
Ronald E. McNair Building
``MRI: From Physics to Physiology''
ROBERT M. WEISSKOFF
Harvard Medical School 
Refreshments will be served following the seminar.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Pierce 100F
``Superparamagnetic Clustering of Data -- The Definitive Solution
        of an Ill-Posed Problem''
EYTAN DOMANY
Weizmann Institute of Science 

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Tuesday, May 6, 4:00 p.m.

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium 
Physics Building, Abelson 131
``Molecular Beams and Nuclear Moments
Before Magnetic Resonance:
I.I. Rabi's Early Researches 1927-1937''
DR. PAUL FORMAN
Smithsonian Institution 
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.

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Tuesday, May 6, 8:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Science Center Research Lecture 
Science Center, Lecture Hall C
``Cultural Roots of Modern Science: Einstein's 'Rebellion'''
PROFESSOR GERALD HOLTON
Harvard University
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics char38  
Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus 
 
This lecture repeats the one given on April 8th, at the request of many 
who missed it because of overcrowding.

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Wednesday, May 7, 1997
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No Scheduled Events For Today.

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Thursday, May 8, 1997
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Thursday, May 8, 12:00 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Pierce 100F
``Anisotropic Magneto-Transport in a Periodic Composite Medium:
        Classical Physics at its Best''
DAVID BERGMAN
Tel Aviv University 

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Thursday, May 8, 1:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar 
McKay Laboratory 402
``The Atomic-Scale Structure and Stability of Semiconductor Surfaces''
DR. LLOYD J. WHITMAN
Naval Research Laboratory 

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Thursday, May 8, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
``On the Nature of the Damped Lyman Alpha Protogalaxies''
DR. ARTHUR M. WOLFE
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, California
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. 

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Thursday, May 8, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium 
MIT Room 10-250
``The Proximity of Very Massive Black Holes''
PROFESSOR DOUGLAS RICHSTONE
University of Michigan 
Refreshments will be served in MIT Room 26-110
 at 3:45 p.m.

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Thursday, May 8, 8:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Historical Loeb Lecture 
Science Center, Hall D
``Vector Potential, Gauge Field and Connection on a Fiber Bundle''
PROFESSOR CHEN-NING YANG
State University of New York 

Refreshments will be served afterwards in front of 
the Historical Instruments Museum, Science Center Basement. 

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Friday, May 9, 1997
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No Scheduled Events For Today.

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 MONDAY, May 5, 1997 at 11:00 a.m.

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