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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.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 12, 1997
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Monday, May 12, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``Issues in Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking''
ERICH POPPITZ
University of Chicago

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Monday, May 12, 3:30 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics of Computation Seminar 
Building NE43, 8th floor AI Playroom (545 Tech Sq)
``Quantum Telecomputation''

Abstract:

Quantum mechanics permits certain kinds of non-local effects. This
    talk demonstrates how these can be used for distributed computation
    with minimal communication between various processors. The problem
    considered is that of estimating the mean of N items to a certain
    precision. First a serial quantum mechanical algorithm for this is
    presented that is faster than any classical algorithm. Next it is
    shown how this can be efficiently parallelized with quantum
    mechanical processors that are remotely located.  These processors
    consist of coupled EPR particles. Each processor has just to
    communicate one bit of classical information to a central location
    at the end of its local computation. 
LOU K. GROVER
AT & T Bell Labs
Refreshments will be served after the talk.


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Monday, May 12, 4:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor
``BFKL, Soft Gluons and the Wilson Renormalization Group''
ALEX KOVNER
University of Minnesota

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Tuesday, May 13, 1997
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Tuesday, May 13, 12:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy 
Marlar Lounge (37-252)
Ronald E. McNair Building
``Ultra High Precision Optical Gyroscopes''
SHAOUL EZEKIEL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Refreshments will be served following the seminar.


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Wednesday, May 14, 1997
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No Scheduled Events For Today.

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Thursday, May 15, 1997
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Thursday, May 15, 12:00 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Pierce 100F
``Contours of a Random Surface''
DR. JANE KONDEV
Brown University 

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Thursday, May 15, 1:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar 
McKay Laboratory 402
``Wulff Shapes, Steady-State Growth Shapes, and
Phase Diagrams: Different Topics with the Same
Underlying Theoretical Structure''
DR. W. CRAIG CARTER
National Institute of Standards and Technology 

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Thursday, May 15, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
``Recent Scientific Result from HST''

Abstract:

Some of the recent results from HST will be discussed, including
CM diagrams of extragalactic clusters, inhomogeneities in nebulae, 
and the results that are emerging from the early studies of the Hubble
Deep Field.
 
DR. ROBERT E. WILLIAMS
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland 

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium 
MIT Room 10-250
``To Be Announced''
DR. KEITH BURRELL
General Atomics, San Diego 
Refreshments will be served in MIT Room 26-110 at 3:45 p.m.


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Friday, May 16, 1997
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No Scheduled Events For Today.


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   MONDAY, May 12, 1997 at 11:00 a.m.
   
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