THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Boston College. You may send your announcements by e-mail (bapc@bc.edu) or FAX (617-552-8478). We cannot accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no later than 11:00 a.m. on the Monday preceding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Week of October 19 - October 25, 1997 _______________________________ Monday, October 20, 1997 Monday, October 20, 1997, 11:45 a.m. Northeastern University High Energy Seminar 218 Dana "300 Million Pixels Can't Be Wrong: b Physics with the New SLD Vertex Detector" Glen Crawford SLAC Monday, October 20, 1997, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT, CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor "Phase Transitions in Gauge Theories at Finite Temperature" Pasquale Sodano INFN Monday, October 20, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT, CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor "Trying To Find Very High Density Gluonic Systems: Theory and Experiment" Al Mueller Columbia University Monday, October 20, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Boston University Astrophysics Colloquium 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 500 "Origin and Evolution of the Cepheus Bubble" Nimesh Patel Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Monday, October 20, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Is the Planck Momentum Attainable?" Professor Shmuel Nussinov Tel-Aviv University Tea in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m. Monday, October 20, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium B&H, Room 168 TBA Professor Robert Austin Princeton University _____________________________________________ Tuesday, October 21, 1997 Tuesday, October 21, 1997, 12:00-1:00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar McNair Building, Marlar Lounge, (37-252) "Optical Coherence Tomography for Biodiagnosis" Joseph A. Izatt Case Western University Refreshments will be served following the seminar. Tuesday, October 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m. Tufts University Joint Tufts-CFA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Sweeping Away the Monopole Problem" Professor Tanmay Vachaspati Case Western Reserve University Refreshments served at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, October 21, 1997, 3:45 p.m. Boston University The Benson T. Chertok Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 (590 Comm. Ave.) "The Ultimate Planck Accelerator" Prof. Shmuel Nussinov Tel Aviv University Refreshments served at 3:20 p.m. outside Room 107. Tuesday, October 21, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Does Landau Diamagnetism Survive Dissipation?" Professor Sushanta Dattagupta Michigan State University and JNU, India Tuesday, October 21, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Quantum Computing and Grover's Algorithm" Professor S. Gutmann Northeastern University, Mathematics Department Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, October 21, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium Building 37-252 (70 Vassar Street) "The Population of Neutron Star - Helium White Dwarf Binaries in the Galactic Disk" Professor Donald Backer UC Berkeley Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, October 21, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Math/Physics Seminar M.I.T. Room 4-159 "An Introduction to F-theory" Professor David Morrison Duke University _____________________________________________ Wednesday, October 22, 1997 Wednesday, October 22, 1997, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "The Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium" Professor William Klemperer Harvard University Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 22, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Research Seminar MIT, CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor "The Dual Standard Model" Professor Tanmay Vachaspati Case Western Reserve University Wednesday, October 22, 1997, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Resonances! Resonances! In Periodically Driven Hydrogen Atoms" Professor Peter Kock SUNY-Stony Brook Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. _________________________________________________ Thursday, October 23, 1997 Thursday, October 23, 1997, 12:00 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce 100F "Skyrmions in a 2D System of Interacting Electrons under Strong Magnetic Field" Dr. Yurii Bychkov Landau Institute and Harvard University Thursday, October 23, 1997, 2:00 p.m. Boston University Biophysics Seminar Metcalf Science and Engineering Center, SCI 352 "Anomalous Swelling of Lipid Bilayers Close to the Main Transition, Investigated by Small-angle X-ray Scattering" Ms. Stine Korreman Roskilde University and Boston University Thursday, October 23, 1997, 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar MIT, CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor "Hard Thermal Loops and Chiral Lagrangians" Cristina Manuel Barcelona University Thursday, October 23, 1997, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminars Jefferson 356 "Exceptional Groups from Open Strings" Professor Barton Zwiebach Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday, October 23, 1997, 3:30 p.m. Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 "Non-trivial U(1) Gauge Theory: Spheres and Gaugeballs" Christian B. Lang Graz University Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance. Thursday, October 23, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "Superconductivity in Nanometer Scale Systems" Mike Tinkham Harvard University Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, October 23, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Crescent Singularities and Cones in Crumpled Surfaces" Professor L. Mahadevan Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday, October 23, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Search for New Vacuum States in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions" Professor Boleslaw Wyslouch Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments available in Room 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. _________________________________________________ Friday, October 24, 1997 Friday, October 24, 1997, 12:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Building, Room SCI 352 "Experiments on Compaction of Granular Materials" Professor Viktor Horvath Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Friday, October 24, 1997, 2:30 p.m. Brown University Theory Seminar Barus & Holley Building, Room 555 "Sweeping Away the Monopole Problem" Professor Tanmay Vachaspati Case Western Reserve University Friday, October 24, 1997, 3:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "Latest Results in b-quark Physics" Samim Erhan UCLA Refreshments will be served at 2:45 p.m. Friday, October 24, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Nonequilibrium Steady States of Driven Magnetic Flux Lattices" Professor Cristina Marchetti Syracuse University Refreshments served following the seminar in Brooks Room. Friday, October 24, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "B Physics in the 21st Century" Samim Erhan UCLA Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. in Room 26-414. _____________________________ Reminder Deadline for the October 26-November 1 Issue is: Monday, October 20, 1997 at 11:00 a.m. _____________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College