Week of November 9 - 15, 1997


    THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, November 10, 1997

Monday, November 10, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Physics Department Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"From Microscopic Atomic Motion to the Macroscopic Behavior of Solids"
Professor Efthimios Kaxiras
Harvard University
Tea in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.

Monday, November 10, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley, Room 168
"Is the Universe Flat or Open?  Constraints from the Distribution and 
Motions of Nearby Galaxies"
Professor Michael Strauss
Princeton University
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Tuesday, November 11, 1997

Tuesday, November 11, 1997, 3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building 593
"Explicit Quark-Hadron Duality in 1+1 Dimensions"
Richard Lebed (JLab)
Parking:  Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance.

Tuesday, November 11, 1997, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
Building 37-252 (70 Vassar St.)
"Studies of Faint Galaxies with Keck and HST"
Dr. David Hogg
Institute for Advanced Study
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.

Tuesday, November 11, 1997, 4:15 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Trapped C60Z+ Collisions with Alkali Atoms"
Dr. Joel H. Parks
Rowland Institute for Science
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.

Tuesday, November 11, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Math/Physics Seminar
M.I.T. Room 2-190
"Integration Over the U-Plane in Donaldson Theory"
Professor Edward Witten
Institute for Advanced Study
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Wednesday, November 12, 1997

Wednesday, November 12, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Department of Physics Colloquium
Olney 428
"Physical Phenomena in High Magnetic Fields:  Waiting to Exhale"
Professor Kevin Bedell
Boston College
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 12, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana
"Electrodynamics of 'Good' Superconductors and 'Bad' Metals"
Srikanth Hariharan
Northeastern University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday, November 12, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
MIT Building E25-111 (Adjacent to MIT Medical)
"Gauge Theory from Six Dimensions"
Edward Witten
Institute for Advanced Study
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Thursday, November 13, 1997 

Thursday, November 13, 1997, 12:00 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 110F
"Cooperative Phenomena at Grain Boundaries"
Dr. Amitesh Maiti
Molecular Simulations, Inc., Burlington, MA

Thursday, November 13, 3:45 p.m.
Boston University
Space Physics Seminar
Room 500 (725 Comm. Ave.)
"The Magnetospheric Response to the CME Passage of Jan 10-11, 1997, 
as Observed at Geosynchronous Orbit"
Michelle Thomsen
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Thursday, November 13, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana
"Inflation and the Problem of Cosmological Constant"
Robert Brandenberger
Brown University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.

Thursday, November 13, 1997, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
MIT Room 10-250
TBA
Professor Joel Lebowitz
Rutgers University
Refreshments available at 3:45 in Room 26-110.

Thursday, November 13, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Bose-Einstein Condensation"
Professor W. Ketterle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Friday, November 14, 1997 

Friday, November 14, 1997, 12:00 noon
Boston University
Center for Computational Science
Physics Research Building (3 Cummington St., Room 593)
"An Effective Hydrodynamic Theory of Spatiotemporal Chaos"
Carson Chow
Boston University

Friday, November 14, 1997, 3:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Physics Department Colloquium
Sci/Tech Room 136
"Geometry and Origin of the Universe"
Professor Marc Kamionkowski
Columbia University

Friday, November 14, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"QCD Space-Time Dynamics of High-Energy Particle Collisions:  
>From Clean e+e- to Dirty Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions"
Klaus Kinder-Geiger
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Refreshments:  3:45 p.m.

Friday, November 14, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Imaging Neural Function in the Intact Brain"
Dr. Karel Svoboda
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, NY
Refreshments served following in the Brooks Room.

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Reminder

Deadline for the Nov. 16 - Nov. 22 Issue is: 
Monday, November 10, 1997 at 11:00 a.m.
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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College