Week of November 16 - 22, 1997 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _______________________________________________ Monday, November 17, 1997 Monday, November 17, 1997, 11:45 a.m. Northeastern University High Energy Seminar 114 Dana "Naturalness, Weak Scale Supersymmetry, and the Prospects for the Observation of Supersymmetry at the Tevatron and at the LHC" Kwok Lung Chan Northeastern University Monday, November 17, 1997, 12:00 noon Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 "From N=2 to N=0 QCD" Frederic Zamora University of Barcelona Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance. Monday, November 17, 1997, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor "Confinement in 3D Gluodynamics as a 2D Critical Phenomenon" Alfonso Jaramillo University of Valencia, Spain Monday, November 17, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics of Computation Seminar Building NE43 (545 Tech Sq), 8th floor, AI Playroom Almost Any Quantum Mechanical System Can Perform Rapid Search" Lov K. Grover AT&T Bell Labs Refreshments will be served after the talk. Monday, November 17, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor "Effective Real-Time Dynamics of Non-Perturbative Soft Modes in Hot Gauge Theories" Dam Thanh Son Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, November 17, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Physics Department Colloquium Barus & Holley 168 "Learning About Life in High Magnetic Fields" Professor James Valles, Jr. Brown University Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, November 17, 1997 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Neutrino Anomalies and NOMAD" Professor Sanjib Mishra Harvard University Tea in Jefferson Lab 461 at 4:00 p.m. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, November 18, 1997 Tuesday, November 18, 1997, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Inertial Force Measurements Using Atom Interferometers" Mark Kasevich Princeton University Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, November 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m. Brandeis University Theoretical Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Quantum Dynamics on Non Compact Group Manifolds" Nurit Krausz Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Tuesday, November 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor "Softly Broken N=2 Massive QCD" Frederic Zamora University of Barcelona Tuesday, November 18, 1997, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 (590 Comm. Ave.) "Imaging Biological Macromolecules" Professor Lee Makowski National Science Foundation Refreshments served at 3:20 in the lounge outside Room 107. Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance. Tuesday, November 18, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "The Myth of the End of Physics at the End of the 19th Century" Professor Kostas Gavroglu The University of Athens, Greece Tuesday, November 18, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium 70 Vassar St., Building 37-252 "Dynamics of Planetary Systems" Dr. Matt Holman Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. ___________________________________________ Wednesday, November 19, 1997 Wednesday, November 19, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana "The Vortex Salt Shaker and Other Non-Linear Effects in the Dynamics of a Flux Line Lattice" Eva Andrei Rutgers University Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, November 19, 1997, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "Biophysics of DNA" Professor Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii Boston University Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 19, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "The Phases of QCD" Professor Frank Wilczek Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, November 19, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "Is There Cosmic Antimatter?" Professor Andrew Cohen Boston University Refreshments at 4:00 in Lyman 330. Wednesday, November 19, 1997, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Quasi-Classical Rydberg Targets: New Challenges for Collision Theory" Dr. Michael Cavagnero University of Kentucky Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. ______________________________________________ Thursday, November 20, 1997 Thursday, November 20, 1997, 12:00 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Evolutionary Entropy and Statistical Mechanics" Dr. Lloyd Demetrius Harvard University Thursday, November 20, 1997, 2:30 p.m. Brandeis University Theoretical Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Vacuum Structure of the N=0 Seiberg-Witten Model" Dr. Frederic Zamora CERN and University of Barcelona Thursday, November 20, 1997, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 356 "Monopoles and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories Three Dimensions" Dr. Anton Kapustin Institute for Advanced Study Thursday, November 20, 1997, 3:30 p.m. Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 "The Chiral Phase Transition and the Exact Renormalization Group" Dr. Dirk Jungnickel University of Heidelberg Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance. Thursday, November 20, 1997, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Space Physics Seminar 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 500 "Solar Mass Ejections and Recent Geoactivity" David Webb Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College Thursday, November 20, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana TBA Ike Silvera Harvard University Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, November 20, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Physics Colloquium 5th Annual David H. Harris '22 Lecture MIT Room 10-250 "From Photons to Perception" Professor William Bialek NEC Research Institute Refreshments available at 3:45 in Room 26-110. Thursday, November 20, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 751 "Liquid Crystal Emulsions: Topologically Induced Dipole Interactions" Professor Dave Weitz University of Pennsylvania _________________________________________________ Friday, November 21, 1997 Friday, November 21, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Dynamics in Single-Electron Circuits" Dr. Rob Schoelkopf Yale University Refreshments served following in the Brooks Room. Friday, November 21, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "The Evolution of the Solar Neutrino Problem" Dallas Kennedy University of Florida Refreshments at 3:45. _____________________________ Reminder Deadline for the Nov. 23 - Nov. 29 Issue is: Monday, November 17, 1997 at 11:00 a.m. _____________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College