Week of November 23 - 29, 1997


    THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, November 24, 1997

Monday, November 24, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Boston University
Astrophysics Seminar
725 Comm. Ave., Room CAS 500
"Fourteen New Carbon Chain Molecules"
Professor Patrick Thaddeus
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.

Monday, November 24, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor
"Effective Theories for Two and Three Nucleon Scattering"
Paulo Bedaque
University of Washington

Monday, November 24, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Colloquium
Olin Hall, Room 107
"Manipulating Matter with Light"
Dr. Mara Prentiss
Harvard University
Coffee will be at 3:40 in Olin 118.

Monday, November 24, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Physics Department Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Stability and Flight Control in Fruit Flies:  Does the 
Tail Wag the Dog?" 
Professor Michael Dickinson
University of California at Berkeley 
Tea in Jefferson Lab at 4:00 p.m.


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Tuesday, November 25, 1997

Tuesday, November 25, 1997, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar 
Marlar Lunge (37-252), McNair Building
"Modern Molecular Beam Resonance:  Quantum Theory and 
Experiment" 
David E. Pritchard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Refreshments served following the seminar.

Tuesday, November 25, 1997, 12:00 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Jefferson 462
"Semiclassical Theory of Tunneling in Strongly Correlated 
Systems" 
Andrey Shytov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, November 25, 1997, 2:30 p.m.
Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"Non-Perturbative Vacuum Expectation Values from a Local 
Expansion"
Dr. Alfonso Jaramillo
University of Valencia, Spain

Tuesday, November 25, 1997, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
70 Vassar St., Building 37-252
"The Impact of Ulysses and SOHO Observations on Our 
Understanding of the Solar Wind"
Dr. Shadia Habbal 
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.

Tuesday, November 25, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Math/Physics Seminar
Room 4-159 
"Hamilton Theory of Soliton Equations and 
Seiberg-Witten Solution of N=2 SUSY Gauge Theories"
Professor Igor Krichever 
Columbia University

Wednesday, November 26, 1997 

Wednesday, November 26, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University 
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana 
"Nanoseconds to Nanometers with Quartz Resonators"
John Vig 
Army Research, Fort Monmouth
Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m.
                 
Thursday, November 27, 1997
  
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Friday, November 28, 1997

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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College




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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College

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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College