Week of November 30 - December 6, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, December 1, 1997 Monday, December 1, 1997, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor "Webs of (p,q) Fivebranes, Grid Diagrams and Five Dimensional Gauge Theories" Amihay Hanany Princeton University Monday, December 1, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Seminar Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Time Dependent Variational Methods in Physics -- Studies of soliton dynamics, semiquantum chaos, quantum sine-Gordon theory, uantum quenches" Dr. Fred Cooper Los Alamos National Laboratory Monday, December 1, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium B&H, Room 168 "Particle Physics at the High Energy Frontier" Professor Mark Strovink University of California at Berkeley Monday, December 1, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Recent Developments in String Theory" Professor Michael Bershadsky Harvard University Tea in Jefferson Lab at 4:00 p.m. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, December 2, 1997 Tuesday, December 2, 1997, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Optical Tweezers to Study Biological Motors" Steven M. Block Princeton University Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, December 2, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Self-assembled Quantum Dots and Electronic Resonant Scattering in Strong Magnetic Fields" Professor S. Ulloa Ohio University Coffee at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, December 2, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium 70 Vassar St., Bldg. 37-252 "Measuring the Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background" Professor Lyman Page Princeton University Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, December 2, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chez Pierre Seminar Room 12-132 "Sonoluminescence: Classical Bubble Dynamics with a Twist" Professor Michael Brenner Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tea and cookies will be served at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 2, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-M.I.T. Math/Physics Seminar M.I.T. Room 4-159 "Duistermaat-Heckman Formulas for Group Valued Moment Maps and Moduli Spaces of Flat Connections" Professor Eckhard Meinrenken Massachusetts Institute of Technology _____________________________________________ Wednesday, December 3, 1997 Wednesday, December 3, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana "An Inside Perspective on Physical Review Letters" Reinhardt Schuhmann Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, December 3, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Cerium Heavy Fermion Materials Near a T=0 Magnetic-Non-Magnetic Boundary" Dr. J. Thompson Los Alamos National Laboratory Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, December 3, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building (3 Cummington St., Room 593) "B Physics from Lattice NRQCD" Professor Junko Shigemitsu Ohio State University Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance. Wednesday, December 3, 1997, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "What Is Needed to Build a Quantum Computer" Dr. David DiVincenzo IBM, Yorktown Heights Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 3, 1997, 8:00 p.m. Harvard University Loeb Historical Lecture Science Center, Hall C (1 Oxford St.) "Nevill Mott, John Slater and the 'Magnetic State': Winning the Prize and Losing the PR Battle" Phillip Anderson Princeton University Refreshments following the lecture in front of Historical Instruments Museum, Science Center Basement. ________________________________________________ Thursday, December 4, 1997 Thursday, December 4, 1997, 2:00 p.m. Boston University Biophysics Seminar SCI 352, Metcalf Science & Engineering Center "Using Mechanical Force to Explore the Energy Landscapes of Biomolecular Bonds and Structural Transitions" Professor Evan Evans Boston University and Univ. of British Columbia Thursday, December 4, 1997, 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW16-213 "Evidence and Concepts for Nonlocal Transport" Professor Jim Callen University of Wisconsin Refreshments served 15 minutes prior to the seminar. Thursday, December 4, 1997, 3:30 p.m. Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 "The Role of the Muon Lifetime in Precision Electroweak Physics" Dr. Robin Stuart Michigan Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance. Thursday, December 4, 1997, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Space Physics Seminar 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 500 "Storms in Jupiter's Inner Magnetosphere" Barry Mauk Applied Physics Laboratory Thursday, December 4, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "Biomedical Imaging" Watt Webb Cornell University Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, December 4, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "Measuring the Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background" Dr. Lyman Page Princeton University Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, December 4, 1997, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "The Epoch of Galaxy Formation: Found?" Professor Charles Steidel California Institute of Technology Refreshments available at 3:45 in Room 26-110. Thursday, December 4, 1997, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 751 "Defect Motion in Crystals: Linking Quantum and Continuum Mechanics" Professor Rob Phillips Brown University _________________________________________________ Friday, December 5, 1997 Friday, December 5, 1997, 12:00 noon Boston University Center for Computational Science Seminar Physics Research Bldg., Room 593 (3 Cummington Street) "Quantum Zero-point Critical Fluctuations in Arrays of Ultrasmall Josephson Junctions" Jorge V. Jose Northeastern University Friday, December 5, 1997, 3:30 p.m. Tufts University Physics Department Colloquium Sci/Tech Room 136 "Diffuse Optical Tomography: A New Medical Imaging Modality" Professor David Boas Electro-Optics Technology Center, Tufts University Friday, December 5, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Building NW17-218 "Alpha Particle Physics in the TFTR DT Experiments" Dr. Stuart Zweben Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Refreshments served 15 minutes prior to the seminar. Friday, December 5, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Effects of High Order Exciton-Exciton Correlation on Semiconductor Nonlinearities" Professor Daniel S. Chemla University of California, Berkeley; Director, Materials Sciences Div., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Refreshments served following the seminar in Brooks Room. Friday, December 5, 1997, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Colloquium Kolker Room 26-414 "A Pedestrian Approach to Duality" Michael Dine UCSC Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. _____________________________ Reminder Deadline for the Dec. 7 - Dec. 13 Issue is: Monday, December 1, 1997 at 11:00 a.m. _____________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College