Week of December 7 - December 13, 1997


    THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Monday, December 8, 1997

Monday, December 8, 1997, 11:00 a.m.
Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar
High Energy Physics Lab. (42 Oxford St.), 3rd Floor
"Precision SUSY Measurements at LHC"
Professor Frank Paige
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Exquisite cookies and fresh-brewed coffee will be served.

Monday, December 8, 1997, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor
"Some Aspects of String Theory"
Zurab Kakushadze
Harvard University

Monday, December 8, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Boston University
Astrophysics Seminar
725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 500
"The Arecibo Observatory Upgrade"
Dr. Paul Goldsmith
Cornell University
Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.

Monday, December 8, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Physics Department Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy by AFM"
Professor Hermann E. Gaub
Max Planck Institute for Physics (Munich)
Tea in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, December 9, 1997

Tuesday, December 9, 1997, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building
"Bose-Einstein Condensation in the '4D' Trap"
Lene V. Hau
Rowland Institute for Science
Refreshments served following the seminar.

Tuesday, December 9, 1997, 12:00 noon
Harvard University
Special Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Lyman 330
"Unified Theory of Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism 
Based on an SO(5) Symmetry"
Eugene Demler
Stanford University

Tuesday, December 9, 1997, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor
"Parameter Space Symmetry and the Beta-Function in N=2 SYM"
Adam Ritz
Imperial College

Tuesday, December 9, 1997, 2:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor
"Chaotic Dynamics in Inflationary Cosmology"
Richard Easther
Brown University

Tuesday, December 9, 1997, 3:45 p.m.
Boston University
Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 (590 Comm. Ave.) 
"Physics at the Particle Frontier"
Professor Ritchie Patterson
Cornell University
Refreshments served at 3:20 in lounge outside Room 107.
Parking:  call 353-2600 24 hours in advance.

Tuesday, December 9, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"Propagation of a Topological Transition:  The Rayleigh Instability"
Dr. T. Powers
Arizona State University
Coffee at 3:45 p.m.


Tuesday, December 9, 1997, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium
70 Vassar St., Marlar Lounge, Bldg. 37-252
"Gamma Ray Bursts:  Dying Cries from the Deep Universe"
Professor Shrinivas Kulkarni
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.

Tuesday, December 9, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard-M.I.T. Math/Physics Seminar
Room 4-159
"Instanton Moduli Spaces and Six Dimensional RG Fixed Points"
Professor Eva Silverstein
SLAC
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Wednesday, December 10, 1997 
  
Wednesday, December 10, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Department of Physics Colloquium
Olney 428
"The Search for Extrasolar Planets"
Dr. David Latham
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, December 10, 1997, 4:15 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Early Developments of Neutron Scattering"
Clifford G. Shull
Professor Emeritus, M.I.T.
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.


Wednesday, December 10, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar
CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor
"Hadronic String from Confinement"
Raman Sundrum
Boston University
 
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Thursday, December 11, 1997

Thursday, December 11, 1997, 2:00 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room SCI 352
"Imaging and Spectroscopy with Diffusing Light"
Professor Arjun Yodh
University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, December 11, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Colloquium
60 Garden St. (Phillips Auditorium)
"Gamma Ray Bursts:  Dying Cries from the Deep Universe"
Dr. Shrinivas Kulkarni
California Institute of Technology
Tea at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, December 11, 1997, 4;00 p.m.
Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar
High Energy Lab, 3rd Floor Seminar Room (42 Oxford St.)
"Evidence for Exotic Mesons at Brookhaven"
Professor John LoSecco
University of Notre Dame 
Exquisite cookies and fresh-brewed coffee will be served.

Thursday, December 11, 1997, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
"Recent Science Results from the Hubble Space Telescope"
Dr. Robert Williams
Space Telescope Science Institute
Refreshments available at 3:45 in Room 26-110.

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Friday, December 12, 1997

Friday, December 12, 1997, 4:00 P.M.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Application of High Resolution Spectroscopy to the C-Mod Edge"
Dr. Charles Skinner
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Refreshments served 15 minutes prior to the seminar.

Friday, December 12, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Evidence for a New Exotic Meson"
Professor John LoSecco
University of Notre Dame
Refreshments:  3:45 p.m.

Friday, December 12, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Micro Heat Engines, Gas Turbines, and Rocket Engines"
Professor Alan H. Epstein
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served following the seminar in Brooks Room.

Friday, December 12, 1997, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics Seminar
Room 12-132
"Q-Calculus, Scaling and Irreversibility"
Professor Ayse Erzan
Istanbul Technical University and Feza Gursey Research Institute for 
Basic Sciences

Friday, December 12, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Microscopic Mechanisms of CMR"
Professor Mark Rzchowski
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Reminder

Deadline for the Dec. 14 - Dec. 20 Issue is: 
Monday, December 8, 1997 at 11:00 a.m.
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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College