Week of January 18, 1998-January 24, 1998 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, January 19, 1998 No events scheduled. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, January 20, 1998 Tuesday, January 20, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University High Energy Physics Seminar High Energy Physics Lab. (42 Oxford St., 3rd Floor) "Silicon Pixel Detector for B Factories" Dr. Saroj Kumar Safu University of Hawaii Exquisite cookies and fresh-brewed coffee will be served. ______________________________________________ Wednesday, January 21, 1998 Wednesday, January 21, 1998, 3:00-4:00 p.m. Harvard University Seminar on Mathematics and String Theory Jefferson 256 "Light-cone Description of Interacting Theories in Six Dimensions" Dr. Ofer Aharony Rutgers University Wednesday, January 21, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 262 "Optical Spectra and Structure of Rare Earth Doped Glasses" Professor Giovanni Capobianco Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Refreshments will be served at 3:45 in Higgins 354. ______________________________________________ Thursday, January 22, 1998 Thursday, January 22, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Vortex Pinning in Superfluid 4He Films" Professor Fred Ellis Wesleyan University ________________________________________________ Friday, January 23, 1998 Friday, January 23, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Special Seminar MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Quantizing Skyrme Solitons: Towards an understanding of B>1 nuclei in the Skyrme model" Christopher Barnes Princeton University _____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Jan. 25 - Jan. 31 Issue is: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. _____________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College