Week of January 25, 1998-January 31, 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 
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11:00 a.m. on the Monday preceding the week of the event.  
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Monday, January 26, 1998

Monday, January 26, 1998, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"Non-Perturbative Heterotic String Theory"
David Lowe
Brown University

Monday, January 26, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Boston University
Astrophysics Colloquium
725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 500
"Embedded Proto-Clusters and the IMF Near the Hydrogen Burning Limit"
Charles Lada
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Monday, January 26, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"The Role of Topologically Non-trivial Gauge Fields in Lattice Gauge Theory"
Christof Gattringer
University of British Columbia

Monday, January 26, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Special Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Charm - The Forgotten Quark"
 Dr. Harry Cheung
Fermi National Laboratory
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Tuesday, January 27, 1998

Tuesday, January 27, 1998, 2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts-CFA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Models of Open Inflation"
Jaume Garriga
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Refreshments will be served at 2:00 in Knipp Library, 
Room 251

Tuesday, January 27, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Anti-Matter Electron Collisions with Surfaces, or a Typically 
Misleading Sexy Title"
Professor Karl F. Canter
Brandeis University
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, January 27, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar
High Energy Physics Lab (42 Oxford St.), 3rd Floor
"Lorentz Structure and Lepton Universality:  Tau Couplings at CLEO 
and Elsewhere"
Dr. Jon Urheim
California Institute of Technology
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Wednesday, January 28, 1998
 
Wednesday, January 28, 1998, 2:45 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Lattice Seminar
MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"QCD at Finite Density"
Ian Barbour
University of Glasgow

Wednesday, January 28, 1998, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Seminar in Mathematics and String Theory
Jefferson 256
"Branes and Chiral Gauge Theories"
Amihay Hanany
IAS - Princeton University

Wednesday, January 28, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Large Scale Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Solids"
Dr. Peter Lomdahl
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 in Higgins 354.

Wednesday, January 28, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"SUSY Couplings as Superfields"
Dr. Markus Luty
University of Maryland
Refreshments at 4:00 in Lyman 330.
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Thursday, January 29, 1998 

Thursday, January 29, 1998, 12:00 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Pseudo-Gap and Superconducting Quasiparticles in Underdoped Cuprates"
Dr. Patrick Lee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Thursday, January 29, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
"Gamma Ray Bursts"
Dr. Jan Van Paradijs
University of Amsterdam
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, January 29, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"Nanoproperty Fluctuations in Glass"
Professor Nathan Israeloff
Northeastern University

Thursday, January 29, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana
"The Microfabrication Laboratory at Northeastern University"
Nick McGruer
Northeastern University
Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m.
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Friday, January 30, 1998
 
Friday, January 30, 1998, 1:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Seminar for the History of 20th C. Science
Science Center 226
"Catachresis, Quantum Mechanics and the Letter from Lacan"
Professor Henry Krips
University of Pittsburgh

Friday, January 30, 1998, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"Gluon Production in Current-Nucleus and Nucleon-Nucleus Collisions in 
a Quasi-Classical Approximation"
Yuri Kovchegov
Columbia University

Friday, January 30, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Nematic Droplets:  Interactions of Topological Defects"
Professor David Weitz
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served following in the Brooks Room.
 
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Reminder:   
Deadline for the Feb. 1 - Feb. 7 Issue is:
Monday, January 26, 1998 at 11:00 a.m.

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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College