February 1, 1998 - February 7, 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; attn: BAPC). 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, February 2, 1998 Monday, February 2, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Linearized Supergravity and Extended Objects in Matrix Theory" Washington Taylor Princeton University Monday, February 2, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston University Astrophysics Colloquium 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 500 "Twenty-seven New Carbon Chain Molecules" Patrick Thaddeus Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. Monday, February 2, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Seminar Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Magneto-resistance Effects of Correlated Electron Systems in Oxide Materials" Professor Thomas T.M. Palstra University of Groningen, The Netherlands Monday, February 2, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium Jefferson Lab., Room 250 "The Uses of Heavy Quark Symmetry" Professor Mark B. Wise California Institute of Technology Tea in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, February 3, 1998 Tuesday, February 3, 1998, 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar CTP Seminar Room, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Cosmological and Black Hole Horizon Fluctuations" Lawrence H. Ford Tufts University Tuesday, February 3, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I Jefferson Lab., Room 250 "Recent Developments in Heavy Quark Theory" Professor Mark B. Wise California Institute of Technology Tuesday, February 3, 1998, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Dean S. Edmonds Sr. Memorial Colloquium Metcalf Science Center (590 Comm. Ave.) Room 107 "Superfluidity in Liquid Helium Three" David M. Lee Cornell University Refreshments will be served in Metcalf Lounge at 3:20. Tuesday, February 3, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Field Cycling NMR: Some Old Results, and Current Progress Toward Studying Biopolymers" Professor Alfred G. Redfield Brandeis University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 3, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University High Energy Physics Seminar High Energy Physics Lab. (42 Oxford St.), 3rd Floor "Boo(B,sup14(_))o Mixing at CDF--An Overview" Dr. Peter Maksimovic Harvard University Exquisite cookies and fresh-brewed coffee will be served. ________________________________________ Wednesday, February 4, 1998 Wednesday, February 4, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "Towards the Dynamics of Individual Charges in Nanostructures" Robert Schoelkopf Yale University Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, February 4, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "The Metal-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions" Professor Elihu Abrahams Rutgers University Refreshments will be served at 3:45. Wednesday, February 4, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Boston University Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquium Photonics Building, 8 Saint Mary's St., Room 206 "A Micromachined 'Piezoelectric-on-Silicon' Optical Scanner" Jan Smits Boston University Refreshments will be served at 5:15 outside of Room 206. Wednesday, February 4, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building (3 Cummington St.) Room 593 "A New Set of Coordinates for the Yang-Mills Lagrangian" Professor Kenneth Johnson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 4:00. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. ______________________________________________ Thursday, February 5, 1998 Thursday, February 5, 1998, 12:00 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Electromechanical Response of Solids from First Principles" Dr. Umesh Waghmare Harvard University Thursday, February 5, 1998, 12:00 noon Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Special Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "Electromagnetic Production of Vector Mesons in QCD" Harry Lee Argonne National Laboratory Thursday, February 5, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II Jefferson Lab., Room 250 "Recent Developments in Heavy Quark Theory" Professor Mark B. Wise California Institute of Technology Thursday, February 5, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "Searching for Dark Matter with Gravitational Microlensing: A Report from the MACHO Collaboration" Dr. Christopher Stubbs University of Washington, Seattle Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, February 5, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Numerical Simulations of Liquid Crystals" Professor Robert Pelcovits Brown University Thursday, February 5, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory - LIGO" Ranier Weiss Massachusetts Institute of Technology Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, February 5, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Probing Vortex Correlations in High-Tc Superconductor: Old and New Physics" Charles M. Leiber Harvard University Refreshments in 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. ________________________________________________ Friday, February 6, 1998 Friday, February 6, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "The Role of Interactions in Mesoscopics" Professor Charles Marcus Stanford University Refreshments will be served following in the Brooks Room. ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Feb. 8 - Feb. 14 Issue is: Monday, February 2, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. _____________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College