February 22, 1998 - February 28, 1998 =20 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic=20 year by the Department of Physics at Boston College. You may send your=20 announcements by e-mail (bapc@bc.edu) or FAX (617-552-8478). We cannot=20 accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no later than= =20 11:00 a.m. on the Monday preceding the week of the event. =20 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _______________________________________________ Monday, February 23, 1998 =20 Monday, February 23, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "M-theory as a Holographic Field Theory" Petr Horava California Institute of Technology Monday, February 23, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston University Astrophysics Colloquium CAS Bldg., Room 500 (725 Commonwealth Ave.) "Constructing the Universe: Thoughts on Informal Astronomy Education" Dr. James Sweitzer American Museum of Natural History Monday, February 23, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "The Neutrino Ground State in a Dense Star" Ken Kiers Brookhaven National Laboratory Monday, February 23, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Tunneling Spectroscopy of High-Temperature Super-Conductors: =20 Unconventional States and Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry" Laura Green University of Illinois Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.=20 Monday, February 23, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Structure and Electronic Properties of Doped Fullerenes" Professor Laszlo Mihaly SUNY-Stonybrook Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, February 24, 1998 Tuesday, February 24, 1998, 12:00-1:00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Laser-Excited Collisions within an Atomic Beam" Winthrop Smith University of Connecticut Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, February 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar CTP Seminar Room, Building 6, Third Floor "Large-Scale Structure Formation: Are Cosmic Strings Still Viable?" Paul Shellard DAMTP, Cambridge University Tuesday, February 24, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Getting Trapped in Phase Space: The Glass Transition" Professor Bulbul Chakraborty Brandeis University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. ________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 25, 1998 Wednesday, February 25, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Seminar on Mathematics and String Theory Jefferson 256 "N=3D4 Topological Yang-Mills and Holomorphic Curves" Professor Cumrun Vafa Harvard University Wednesday, February 25, 1998, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "Photonics at the Pod Facility" Professor Aram Karakashian University of Massachusetts at Lowell Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 25, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Plasma Crystals" Dr. Pei Huang NIST, Boulder, Colorado Refreshments will be served a 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, February 25, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Boston University Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquium Photonics Bldg., 8 Saint Mary's Street, Room 206 "Optical Coherence Tomography for Biomedical Imaging" James Fujimoto Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 5:15 outside Room 206. Wednesday, February 25, 1998, 5;00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "TBA" Professor Brian Kennedy Georgia Institute of Technology Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. ______________________________________________ Thursday, February 26, 1998 Thursday, February 26, 1998, 12:30 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Pseudo-gap and Superconducting Quasiparticles in Underdoped Cuprates: =20 Part 2" Professor Patrick Lee Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday, February 26, 1998, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Gordon McKay Laboratory, Room 402 "Hydriding of Titanium" Clyde L. Briant Brown University Thursday, February 26, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Novel Silicon Surface Science" Professor Hanno Weitering University of Tennessee Thursday, February 26, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 356 "Branes and Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking" Dr. Kentaro Hori LBL/Berkeley Thursday, February 26, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "Why Are Interstellar Dust Grains Aligned?" Dr. Bruce Draine Princeton University Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, February 26, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Random Materials, Random Flows, and NMR" Professor Donald Candela University of Massachusetts, Amherst Thursday, February 26, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "MiniMax: A Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensates at the Tevatron" Professor Cyrus C. Taylor Case Western Reserve University Refreshments available in 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, February 26, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 751 "Simple Models of Protein Folding" Dr. Chao Tang NEC Research Institute Thursday, February 26, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Wellesley College Physics Department Seminar Science Center, Room 278 "Melting in Two Dimensions" Professor Jian Ma Amherst College Refreshments at 4:15 p.m. ________________________________________________ Friday, February 27, 1998 Friday, February 27, 1998, 1:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "How Science Combats Complexity" Dr. Sunny Y. Auyung Friday, February 27, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Seminar Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Strong-Coupling Features Due to Quasiparticle Interactions in Two=20 Dimensional Superconductors" Professor Dermot Coffey SUNY at Buffalo Friday, February 27, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "Chaotic Flows and Magnetic Dynamos: The Origin of Magnetic Fields in=20 the Universe" Professor Edward Ott University of Maryland Refreshment will be served 15 minutes before the seminar. Friday, February 27, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "High Pressure Melting Curves of Hydrogen, Ice (H2O), Helium and Argon" Dr. Fr=8Ed=8Eric Datchi Harvard University Refreshments will be served following in the Brooks Room. ____________________________ Reminder: =20 Deadline for the Mar. 1 - Mar. 7 Issue is: Monday, February 23, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. ____________________________ =20 ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College