March 15, 1998 - March 21, 1998 =20 =20 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic ye= ar=20 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 =20 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, March 16, 1998 =20 Monday, March 16, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "The ABJ Anomaly at Finite Temperature and Its Relation to pi0 =AE gamma ga= mma" Michel Tytgat Brookhaven National Laboratory Monday, March 16, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston University Astrophysics Colloquium 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 501 "What Makes a Building?" Stanly Black Stanly Black AIA Architects Cookies and coffee at 3:45 p.m. =20 Monday, March 16, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Chiral Symmetry and Hadron Correlators in Nuclear Matter" Boris Krippa IUCF, University of Indiana Monday, March 16, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "QCD Signatures at RIHC" Professor B. Mueller Duke University Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, March 17, 1998 Tuesday, March 17, 1998, 12:00-1:00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Diagnosing Invisible Disease with Scattered Light" Michael Feld Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, March 17, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "The ATLAS Experiment at CERN" Professor James R. Bensinger Brandeis University Refreshments are served at 3:30 p.m. in Room 333. =20 Tuesday, March 17, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University High Energy Physics Seminar 42 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Seminar Room "Measurement of the t tbar Cross Section in the Lepton+Jets Channel at CDF= " Dr. Fotis Ptochos Harvard University ________________________________________________ Wednesday, March 18, 1998 Wednesday, March 18, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Seminar on Mathematics and String Theory Jefferson 256 "N=3D2 Gauge Theories, Instanton Invariants and Non-commutative Spaces" Dr. Nikita Nekrasov Harvard University Wednesday, March 18, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Boston University Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquium Photonics Building, 8 Saint Mary's Street, Room 206 "Synthesis of Variable Optical Filters Using Meso-Optical Ring Resonator Arrays" Giora Griffel Polytechnic University, Brooklyn Refreshments will be served at 5:15 outside Room 206. Wednesday, March 18, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington St., Room 593 "Muon-Electron Conversion in Atoms and New Physics" Dr. William Marciano Brookhaven National Laboratory Refreshment will be served at 4:00 p.m. Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. _____________________________________________ Thursday, March 19, 1998 Thursday, March 19, 1998, 12:00 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Lyman 330 "Computation of Entropies and Free Energies of Condensed Phase Systems. =20 Why Is This Such a Hard Problem, and, Is There Anything To Be Done?" Professor William Reinhardt University of Washington and Harvard University Thursday, March 19, 1998, 12:30 p.m. Boston University Biophysics Seminar SCI 352, Metcalf Science and Engineering Center "Stretching and Breaking Duplex DNA by Chemical Force Microscopy" Dr. Aleksandr Noy Harvard University Thursday, March 19, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "Protostellar Disks" Dr. Peter Goldreich California Institute of Technology Tea will be available at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium=20 MIT Room 10-250 "Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Models" Professor Adam Burrows University of Arizona Refreshments available in 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. ______________________________________________ Friday, March 20, 1998 Friday, March 20, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Surfactant Self-assembly Near Contact Lines: Control of Advancing=20 Surfactant Solutions" Professor Stephen Garoff Carnegie Mellon University Refreshments will be served following in the Brooks Room. Friday, March 20, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "Focusing of Intense Laser Pulses in Gas and Plasma" Professor Tom Antonsen University of Maryland Refreshments served 15 minutes before seminar. Friday, March 20, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "How to Renormalize the Schrodinger Equation, with Applications in=20 Nuclear Physics and QCD" Peter Lepage Cornell University Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Friday, March 20, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics of Computation Seminar MIT AI Lab, 8th Floor Playroom, (545 Tech Sq.) "Quantum Error Correction: What Is It, and Will It Work?" Andrew Steane Oxford University Refreshments will be served after the talk. ____________________________ Reminder: =20 Deadline for the Mar. 22 - Mar. 28 Issue is: Monday, March 16, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. ____________________________=0D=0A =20 ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College