April 19, 1998 - April 25, 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 of the week preceding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _______________________________________________ Monday, April 20, 1998 Monday, April 20, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "What Are the Values of the Key Cosmological Parameters?" Professor Li-Zhi Fang University of Arizona Monday, April 20, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Magnetoencephalography - A Non-Invasive Method for Studies of Information Processing in the Human Brain" Olli Lounasmaa Helsinki University of Technology Tea at 4:00 p.m. in Jefferson 461. _______________________________________________ Tuesday, April 21, 1998 Tuesday, April 21, 1998, 12:00 - 1:00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Half-Cycle Pulses: A Window into Rydberg Atom Dynamics" Chandra Raman Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, April 21, 1998, 2:30 p.m. Tufts University Joint Tufts-MIT-CFA Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Can the Universe Create Itself?" Professor Richard Gott Princeton University Refreshments served at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251. Tuesday, April 21, 1998, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Department of Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 (590 Comm. Ave.) "The Geometry of Nonlinear Dynamics in Physics and Biology" Symposium of Undergraduate Research Boston University Refreshments served at 3:20 in the lounge. Tuesday, April 21, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Three Dimensional Electrodynamics Revisited" Professor Stanley Deser Brandeis University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Simple Physical Models of Self-Organization in Cell Biology" Professor Jorge V. Jose Director of CIRCS Coffee at 3:45 p.m. ______________________________________________ Wednesday, April 22, 1998 Wednesday, April 22, 1998, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 APS Centennial Lecturer "Microexplosions and Tabletop Stellar Conditions" Professor Eric Mazur Harvard University Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "Some New Ideas in Stellarators" Dr. Allan Reiman Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Refreshments served 15 minutes before seminar. Wednesday, April 22, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third floor "Large N Gauge Theories, Black Holes and Strings" Igor Klebanov Princeton University Wednesday, April 22, 1998, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Quantum Mechanics Then and Now" Dr. Ugo Fano University of Chicago Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. ______________________________________________ Thursday, April 23, 1998 Thursday, April 23 , 1998, 12:00 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 100F "Modeling Adsorbed Polymer Layers in Strong Flow Conditions" Dr. Jim Harden Johns Hopkins University Thursday, April 23, 1998, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Gordon McKay Laboratory, Room 402 "Pulsed Laser Deposition of Magnetic Thin Films: Ferrites to Colossal Magnetoresistance" Douglas B. Chrisey Naval Research Laboratory Thursday, April 23, 1998, 2:00 - 5:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium MIT Building 10-250 WIDE WORLD OF PHIL MORRISON 2:00 pm, Frances L.P. Hawkins & David Hawkins, Boulder, CO "Educating the Young: Challenge & Joy" 2:35 pm, Randy Forsberg, Institute of Defense & Disarmament Studies "An End to War?" 3:10 pm, Paul Horowitz, Harvard University "Searching for ET's Laser" 3:45 pm, TEA (outside 10-250) 4:15 pm, Colloquium with Alan Guth, MIT "Cosmic Inflation, Today & Tomorrow," and the honoree himself, Phil Morrison, MIT & Institute Professor: "Comments & Queries." Moderator, Herman Feshbach, Institute Professor Emeritus, MIT Thursday, April 23, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 751 TBA Professor Susan N. Coppersmith University of Chicago Thursday, April 23, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "Astrophysics Jets" Dr. Mario Livio Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore Tea at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dane "Localized Excitations and Global Patterns in a Model of Vibrated Sand" D. Rothman Massachusetts Institute of Technology Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, April 23, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 356 "Gravitational Anomaly Cancellation for M Theory Fivebranes" Professor Jeffrey Harvey University of Chicago Thursday, April 23, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "How Materials Break: Dynamics of Cracks in Heterogeneous Media" Professor Daniel Fisher Harvard University _______________________________________________ Friday, April 24, 1998 Friday, April 24, 1998, 1:30 p.m. Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 239 "Why Do Hearts Fibrillate?" Professor alain Karma Northeastern University Friday, April 24, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "Self-Organized Criticality as a Paradigm for Turbulent Transport" Dr. David Newman Oak Ridge National Laboratory Refreshments served 15 minutes before seminar. Friday, April 24, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Synthetic Diamond Crystals and Films in Ultra High Pressure Materials Research" Professor Yogesh K. Vohra University of Alabama-Birmingham Refreshments will be served following in the Brooks Room. Friday, April 24, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Colloquium Kolker Room 26-414 "The Structure of Light Neutron-Rich Nuclei" Thomas Glasmacher Michigan State Univeristy Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the April 26 - May 2 Issue is: TUESDAY, April 21, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. __________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College