April 26, 1998 - May 2, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 27, 1998 Monday, April 27, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "String Junctions and BPS States in Seiberg-Witten Theory" Ansar Fayyazuddin Harvard University Monday, April 27, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston University Astrophysics Colloquium CAS Building, Room 500 (725 Commonwealth Ave.) "WHAMing the Eridanus Superbubble" Carl Heiles University of California, Berkeley Coffee and cookies served at 3:45 p.m. Monday, April 27, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Comparison of Science Policies in Europe and the U.S." Professor Maurice Levy University of Paris Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 27, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Nanoscale Measurements of a Star in a Jar" Seth Putterman University of California Tea at 4:00 p.m. in Jefferson 461. _______________________________________________ Tuesday, April 28, 1998 Tuesday, April 28, 1998, 12:00 - 1:00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Spectroscopy of Single CdSe Nanocrystallite Quantum Dots" Stephen Empedocles Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, April 28, 1998, 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-MIT-CfA Cosmology Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third floor "Probing Inflation and Structure Formation with Galaxy Surveys" Joshua Frieman Fermi Lab Tuesday, April 28, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University High Energy Physics Seminar High Energy Physics Lab., (42 Oxford St.) 3rd Floor "Progress Toward Magnetic Trapping of Ultra-cold Neutrons" Professor John Doyle Harvard University Exquisite cookies and fresh-brewed coffee will be served. Tuesday, April 28, 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" Professor Raymond E. Goldstein University of Arizona Refreshments served at 3:20 in the lounge. Tuesday, April 28, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Electrons and Positrons in Quasars" Professor John F.C. Wardle Brandeis University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Nonlinear Response in Quantum Spin Glasses" Professor Tadeusz K. Kopec Polish Academy of Sciences Coffee at 3:45 p.m. ______________________________________________ Wednesday, April 29, 1998 Wednesday, April 29, 1998, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "What Can a Physicist Do in Biology?" Professor Jorge V. Jose Northeastern University Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "Caustic Rings of Dark Matter" Professor Pierre Sikivie University of Florida Refreshments at 4:00 in Lyman 330. Wednesday, April 29, 1998, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "When 1+1=AD2: Ultracold Atomic Mixtures - From Collisions to BEC" Dr. Nickolas Bigelow University of Rochester Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. ______________________________________________ Thursday, April 30, 1998 Thursday, April 30, 1998, 12:00 Noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Order and Spatio Temporal Chaos in Rayleigh Benard Convection" Professor Eberhard Bodenschatz Cornell University Thursday, April 30 , 1998, 12:30 p.m. Boston University Biophysics Seminar SCI 352, Metcalf Science and Eng. Center TBA Professor Glenn Edwards Vanderbilt University Thursday, April 30, 1998, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Gordon McKay Laboratory, Room 402 "Length Scale Evolution in the Late Stage of Microstructure Coarsening" Martin E. Glicksman Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Thursday, April 30, 1998, 3:30 p.m. Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building 593 "Probing Subatomic Matter with Polarized Electrons: MeV to TeV Physics" Krishna Kumar Princeton University Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance. Thursday, April 30, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 751 "Exchange Interaction between Antiferromagnetic and Ferromagnetic Layers" Professor John Q. Xiao University of Delaware Thursday, April 30, 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 30, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "Evolutionary Properties of Circumstellar Disks and Extra-solar Planet Formation" Dr. Steven Beckwith Max-Planck-Inst. for Astronomy Tea at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "Quantum Computing" Fred Green Clark University Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, April 30, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "A Centenary Journey: From Polonium to the Superheavy Element Z=112" Peter Armbruster GSI Darmstadt Refreshments available in 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, April 30, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Chains, Planes and In-Between" Professor Robert J. Birgeneau Dean of Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, April 30, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University National Institute for Global Environmental Change Seminar 209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street "Dry-Ice Clouds, Clathrate Glaciers and the Enigma of Early Martian Climate" Ray Pierrehumbert University of Chicago Drinks and Dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the Harvard Faculty Club For reservations, send email (ksw@io.harvard.edu) by 4/27. _______________________________________________ Friday, May 1, 1998 Friday, May 1, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "Charged Particle Spectroscopy: A New Window for Inertial Confinement Fusion" Dr. Richard Petrasso MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Refreshments served 15 minutes before seminar. Friday, May 1, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Wax Tectonics" Professor Eberhard Bodenschatz Cornell University Refreshments will be served following in the Brooks Room. __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the May 3 - May 9 Issue is: Monday, April 27, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. __________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College