May 3, 1998 - May 9, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, May 4, 1998 Monday, May 4, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Nonlinear Sigma Models and Solitons" Phillial Oh Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea/MIT Monday, May 4, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Perturbative Nuclear Physics" Martin Savage University of Washington Monday, May 4, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Seminar Higgins Hall, Room 354 Title to be announced Dr. Robert Laughlin Stanford University Monday, May 4, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Kuhn Reconsidered" Steven Weinberg University of Texas-Austin Tea at 4:00 p.m. in Jefferson 461. _______________________________________________ Tuesday, May 5, 1998 Tuesday, May 5, 1998, 12:00 - 1:00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Sensors for Computational Vision" Shree Nayar Columbia University Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, May 5, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Tufts University Special Seminar Science and Technology Center, Room 136 "Imaging Molecules and Metals on Metal Surfaces by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Low Energy Electron Microscopy" Professor Shirley Chiang University of California, Davis ______________________________________________ Wednesday, May 6, 1998 Wednesday, May 6, 1998, 11:00 a.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "Physics of the National Spherical Torus Experiment" Dr. Stanley Kaye Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Refreshments served 15 min. before seminar. Wednesday, May 6, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Department of Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "Superconductivity-dependent Sliding Friction" Jacqueline Krim Northeastern University Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 6, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington St., Room 593 "On the Case for a New Stable Neutral Hadron in Supersymmetric Theories" Professor Stuart Raby Ohio State University Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. Parking: Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance. Wednesday, May 6, 1998, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Magnetic Trapping of Chromium, Europium and Experiments with Vanadium Oxide" Dr. John Doyle Harvard University Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. ______________________________________________ Thursday, May 7, 1998 Thursday, May 7, 1998, 12:00 Noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Distribution of the Eigenvalues of the Non-Selfadjoint Andeson Model" Professor Ilya Ya Goldshied University of London School of Mathematical Science Thursday, May 7, 1998, 12:30 p.m. Boston University Condensed Matter Physics Seminar SCI 352, Metcalf Science and Eng. Center (590 Comm. Ave.) "Imaging Molecules and Metals on Metal Surfaces by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Low Energy Electron Microscopy" Professor Shirley Chiang University of California at Davis Thursday, May 7, 1998, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Gordon McKay Laboratory, Room 402 "Environment Dependent Interatomic Potential for Si" Martin Bazant Harvard University Thursday, May 7, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "Cluster Cooling Flows" Dr. Andrew Fabian Inst. of Astronomy, University of Cambridge Tea at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana "Semiconductor Nanocrystals or Quantum Dots: >From Artificial Atoms to Heterostructures" M.G. Bawendi Massachusetts Institute of Technology Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, May 7, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Gamma Ray Bursts" Professor Jan van Paradijs University of Amsterdam Refreshments available in 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. _______________________________________________ Friday, May 8, 1998 Friday, May 8, 1998, 1:30 p.m. Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Dynamics in Driven Sand" Professor Narayanan Menon University of Massachusetts Friday, May 8, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "New Themes in Reversed Field Pinch Fusion Research" Professor Stewart Prager University of Wisconsin Refreshments served 15 minutes before seminar. Friday, May 8, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Large N QCD" Aneesh Manohar University of California, San Diego Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9 Harvard University Conference on Mathematical Physics, in honor of Arthur Jaffe Friday, May 8. All talks in Jefferson 250. 9:30-10:30 T. Spencer Inst. for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ "Central limit theorems and statistical mechanics in 2 dimensions" 11:00-12:00 E. Lieb Princeton University "The ground state of the dilute Bose gas" 2:00-3:00 E. Witten Inst. for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ "Conformal field theory at the edge of the world" 3:15-4:15 J. Dimock State University at Buffalo Title to be announced. 4:15-5:15 Y. Sinai Princeton University "Navier-Stokes equations with random forcing" Saturday, May 9. All talks in Jefferson 250. 9:30-10:30 J. Glimm State University of New York at Stony Brook "Functional integrals, stochastic fluids, prediction and uncertainty" 11:00-12:00 I. Singer Massachusetts Inst. of Technology Title to be announced. 1:30-2:30 J. Frohlich ETH-Hoenggerberg, Zuerich, Switzerland "Transport in thermal equilibrium and anomalies" 2:30-3:30 A. Connes I.H.E.S., Bures-sur-Yvette, France "Hopf algebras, renormalization and noncommutative geometry" __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the May 10 - May 16 Issue is: Monday, May 4, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. __________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College