Sept. 13, 1998 - Sept. 19, 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
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Monday, September 14, 1998

Monday, September 14, 1998, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"Four-point Functions in the CFT/AdS Correspondence and Holography"
Hong Liu
Imperial College

Monday, September 14, 1998, 4:15 p.m.  Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414
"Probing the Final and Initial State in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion
Collisions" Thomas Peitzmann University of Muenster Refreshments will
be served at 4:00 p.m.  
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Tuesday, September 15, 1998

Tuesday, September 15, 1998, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"Exchange Currents in Baryons"
Alfons Buchmann
University of Tuebingen

Tuesday, September 15, 1998, 3:45 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107
"Traffic Jams in Data Networks"
Professor Onuttom Narayan
University of California, Santa Cruz
Parking:  Call 353-2600 at least 24 hours in advance.
Refreshments will be served at 3:20 p.m.
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Wednesday, September 16, 1998

Wednesday, September 16, 1998, 12:00 noon
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington St., Room 593
"The Search for Neutrino Oscillations with Atmospheric Neutrinos"
Professor Tom Gaisser
Bartol Research Institute

Wednesday, September 16, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Department of Physics Colloquium
Olney 428
"Mesoscopics:  Clean Physics of Dirty Systems"
Piet Brouwer
Harvard University
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 16, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana
"Some New Results in Random Matrix Theory"
Professor Herve Kunz
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Ecole Polytechnique Federale
Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m.
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Thursday, September 17, 1998

Thursday, September 17, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Bok Prize Lecture
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
"Watching the Interstellar Medium Move"
Dr. Alyssa Goodman
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 17, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Physics Colloquium
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 10-250
"Quarks, Free at Last!?"
Professor Craig Ogilvie
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Friday, September 18, 1998

Friday, September 18, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"A Poincare-covariant Parton Model for Ultrarelativistic Heavy-ion Reactions"
Cornelius Noack
University of Bremen

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Joan Drane
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Boston College