Oct. 4, 1998 - Oct. 10, 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ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.
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Monday, October 5, 1998

Monday, October 5, 1998, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"Quantum Groups as Flavor Symmetries:
Implications for Hadron Masses"
O.M. Gavrylyk
Bogoliubov Institute, Kiev

Monday, October 5, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
MIT Room 26-414
"Measurement of the CP-Violation Parameter
sin[2b] via B/B(bar)® J/y - Ks Decays at CDF"
Gerry Bauer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 4:00 in 26-414.

Monday, October 5, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley, Room 168
"Self Organization During Cell Division"
Professor Jorge Jose
Northeastern University

Monday, October 5, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"The Structure of Molecular Motors"
Professor David DeRosier
Brandeis University
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, October 6, 1998

Tuesday, October 6, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Seminar
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Connection between Non-linearity and Geometry:
Some Examples in Physics"
Professor Radha Balakrishnan
Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
Madras, India

Tuesday, October 6, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"A New Method to Accurately Simulate Heavy Quarks on the Lattice"
Tim Klassen
Columbia University
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 6, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Disco Honey?  Noise and Nanoscale Dynamics in Glass"
Professor Nathan Israeloff
Northeastern University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 6, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard-MIT Math/Physics Seminar
MIT Room 4-159
"Quantized Branes"
Professor Chiari Nappi
Institute for Advanced Study
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Wednesday, October 7, 1998

Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 4;00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana
"Muon Spin Rotation Studies of Doping in High Tc Oxide Superconductors"
Professor J. Budnick
University of Connecticut

Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 356
"Understanding the Gross-Neveu Model in Four Dimensions"
Professor J. Zinn-Justin
CE Saclay and MIT
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. in Lyman 330.


Wednesday, October 7, 1998
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Symposium in honor of Lee Grodzins
Room 66-110 (near Ames Street)
1:00
Dr. Maurice Goldhaber
Brookhaven National Laboratory
"Neutrino Oscillations"

1:25
Professor Herman Feshbach
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Reminiscences"

1:50
Dr. Peter Rose
Krytek Corporation
"The Joys of Collaboration"

2:15
Professor Ray Weiss
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Tired Photons - A Seductive But Wrong Idea"

2:40 - BREAK

3:00
Professor Martin Deutsch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Neutrinos, Then and Now"

3:25
Professor Daniel Murnick
Rutgers University
TBA

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3:50
Professor Henry Kendall
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TBA

4:15
Professor Huan Huang
University of California, Los Angeles
"New Physics Opportunities at RHIC"

Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"Reducing Many-Body Dynamics to One Dimension:  A Unifying Approach"
Dr. Brett Esry
Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics
Harvard University
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.


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Thursday, October 8, 1998

Thursday, October 8, 1998, 12:00 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Structural Relaxation in Supercooled Liquids"
Dr. Thomas Franosch
Harvard University

Thursday, October 8, 1998, 2:00 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Room SCI 352 (590 Commonwealth Ave.)
"NMR Studies of DNA Structure and Dynamics"
Dr. Maurice Gueron
Ecole Polytechnique, France

Thursday, October 8, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
"COBE Observations of the Infrared Background"
Dr. Edward L. Wright
University of California, Los Angeles
Tea will be available at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 8, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"The 'Friction' of Vacuum and Other Fluctuation-Induced Forces"
Professor Mehran Kardar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, October 8, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Topological Order in Vortex Glasses"
Dr. Jan Kierfeld
Universitat zu Koln and Argonne National Lab.

Thursday, October 8, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana
"Disco Honey?  Nanoprobing the Molecular Dance in Glass"
Professor N. Israeloff
Northeastern University

Thursday, October 8, 1998, 4;00 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Lyman 330
"TBA"
Dr. Jaemo Park
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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Friday, October 9, 1998

Friday, October 9, 1998, 3:00 p.m. 
Harvard University
Joint Seminar for the History and Philosophy of 20th Century Science
Science Center 226
"Freedom, Collectivism and Quasiparticles"
Dr. Aleixi Kojevnikov
American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD


Friday, October 9, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Metal-insulator Transition in 2D at Zero Magnetic Field"
Professor Sergey Kravchenko
Northeastern University
Refreshments available in Brooks Room after the seminar.
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Reminder:
Deadline for the Oct. 11 - Oct. 17 issue 
is Monday, October 5 at 11:00 a.m.
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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College