Nov. 8, 1998 - Nov. 14, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, November 9, 1998 Monday, November 9, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Long-Range Interaction in Lower Dimensional Electron Systems" Stefano Bellucci INFN Monday, November 9, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room 26-414 "Reconnoitering Beyond the Standard Model" Ann Nelson University of Washington Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, November 9, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Room-Temperature Coulomb-Blockade- Dominated Transport Nanoclusters" Professor Martin Wybourne Dartmouth College Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, November 9, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 "The Almost Magical World of Photonic Crystals" John Joannopoulas Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tea in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m. ______________________________________________ Tuesday, November 10, 1998 Tuesday, November 10, 1998, 2:30 p.m. Tufts University Joint CFA-Tufts-M.I.T. Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Wavelet Analysis of Non-Gaussian Features in the CMB" Dr. Serge Winitzki DAMTP, Cambridge University Refreshments served at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, November 10, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana "When Life and Magnetic Fields Meet" James Valles Brown University Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, November 10, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Classical Effective Theory for Hot QCD" Edmond Iancu CERN Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 10, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 333 "NMR Applied to Self-Assembling Systems: Ion Pairing in Non-Polar Solvents" Professor Tom Pochapsky Brandeis University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 10, 1998, 4;00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Special Seminar Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Quantum Chaos and Vibrating Plates" Kristian Schaadt Clark University and Niels Bohr Institute Tuesday, November 10, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Seminar Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Terahertz Emitters Based on Inter-subband Transitions" Professor Qing Hu Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, November 10, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-M.I.T. Math/Physics Seminar M.I.T. Room 4-159 "Instantons on Non-Commutative Spaces" Dr. Nikita Nekrasov Harvard University ______________________________________________ Wednesday, November 11, 1998 Wednesday, November 11, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Exactly Solvable Potentials and Supersymmetry" Professor Fred Cooper Boston College and Los Alamos National Labs Refreshments will be served at 3:50 p.m. _________________________________ Thursday, November 12, 1998 Thursday, November 12, 1998, 12:00 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Bose-Einstein Condensation in an External Potential" Dionisios Margetis Harvard University Thursday, November 12, 1998, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Space Physics Seminar College of Arts and Science Building, Room 500 "Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI) on Cassini: A New Approach to Remote-Sensing Science at Saturn" Dr. S.M. Krimigis Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Laboratory Thursday, November 12, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "Recipes for Global Star Formation in Galaxies" Dr. Robert Kennicutt University of Arizona Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, November 12, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Faculty Research Seminar Series #1 Barus & Holley 751 "Numerical Study of XY Spin Glass and Gauge Glass Models" Professor J.M. Kosterlitz Brown University Thursday, November 12, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "On Flows and Polymer Additive" Professor Katepalli R. Sreenivasan Yale University Thursday, November 12, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Materials by Quantum Design for Photonics and Mesoscopic Physics: Quantum Cascade Lasers" Dr. Fredrico Capasso Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies ______________________________________________ Friday, November 13, 1998 Friday, November 13, 1998, 12:30 p.m. Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar SCI 352 "Berry's Phase and Millikelvin Force Microscopy" Professor Geoff Nunes Friday, November 13, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "Models of and Models for: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Biology" Professor Evelyn Fox Keller STS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday, November 13, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Tufts University Physics-Astronomy Colloquium Science and Technology Center, Room 136 "Brownian Motion, Metastability and Thermal Activation in Magnetic Materials" Ivo Klik Academia Sinica, Taiwan Refreshments available before the talk. Friday, November 13, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Dynamic Shear-Dominated Intersonic and Supersonic Crack Growth in Bimaterials and Layered Systems" Professor Ares Rosakis California Institute of Technology Refreshments in the Brooks Room following the seminar. Friday, November 13, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218, 175 Albany St. "Magnet Technology at the NHMFL and its Applications in Research and Industry" Hans Schneider-Muntau National High Magnetic Field Laboratory _________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Nov. 15 - Nov. 21 issue is Monday, November 9 at 11:00 a.m. _________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College