Nov. 15, 1998 - Nov. 21, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 16, 1998 Monday, November 16, 1998, 12:30 p.m. Boston University Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Room 352, Metcalf Science Center (590 Comm. Ave.) "Nodal Liquid Theory of the Pseudo-Gap Phase of High Tc Superconductors" Professor Chetan Nayak University of California, Los Angeles Monday, November 16, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Determination of Critical Exponents and Other Universal Quantities by Quantum Field Methods" Jean Zinn-Justin Saclay/MIT Monday, November 16, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Lattice Gauge Theory for the Impatient" Mark Alford Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, November 16, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Weak Links in Superfluid Helium-3: A New Tool to Measure Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena" Professor Richard E. Packard University of California, Berkeley Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, November 16, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lecture in Physics: Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Searching for Spectroscopic Signs of Primitive Life on Extra-Solar Planets: A Realistic Goal for NASA" Professor Roger Angel University of Arizona Tea in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m. ______________________________________________ Tuesday, November 17, 1998 Tuesday, November 17, 1998, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Extreme Nonlinear Optics - Phase-Matching at Short Wavelengths" Margaret Murnane University of Michigan Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, November 17, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I Jefferson 250 "Building Big Mirrors for Telescopes on the Ground and in Space" Professor Roger Angel University of Arizona Tuesday, November 17, 1998, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium SCI 107, Metcalf Science Center (590 Commonwealth Ave.) "Conduction in Metallic Nanoparticle Wires" Professor Martin Wybourne Dartmouth College Refreshments at 3:20 p.m. in the Science Center Lounge Tuesday, November 17, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana "Dynamic Control of Biological Systems" Jim Collins Boston University Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, November 17, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "An Effective Theory of QCD at Small x: Recent Results for DIS and High Energy Scattering" Raju Venugopalan RIKEN-BNL Tuesday, November 17, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 333 "Crystals, Defects and Microstructures: Multiscale Modeling of Mechanical Properties of Solids" Professor Robert Phillips Brown University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 17, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-MIT Math/Physics Seminar M.I.T. Room 4-159 "Knot Invariants as Gromov-Witten Invariants at Large N" Professor Cumrun Vafa Harvard University ______________________________________________ Wednesday, November 18, 1998 Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 12:00 noon Boston University Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 593 "Be-7 Solar Neutrinos and the Borexino Experiment" Mark Chen Princeton University Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston University ECE Colloquium Series Room 206, 8 Saint Mary's Street "Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS): Past Successes and Future Challenges" Stephen Senturia Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served directly before the talk outside Room 206 Send email to aaleman@bu.edu for more information. Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "The Spin of the Proton" Professor Robert L. Jaffe Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Physical Properties of Living Tissues and Their Biological Significance" Professor Gabor Forgacs Clarkson University Refreshments will be served at 3:50 p.m. Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 TBA Dr. Brian Kennedy Georgia Institute of Technology Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third floor "Out of This World Supersymmetry Breaking" Raman Sundrum Boston University _________________________________ Thursday, November 19, 1998 Thursday, November 19, 1998, 12:00 noon Harvard University CMT Group Seminar Pierce 100F "Coulomb Drag as a Probe of Electronic Excitations: From Composite Fermions to Carbon Nanotubes" Dr. Ady Stern Weizmann Institute Thursday, November 19, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II Jefferson 250 "Adaptive Optics: A Tool to Remove Atmospheric Blurring" Professor Roger Angel University of Arizona Thursday, November 19, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "Decoupling Methods for Open Quantum Systems and Quantum Information" Lorenza Viola Northeastern University Coffee at 3:45 Thursday, November 19, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "A Candidate Protoplanet in the Taurus Star-Forming Region" Dr. Susan Terebey Extrasolar Research Corp., Pasadena, CA Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, November 19, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus & Holley 751 "Understanding Magnetic Reversal in Small Magnetic Systems" Dr. Roger Koch IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab Thursday, November 19, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "What Happens When an Extra Electron Is Added to the C60 Ball? Far-Infrared Investigation of the Jahn-Teller Effect in [PH4P]2IC60" Dr. Virginia C. Long SUNY Binghamton Thursday, November 19, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Search for New Physics in High Energy Electron- Positron Collisions" Professor Charles Baltay Yale University ______________________________________________ Friday, November 20, 1998 Friday, November 20, 1998, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Boston University Center for Computational Science Seminar Physics Research Bldg., Room 593, 3 Cummington St. "Natural Law and the Limits of Computation" Seth Lloyd Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday, November 20, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Tufts University Physics-Astronomy Department Colloquium Robinson 250 "Electron Roundup at the Quantum Corral and Other Tales of the Atomic Landscape" Mike Crommie Boston University Refreshments available before the talk. Friday, November 20, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "A Drive Down Multimegabar Lane: From Internal Atom Position Determination in 7-fold Coordinated MgSe at 202 GPa to Hydrogen -- The Reluctant Alkali at 342 GPa" Professor Arthur L. Ruoff Cornell University Refreshments in the Brooks Room following the seminar. _________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Nov. 22 - Nov. 28 issue is Monday, November 16 at 11:00 a.m. _________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College