Feb. 14, 1999 - Feb. 20, 1999 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, February 15, 1999 Monday, February 15, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Physics Department Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Electroweak Physics - Quo Vadis?" Professor Ulrich Baur Buffalo Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, February 15, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Magnetic Trapping of Atoms and Molecules" John Doyle Harvard University Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. in Jefferson 450. ____________________________________________ Tuesday, February 16, 1999 Tuesday, February 16, 1999, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Gold Clusters Nanocrystals in the Strong Quantum-Size-Effect Regime" Robert Whetten Georgia Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, February 16, 1999, 2:30 p.m. Tufts University Joint CFA-Tufts-M.I.T. Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Simulation and Analysis of Cosmic String Cusps" Ken D. Olum Tufts University Refreshments served at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251. Tuesday, February 16, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Third Floor Seminar Rm. "Instanton-Induced Interactions in Finite Density QCD" Greg Carter Niels Bohr Institute Tuesday, February 16, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "The Mystery of Missing Neutrinos: Clues from Super-Kamiokande" Professor Edward Kearns Boston University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. _____________________________________________ Wednesday, February 17, 1999 Wednesday, February 17, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Boston University High Energy Seminar Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington St., Room 593 "Top Quark Physics at the Tevatron (Status and Prospects)" Dr. Meenakshi Narain Boston University Call 353-2600 one day in advance for parking. Wednesday, February 17, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center TBA Professor Claudio Chamon Boston University Coffee and refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, February 17, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Metal-Insulator Transition in 2D" Professor Sergey Kravchenko Northeastern University Coffee is served at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, February 17, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Quantum Kinetic Theory for a Condensed Bosonic Gas" Professor Murray Holland JILA - University of Colorado Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, February 18, 1999 Thursday, February 18, 1999, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Lab. (Room 402) "Synthesis of Metastable GaNAs from the Dilute Arsenic Doping Limit to Nitrogen-Rich Ternary Alloys" Professor Louis Guido Yale University Thursday, February 18, 1999, 1:30 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Doubled Fun with Double-Layer Half-Filled Landau Levels" Dr. Yong Baek Kim The Pennsylvania State University Refreshments in Room 333 after the talk. Thursday, February 18, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Space Physics Seminar CAS Building, Room 500 "Electron Phase-Space Tornados: Observations in Space, Simulations and Animations" Professor Meers Oppenheim Boston University Thursday, February 18, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Spontaneous Stratification and Segregation in Granular Mixtures" Hernan Makse Schlumberger-Doll Research Thursday, February 18, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "Gravitational Radiation from Accreting Neutron Stars: Implications for Millisecond Pulsar Formation and LIGO" Dr. Lars Bildsten University of California, Berkeley Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, February 18, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "D-branes in Gepner Models" Dr. Michael Gutperle Princeton University Thursday, February 18, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Quantum Chromo Dynamics on a Teraflops Computer" Professor Robert Mawhinney Columbia University _________________________________________________ Friday, February 19, 1999 Friday, February 19, 1999, 12:30 p.m. Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Metcalf Science Center, 590 Comm. Ave., Room 352 "Direct Visualization of Nanoscale Henomena by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy" Dr. Larry Pai _________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Feb. 21 - Feb. 27 calendar is Monday, February 15, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. _________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College