Feb. 21, 1999 - Feb. 27, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 22, 1999 Monday, February 22, 1999, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Third floor Seminar Rm. "Borel Summability of the Derivative Expansion and Effective Actions" Gerald Dunne University of Connecticut Monday, February 22, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Department Colloquium Olin Hall (Physics), Room 107 "Making Ultracold Plasma and Beyond" Chen-Hsiung Cheng University of Connecticut/WPI Coffee at 3:40 in Olin 118. Monday, February 22, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Glueballs and String Theory" John Terning University of California, Berkeley Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, February 22, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson 250 "Bose-Einstein Condensation and Light Speeds of 38 Miles/Hour" Lene Hau Rowland Institute Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. in Jefferson 450. ____________________________________________ Tuesday, February 23, 1999 Tuesday, February 23, 1999, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Charge Accumulation Imaging of the Quantum Hall Liquid" Raymond Ashoori Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, February 23, 1999, 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar CTP Seminar Room, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Predictability Crisis in Inflationary Cosmology and Its Resolution" Alexander Vilenkin Tufts University Tuesday, February 23, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Physics Colloquium SCI 107, Metcalf Science Center (590 Comm. Ave.) "Baryogenesis and Cosmic Antimatter" Professor Andrew Cohen Boston University Tuesday, February 23, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 TBA Professor Al Sacco Northeastern University Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, February 23, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third floor Seminar Room "Inclusive Dilepton Production During a Chiral Phase Transition and the Closed-Time-Path Formalism" Dr. Fred Cooper Boston College and LANL Tuesday, February 23, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 ÒFermi Edge Singularity in the Novel (Non-Fermi-Liquid) MetalsÓ Dmitri Khveshchenko NORDITA, Denmark Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. _____________________________________________ Wednesday, February 24, 1999 Wednesday, February 24, 1999, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Boston Physics Department Colloquium Small Science Auditorium, Room S-1-006 "Optical Computing and Information Processing with Biological Materials" Professor D.V.G.L.N. Rao University of Massachusetts Boston Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Please call (617) 287-6050 one day in advance for parking. Wednesday, February 24, 1999, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "The Xerox Universe - The Puzzle of Generations and the Origin of Mass" Professor John Swain Northeastern University Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 24, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Hydrogen" Professor Thomas Greytak Massachusetts Institute of Technology Coffee is served at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, February 24, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Special Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "The Search for Exotic States of Hot and Cold Quark Matter" Jamie Nagle Columbia University Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 24, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "Single Sector SUSY Breaking" Dr. John Terning University of California, Berkeley Refreshments at 4:00 in Lyman 330. _____________________________________________ Thursday, February 25, 1999 Thursday, February 25, 1999, 12 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Flow Equation Approach to 1d Strong-Coupling Problems" Stefan Kehrein Harvard University Thursday, February 25, 1999, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Lab. (Room 402) "Relaxed SiGe Buffers: A Materials Bridge between GaAs and Si" Professor Eugene A. Fitzgerald Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday, February 25, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Space Physics Seminar CAS Building, Room 500 "Exploration of the Solar System Frontier: Heliospheric Interface from 1 AU" Professor Mike Gruntman University of Southern California Thursday, February 25, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "The Impact of SN1987A with Its Circumstellar Ring" Dr. Richard McCray JILA, University of Colorado Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, February 25, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium Dana Research Center, Room 114 "String Theory and the Bekenstein-Hawking Black Hole Entropy" Professor Andy Strominger Harvard University Thursday, February 25, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Keeping the Focus on Bose-Einstein Condensates" Professor Wolfgang Ketterle Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tea and cookies at 3:45 in MIT 4-339. _________________________________________________ Friday, February 26, 1999 Friday, February 26, 1999, 12:30 p.m. Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave. "Finite Size Effects in Magnetic Nanoparticles" Dr. Richard H. Kodama Naval Research Laboratory Friday, February 26, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "The Common Liar, the Damned Liar, and the Scientific Witness: Science in the Courts" Dr. Tal Golan Dibner Institute ____________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Feb. 28 - Mar. 6 calendar is Monday, February 22, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. _________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College