Mar. 7, 1999 - Mar. 13, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, March 8, 1999 Monday, March 8, 1999, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Non-Commutative Gravity from the ADS-CFT Correspondence" Sanjaye Ramgoolam Brown University Monday, March 8, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Branes and Gauge Theory Dynamics" Amihay Hanany Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 4:00. Monday, March 8, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "The Physics of Quarks at Big Bang Temperatures and Neutron Star Densities" Professor Krishna Rajagopal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 4:00. Monday, March 8, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Einstein's Clocks: Fundamental Theory and Lowly Technology" Peter Galison Harvard University Tea will be served at 4:00 in Jefferson 450. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, March 9, 1999 Tuesday, March 9, 1999, 2:30 p.m. Tufts University Joint CFA-Tufts-M.I.T. Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "How Rare Are Extraterrestrial Civilizations and When Did They Emerge?" Professor Mario Livio Space Telescope Institute Refreshments served at 2:00 in the Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, March 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture III Jefferson 250 "Evolution: Ribosome Display and In-Vitro Protein Evolution" Professor Albert Libchaber Rockefeller University Tuesday, March 9, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Structure of Heavy Nuclei: Questions and Challenges" Witold Nazarewicz University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab. Tuesday, March 9, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "How Things Break" Dr. Alexander E. Lobkovsky University of California, Santa Barbara Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Amyloid Structural Polymorphism" Daniel A. Kirschner Boston College Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. _____________________________________________ Wednesday, March 10, 1999 Wednesday, March 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Special Seminar Kolker Room, 26-414 "Disoriented Chiral Condensates: Current Measurements and Future Prospects" Peter Steinberg Columbia University Wednesday, March 10, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "The Three P's of Total Risk Management" Professor Andrew Lo M.I.T. Sloan School of Management Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, 1999, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "New Results from the Muon g-2 Experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory" Professor Rob Carey Boston University Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Structural Biophysics Approach to Neurological Disorders" Professor Daniel Kirschner Boston College Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Quantum Chaos: Ergodicity, Localization, Transport and the Theory of Wave Function Scarring" Lev Kaplan Harvard University _________________________________________ Thursday, March 11, 1999 Thursday, March 11, 1999, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Lab. (Room 402) "Microdiffraction and Electromigration in Al(Cu) Conductor Lines" Professor G. Slade Cargill Lehigh University Thursday, March 11, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture IV Jefferson 250 "Gene Expression and Molecular Computing" Professor Albert Libchaber Rockefeller University Thursday, March 11, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "The Missing Energy Problem" Dr. Paul J. Steinhardt Princeton University Tea at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 11, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Holography, Cosmology, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics" Dr. David Lowe Brown University Thursday, March 11, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center TBA C.C. Tsuei IBM Coffee at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, March 11, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "The First Gauge Theory: A Story of Poverty and Riches, Intrigue and Deception, Brilliance and Stupidity, and Untimely Tragic Death" Professor John P. Ralston University of Kansas Refreshments served at 3:45 in 4-339. _____________________________________________ Friday, March 12, 1999 Friday, March 12, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series NW17-218 "Centrifugally Confined Plasmas: An Alternative Concept for Fusion" Adil Hassam University of Maryland Refreshments served before talk. __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Mar. 14 - Mar. 20 calendar is Monday, March 8, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. __________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College