Mar. 14, 1999 - Mar. 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, March 15, 1999 Monday, March 15, 1999, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Anti-de Sitter Fragmentation" Jeremy Michelson Harvard University Monday, March 15, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Applied Math Colloquium Building 2-105 "Basics of the AdS/CFT Correspondence" Professor Daniel Z. Freedman Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, March 15, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "The Electroweak Phase Diagram" Mikko Laine CERN Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, March 15, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Beyond the Standard Model at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider" Professor Mel Shochet Fermilab Refreshments served at 4:00. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, March 16, 1999 Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 12:00-1:00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Magnetic Resonance with a New Twist: Quantum Control of an Atomic Spin" Daniel Heinzen University of Texas at Austin Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 1:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physical Mathematics Seminar Building 2-338 "Bursting of Liquid Films: >From Ultraviscous to Inviscid Liquids" Francois Brochard Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar CTP, Building 6, Third Floor, Seminar Room "Holography for Cosmologists" David Lowe Brown University Refreshments served at 2:00 in the same room. Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Physics Colloquium SCI 107, Metcalf Science Center (590 Comm. Ave.) "The Physics of Non-Brownian Random Motion" Professor R. Kutner University of Wroclaw, Poland Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin A. Fisher Lectures in Physics: Public Lecture Gerstenzang 123 "Adventures in the Quest for Unification" Professor Edward Witten Institute for Advanced Study Refreshments outside Gerstenzang 123 at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "FMRFamide-related Neuropeptide Gene Family in Caenorhabditis elegans" Christina Li Boston University Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar CTP-Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Ginsparg-Wilson Relation and Chiral Symmetry on the Lattice" Shailesh Chandrasenkharan Duke University Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium Marlar Lounge, Building 37, Room 252 "The Birth Function and Redshift-Age Relation of Radio Galaxies" Dr. Katherine Blundell Oxford University Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. _____________________________________________ Wednesday, March 17, 1999 Wednesday, March 17, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin A. Fisher Lectures in Physics: Theoretical Seminar I Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Conformal Field Theory with Ramond Fields" Professor Edward Witten Institute for Advanced Study Reception outside Abelson 131 after the talk. Wednesday, March 17, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Finite-size Correction to the Number of Clusters for the Potts Model" Professor C.K. Hu Academia Sinica, Taipei Wednesday, March 17, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "The Quantum Hall Effects" Professor Bertrand Halperin Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, March 17, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Advance in Quantum Optics and Laser Physics via Quantum Coherence" Dr. Marlan Scully Texas A&M University Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. _________________________________________ Thursday, March 18, 1999 Thursday, March 18, 1999, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Lab. (Room 402) "Magnetism in One and Two Dimensions: FCC Fe on Cu(111)" Dr. Jian Shen Oak Ridge National Laboratory Thursday, March 18, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin A. Fisher Lectures in Physics: Theoretical Seminar 2 Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Further Developments in AdS/CFT Correspondence" Professor Edward Witten Institute for Advance Study Reception outside Abelson 131 after the talk. Thursday, March 18, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Space Physics Seminar CAS Building, Room 500 "The Largest Wave: The Magnetospheric Response to Hot Flow Anomalies" Dr. David Sibeck Johns Hopkins University Thursday, March 18, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "The Formation of Low Mass Stars in Small Clusters" Dr. William J. Welch University of California, Berkeley Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 18, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Marsh Institute and Department of Physics Joint Colloquium Marsh Distinguished Lecture Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Meeting and Going Beyond Our Kyoto Climate Treaty Targets Without Harming Economic Growth" Howard Geller American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Thursday, March 18, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "The Moduli Space of Fully Compactified M Theory" Professor Tom Banks Rutgers University Thursday, March 18, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "A New Cosmological Paradigm: Life, the Universe, and Nothing" Professor Lawrence M. Krauss Case Western Reserve University Refreshment served at 3:45 in 4-339. Friday, March 19, 1999 Friday, March 19, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "Whither the History of Technology" Professor John Staudenmeir Boston College Friday, March 19, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series NW17-218 "The MIT Bates Linear Accelerator" Kenneth Jacobs MIT Bates Linac Friday, March 19, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Collapse Mechanism in Human Lung Surfactant Systems" Professor Ka Yee Lee University of Chicago Refreshments will be served following the seminar. __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Mar. 21 - Mar. 27 calendar is Monday, March 15, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. __________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College