Mar. 28, 1999 - Apr. 3, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 29, 1999 Monday, March 29, 1999, 11:00 a.m. Worcester Polytechnical Institute Physics Department Colloquium Olin Hall (Physics), Room 223 "Spin Electronics in Magnetic Multilayers" Murielle A. Villeret City University, London Coffee served at 10:40. Monday, March 29, 1999, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "SYM Origin of the Supergravity Causal Structure" Gilad Lifschytz Princeton University Monday, March 29, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "The Many Phases of QCD" Krishna Rajagopal Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, March 30, 1999 Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 2:30 p.m. Tufts University Joint CfA-Tufts-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 253 "Cosmic Rays Above the GZK Cutoff" Professor James Cronin Enrico Fermi Institute Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Rm 251 Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium SCI 107, Metcalf Science Center (590 Comm. Ave) "Searching for the Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC" Professor Zajc Columbia University Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "Hydrodynamics of Vortex Liquids in Patterned Geometries" C. Marchetti Syracuse University, Harvard University Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Meron-Cluster Solution of a Fermion Sign Problem" Uwe-Jens Wiese Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium Marlar Lounge, Building 37, Room 252 TBA Professor August Evrard University of Michigan Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. _____________________________________________ Wednesday, March 31, 1999 Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Physics Department Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Quantum Entanglement in the Interacting Radiation and Atom Fields" Dr. A.K. Rajagopal Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C. Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington St., Room 593 "Anomalies and Gravity-mediated Supersymmetry Breaking" Dr. Erich Poppitz Yale University Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Please call 353-2600 one day in advance for parking. Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 TBA Dr. Jorg Schmiedmayer Innsbruck University Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. _________________________________________ Thursday, April 1, 1999 Thursday, April 1, 1999, 12:00 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Exact Critical Exponents for the Spin Quantum Hall Transition" Ilya Gruzberg University of California, Santa Barbara Thursday, April 1, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Flow of a Soft Solid" Professor Shuba Tewari University of Massachusetts, Amherst Thursday, April 1, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "Understanding or Memorization: Are We Teaching the Right Thing?" Eric Mazur Harvard University Coffee served at 3:45. _________________________________________ Friday, April 2, 1999 Friday, April 2, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series NW17-218 "The ITER Central Solenoid and TE Model Coil Programs - Status and Accomplishments" Richard Thome MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Refreshments served before the talk. Friday, April 2, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Mescoscopic Physics with Electrons and Infrared Photons: Quantum Cascade Lasers and Bow-Tie Lasers with Chaotic Resonators" Dr. Federico Capasso Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Refreshments served following the seminar. __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Apr. 4 - Apr. 10 calendar is Monday, March 29, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. __________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College