Apr. 4, 1999 - Apr. 10, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, April 5, 1999 Monday, April 5, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Boston University Astronomy Colloquium 725 Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor, Room 500 "Inelastic Dissipation in a Freely Rotating Body: Applications to Cosmic-Dust Alignment and to Tumbling Asteroids" Dr. Michael Efroimsky Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30. Monday, April 5, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Neutron Structure Studies with a High Pressure Polarized ^3He Target" Haiyan Gao Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 5, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Giant Magnetoresistance in Metallic Magnetic Multilayers: Why is it Better to Do it Perpendicularly?" Professor Jack Bass Michigan State University Refreshments served at 4:00. Monday, April 5, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson Lab, Room 250 "Optical SETI" Paul Horowitz Harvard University Tea served at 4:00 in Jefferson 450. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, April 6, 1999 Tuesday, April 6, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium Marlar Lounge, Building 37, Room 252 "Weighing Superclusters" Professor Chung-Pei Ma University of Pennsylvania Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-M.I.T. Math/Physics Seminar M.I.T. Room 4-159 "The Mathematics of M-Theory" Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf Universiteit van Amsterdam _____________________________________________ Wednesday, April 7, 1999 Wednesday, April 7, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Physics Department Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Solid State Refrigeration" Prof. Gerald Mahan University of Tennessee Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Theory and Tests of Lorentz and CPT Violation" Alan Kostelecky Indiana University _________________________________________ Thursday, April 8, 1999 Thursday, April 8, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Space Physics Seminar CAS Building, Room 500 "High Latitude Ionospheric Electrodynamic Parameters During Auroral Substorms" Dr. R.A. Hoffman NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Thursday, April 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden St. (Phillips Auditorium) "The Future of Gravitational Microlensing Surveys" Dr. Charles Alcock Livermore National Laboratory Tea will be served at 3:30. Thursday, April 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "A Pedestrian Introduction to the Science of Global Climate Change" Professor Christoph Hohenemser Clark University Thursday, April 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 TBA Dr. Lisa Randall Princeton University, M.I.T. Thursday, April 8, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Department Colloquium 10-250 "Cosmology Solved?" Professor Michael Turner University of Chicago, Fermilab _______________________________________ Friday, April 9, 1999 Friday, April 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "Images and the Dynamics of Representation: How Faraday Made Magnetic Curves Move" Professor Friedrich Steinle Gottlingen University, Dibner Institute __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Apr. 11 - Apr. 17 calendar is Monday, April 5, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. __________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College