May 9, 1999 - May 15, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, May 10, 1999 Monday, May 10, 1999, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Fl. Seminar Room "Anomaly Cancellation for Branes at Singularities" Angel Uranga IAS-Princeton University Monday, May 10, 1999, 3;00 - 5:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 10-Room 250 A Celebration of the Universality of Mathematical Thinking, the opening event of the Clay Mathematics Institute Panel Discussion with Dudley Herschbach and William Odom, "Mathematics and Society" moderated by David Gergen Lecture by Andrew Wiles, Princeton "The Future of Number Theory" Monday, May 10, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Searching for Dark Matter Axions" Leslie Rosenberg Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, May 10, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Cosmology in the Laboratory: The Formation of Topological Defects" Mark Bowick Syracuse University Tea served at 4:00 p.m. in Jefferson 450. Monday, May 10, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "The Second Superstring Revolution" Professor John Schwarz Caltech Refreshments served at 4:00. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, May 11, 1999 Tuesday, May 11, 1999, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Juggling Atomic Fountains" Kurt Gibble Yale University Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, May 11, 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, May 11, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Northeastern University High Energy Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Signature for Cosmological Parity Violation" Arthur Lue Columbia University Refreshments served at 3:45. Tuesday, May 11, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Amyloid Structural Polymorphism" Professor Daniel A. Kirschner Boston College Refreshments served at 3:45. Tuesday, May 11, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Fl. Seminar Room "Some New Results in Prompt Photon Physics" Werner Vogelsang Stonybrook Tuesday, May 11, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium Marlar Lounge, Bldg. 37, Room 252 TBA Dr. Andrew Fruchter Space Telescope Science Institute Refreshments served at 3:45. Tuesday, May 11, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar Science Center 507 "The Geometry of Classical Particles" Sir Michael Atiyah University of Edinburgh _________________________________________ Wednesday, May 12, 1999 Wednesday, May 12, 1999, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "PET Imaging of Small Scale Objects at High Resolution" John Correia Massachusetts General Hospital Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 12, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Growth and Decay of Resistance versus Temperature for Low Density Holes in 2D GaAs Quantum Wells" Allen Mills Lucent Technologies (Bell Laboratories) Wednesday, May 12, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Building, Rm. 593 (3 Cummington St.) "Ruling Out Remnant Dark Matter with Multi-TeV Gamma-Rays" Professor Terry Walker The Ohio State University Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. Call 353-9600 for parking at least 48 hours in advance. _________________________________________ Thursday, May 13, 1999 Thursday, May 13, 1999, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Turnbull Room, McKay Laboratory (Room 402) "Diffraction from Random Rough Surfaces" Yiping Zhao Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Thursday, May 13, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "Computational Physics and the Physics Curriculum" Professor Harvey Gould Clark University Coffee served at 3:45. Thursday, May 13, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "The NGC4258 Water Maser: A Unique Window into the Sub-Parsec-Scale World of An Active Galactic Nucleus" (A Bok Prize Lecture for 1999) Dr. James Herrnstein National Radio Astronomy Observatory Tea served at 3:30. Thursday, May 13, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Stellar-Mass Black Holes in Binary Systems" Alex Filippenko University of California at Berkeley _______________________________________ Friday, May 14, 1999 Friday, May 14, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "New Views of Coronal Plasma Dynamics" Leon Golub Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Refreshments served before the talk. __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the May 16 - May 22 calendar is Monday, May 10, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. The last Calendar for this term will be published on May 17. The Calendar is not published during the summer. It will be the last Calendar maintained by Boston College. Our two years are up! More information will follow. ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College