January 9 - January 15, 2000
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

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Tuesday, January 11, 2000
Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 11:00AM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
NW 17-218
``US Fusion Research on the Uptick"
Miklos Porkolab
MIT, Director PSFC
Refreshments served at 10:45am

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Wednesday, January12, 2000
Wednesday, January 12, 2000,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
NW 17-218      (Refreshments Served)
10:00AM  ``Science Opportunities at the
        National Ignition Facility"
      Richard Petrasso-MIT, PSFC

     11:00AM  ``Plasma Techniques for Clean
       Auto Engine Performance"
                  Leslie Bromberg-MIT, PSFC

  12:00noon  ``Tour of Environmental Technologies"
                    Leslie Bromberg, Paul Woskov-MIT, PSFC
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Thursday, January13, 2000
Thursday, January 13, 2000,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
NW 17-218      (Refreshments Served)
10:00AM  ``The Tokamak Concept:
       Status and Future"
        R.D. Stambaugh - General Atomics

11:00AM  ``Alcator C-Mod and the Tokamak
        Approach to Fusion"
                    John Rice-MIT, PSFC

1:00PM    ``Tours: Alcator C-Mod, VTF
                  an Levitated Dipole Experiment"
	      TBD


Thursday, January 13, 2000, 1:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6-3rd floor Seminar Room
``Measuring Vub from Inclusive B Decays"
Adam Leibovich
Carnegie Mellon University


Thursday, January 13, 2000, 2:00PM
Boston University
Biophysics seminar
Physics Research Bldg, Rm 593, 3 Cummington St.
``Peptide Nucleic Acids: Towards Gene Therapeutic Drugs and Designed
Antibiotics?"
Peter Nielsen
Panem Institute, Copenhagen University




Thursday, January 13, 2000, 4:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6-3rd floor Seminar Room
``Lattice Phenomenology using Domain Wall Quarks"
Matthew Wingate
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Friday, January14, 2000
Friday, January 14, 2000,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
NW 17-218      (Refreshments Served)

10:00AM   ``New Opportunities for MagLev""
        D. Bruce Montgomery-MIT, PSFC

11:00AM  ``Magnetic Reconnection: Explosions in
                    Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasma"
                    Jim Drake-University of Maryland


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Reminder:
Deadline for the January 16- January 22 calendar is Monday, January 10,
2000 at 11:00a.m.

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