April 2 to April 8, 2000
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic
year by the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT.  You may send your
announcement by e-mail (bapc@lns.mit.edu) or FAX (617-253-8674).  We cannot
accept announcements by telephone.  Entries should reach us no later than
11:00 a.m. the Monday of the week preceding the week of the event.  ENTRIES
RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.
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Monday, April 3, 2000
Monday, April 3, 2000 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday, Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room
``Optimal Quantum Measurements"
Jose Latorre
University of Barcelona

Monday, April 3, 2000 4:15PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Building26-Kolker Room 414
``AMS Physics Analysis Status"
Peter Fisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 4:00p.m

Monday, April 3, 2000 4:00PM
Boston University
Astrophysics Seminar Series
Astronomy Conference Rm.-500, 725 Commonwealth Ave.
``X-Ray Emission from Accreting Black Holes"
Ronald Remillard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Coffee and Cookies served at 3:45pm


Monday, April 3, 2000, 4:30PM
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley Room 168
1/f Dynamics of Granular Avalanches"
Professor Y.W. Kim
Lehigh University
Refreshments served at 4:00p.m.

Monday, April 3, 2000, 4:30PM
Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lab 250
``Cuprate Superconductors: Physics Beyond High Tc"
Bertram Batlogg
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Tea served at 4:00pm in Jefferson 450
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Tuesday, April 4, 2000
Tuesday, April 4, 2000, 12 noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy, Fall Seminar
McNair Bldg, Marlar Lounge (37-252)
``Wigner Phase Space Distributions: Watching Optical Ripples"
Adam Wax
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served following the seminar

Tuesday, April 4, 2000, 12:45PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Lunch Club
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room
``T-duality, non-commutative geometry  and the Born-Infeld action"
Lorenzo Cornalba
IHES

Tuesday, April 4, 2000 , 2:00PM
Brandeis University
Theoretical Physics Seminar
Yalem 229
``TBA"
Professor Sumit Das
Tata Institute, Mumbai

Tuesday, April 4, 2000, 2:30PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts-Cfa-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Bldg 6 3rd fl Seminar Room
``Path Integral Duality Hypothesis in an Inflationary Phase"
Ali Nayeri
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 2:00p.m.

Tuesday, April 4, 2000, 3:45PM
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, SCI 107
``Lattice Models for Fluids and Soft Condensed Matter Physics"
Bruce Boghosian
Boston University
Coffee at 3:30p.m.
For parking phone 617-353-2600-24 hrs in advance.

Tuesday, April 4, 2000, 4:00 PM
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Bldg, Abelson 131
``Sonoluminescence: Classical Bubble Dynamics with a Twist"
Professor Michael Brenner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m, Room 333

Tuesday, April 4, 2000, 4:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room
``Fate of the False Classical Vacuum"
Janos Polonyi
University Strasbourg
Refreshments served at 3:30p.m.

Tuesday, April 4, 2000, 4:30PM
Harvard University
Harvard -MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Jefferson 453
``Gauge Theories and QCD4  seen from Five Dimensions"
Laurent Baulieu
LPTHE, University Paris
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Wednesday, April 5, 2000
Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 4:00PM
Brandeis University
Special Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics
Goldsmith 226
``Chiral Fermions and Topology on the Lattice"
Professor Herbert Neuberger
Rutgers University

Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 4:30PM
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Gasson Hall, Room305
``The Bloch Oscillator"
Professor S. James Allen
University of California, Santa Barbara
Coffee served at 3:45p.m. Higgins Hall, Room TBA

Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 4:30PM
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
``The cosmological constant problems in a brane world."
Markus Luty
University of Maryland
Refreshments at 4:00 in the HET commons area
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Thursday, April 6, 2000
Thursday, April 6, 2000, 12:00 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Group
Lyman 425
``Peter Piper pulled a peck of pinned polymers
(and found an unexpected force displacement relation)"
David Lubensky
Harvard University

Thursday, April 6, 2000, 1:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg 6 3rdfl Seminar Room
``The string dual of a four-dimensional confining gauge theory"
Matthew Strassler
IAS

Thursday, April 6, 2000, 4:00PM
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street
``Weak Lensing: Shear Madness"
Professor Martin White
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Tea served at 3:30p.m.

Thursday, April 6, 2000, 4:15PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics Colloquium
Room 10-250
``Where's the Glue? A Puzzle in Strong Interactions"
Nathan Isgur
Jefferson Laboratory
Refreshments served in 4-339 at 3:00pm

Thursday, April 6, 2000, 4:15PM
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
``Brane  -  antibrane constructions:
Sunil Mukhi
Tata Institute, Mumbai
 Refreshments served 3:45,  HET Commons, 4th fl Jefferson
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Joint Physics - Astronomy/EOTC Colloquium
Friday, April 7, 2000
Robinson 253
at 3:30
Dr. Stephen S. Murray
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"New Views of the Universe with the Chandra X-ray Observatory"
* Refreshments will be served in Robinson 251 at 3:00 p.m.


Friday, April 7, 2000
Friday, April 7,2000 12:30PM.
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Ctr., Rm 352, 590 Commonwealth Ave.
``Making a Splash; Breaking a Neck"
Leo Kadanoff
University of Chicago

Friday, April 7,2000 4:00PM.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series
Plasma and Fusion Center, NW17-218
``ICRF Induced Plasma Rotation"
Dr. Roscoe White
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Refreshments before talk.
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Reminder:
Deadline for the April 9- April 15 calendar is Monday, April  3, 2000 at
11:00a.m.

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