THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the
academic year by The Martin Fisher School of Physics at Brandeis
University.  You may send your announcements by  e-mail
(bapc@binah.cc.brandeis.edu) or FAX (617-736-2915). We cannot 
accept announcements by telephone.  Entries should reach us no 
later than 11:00 am on the  Monday  preceding the week of the event. 
ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.

Week of April 30-May 6, 1995

MONDAY, MAY 1, 1:00 pm

Harvard University
Special Materials Science Seminar
The David Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Laboratory
Room 402, 9 Oxford Street
"Defects, Impurities and Doping in Wide-Band-Gap 
Semiconductors"
DR. CHRIS G. VAN DE WALLE
Xerox Corporation-Palo Alto Research Center

MONDAY, MAY 1, 2:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"New CFT's From Gauged WZW Models"
DR. PHILIPPE ZAUGG
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MONDAY, MAY 1, 4:00 pm

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Joint Physics and ECE Department Colloquium
Olin Hall (Physics), Room 107
"Correlator Based Optical Processing"
JONATHAN S. KANE
THOMAS J. GRYCEWICZ
Optical Signal Processing Branch
Rome Laboratory, Hanscom AFB
Coffee will be served at 3:45 pm in Olin 118

MONDAY, MAY 1, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
High Energy Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
"N=2 Strings"
DR. SERGEI KETOV
Institute of Theoretical Physics,
University of Hannover, Germany
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

MONDAY, MAY 1, 4:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Quantum Monte Carlo Calculation for Six-Nucleon States"
PROFESSOR VIJAY PANDHARIPANDE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MONDAY, MAY 1, 4:30 pm 

Brown University
Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley, Room 168
"Phase Transition in Ultrathin Magnetic Films and 
Superlattices"
DR. SAMUEL BADER
Argonne National Laboratory

MONDAY, MAY 1, 4:30 pm 

Harvard University
Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Building, Room 250
"The Agenda's of the Physics Communities in Western Europe"
DR. HANS CHANG
Director of the FOM in the Netherlands, and Chairman of 
the European Union of Physics Research Organizations
Tea will be served at 4:00 pm in Jefferson 461

TUESDAY, MAY 2, 11:00 am 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), Ronald E. McNair Building
"Entangled States for Spectroscopy and Computations"
DAVID WINELAND
National Institute of Standards
Refreshments served following the seminar

TUESDAY, MAY 2, 12 noon

Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar
42 Oxford Street, Third Floor Conference Room
"Deep Inelastic Scattering at HERA: Probing the Structure 
of the Proton, the Pomeron, and the Quark"
DR. JOHNNY NG
DESY

TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2:00 pm

Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar
Physics Building, Room 229
"N=4 Superconformal Symmetry in Two Dimensions and Strings"
DR. S. KETOV
Hannover University, Germany

TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Tufts-CfA-MIT Cosmology Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"What Can We Learn from Future CMBR Experiments?"
DAVID SPERGEL
Princeton University

TUESDAY, MAY 2, 3:30 pm

Boston University
Physics Colloquium
DEAN S. EDMONDS SR. MEMORIAL LECTURE
Room SCI-107, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"The Search for Gravitational Waves"
PROFESSOR RAINER WEISS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and
PROFESSOR BARRY BARISH
California Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served immediately following
Call 353-2600 24 hrs in advance for parking

TUESDAY, MAY 2, 4:00 pm

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Electrohydrodynamics of Colloidal Dispersions"
PROFESSOR DUDLEY A. SAVILLE
Princeton University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 pm

TUESDAY, MAY 2, 4:30 pm

Harvard University
Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar
Science Center 507
"Noncommutative Geometry and Invariants of Elliptic 
Operators"
VICTOR NISTOR
Harvard University

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 12:30 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heavy Ion Collision Seminar
First of Two Talks
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Mean Field Theory for Nonequilibrium Quantum Fields, I"
ROMAN JACKIW
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and
SO-YOUNG PI
Boston University

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 4:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Planetary Sciences Group, Lecture
Room 54-915 (The Green Building)
"Understanding Processes on Mars: Rocks to Dust"
PROFESSOR JOHN MUSTARD
Brown University
Refreshments at 3:30 pm

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 4:15 pm

Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Science and the Humanities"
PROFESSOR ALAN LIGHTMAN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tea, 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall, Room 354

THURSDAY, MAY 4, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Scaling Theory of Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Ladder 
Models"
DR. NAOMICHI HATANO
Harvard University

THURSDAY, MAY 4, 3:30 pm

Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
The David Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Laboratory
Room 402, 9 Oxford Street
"Enhanced Solubility and Diffusion of Impurities Near 
a Surface"
JERRY D. TERSOFF
T.J. Watson Research Center
IBM-Yorktown Heights

THURSDAY, MAY 4, 4:00 pm

Northeastern University
Physics Colloquium
114 Dana Research Center
"Supersymmetric Dark Matter"
PROFESSOR PRAN NATH
Northeastern University
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm

THURSDAY, MAY 4, 4:00 pm 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street - Phillips Auditorium
"Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Centers of 
Elliptical Galaxies"
DR. SCOTT D. TREMAINE
University of Toronto, Canadian Institute for
Theoretical Astrophysics
Tea will be served at 3:30 pm

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 12:30 pm

Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Room 352, 590 Commonwealth Avenue
"Pairing and Parity Effects in Quantum Dots"
PROFESSOR P. PHILLIPS
University of Illinois, Urbana

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2:00 pm

Tufts University, Medford Campus
Physics Colloquium
Robinson Hall - Room 153
"Options Markets at Finite Temperature"
DR. RICK DAVIS
Lehman Brothers
Refreshments will be served at 1:30 pm in the
Knipp Physics Library, Robinson Hall, Room 251

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 4:00 pm

Harvard University
Division of Applied Sciences: Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall 209
"Waves on a Metal Surface and Quantum Corrals"
MICHAEL CROMMIE
Boston University

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 4:00 pm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Planetary Sciences Group, Lecture
Room 54-915 (The Green Building)
"Mars Surface Mineralogy from Hubble Space Telescope 
Multispectral Imaging"
DR. JAMES BELL
NASA Ames Research Center
Refreshments at 3:30 pm