THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR 
                   Week of November 5 -November 11, 1995

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year
by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts University.  You may send
your announcements by e-mail (bapc@tuhepa.phy.tufts.edu) or FAX 
(617-627-3878).  We cannot accept announcements by telephone.  Entries
should reach us no later than 11:00am on the Monday preceding the week 
of the event.  ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. 


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		Monday, November 6, 1995
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Monday, November 6, 12:00 noon

Boston University 
Particles and Fields Seminar  
Physics Research Building (3 Cummington Street)
Room 593 
"Theoretical Status of Inflation" 
KATIE FREESE 
Michigan University 
Call 353-2600 one day in advance for parking.  
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Monday, November 6, 1995, 2:00 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Monday Research Seminar  
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room 
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Spinor Vortices in Chern-Simons Theory" 
PETER HORVATHY 
TOURS  
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Monday, November 6, 1995, 2:30 p.m. 

Brown University 
Theoretical Seminar 
Barus and Holley Building, Room 555 
The Sonic Black Hole 
DR. WILLIAM G. UNRUH 
University of British Columbia  
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Monday, November 6, 1995, 4:30 p.m. 

Brown University 
Physics Colloquium 
Barus and Holley Building, Room 168 
"Quantum Computing - Promises and Problems" 
DR. WILLIAM G. UNRUH 
University of British Columbia  
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. 
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Monday, November 6, 1995, 4:30 p.m. 

Harvard University 
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics Colloquium  
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250 
"Duality, Space-Time, and Quantum Mechanics" 
PROFESSOR ED WITTEN 
Institute for Advanced Study, 
Princeton University  
Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m. 
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Monday, November 6, 1995, 5:00 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Nuclear Theory Seminar  
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room 
"Large-Nc chiral perturbation theory for baryon masses" 
DR. PAULO BEDAQUE 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  

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		Tuesday, November 7, 1995
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Tuesday, November 7, 1995, 12:15 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
LNS Special Seminar  
LNS Kolker Room, 26-414 
"Electron Scattering off a Tensor-Polarized
Deuterium Internal Target" 
PROFESSOR ZI-LU ZHOU 
University of Wisconsin-Madison  
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Tuesday, November 7, 1995, 1:00 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Joint Tufts--CfA--MIT Cosmology Seminar  
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room 
Building 6, Third Floor 
"Varieties of Quantum Measurements" 
PROFESSOR WILLIAM UNRUH 
University of British Columbia  
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Tuesday, November 7, 1995, 3:00 p.m. 

Harvard University 
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics 
Lecture I  
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250 
"Duality in Field Theory and String Theory" 
PROFESSOR ED WITTEN 
Institute for Advanced Study, 
Princeton University  
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Tuesday, November 7, 1995, 3:30 p.m. 

Boston University 
Physics Colloquium 
Metcalf Science Center, Room 107 
"What's New in Inflationary Cosmology" 
PROFESSOR K. FREESE 
University of Michigan 
Refreshments will be served following the talk. 
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Tuesday, November 7, 1995, 4:00 p.m. 

Brandeis University 
Martin Weiner Lecture Series  
Physics Building, Abelson 131 
"Semiconductor Nanocrystalites as Isolated 
Quantum Dots and in Complex Systems" 
PROFESSOR MOUNGI BAWENDI 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Department of Chemistry  
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. 
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Tuesday, November 7, 1995, 4:15 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Astrophysics Colloquium  
The Marlar Lounge, Room, 37-242 
"Black Hole X-Ray Novae" 
DR. JEFFREY E. McCLINTOCK 
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Tuesday, November 7, 1995, 4:15 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
LNS Colloquium  
LNS Kolker Room, 26-414 
"New Insights into the Production of Heavy Quarkonium" 
ERIC BRAATEN 
Ohio State University  
Refreshments will be served in Room 26-414 at 3:45 p.m. 
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Tuesday, November 7, 1995, 4:30 p.m. 

Harvard University 
Harvard-M. I. T. Mathematical Physics Seminar  
Science Center 507 
"Quantization, Ergodicity and Metric Entropy" 
PROFESSOR ANDREW LESNIEWSKI 
Harvard University 

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		Wednesday, November 8, 1995
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Wednesday, November 8, 1995, 1:30 p.m. 

Harvard University 
High Energy Physics Seminar 
HEPL Third Floor Conference Room 
"Measurements of bb Production Correlations, 
BB Mixing, and a Limit on epsilon_B at CDF" 
DR. INTAE YU 
Yale University  
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Wednesday, November 8, 1995, 2:00 p.m. 

Northeastern University 
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Room 114 Dana 
"Pseudogap, interplanar coupling, induced superconductivity
and van Hove singularity in high-Tc superconducting cuprates" 
DR. JEFFREY TALLON 
N.Z. Institute for Industrial Research 
Lower Hutt, New Zealand  
Refreshments will be served at 1:45 p.m. 
Note special date and time. 
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Wednesday, November 8, 1995, 4:00 p.m. 

Northeastern University/  
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems
(CIRCS) 
Physics Colloquium/CIRCS Seminar 
Room 114 Dana 
"How Neurons Represent and Transform Vectors" 
PROFESSOR LARRY ABBOTT 
Volen Center for  
Complex Systems and Biology Department, 
Brandeis University  
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Wednesday, November 8, 1995, 4:30 p.m. 

Boston University 
Joint Theory Seminar 
Physics Research Building, (3 Cummington Street), 
Room 593 
"Gravity as a Quantum Effective Field Theory" 
PROFESSOR JOHN DONOGHUE 
University of Massachusetts, Amherst  
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. 
Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. 
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Wednesday, November 8, 1995, 5:00 p.m. 

Harvard University  
Center for Astrophysics 
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar 
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 
"How Light Changes the Collision Rates of Cold Trapped Atoms" 
DR. PAUL JULIENNE 
National Institute of Standards and Technology  
Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. 

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		Thursday, November 9, 1995
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Thursday, November 9, 1995, 12:00 noon 

Harvard University 
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar 
Pierce 100F 
"Quantum Mirrors and the Threshold Laws of Atom-Surface
Sticking" 
PROFESSOR DENNIS CLOUGHERTY 
University of Vermont  
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Thursday, November 9, 1995, 2:30 p.m. 

Brown University 
Theoretical Seminar 
Barus and Holley Building, Room 555 
"To Be Announced" 
DR. T.T. WU 
Harvard University  
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Thursday, November 9, 1995, 3:00 p.m. 

Harvard University 
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics 
Lecture II  
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250 
"Duality in Field Theory and String Theory" 
PROFESSOR ED WITTEN 
Institute for Advanced Study, 
Princeton University  
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Thursday, November 9, 1995, 4:00 p.m. 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
Scientific Colloquium 
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)  
"Luminous Supersoft X-Ray Sources:  
A Detective Story" 
DR. ROSANNE DI STEFANO 
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. 
 
Abstract: 
 
During the past five years, largely as a result of ROSAT observations,
we have become aware of the existence of a new class of astronomical
x-ray source, luminous supersoft x-ray sources (LSXSs). Questions that
naturally arise are: what is the physical nature of these sources?
how large are typical galactic populations? what are the implications of
the existence of this class of source? 
 
Progress on each of these fronts will be described, including the possibility
that, through the existence of associated bright ionization nebulae, we may
be able to detect LSXSs in distant galaxies. The possible role of a subset
of these sources as Type Ia progenitors will also be explored. 
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Thursday, November 9, 1995, 4:15 p.m. 

Brown University 
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Barus and Holley Building, Room 751 
"Pressing for Metallic Hydrogen" 
PROFESSOR ISAAC F. SILVERA 
Lyman Laboratory of Physics 
Harvard University  
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Thursday, November 9, 1995, 4:15 p.m. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
A Special Physics Colloquium: 
The 3rd Annual David H. Harris '22 Lecture  
MIT ROOM 10-250 
"Protein Folding" 
PROFESSOR HENRI ORLAND 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Refreshments will be served in Room 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. 
A Reception will follow the lecture in Room 26-110.  

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		Friday, November 10, 1995
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Friday, November 10, 1995, 11:00 a.m. 

Harvard University 
High Energy Physics Seminar 
HEPL Third Floor Conference Room 
"Precise Measurement of b Baryon Lifetime 
and Exclusive Reconstruction of Lambda_b  at ALEPH" 
DR. YONGSHENG GAO 
University of Wisconsin  
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Friday, November 10, 1995, 12:30 p.m. 

Boston University 
Condensed Matter Seminar 
590 Commonwealth Avenue 
Room SCI 352 
"Self-organized critical forest fire model and percolation" 
PROFESSOR BARBARA DROSSEL 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
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Friendly Reminder: 

The Deadline for the Nov.12 through Nov.18, 1995 Issue is: 

Monday, November 6, 1995 at 11:00 a.m. 

This is the end of the document.