THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of May 5-May 11, 1996

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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.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, May 6, 1996
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Monday, May 6, 1996, 2:00 p.m. 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Monday Research Seminar  
Ronald E. McNair Building 
Marlar Lounge (37-252) 
``Next Order Triangle Anomaly'' 
H. CHENG 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
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Monday, May 6, 1996, 4:30 p.m. 
 
Brown University 
Colloquium  
Barus &  Holley Building 
Room 168 
``New Devices to Measure G and Test the 
Equivalence Principle'' 
PROFESSOR RILEY NEWMAN 
University of California, Irvine 
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. 
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Tuesday, May 7, 1996 
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Tuesday, May 7, 1996, 12:00 noon 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Rowland Institute for Science 
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy  
Ronald E. McNair Building 
Marlar Lounge (37-252) 
``Lasers Without Inversion-An Experimental Reality'' 
MARLAN SCULLY 
Texas A &  M University; M.P.I., Garching  
Refreshments will be served following the Seminar. 
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Tuesday, May 7, 1996, 2:30 p.m. 
 
Tufts University 
Joint Tufts-M.I.T.-CfA 
Cosmology Seminar  
Anderson Hall, Room 211 
``Supersymmetry and Cosmology'' 
PROFESSOR LISA RANDALL 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Refreshments will be served at 2:00 p.m. in the 
Knipp Physics Library. 
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Tuesday, May 7, 1996, 3:00 p.m. 
 
Harvard University 
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics 
Lecture III  
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 250 
``Antibrackets, Symmetries and Renormalization'' 
PROFESSOR STEVEN WEINBERG 
Josey Regental Professor of Science, 
University of Texas at Austin &  
Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics, Harvard University 
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Tuesday, May 7, 1996, 4:00 p.m. 
 
Northeastern University 
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems 
CIRCS Seminar  
Dana Research Center, Room 114 
``Lattice Gas Models of Self-Assembling Interfaces: Micelles,
Vesicles and Microemulsions'' 
BRUCE BOGHOSIAN 
Center for Computational Science 
Boston University  
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Tuesday, May 7, 1996, 4:15 p.m. 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Astrophysics Colloquium  
The Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 
``Statistical Gravitational Lensing by Galaxies: 
Observations &  Implications'' 
PROFESSOR TEREASA BRAINERD 
Boston University 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.  
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Tuesday, May 7, 1996, 4:15 p.m. 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
LNS Colloquium  
The Kolker Room, 26-414 
``Precision Results on the Z'' 
ROBERT CLARE 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.  
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Tuesday, May 7, 1996, 4:30 p.m. 
 
Harvard University 
Harvard-M.I.T. Mathematical Physics Seminar  
The Science Center 507 
``N = 2 Super Riemann Surfaces,
Duality, and the Jacobians of Supercurves'' 
JEFF RABIN 
University of California, San Diego and M.I.T. 
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Wednesday, May 8, 1996 
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Wednesday, May 8, 1996, 11:45 a.m. 
 
Northeastern University 
 
***** Diamond Anniversary Lectures *****} 
 
A series of ten pedigogical lectures 
Lecture IX 

114 Dana (Physics Department) 
``Exactly Solvable Models in Statistical Mechanics'' 
DR. RODNEY J. BAXTER 
Australian National University 
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Wednesday, May 8, 1996, 4:00 p.m. 
 
 Northeastern University 
 Condensed Matter Seminar 
114 Dana (Physics Department) 
 ``New Physics in Disordered Mesoscopic Superconductors'' 
PROFESSOR YING LIU 
 Pennsylvania State University 
 Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Wednesday, May 8, 1996, 4:30 p.m. 
 
Boston University 
Joint Theory Seminar 
Physics Research Building, (3 Cummington Street) 
Room 593 
``Structure functions at small x and evolution of 
Wilson-line operators'' 
DR. IAN BALITSKY 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. 

Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking. 
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Thursday, May 9, 1996 
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Thursday, May 9, 
 
Harvard University 

Special Note to our BAPC Readers:
 
Careful readers of the Boston Area Physics Calendar may have noticed the
absence of an announcement re the Joint Theory Seminar for Wednesday, 1
May, which was to have been held at Harvard. The speaker originally
scheduled for this talk had to withdraw on short notice and we were
unable to find a suitable replacement. --- The High Energy Theory Group,
Harvard University. 
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Thursday, May 9, 1996, 12:00 noon 
 
Harvard University 
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar  
Pierce 100F 
``Bosons in fluctuating gauge fields and transport 
in cuprate superconductors'' 
DEREK K. K. LEE 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
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Thursday, May 9, 1996, 1:30 p.m. 
 
Harvard University Division of Applied Sciences 
Materials Science Seminar  
Gordon McKay Laboratory 
David Turnbull Room 402 
``Materials Physics of the Si-SiO2 Interface'' 
PROFESSOR LEONARD C. FELDMAN 
Vanderbilt University 
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Thursday, May 9, 1996, 2:30 p.m. 
 
Brown University 
Theoretical Seminar  
Barus &  Holley Building 
Room 555 
``Dyson-Schwinger Equations and the Phases of Field Theory'' 
PROFESSOR ZACK GURALNIK 
Princeton University 
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Thursday, May 9, 1996, 4:00 p.m. 
 
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
Scientific Colloquium  
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) 
``Large Scale Comparison of Peculiar Velocity and Gravity Fields'' 
DR. MARC DAVIS 
University of California 

 Abstract: 

The mapping of deviations from smooth Hubble expansion has
been a very active field for the past decade.  There now exist
peculiar velocity estimates for more than 3000 galaxies.  The large
scale velocity fields that are traced by this data must be related to
the underlying fluctuations in the local mass density of the Universe.
By intercomparing this velocity field with the local gravity field
derived from full sky redshift surveys of galaxies, one can perform a
unique test for the cosmological density.  In this talk I shall
describe an optimal method for intercomparing these fields by means of
an expansion in orthogonal functions.  The current situation is
confusing; while the fields qualitatively agree rather well, the level
of agreement is not sufficient to allow an estimate of the density 
parameter. 

Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. 
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Thursday, May 9, 1996, 4:15 p.m. 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Colloquium  
MIT Room 26-110 (Compton Room) 
``Atoms in Cavities:  Physics at the Boundary between the 
Quantum and Classical Worlds'' 
DR. SERGE HAROCHE 
Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris 

 Abstract: 

Several of  the "gedanken" experiments on atoms and photons have
become a reality due  to advances in cavity technology and the laser
manipulation of atoms.  A single atom can modify sensibly the phase of the
field in the cavity.  Conversely, a single photon can alter the phase of
the wave function of an atom traversing the cavity.  These effects lead to
new "Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen"  situations involving nonlocal "entanglement"
of atoms and cavity fields. Nonclassical fields displaying some of the
properties discussed by Schrodinger in his famous "cat paradox" can be
generated.  These experiments allow us to explore the boundary between the
microscopic and macroscopic worlds, providing new tests of  quantum theory.
The lecture will review the theory of these effects and describe  the
first experimental realizations. 

 Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Thursday, May 9, 1996, 4:00 p.m. 
 
Northeastern University 
Colloquium 
114 Dana (Physics Department) 
``A Global SUSY Fit to Electroweak Data and Other Low 
Energy Constraints'' 
PROFESSOR WILLEM DE BOER 
University of Karlsruhe, Germany 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
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Friday, May 10, 1996 
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Friday, May 10, 1996, 12:00 noon 
 
Boston University 
Special Condensed Matter Seminar  
590 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 352 
``Charge Density Wave Properties of The Quasi Two-dimensional
Monophosphate Tungsten Bronzes (PO4)3(WO3)2m'' 
PROFESSOR CLAIRE SCHLENKER 
LEPES, CNRS 
Please call 353-2600 one day in advance for parking. 
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Friday, May 10, 1996, 12:30 p.m. 
 
Boston University 
Condensed Matter Seminar  
590 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 590 
``Superconductor-Insulator Transition and Disordered 
Mesoscopic Superconductors'' 
PROFESSOR YING LIU 
Pennsylvania State University 
Please call 353-2600 one day in advance for parking. 
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  A Friendly Reminder:
 
The Deadline for the May 12 -  May 18, 1996 Issue is: 
 
MONDAY, May 6, 1996 at 11:00 a.m. 
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