THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
Week of September 29 - October 5, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT 
BE PUBLISHED.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, September 30, 1996
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Monday, September 30, 1:30 p.m.

Brandeis University
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Physics Building, Room 229
``Two-Stage Switching of Polymer Network
Stabilized Cholesteric Textures''
DR. INGO DIERKING
IBM Research Laboratory 

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Monday, September 30, 2:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor
``Bose Einstein Condensation in an Atomic Trap''
KERSON HUANG
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

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Monday, September 30, 4:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor
``The Master Formula Approach to Pions and Nucleons''
JAMES STEELE
SUNY at Stony Brook 

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Monday, September 30, 4:00 p.m.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Colloquium 
Olin Hall, Room 107
``Fluid-Like Optical Vortices''
DR. GROVER A. SWARTZLANDER
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Refreshments will be served in Olin 118 at 3:45 p.m. 

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Monday, September 30, 4:30 p.m.

Brown University
Colloquium 
Barus  Holley Building
Room 168
``Physics and Applications of Amplifying Scattering Systems''
PROFESSOR NABIL LAWANDY
Division of Engineering, Brown University 
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.

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Monday, September 30, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics, Colloquium 
Jefferson Lab 250
``Formation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate and Macroscopic Quantum
Properties''
DR. YURI KAGAN
Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics
     (Kurchatov Institute) 
Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.


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Tuesday, October 1, 1996
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Tuesday, October 1, 12:00 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy 
The Marlar Lounge
Room 37-252
``Ultra-cold Collisions and Long Range Interactions''
ALEX DALGARNO
Smithsonian-CfA 
Refreshments will be served following the seminar.
For map see http://amo.mit.edu/mos.html

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Tuesday, October 1, 2:30 p.m.

Brandeis University
Theoretical Seminar 
The Physics Building
Room 229
``On the Picard-Fuchs Equations of N=2^M Super Yang-Mills Theory''
DR. A. MUKHERJEE and DR. J. ISIDRO
Brandeis University 

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Tuesday, October 1, 2:30 p.m.

Tufts University
Joint Tufts-M.I.T.-CfA Cosmology Seminar 
Robinson Hall, Room 153
``String-Dominated Universes: String Dynamics and Large 
Scale Structure''
DR. UE-LI PEN
LFA 
Refreshments will be served in the Knipp Physics Library, 
Robinson 251 at 2:00 p.m.

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Tuesday, October 1, 3:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I 
Jefferson Lab 250
``Evolution of Bose Condensate in a Time-dependent External Field''
DR. YURI KAGAN
Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics
     (Kurchatov Institute) 

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Tuesday, October 1, 4:00 p.m.

Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series 
Abelson 131
``Ante-Science and Post Modernism''
PROFESSOR JOHN HUTH
Harvard University 
Refreshments will be served in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, October 1, 4:15 p.m.

Boston College
Solid State Seminar 
Higgins Hall, Room 354
``Far-infrared Response and Collective Excitations in 
Low-Dimensional Electron Systems''
DR. SERGEY MIKHAILOV
Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Regensburg 
Tea will be served in Higgins Hall, Room 354 at 3:30 p.m.

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Tuesday, October 1, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Colloquium 
The Marlar Lounge
Room 37-252
``Discovery of Planets Around Solar-Like Stars''
PROFESSOR GEOFF MARCY
San Francisco State University 
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.

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Tuesday, October 1, 4:15 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium 
Kolker Room
Room 26-414
``Is the World Supersymmetric?  Do we Already Know?''
PROFESSOR GORDON KANE
University of Michigan 
Refreshments will be served in 26-414 at 3:45 p.m.


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Wednesday, October 2, 1996
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Wednesday, October 2,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1996 Fall Meeting 
Division of Nuclear Physics 
American Physical Society 
October 2-5, 1996 

Meeting Information:

Registration - Heidi Demers
MIT-Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Building 26-505

Oct. 2, 8:45 a.m. 
``Collective Effects and the Quark-Gluon Plasma in 
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions''
Location:  20 Chimnies, Stratton Student Center

Oct. 2, 9:00 a.m 
``The Quark-Gluon Structure of the Nucleon''
Location:  Sala del Puerto Rico, Stratton Student Center

Pre-registration Deadline: September 16, 1996 

For more information:
Tel: 617 258-5448
Fax: 617 253-0111
email: lnsdnp@mitlns.mit.edu
web site: http://www-lns.mit.edu/dnp.html

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Wednesday, October 2, 1996, 12:00 noon  *Note special time!*

Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building, Room 593
"Is the World Supersymmetric?  Do We Already Know?"
PROFESSOR GORDON KANE
University of Michigan

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Wednesday, October 2, 4:15 p.m.

Boston College
Colloquium 
Higgins Hall, Room 266
``Bose-Einstein Condensates: A New Form of Quantum Matter''
PROFESSOR W. KETTERLE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Tea will be served in Higgins Hall, Room 354 at 3:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, October 2, 4:30 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joint Theory Seminar 
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor
``The More Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model''
PROFESSOR DAVID KAPLAN
University of Washington, Seattle 
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.


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Thursday, October 3, 1996
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Thursday, October 3, 12 noon

Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Backward scattering in Quantum wires and Quantum Hall Effect"
YUVAL OREG
Weizmann Institute, Israel

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Thursday, October 3, 3:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II 
Jefferson Lab 250
``Light Induced Change of Scattering Length and Optical
Manipulation of a Bose-condensed Gas''
DR. YURI KAGAN
Morris Loeb Lecturer on Physics
     (Kurchatov Institute) 
     
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Thursday, October 3, 4:00 p.m.

Clark University
Colloquium 
Sackler Science Center
Room N-105
``Magnetic Quantum Tunneling''
PROFESSOR JONATHAN FRIEDMAN
City College of New York - CUNY 
    
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Friday, October 4, 1996
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Friday, October 4, 3:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science 
Science Center 226
``The Sokal Affair: What is at Stake? ''
PROFESSORS M. BIAGIOLI, P. FISHER and J. HUTH
Harvard University 

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Friday, October 4, 3:30 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
American Physical Society
     Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting 
MIT Kresge Auditorium
``Basic Research and Public Support''
DR. ERNEST MONIZ
Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of
        Science and Technology Policy 

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Friday, October 4, 4:00 p.m.

Harvard University
Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences:
Condensed Matter Seminar 
Pierce Hall, Room 209
``Developments in Rheology of Branched Polymers''
DR. SCOTT MILNER
Exxon Research & Engineering Laboratory
Refreshments will be served following the seminar in the Brooks Room. 


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Friday, October 4, 4:00 p.m.

Northeastern University
Special Seminar
114 Dana
``Superconductors, Positrons and Dielectricity''
PROFESSOR M. PETER
University of Geneva
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.


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A Friendly Reminder:

The Deadline for the October 6 - October 12, 1996 Issue is:

MONDAY, September 30, 1996 at 11:00 a.m.


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