THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR

The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the 
academic year by the Department of Physics at Boston College.  
You may send your announcements by e-mail (bapc@bc.edu) or 
FAX (617-552-8478).  We cannot accept announcements by telephone.  
Entries should reach us no later than 11:00 a.m. on the Monday 
preceding the week of the event.  
ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE 
PUBLISHED.

Week of October 26-November 1, 1997
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Monday, October 27, 1997

Monday, October 27, 1997, 12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, 590 Comm. Ave., Room 352
"Localization-Delocalization Transition of a Reaction-Diffusion 
Front Near a Semipermeable Wall"
Professor Michel Droz
University of Geneva

Monday, October 27, 1997, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
MIT-CTP, Building 6, Third Floor
"Completely Positive Dynamics for the Neutral Kaon System"
Roberto Floreanini
University Trieste

Monday, October 27, 1997, 3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Metcalf Science and Engineering Center, SCI 352
"Penetrability of Polymers into Small Aqueous Cavities of Proteins"
Dr. V. Adrian Parsegian
National Institute of Health, Maryland

Monday, October 27, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Research Seminar
"Dynamics of Classical Gluon Fields in Ultrarelativistic Nuclear 
Collisions"
Dirk Rischke
RIKEN-BNL Research Center

Monday, October 27, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Physics Department Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"String Theory and the Bekenstein-Hawking Black Hole Entropy"
Professor Andrew Strominger
Harvard University
Tea in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.

Monday, October 27, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
B&H, Room 168
"The Physics of the Large Electron-Positron Accelerator at CERN:  
something old, something new"
Professor Mark Oreglia
University of Chicago
  
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Tuesday, October 28, 1997 

Tuesday, October 28, 1997, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy
McNair Building, Marlar Lounge (37-252)
"Rayleigh and Raman Imaging Through Molecular Filters"
Richard B. Miles
Princeton University
Refreshments served following the seminar.

Tuesday, October 28, 1997, 3:45 p.m.
Boston University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, 590 Comm. Ave., Room 107
"How Crystals Bend:  Dislocations and Their Instabilities"
Professor Robin Selinger
The Catholic University 
Refreshments served in lounge (outside 107) at 3:20 p.m.

Tuesday, October 28, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"How to Find Good Quantum Field Theories"
Professor Marc Henneaux
University of Brussels
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 28, 1997, 4:15 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"The High Pressure Phases of Solid Hydrogen"
Professor Isaac Silvera
Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University
Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.

Tuesday, October 28, 1997, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Astrophysics Colloquium
MIT, 70 Vassar St., Bldg. 37-252
"X-ray Sources in Globular Clusters"
Professor Jonathan Grindlay
Harvard University
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.

Tuesday, October 28, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard-M.I.T. Math/Physics Seminar
M.I.T. Room 4-159
"Faltings' Construction of the KZ Connection"
Professor Ramakrishnan T. Ramadas
Tata Institute and MIT

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Wednesday, October 29, 1997

Wednesday, October 29, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Department of Physics Colloquium
Olney 428
"Plasma Instabilities in Low Dimensional Solid State Systems:  
Possible Sources for Terahertz Radiation?"
Professor Pradip Bakshi
Boston College
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 29, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana
"Physics of Granular Flow"
Arshad Kudroli
Clark University
Refreshment will be served at 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday, October 29, 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Quintessential Cosmology"
Professor Paul Steinhardt
University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments at 4:00 in Lyman 330.
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Thursday, October 30, 1997 

Thursday, October 30, 1997, 12:00 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"The Tubular Phase of Anisotropic Crystalline Membranes"
Dr. Mark Bowick
Syracuse University

Thursday, October 30, 1997, 2:00 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Seminar
Higgins 354
"Chebyshev and Maxent Methods for Densities of States, Spectral 
Functions and Thermodynamics"
Richard Silver
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Thursday, October 30, 1997, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 356
"Calculable exp(-1/g) Effects and Duality"
Dr. Thomas Taylor
Northeastern University

Thursday, October 30, 1997, 3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Building 593
"Branes, Torons and Yang-Mills Dualities"
Zachary Guralnik
Princeton University
Parking:  Call 353-2600 24 hours in advance.

Thursday, October 30, 1997, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
MIT Room 10-250
"Computational Speedup from Quantum Mechanics"
Edward Farhi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments in MIT 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. 
  
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Friday, October 31, 1997 

Friday, October 31, 1997, 12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Building, 590 Comm. Ave., Room SCI352
"Can One Understand Glasses?"
Professor Shlomo Alexander
Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel

Friday, October 31, 1997, 4:00 p.m. 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Color Deconfinement and J/Psi Suppression in High Energy 
Nuclear Collisions"
Helmut Satz
Bielefeld University & CERN
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.

Friday, October 31, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Nanocrystals and Nanotubes - New Boxes for Electrons"
Professor Paul McEuen
University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments served following in Brooks Room. 
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Reminder

Deadline for the November 2-November 8 Issue is:
Monday, October 27, 1997 at 11:00 a.m.
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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College