February 8, 1998 - February 14, 1998 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _______________________________________________ Monday, February 9, 1998 Monday, February 9, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Black Hole Entropy from Near-Horizon Microstates" Andrew Strominger Harvard University Monday, February 9, 1998, 2:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 555 "Quark Masses, B-Parameters and CP Violation Parameters: epsilon and epsilon'/epsilon" Dr. R. Gupta Los Alamos National Laboratory Monday, February 9, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Baryon Number Violation at T>=100 GeV" Guy Moore McGill University Monday, February 9, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston University Astrophysics Colloquium 725 Commonwealth Ave., Room 500 "AGN Variability Timescales" Dr. H. Richard Miller Georgia State University Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. Monday, February 9, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "The Physics of Microorganism Patterns" Professor Herbert Levine University of California, San Diego Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, February 9, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson Lab., Room 250 "Memorization or Understanding: Are We Teaching the Right Thing?" Professor Eric Mazur Harvard University Tea in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, February 10, 1998 Tuesday, February 10, 1998, 1:30 p.m. Northeastern University High Energy Seminar 114 Dana "QCD in Extreme Environments" Jon Kogut University of Illinois and MIT Coffee will be served. Tuesday, February 10, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture III Jefferson Lab., Room 250 "A New Approach to Effective Field Theory for Nuclear Physics" Professor Mark B. Wise California Institute of Technology Tuesday, February 10, 1998, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Colloquium Metcalf Science Center (590 Comm. Ave.), Room 107 "Ions and Atoms in Superfluid Helium" Professor Gisbert zu Putlitz University of Heidelberg Refreshments served at 3:20 outside Room 107. Tuesday, February 10, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "CP Violations with b-quark Mesons" Professor Craig A. Blocker Brandeis University Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. ________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 11, 1998 Wednesday, February 11, 1998, 2:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Theoretical Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 555 "Primordial Black Holes and Early Cosmology" Dr. A. Green University of Sussex Wednesday, February 11, 1998, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "The Complex Robert-Bonamy Formalism of Pressure Broadening and Pressure Shifting of Spectral Lines" Professor Robert Gamache University of Massachusetts at Lowell Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 11, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6-Third Floor "Seiberg Duality from M Theory" Martin Schmaltz Boston University Wednesday, February 11, 1998, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Basic Atom-Field Interactions - Revisited: (1) Causality in Excitation Exchange (2) Two-level Atom Plus Radiation Pulse" Paul R. Berman University of Michigan Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. ______________________________________________ Thursday, February 12, 1998 Thursday, February 12, 1998, 12:00 Noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Deformation Dynamics of Amorphous Solids and Implications for Fracture" Dr. Michael Falk University of California, Santa Barbara Thursday, February 12, 1998, 12:30 p.m. Boston University Biophysics Seminar SCI 352, Metcalf Science and Engineering Center "Does the Bacterial Flagellar Motor Step?" Mr. Aravinthan D.T. Samuel & Mr. William S. Ryu Rowland Institute for Science Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University Thursday, February 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture IV Jefferson Lab., Room 250 "A New Approach to Effective Field Theory for Nuclear Physics" Professor Mark B. Wise California Institute of Technology Thursday, February 12, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "The Search for Black Holes" Dr. Ramesh Narayan Harvard University Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, February 12, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston University CBD Seminar MCS Room 149 "Noise-shaping in Arrays of Coupled Neurons" Douglas Mar Boston University Refreshments will follow in MCS 153. Thursday, February 12, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "Treffpunkt: The Point of Contact" Nancy Burnham Ecole Polytechnique Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, February 12, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Strings, Geometry and Physics" Professor Cumrun Vafa Harvard University Refreshments available in 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. ________________________________________________ Friday, February 13, 1998 Friday, February 13, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Lecture Higgins Hall, Room 304 "Chernobyl Catastrophy: Problems and Solutions" Professor Victor G. Baryakhtar Vice-President, National Academy of Science of the Ukraine; Advisor to the President of the Ukraine on Nuclear Industry Problems A reception will follow the lecture. Friday, February 13, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity in the High Tc Cuprates" Professor Catherine Kallin McMaster University Refreshments will be served following in the Brooks Room. Friday, February 13, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Spin Structure of the Nucleon and Further Perspectives of Spin Physics at RHIC" Naohito Saito RIKEN Refreshments will be served at 4:30 p.m. ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Feb. 15 - Feb. 21 Issue is: Monday, February 9, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. _____________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College