March 8, 1998 - March 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ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.
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Monday, March 9, 1998
 
Monday, March 9, 1998, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"The Emergence of Gravity in String Bit Models"
Charles Thorn
University of Florida

Monday, March 9, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Superconducting Correlations in Doped Mott-Hubbard Systems"
Professor Girsh Blumberg
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
 
Monday, March 9, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley, Room 168
"The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming"
Professor Brad Marston
Brown University
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Monday, March 9, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"Tunneling of Photons and Other Causal, Faster- than-'C' Effects"
Raymond Chiao
University of California at Berkeley
Tea will be served in Jefferson 461 at 4:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, March 10, 1998

Tuesday, March 10, 1998, 12:00-1:00
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building
"Helium Clusters as Nano-Refrigerators for Atoms and Molecules"
Wolfgang Ernst
Pennsylvania State University
Refreshments served following the seminar.

Tuesday, March 10, 1998, 2:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Joint Tufts-CfA-M.I.T. Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"Constraints on Cosmological Models from High-z Supernovae"
Professor Peter Garnavich
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 2:00 in Knipp Library, 251

Tuesday, March 10, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"Simulation of Dynamic Phases of Vortices in the Driven XY Model:  
Moving Solid and Plastic Flow"
Dr. Daniel Dominguez
Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina
Coffee at 3:45 p.m.

Tuesday, March 10, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Novel Electronic Structure at Solid Surfaces"
Professor Eric S. Jensen
Brandeis University
Refreshments are served at 3:30 p.m. in Room 333.  

Tuesday, March 10, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
High Energy Physics Seminar
42 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Seminar Room
"Implications of Precision Electroweak Data for the Standard Model 
and Beyond"
Professor Paul Langacker
University of Pennsylvania


Tuesday, March 10, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feshbach Lecture Series 1998
MIT 54-100
"The Manipulation of Neutral Particles with Light"
Steven Chu
Stanford University
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Wednesday, March 11, 1998

Wednesday, March 11, 1998, 11:00 a.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
NW17-218, 175 Albany Street
"Plasma Window for Transmission of Particle Beams and Radiation"
Dr. Ady Hershcovitch
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Wednesday, March 11, 1998, 2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Theoretical Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 555
"TBA"
Dr. C. Bender
University of Washington, St. Louis

Wednesday, March 11, 1998, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Lecture III
Jefferson 250
"Why Do Some Planets Have Large Magnetic Fields (and What 
About the Others?)"
David Stevenson
Caltech

Wednesday, March 11, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"High Resolution Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy of 
High Tc Superconductors"
Dr. Hong Ding
Argonne National Laboratory
University of Illinois, Chicago
Refreshment will be served at 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 11, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Department of Physics Colloquium
Olney 428
"Gravity and Quantum Field Theory"
Dr. Huseyin Yilmaz
Hamamatsu Photonics; Tufts University
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 11, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feshbach Lecture Series 1998
MIT 54-100
"Applications of Laser Trapping in Polymer Science and Biology"
Steven Chu
Stanford University

Wednesday, March 11, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Riemann-Einstein Structure from Gauge and Volume Symmetry"
Professor Frank Wilczek
IAS/Princeton
Refreshments at 4:00 in Lyman 330.
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Thursday, March 12, 1998

Thursday, March 12, 1998, 12;00 noon
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
Pierce 100F
"Branching and Annihilating Random Walks"
Dr. Uwe Tauber
Technical University of Munich

Thursday, March 12, 1998, 1:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
David Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Laboratory
"Surface Evolution During Molecular Beam Epitaxy Film Growth"
Professor Bradford G. Orr
The University of Michigan

Thursday, March 12, 1998, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Lecture IV
Jefferson 250
"What's Going On Inside the Galilean Satellites?"
David Stevenson
Caltech

Thursday, March 12, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
"Cosmology from Studies of Quasar Absorption Lines"
Dr. Lars Hernquist
Lick Observatory,
University of California at Santa Cruz
Tea at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 12, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 356
"Seiberg's Duality from M Theory"
Dr. Martin Schmaltz
Boston University

Thursday, March 12, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Physics Colloquium:  Feshbach Lecture
MIT Room 10-250
"Precision Atom Interferometry Using Laser Cooled Atoms"
Professor Steve Chu
Stanford University

Thursday, March 12, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley 751
"TBA"
Professor A.N. Berker
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Friday, March 13, 1998

Friday, March 13, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Laser-Induced Microexplosions:  Tabletop Stellar Conditions"
Professor Eric Mazur
Harvard University
Refreshments will be served following in the Brooks Room.

Friday, March 13, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
NW17-218, 175 Albany Street
"Experiments Using the NRL Space Physics Simulation Chamber"
Dr. David Walker
Naval Research Laboratory
Refreshments served 15 minutes before seminar.

Friday, March 13, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Heavy Quarkonium as a Probe of QCD Matter"
Dmitri Kharzeev
RIKEN-BNL
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
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Reminder:   
Deadline for the Mar. 15 - Mar. 21 Issue is:
Monday, March 9, 1998 at 11:00 a.m.
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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College