April 5, 1998 - April 11, 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 of the week preceding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _______________________________________________ Monday, April 6, 1998 Monday, April 6, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third floor "QCD with 2 Light Quarks at Finite Baryon Density and Temperature" Misha Stephanov SUNY Monday, April 6, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston University Astrophysics Colloquium Room 500 (725 Commonwealth Avenue) "SETI: You've Seen the Movie, Now Get the Facts" Jill Tartar SETI Institute Coffee and cookies at 3:45 p.m. Monday, April 6, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Composite Fermions and the Hierarchy of Fractional Quantum Hall States" Professor John Quinn University of Tennessee Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 6, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Quantum Transport of Electrons in Fabricated Nanostructures" J.E. Mooij Delft Tea at 4:00 p.m. in Jefferson 461. _______________________________________________ Tuesday, April 7, 1998 Tuesday, April 7, 1998, 12:00-1:00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Tabletop X-Ray Lasers" Szymon Suckewer Princeton University Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, April 7, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture I Jefferson Lab 250 "Semiconductor Quantum Dots" J.E. Mooij Delft Tuesday, April 7, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University High Energy Physics Seminar High Energy Physics Lab., 3rd Floor (42 Oxford St.) "Hunting for the Gluonic Penguin" Professor Thomas E. Browder University of Hawaii Tuesday, April 7, 1998, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Department of Physics Colloquium Metcalf Science Center (590 Comm. Ave.), Room 107 "Electron Roundup at the Quantum Corral and Other Tales of the Atomic Landscape" Professor Michael Crommie Boston University Refreshments are served at 3:20 in the lounge. Tuesday, April 7, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar Dana Research Center, Room 114 "The Architecture of Life" Dr. Donald E. Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. Harvard Medical School; Children's Hospital Coffee will be available at 3:45 p.m. ____________________________________ Wednesday, April 8, 1998 Wednesday, April 8, 1998, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "Sonoluminescence: Classical Bubble Dynamics with a Twist" Professor Michael Brenner Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston University Astrophysics Colloquium Room 500, 725 Commonwealth Avenue "Do Ultracompact H II Regions Drive Massive Outflows?" Edward Churchwell Wisconsin Coffee and cookies at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Boston University Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquium Photonics Building, Room 206 (8 Saint Mary's Street) "Time Resolved and Nonlinear Optical Medical Imaging" Robert R. Alfano City University of New York Refreshments will be served at 5:15 outside Room 206. Wednesday, April 8, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "Effective Field Theory and the Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atoms" Professor Eric Braaten Ohio State University Refreshments at 4:00 in Lyman 330. Wednesday, April 8, 1998, 5:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Laser-Excited Mesospheric Sodium as a Beacon for Telescope Adaptive Optics" Dr. Peter Milonni Los Alamos National Laboratory Tea will be served at 4:30 p.m. ______________________________________________ Thursday, April 9, 1998 Thursday, April 9, 1998, 12:30 p.m. Boston University Biophysics Seminar SCI 352 "Folding of the 'Go' Protein" Mr. Nikolay Dokholyan Boston University Thursday, April 9, 1998, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Gordon McKay Laboratory, Room 402 "Point Defect Diffusion and Defect-Impurity Interactions in Si: A Study in What We Still Don't Know" Michael O. Thompson Cornell University Thursday, April 9, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture II Jefferson Lab 250 "Vortices in Josephson Junction Arrays As Quantum Particles" J.E. Mooij Delft Thursday, April 9, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 356 "Three Dimensional N=2 Gauge Theories from Calabi-Yau Four-folds" Dr. Emanuel Diaconescu Rutgers University Thursday, April 9, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 751 "Structure of Pinned Flux Lattices in High Temperature Superconductors" Professor Eugene M. Chudnovsky Lehman College, CUNY Thursday, April 9, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "Very Massive Black Holes in the Centers of Nearby Galaxies" Dr. Douglas Richstone University of Michigan Tea will be available at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Taking Care of Nuclear Weapons" Professor Henry Kendall Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments available in 26-110 at 3:45 p.m. _______________________________________________ Friday, April 10, 1998 Friday, April 10, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "Entropic Instabilities in Colloids and Other Complex Fluids" Professor Arjun G. Yodh University of Pennsylvania Refreshments served following in the Brooks Room. Friday, April 10, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNS Colloquium Kolker Room 26-414 "Searching for the Quark-Gluon Plasma at the CERN SPS. Recent Results from NA49" Gunther Roland Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. ____________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the April 12 - Apr. 18 Issue is: Monday, April 6, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. ____________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College