April 12, 1998 - April 18, 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  ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE 
PUBLISHED.
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Monday, April 13, 1998

Monday, April 13, 1998, 1:00 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Theoretical Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 555
"Black Hole Entropy from Near-Horizon Microstates"
Professor Andy Strominger
Harvard University

Monday, April 13, 1998, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"Gauge Fields without Compactification"
Paolo Maraner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Monday, April 13, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Boston University
Astrophysics Colloquium
725 Commonwealth Ave. (Room 500)
"Population Dynamics of Neutron Stars"
Professor James Cordes
Cornell University
Coffee and cookies at 3:45 p.m.

Monday, April 13, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"Structure and Dynamics of Abelian Monopoles in QCD"
Frieder Lenz
University of Erlangen

Monday, April 13, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Barus & Holley, Room 168
"String Theory and the Bekenstein-Hawking Black Hole Entropy"
Professor Andy Strominger
Harvard University
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m.

Monday, April 13, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lab 250
"Silicon Micromachines for Science and Technology"
Dr. David Bishop
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Tea at 4:00 in Jefferson 461.
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Tuesday, April 14, 1998

Tuesday, April 14, 1998, 12:00 - 1:00
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar
Seventh Annual Richard C. Lord Lecture
Grier Room (34-401)
"Atomic and Molecular Physics with Laser Cooled Atoms"
William D. Phillips
NIST
Refreshments served following the lecture.

Tuesday, April 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Lecture III
Jefferson 250
"Electron Transport in Single Carbon Nanotubes"
J.E. Mooij
Delft

Tuesday, April 14, 1998, 3:45 p.m.
Boston University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, 590 Commonwealth Ave., Room 107
"The Mystery of Missing Neutrinos:  Clues Found at Super-Kamiokande"
Dr. Ed Kearns
Boston University
Refreshments served at 3:20 p.m. in the lounge.

Tuesday, April 14, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
CIRCS Seminar
Dana Research Center, Room 114
"In situ Studies of the Structure and Electronic Properties of Quench 
Condensed Metal Films" 
Professor James Valles
Brown University
Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. 
Wednesday, April 15, 1998

Wednesday, April 15, 1998, 2:30 p.m.
Brown University
Department of Physics Theoretical Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 555
"Ultrahigh Energy Neutrino Interactions and Detection of Extragalactic 
Neutrinos"
Professor Ina Sarcevic
University of Arizona

Wednesday, April 15, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Department of Physics Colloquium
Olney 428
"Black Holes in Astrophysics"
Professor Ramesh Narayan
Harvard Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 15, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana
"Tunneling and Photoemission in an SO(6) Superconductor"
Robert Markiewics
Northeastern University
Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. 

Wednesday, April 15, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Underdoped Cuprates:  Unconventional Metal and Superconductor"
Professor Patrick Lee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday, April 15, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Boston University
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquium
Photonics building, Room 206 (8 Saint Mary's Street)
"Reduced Complexity Receivers for Digital Communication Through 
Fading Multipath Channels"
John Proakis
Northeastern University
Refreshments will be served at 5:15 p.m.

Wednesday, April 15, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar
Physics Research Bldg., Room 593 (3 Cummington St.)
"The CFT_d/AdS_d+1 Correspondence--A Non-Stringy Perspective"
Professor Daniel Freedman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.
Please call (353-2600) one day in advance for parking.
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Thursday, April 16, 1998

Thursday, April 16 , 1998, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Lecture IV
Jefferson 250
"Quantum Computation with Superconducting Tunnel Junction Circuits?"
J.E. Mooij
Delft

Thursday, April 16, 1998, 3:30 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Bldg., Room 593 (3 Cummington St.)
"Neutrinos from Supernovae and the International Early Supernova 
Alert Network"
Dr. Kate Scholberg
Boston University

Thursday, April 16, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
"SETI:  Science Fact, Not Fiction"
Dr. Jill Tarter
SETI Institute
Tea at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 16, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Brown University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Barus & Holley, Room 751
"Quasiparticles in the Superconducting States of the Underdoped Cuprates"
Professor Patrick A. Lee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, April 16, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 356
"String Theory and Quark Confinement"
Dr. Alexander Polyakov
Princeton University

Thursday, April 16, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics Colloquium
MIT Room 10-250
"The Microphysical Origin of Mass"
Professor Jonathan Bagger
Johns Hopkins University
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Friday, April 17, 1998

Friday, April 17, 1998, 11:00 a.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
Building NW17-218
"Overview and Status of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Project"
Dr. Sandra J. Brereton
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Friday, April 17, 1998, 12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
SCI 352
"Polymer Physics and Biotechnology with Single Molecules of DNA"
Professor Stephen Quake
Caltech

Friday, April 17, 1998, 12:30 p.m.
Tufts University
Cosmology Seminar
Robinson Hall, Room 250
"The Large N Limit of Field Theories and Gravity"
Professor Juan Maldacena
Harvard University

Friday, April 17, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar
NW17-218, 175 Albany Street
"Plasma Confinement in a Levitated Dipole"
Dr. Jay Kesner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments served 15 minutes before seminar.

Friday, April 17, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Condensed Matter Seminar
Pierce Hall, Room 209
"Quasi-particles and Heat Conductivity in the Cuprate Superconductors"
Professor Phuan Ong
Princeton University
Refreshments served following seminar in the Brooks Room.

Friday, April 17, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LNS Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Electroweak Physics with Neutrinos"
Kevin McFarland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
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Reminder:   
Deadline for the April 19 - Apr. 25 Issue is:
Monday, April 13, 1998 at 11:00 a.m.
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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College