Sept. 20, 1998 - Sept. 26, 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  ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE
PUBLISHED.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, September 21, 1998

Monday, September 21, 1998, 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"Dynamics of D-Branes and Conformal Symmetry"
Tamiaki Yoneya
University of Tokyo

Monday, September 21, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"New Results from the Muon g-2 Experiment at BNL"
Rob Carey
Boston University 
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.

Monday, September 21, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Colloquium
Jefferson Physical Lab., Room 250
"The Holographic Principle:  A New Paradigm for the Foundations 
of Physics"
Professor Leonard Susskind
Stanford University
Tea will be available in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, September 22, 1998

Tuesday, September 22, 1998, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Lecture I
Jefferson Physical Lab., Room 250
"String Theory and M-Theory"
Professor Leonard Susskind
Stanford University

Tuesday, September 22, 1998, 3:45 p.m.
Boston University
Department of Physics Colloquium
SCI 107 (590 Commonwealth Ave.)
"Protein Folding:  How Statistical Mechanics Helps to Understand 
Biological Evolution"
Professor Eugene Shakhnovich
Harvard University

Tuesday, September 22, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor
"Imaginary Chemical Potential as a Tool for Lattice QCD"
Mark Alford
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, September 23, 1998

Wednesday, September 23, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Department of Physics Colloquium
Olney 428
"Is There Cosmic Anti-Matter?"
Professor Andrew Cohen
Boston University
Refreshments will be available at 3:30 p.m. 

Wednesday, September 23, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
"Fluctuation Magnetization in Cuprate Superconductors:  
Scaling and the Crossing Point"
Professor Michael Naughton
Boston College
Refreshments will be available at 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, September 23, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar
Physics Research Bldg., Room 593 (3 Cummington St.)
"Three Easy Pieces"
Sheldon L. Glashow
Harvard University
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m.
Call Jinara Reyes 353-9600 for parking at least 48 hours in advance.
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Thursday, September 24, 1998

Thursday, September 24, 1998, 2:00 p.m.
Boston University
Biophysics Seminar
Room SCI-352 (590 Commonwealth Ave.)
"Dynamics in Proteins"
Dr. P-L. Chau
University of Cambridge, U.K. 

Thursday, September 24, 1998, 3:00 p.m.
Harvard University
Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics:  Lecture II
Jefferson Physical Lab., Room 250
"M(atrix) Theory as a Holographic Theory"
Professor Leonard Susskind
Stanford University

Thursday, September 24, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"Hysteresis, Avalanches, Earthquakes, and Plain Old Criticality"
Professor Karin Dahmen
Harvard University

Thursday, September 24, 1998, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics Colloquium
MIT Room 10-250 (77 Massachusetts Ave.)
"Neutrinos Then and Now"
Professor Jack Steinberger
CERN/Pisa
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Friday, September 25, 1998

Friday, September 25, 1998 
No events scheduled.
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Reminder:
Deadline for the Sept. 27 - Oct. 3 issue 
is Monday, Sept. 21 at 11:00 a.m.
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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College