Sept. 27, 1998 - Oct. 3, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, September 28, 1998 Monday, September 28, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Brane Configurations and (p,q) Webs" Barak Kol Stanford University Monday, September 28, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "The Holographic Principle: A New Paradigm" Lenny Susskind Stanford University Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, September 28, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Glassy Vortex Matter: Where is the Glassiness?" Dr. Shobo Bhattacharya NEC Monday, September 28, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson Physical Lab., Room 250 "Evidence for Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation" Professor Ed Kearns Boston University Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, September 29, 1998 Tuesday, September 29, 1998, 2:30 p.m. Tufts University Joint Tufts-CFA-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "QCD - Scale Baryogenesis" Professor Robert Brandenberger Brown University Refreshments served at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251 Tuesday, September 29, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture III Jefferson Physical Lab., Room 250 "Black Holes in Matrix Theory" Professor Leonard Susskind Stanford University Tuesday, September 29, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Effective Field Theory and Non-perturbative Running of the Three-Body Force" Paulo Bedaque University of Washington Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 29, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana "Dynamics in Driven Granular Media: How Sand Melts and Flows" Professor Menon Narayanan University of Massachusetts Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, September 29, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Condensed Matter Physics Seminar MIT, Building 12, Room 132 "Crescents, Cones and Crumpling" Professor L. Mahadevan Massachusetts Institute of Technology ______________________________________________ Wednesday, September 30, 1998 Wednesday, September 30, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Higgins Hall, Room 354 "Spin-Splitting in the Electronic Spectrum of Semiconductor Quantum Structures" Professor Ulrich Roessler Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Regensburg Refreshments will be available at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 30, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Non-supersymmetric Gauge Dynamics from String Theory" Nick Evans Boston University Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, October 1, 1998 Thursday, October 1, 1998, 12:00 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "Modeling Microtubule Dynamics: Doing Molecular Biology with the Tools of Theoretical Physics" Dr. Henrik Flyvbjerg Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark Thursday, October 1, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Lecture IV Jefferson Physical Lab., Room 250 "Holography and Maldacena's Conjecture" Professor Leonard Susskind Stanford University Thursday, October 1, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "kHz QPO in Accreting Neutron Stars: Do Beat Frequency Models Work?" Dr. Michiel van der Klist University of Amsterdam Tea will be available at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, October 1, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Disco Honey? Probing Nanoscale Dynamics in Glass" Professor Nathan Israeloff Northeastern University Thursday, October 1, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brown University Condensed Matter Seminar Barus & Holley, Room 751 "Optically Pumped Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in the Quantum Hall Regimes" Professor Sean Barrett Yale University Thursday, October 1, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana "New Answer to Old Question: Are Electrons Interacting in Two Dimensions Metallic or Insulating?" Professor Sergey Kravchenko Northeastern University Coffee will be served at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, October 1, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Understanding Human-Caused Climate Change: The Role of Mathematical Modeling" Professor Jerry Mahlman Princeton University ______________________________________________ Friday, October 2, 1998 Friday, October 2, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History and Philosophy of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "New Perspective on Biography" A round table discussion with: Mario Biagioli, Anne Harrington, Joan Richards and Sam Schweber Michael Gordin - commentator __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Oct. 4 - Oct. 10 issue is Monday, Sept. 28 at 11:00 a.m. __________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College