Dec. 6, 1998 - Dec. 12, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, December 7, 1998 Monday, December 7, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third floor "Bonus Symmetries of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Correlation Functions via AdS Duality" Ken Intriligator IAS-Princeton University Monday, December 7, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium MIT Room 26-414 "Quantum Gravity and String Theory from Matrix Quantum Mechanics" Washington Taylor Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, December 7, 1998, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 TBA Caroline Bertozzi University of California at Berkeley Tea in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 p.m. ______________________________________________ Tuesday, December 8, 1998 Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "New Probes of Protein Interactions" Brian Chait Rockefeller University Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 2:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar MIT-Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third floor "Warm Inflation" Arjun Berera Vanderbilt University Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Bldg. 6, Third Floor "Origins of Transverse Spin Asymmetries in Hadron-Hadron Collisions" Daniel Boer Brookhaven National Laboratory Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Space-Age Technology Looks at the Dead Sea Scrolls" Gregory Bearman Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m. ______________________________________________ Wednesday, December 9, 1998 Wednesday, December 9, 1998, 10:00 a.m. Boston University Condensed Matter Physics Special Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 333 (590 Comm. Ave.) TBA Milica Milovanovic Technion, Israel Wednesday, December 9, 1998, 3:00 p.m. Boston University Particle and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 593 "How Much Fine Tuning in the Top Seesaw?" Christopher T. Hill Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Wednesday, December 9, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Low Dimensional Molecular Conductors in Aligned Magnetic Fields" Professor Michael Naughton Boston College Coffee at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, December 9, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Boston University ECE Colloquium Room 206, 8 Saint Mary's Street TBA John Byers Boston University Refreshments served directly before the talk outside Room 206 Wednesday, December 9, 1998, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "What Is Good About Bad Metals?" Professor Robert Guertin Tufts University Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 9, 1998. 4:30 p.m. Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg., Room 593, (3 Cummington St.) "Chirality on the Lattice" Herbert Neuberger Rutgers University Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. Parking, call Lindy at 353-9600 at least 24 hours in advance. _______________________________________________ Thursday, December 10, 1998 Thursday, December 10, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Boston University Biophysics Seminar Room SCI 352 (590 Commonwealth Ave.) "The Origin of Life--A Solution" Dr. Hyman Hartman Thursday, December 10, 1998, 2:30 p.m. Boston University Physics Department Lecture Physics Research Building, Room 593 "Dynamics of Phase Transitions" Marcelo Gleiser Dartmouth University Thursday, December 10, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "The Eridanus Superbubble in its Multiwavelength Glory" Dr. Carl Heiles University of California at Berkeley Tea at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, December 10, 1998, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Room 10-250 "Resonant Neutron Scattering in Superconductors" Professor Bernhard Keimer Princeton University ___________________________________ Friday, December 11, 1998 Friday, December 11, 1998, 12:30 p.m. Boston University Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 (590 Comm. Ave.) "Kondo Effect in a Single Electron Transistor" David Goldhaber-Gordon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday, December 11, 1998, 2:00 p.m. Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "How the Solar System Became Plural" Professor Philip Morrison Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday, December 11, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218, 175 Albany Street "Initial Operation of the Pegasus Spherical Torus Experiment" Raymond Fonck University of Wisconsin Friday, December 11, 1998, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "The Early Days of Solid State Physics" Dr. Frederick Seitz, President Emeritus Rockefeller University Refreshments in the Brooks Room following the seminar. _________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Dec. 13 - Dec. 19 issue is Monday, December 7 at 11:00 a.m. ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College