Jan. 31, 1999 - Feb. 6, 1999
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  ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE
PUBLISHED.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, February 1, 1999
(No events scheduled)
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Tuesday, February 2, 1999

Tuesday, February 2, 1999, 3:45 p.m.
Boston University
Physics Colloquium
SCI 107, Metcalf Science Center (590 Comm. Ave.)
"Much Ado About the Spin of a Proton"
Professor Robert Jaffe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, February 2, 1999, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Third fl. Seminar Room 
"Effective Theories for Hot Non-Abelian Dynamics"
Dietrich Bodeker
Niels Bohr Institute

Tuesday, February 2, 1999, 4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Growth Shapes, Coarsening, and Loss of Universality:  The Role of 
Dynamics in Structure and Form"
Andrew D. Rutenberg
McGill University
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, February 3, 1999

Wednesday, February 3, 1999, 4:00 p.m.
Northeastern University
Condensed Matter Seminar
114 Dana Research Center
"{63} Cu NQR Measurement of Stripe-order Parameter in La_(2x)Sr_(x)CuO_(4)"
Professor Takashi Imai
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Coffee at 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday, February 3, 1999, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University/ Center for Astrophysics
Joint Atomic Physics Seminar
Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356
"Spectroscopy and Lifetime Measurements on Francium"
Dr. Luis Orozco
SUNY-Stony Brook
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, February 3, 1999, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Color-Flavor Locking, Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QCD"
Dr. Frank Wilczek
Institute for Advanced Study
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. in Lyman 330.

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Thursday, February 4, 1999

Thursday, February 4, 1999, 1:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Materials Science Seminar
Turnbull Room, Gordon McKay Lab. (Room 402)
"Metal Oxide Gas Sensors"
Dr. M.H.M. Reddy
Central Scientific Instruments Org., Chandigarh

Thursday, February 4, 1999, 3:45 p.m.
Boston University
Space Physics Seminar
CAS Building, Room 500
"Large-scale B- and E-field Parameters Derived from Multi-Point 
Geostationary Particle Measurements"
Dr. Anders Jorgensen
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Thursday, February 4, 1999, 4:15 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
TBA
Professor Philip W. Anderson
Princeton University
Tea will be served at 3:50 p.m.

Thursday, February 4, 1999, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Physics Colloquium
MIT 10-250
"Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-redshift Supernovae: 
Is the Universe Really Accelerating?"
Saul Perlmutter
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Thursday, February 4, 1999, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
National Institute for Global Environmental Change
Seminar
209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street
"Global Warming:  An Updated Perspective and Commentary"
Dr. James Hansen
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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Friday, February 5, 1999
(No events scheduled)

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Reminder:
Deadline for the Feb. 7 - Feb. 13 calendar
is Monday, February 1, 1999 at 11:00 a.m.
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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College