Feb. 7, 1999 - Feb. 13, 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  ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE
PUBLISHED.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 8, 1999

Monday, February 8, 1999, 4:15 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"High Energy Physics Contribution to the Elimination of Nuclear Waste"
Jean-Pierre Revol
CERN
Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m.

Monday, February 8, 1999, 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Physics Department Colloquium
Jefferson 250
"QCD, Strings and Black Hole:  The Large N Limit of Field Theories and Gravity"
Juan Maldacena
Harvard University
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m. in Jefferson 450.
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Tuesday, February 9, 1999

Tuesday, February 9, 1999, 3:45 p.m.
Boston University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Metcalf Science Center, 590 Comm. Ave., Room 107
"Nonlinear Science:  From Paradigms to Practicalities"
David Campbell
University of Illinois
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Refreshments at 3:20 p.m.

Tuesday, February 9, 1999, 4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Third Floor Seminar Rm.
"Color Superconductivity and Long-Range Magnetic Interaction"
Dam Thanh Son
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, February 9, 1999, 4:00 p.m.
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium
Physics Building, Abelson 131
"Critical Geometries:  From Turbulence to Proteins"
Dr. J. Kondev
Princeton University and IAS
Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, February 10, 1999

Wednesday, February 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.
Boston University
Particles and Fields Seminar
Physics Research Bldg., 3 Cummington St., Room 593
"Search for Nucleon Decay into Supersymmetric Modes Using Soudan 2"
Dr. Daniel Wall
Tufts University

Wednesday, February 10, 1999, 4:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Department of Physics Colloquium
Olney 428
"The Surface of Liquid Metals"
Professor Peter Pershan
Harvard University
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, February 10, 1999, 4:15 p.m.
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 354
TBA
Professor Mitchell Feigenbaum
Rockefeller University
Coffee at 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday, February 10, 1999, 4:30 p.m.
Boston University
Joint Theory Seminar
Physics Research Bldg., (3 Cummington St.) Room 593
"Periodic Imaginary Time Solutions in Yang-Mills-Higgs Systems"
Dr. Peter Tinyakov
Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences
Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m.
Please call 353-2600 one day in advance for parking.
Thursday, February 11, 1999

Thursday, February 11, 1999, 11:00 a.m.
Boston University
High Energy Seminar
Physics Research Bldg., (3 Cummington St.), Room 593
"Exclusive B Reconstruction Results from CDF:  Production, Decay, and a 
New Limit on CP Violation" 
Jonathan Lewis
Fermi Lab.
Call 353-2600 one day in advance for parking.

Thursday, February 11, 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
Please Note: This talk was originally scheduled for Feb. 4.  On 2/4,
Dr. Christian Stauter, Harvard Univ., will speak on "Epitaxial Growth
of Metal Oxide Thin Films".

Thursday, February 11, 1999, 4:00 p.m.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scientific Colloquium
60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium)
"Spiral Galaxies with HST:  Clues to Bulge Formation"
Dr. C. Marcella Carollo
Johns Hopkins University
Tea at 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 11, 1999, 4:00 p.m.
Clark University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center, Room N-105
"When Equations of Motion Do Not Predict the Motion"
Professor Mark Peterson
Mount Holyoke College
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Friday, February 12, 1999

Friday, February 12, 1999, 12:30 p.m.
Boston University
Condensed Matter Seminar
SCI 352
"High Resolution Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Magnetic Vortices 
in the High-Tc Superconductor of Bi2Sr2CaCu208+d"
Dr. Shueng Peng

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Reminder:
Deadline for the Feb. 14 - Feb. 20 calendar
is Monday, February 8, 1999 at 11:00 a.m.
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Joan Drane
joan.drane@bc.edu
Boston College