Apr. 18, 1999 - Apr. 24, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. _________________________ Monday, April 19, 1999 Monday, April 19, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Cosmology from COBE to the Next Millenium" Professor John Mather NASA/Goddard Space Center Refreshments served at 4:00. Monday, April 19, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "How Does the Vortex Lattice Melt? Study of Vortex Matter Phase Transitions in High-Temperature Super Conductors" Eli Zeldov Weizmann Institute of Science Tea served at 4:00 in Jefferson 450. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, April 20, 1999 Tuesday, April 20, 1999, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "How Physics Got Precise" Daniel Kleppner Massachusetts Institute of Technology Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, April 20, 1999, 2:30 p.m. Tufts University Joint CFA-Tufts-MIT Cosmology Seminar Robinson Hall, Room 250 "Inflationary Preheating and the Cosmic Microwave Background" Dr. Bruce Bassett University of Oxford Refreshments served at 2:00 in the Knipp Library, Rm 251. Tuesday, April 20, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Department of Physics Colloquium SCI 107, Metcalf Science Center (590 Commonwealth Ave.) "Why is a Microtubule a Tube? Suggestions of a Biopolymer Brush" Professor Deborah Kuchnir Fygenson University of California, Santa Barbara Tuesday, April 20, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Quantum Effects in Circuits of Mesoscopic Josephson Junctions" Professor J.E. Mooij Massachusetts Institute of Technology Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands Refreshments served at 3:45. Tuesday, April 20, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard-M.I.T. Math/Physics Seminar M.I.T. Room 4-159 "The Mathematics of M-Theory" Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf Universiteit van Amsterdam _________________________________________ Wednesday, April 21, 1999 Wednesday, April 21, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 218 Dana Research Center "Effects of Kaluza-Klein Dimensions on the Fermi Constant" Pran Nath Northeastern University Wednesday, April 21, 1999, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "Quick as a Flash: Observing Ultrafast Laser-Induced Dynamics in Semiconductors" Professor Eric Mazur and Paul Callan Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30. Wednesday, April 21, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room 305 "Gamma-ray Bursts and Their Afterglows" Professor Bohdan Paczynski Princeton University Refreshments served at 3:50 p.m. in Higgins 354. Wednesday, April 21, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Boston University Joint Theory Seminar Physics Research Bldg., Room 593 (3 Cummington St.) "Mystery of the Non-Disappearing Cosmic Rays" Professor Glennys Farrar New York University Refreshments served at 4:00. Call 353-9600 for parking at least 48 hours in advance. _________________________________________ Thursday, April 22, 1999 Thursday, April 22, 1999, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Turnbull Room, McKay Laboratory (Room 402) "Cooperative Nucleation, Self-Limiting Growth and Shape Transitions of Strained Nanostructures" Dr. David E. Jesson Oak Ridge National Laboratory Thursday, April 22, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Space Physics Seminar CAS Building, Room 500 "The Interactions of Jupiter's Inner Magnetosphere with the Atmospheres and Ionospheres of the Galilean Satellites: Io and Europa" Professor Darrell Strobel Johns Hopkins University Thursday, April 22, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Marsh Inst. & Dept. of Physics Marsh Distinguished Lecture Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Climate-Ecosystem Feedbacks" Professor John Harte University of California, Berkeley Thursday, April 22, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "Why Save the Metal? Superconductivity in a 2-D Electron Gas" Philip Phillips University of Illinois Coffee served at 3:45. Thursday, April 22, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "4-Point Correlation Functions in AdS/CFT and the Flat Space Limit" Dr. John Brodie Stanford University Thursday, April 22, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Gamma-ray Bursts and Their Afterglows" Bohdan Paczynski Princeton University Thursday, April 22, 1999, 7:30 p.m. Clark University Public Phi Beta Kappa Lecture Sackler Science Center, Room N-104 "Global Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, Cures" Professor John Harte Univesity of California, Berkeley _______________________________________ Friday, April 23, 1999 Friday, April 23, 1999, 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Floor Seminar Room "Symmetrization Selection Rules and Gluonic Interactions" Philip Page Los Alamos National Laboratory Friday, April 23, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 307 "Hidden Symmetries in Liquid Crystal Phases Revealed by Resonant X-Ray Scattering" Dr. Ron Pindak Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Refreshments will be served following the seminar. Friday, April 23, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series NW17-218 "Electrical Conductivity Measurements in Strongly Coupled Metal Plasmas" Alan DeSilva University of Maryland Refreshments served before the talk. ________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the Apr. 25 - May 1 calendar is Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. __________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College