Apr. 25, 1999 - May 1, 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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 26, 1999 Monday, April 26, 1999, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Fl. Seminar Room "Asymptotic Form of Zero Energy Solutions in Supersymmetric Matrix Models" Jens Hoppe Albert Einstein Institute, MIT Monday, April 26, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Department Colloquium Olin Hall (Physics), Room 223 "Illuminating the Mind with Physics on the WWW" Raman Pfaff University of New Haven, Connecticut Coffee at 3:40 in Olin 118. Monday, April 26, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Low Energy Signatures of New Electroweak Physics" Michael Ramsey-Musolf University of Connecticut Refreshments served in 26-414 at 4:00. Monday, April 26, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Brown University The Arthur O. Williams Lecture Barus & Holley, Room 168 "Craft and Art in Experimental Science" Professor Martin Perl Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Refreshments served at 4:00. Monday, April 26, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "How the Ear's Works Work: Physical Principles of Transduction, Tuning, and Transmission by Hair Cells of the Inner Ear" Professor Jim Hudspeth Rockefeller University Tea served at 4:00 in Jefferson 450. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, April 27, 1999 Tuesday, April 27, 1999, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Gas-Phase Analogues of Solution-Phase Interactions: Evidence for Zwitterions, Salt-Bridges and Watson-Crick Base Pairing in Vacuo" Evan Williams University of California, Berkeley Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, April 27, 2:30 pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Tufts--CfA--MIT Cosmology Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room Building 6, Third Floor ``What Does Cosmic Homogeneity Tell Us about the Early Universe?'' Mark Trodden Case Western Reserve University Refreshments served at 2:00 pm in the same room. Tuesday, April 27, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Department of Physics Colloquium SCI 107, 590 Commonwealth Ave. Dean Edmonds Distinguished Lecture "Medical Imaging with Laser-Polarized Spins: An Improbable Spinoff of Basic Research" Professor William Happer Princeton University Tuesday, April 27, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University CIRCS Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Multidisciplinary Applications of Laser-Polarized Noble Gas Magnetic Resonance" Dr. Ron Walsworth Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Refreshments served at 3:45. Tuesday, April 27, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "Positron Annihilation Induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy" Professor Alex Weiss University of Texas at Arlington Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30. Tuesday, April 27, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Fl. Seminar Room "Applications of an Effective Theory to Two Nucleon Systems" Roxanne Springer Duke University Tuesday, April 27, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium Marlar Lounge, Bldg. 37, Room 252 "The Frequency and Effects of Young Companion Stars" Professor Andrea Ghez UCLA Refreshments served at 3:45. Tuesday, April 27, 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 28, 1999 Wednesday, April 28, 1999, 11:00 a.m. Harvard University Special Seminar Jefferson 453 "Strings on AdS3" Professor Nathan Sieberg IAS/Princeton University Wednesday, April 28, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center TBA Leticia Cugliandolo Coffee and refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, 1999, 4:00 p.m. University of Massachusetts at Lowell Department of Physics Colloquium Olney 428 "Neutrino Oscillations in Physics and Astrophysics" Elisabetta Sassaroli Northeastern University Refreshments served at 3:30. Wednesday, April 28, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Boston College Department of Physics Colloquium Gasson Hall, Room 305 "Superfluid Helium Three and Beyond" Professor David M. Lee Cornell University Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. in Higgins 354. Wednesday, April 28, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University/Center for Astrophysics Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Jefferson Lab, Room 356 "Quasicondensation in a Two-Dimensional Bose Gas" Dr. Yuri Kagan Kurchatov Institute, Moscow Tea will be served at 4:00. Wednesday, April 28, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Theory Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Fl. Seminar Room "New Developments in Theories with TeV-Scale Gravity" John March-Russell CERN Wednesday, April 28, 1999, 8:00 p.m. Harvard University Morris Loeb Lectures in Physics: Historical Lecture Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Hall C "Some Adventures Among the Elementary Particles" Murray Gell-Mann Santa Fe Institute, Harvard University Reception after lecture in Science Center Basement (Museum of Historical Scientific Instruments) _________________________________________ Thursday, April 29, 1999 Thursday, April 29, 1999, 12:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce 100F "The Largest Cluster in Subcritical Percolation" Martin Bazant Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday, April 29, 1999, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Turnbull Room, McKay Laboratory (Room 402) "Mechanical Properties of Thermal Barrier Coatings" Dr. James A. Ruud General Electric Company Thursday, April 29, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Space Physics Seminar CAS Building, Room 500 "The Polar Cusp and the Low Latitude Boundary Layer" Dr. Patrick T. Newell Johns Hopkins University Thursday, April 29, 1999, 4;00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Atomic Transport Under Stress" Michael Aziz Harvard University Thursday, April 29, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden St. (Phillips Auditorium) "Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment - Present and Future Plans" Dr. Bohdan Paczynski Princeton University Tea served at 3:30. Thursday, April 29, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Clark University Department of Physics Colloquium Sackler Science Center, Room N-105 "Global Genome Analysis and Gene Expression: A Computational Perspective" Pablo Tamayo Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research and TMC Thursday, April 29, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Weak Links in Superfluid 3He: A New Tool to Measure Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena" Richard Packard University of California, Berkeley _______________________________________ Friday, April 30, 1999 Friday, April 30, 1999, 3:00 p.m Harvard University Joint Seminar for the History of 20th Century Science Science Center 226 "The Uneasy Symbiosis of Chemists and Mathematics" Professor Kostas Gavroglu University of Athens and Dibner Institute Friday, April 30, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar Series NW17-218 "DIII-D Progress in Advanced Tokamak Performance" Bradley Rice Livermore National Laboratory Refreshments served before the talk. Friday, April 30, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 209 "The Physics of Colloidal Systems" Dr. Cherry Murray Bell Laboratories - Lucent Technologies Refreshments served following the seminar. __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the May 2 - May 8 calendar is Monday, April 26, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. __________________________ ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College