May 2, 1999 - May 8, 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 han 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 ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.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, May 3, 1999 Monday, May 3, 1999, 2:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Fl. Seminar Room "Non-BPS States in String Theory" Ashoke Sen MRI Monday, May 3, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Department Colloquium Olin Hall (Physics), Room 223 "French Educational Systems" Philippe Bordarier Norton Company Coffee at 3:40 p.m. in Olin 118. Monday, May 3, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium Kolker Room, 26-414 "Initial Results in Meson Electroproduction Experiments at CEBAF" Steve Dytman University of Pittsburgh Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, May 3, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Physics Department Colloquium Jefferson Lab 250 "Nonlocality and the Absurd" David Mermin Cornell University Tea served at 4:00 p.m. in Jefferson 450. Monday, May 3, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Brown University Department of Physics Colloquium Barus & Holley, Room 168 "What Limits the Validity of Debye's Model of Lattice Vibrations?" Professor Robert Pohl Cornell University Refreshments served at 4:00. _____________________________________________ Tuesday, May 4, 1999 Tuesday, May 4, 1999, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Modern Optics and Spectroscopy : Richard C. Lord Lecture Marlar Lounge (37-252), McNair Building "Precision Spectroscopy of the Hydrogen Atom" Theodore W. Haensch University of Munich Refreshments served following the seminar. Tuesday, May 4, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar MIT-CTP, Bldg. 6, Third Fl. Seminar Room "Color Superconducting Strange Quark Matter" Juergen Berges Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tuesday, May 4, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astrophysics Colloquium Marlar Lounge, Bldg. 37, Room 252 "Cooling of Ultra-Magnetized Neutron Stars" Professor Lars Hernquist Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:45. _________________________________________ Wednesday, May 5, 1999 Wednesday, May 5, 1999, 4;00 p.m. Northeastern University Condensed Matter Seminar 114 Dana Research Center "Models of Stripes in the Cuprates and Related Compounds" Professor Robert Markiewicz Northeastern University Coffee at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Worcester Polytechnic Institute Physics Department Colloquium Olin Hall (Physics), Room 223 "The Two-Dimensional Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet" Robert L. Leheny Massachusetts Institute of Technology Coffee at 3:40 in Olin 118. Wednesday, May 5, 1999, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 256 "An Instanton Physicist's 'Proof' of Maldacena's Conjecture" Professor Michael Mattis Los Alamos National Laboratory Refreshment at 4:00 in the high-energy commons, 4th floor. _________________________________________ Thursday, May 6, 1999 Thursday, May 6, 1999, 11:00 a.m. Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 333 "Shear-banding in Complex Fluids" Dr. Jan Dhont University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Thursday, May 6, 1999, 12:00 noon Harvard University Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Pierce Hall, 100F "Computational Complexity in Statistical Physics" Jonathan Machta University of Massachusetts Thursday, May 6, 1999, 1:30 p.m. Harvard University Materials Science Seminar Turnbull Room, McKay Laboratory (Room 402) "Nanometer Scale Phenomena in Ceramics: Exploiting Local Properties" Professor Dawn A. Bonnell University of Pennsylvania Thursday, May 6, 1999, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology SPECIAL Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar MIT, 10-250 "From Novel Magnetic Traps to Atom Lasers" Professor Theodor W. Haensch University of Munich Thursday, May 6, 1999, 3:45 p.m. Boston University Space Physics Seminar CAS Building, Room 500 "The Role of the Cusp As a Source for Magnetospheric Particles: A New Paradigm?" Professor Theodore A. Fritz Boston University Thursday, May 6, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Northeastern University Physics Colloquium 114 Dana Research Center "Non-equilibrium Patterns: An Historical View" Pierre Hohenberg Yale University Coffee at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, May 6, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scientific Colloquium 60 Garden Street (Phillips Auditorium) "X Marks the Spot: Masers and Dynamics in Regions of High-Mass Star Formation" Dr. Lincoln Greenhill Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 6, 1999, 4:15 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Colloquium MIT Room 10-250 "Muon Colliders and Muon Storage Ring Neutrino Beams" Dr. Robert Palmer Brookhaven National Laboratory _______________________________________ Friday, May 7, 1999 Friday, May 7, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Science and Fusion Center Seminar NW17-218 "Active Control of MHD Modes in Toroidal Plasmas" Gerald Navratil Columbia University Refreshments served before the talk. Friday, May 7, 1999, 4:00 p.m. Harvard University Condensed Matter Seminar Pierce Hall, Room 307 "Adaptive Control of Lasers and Their Interactions with Matter" Professor David Reitze University of Florida Refreshments served following the seminar. __________________________ Reminder: Deadline for the May 9 - May 15 calendar is Monday, May 3, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. The last Calendar for this term will be published on May 17. The Calendar is not published during the summer. It will be the last Calendar maintained by Boston College. Our two years are up! More information will follow. ---------------------- Joan Drane joan.drane@bc.edu Boston College