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Fall 1994

September 1, Professor J.P. Wolfe, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, "Bose Einstein Condensation Of An Ideal Gas: Excitons"

September 8, Professor Stuart A. Solin, NEC Research Institute Inc., "Probing Physics in Reduced Dimensions with Intercolated Layer Solids"

September 12, Professor Felix N. Chukhovskii, Department of Physics, Purdue, "The Dynamical Theory of X-Ray Diffraction in Deformed Crystals. Takagi-Taupin Equations"

September 22, Professor H. Nakanishi, Department of Physics, Purdue, "Random Walks in Random Media: A Study Of Critical Phenomena In An Environment With Disorder"

September 28, Professors A.K. Ramdas & S. Rodriguez, Department of Physics, Purdue, "Isotopic Effects in Semiconductors"

October 6, Professor G.F. Giuliani, Department of Physics, Purdue, "Josephson Functions and Abvikosov Vortices"

October 13, Professor Mike McElfresh, Department of Physics, Purdue, "High Temperature Superconductors in Magnetic Fields"

October 21, Dr. Neal Lane, Director of NSF, NSF, "The Research University in the Twenty-First Century"

October 27, Professor Paul Muzikar, Department of Physics, Purdue, "Order Parameter Symmetry in the High Tc Superconductors"

November 3, Professor Priscilla W. Laws, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Dickinson College, "Using Integrated Comuter Tools In Introductory Physics Courses"

November 10, Professor R.J. Beichner, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, "Using Video To Connect Motion To Graphs"

November 17, Cecilia Aragon, Aragon Aviation, "The Physics of Aerobatic Flying"

December 8, Professor Charles W. Misner, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, "A Map of the Universe"

Spring 1995

January 19, Professor Christoph Schmidt, Department of Physics, Michigan Ann Arbor, "Motor Proteins Tracked with Optical Tweezers"

January 26, Professor Brian Schwartz, Department of Physics, The American Physical Society and Brooklyn College of the City of New York, "Career Opportunities for Physicists"

February 2, Professor David Ceperley, Department of Physics and National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Path Integral Simulation of Quantum Systems"

February 9, Professor J.P. Wolfe, Department of Physics, Loomis Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Bose Einstein Condensation of an Ideal Gas: Excitons"

February 16, Dr. Albert Zisook, Swiss Bank Corporation, Chicago, "Physics of Finance"

February 23, Professor Mel P. Ulmer, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, "The Mysterious Gamma-Ray Emission From Pulsars"

March 2, Professor Kenneth Laws, Department of Physics, Dickinson College, "Physics of Dance"

March 16, Professor Constantino Tsallis, Department of Physics, Michigan State University and Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, "Should the Entropy always be Extensive?"

March 30, Dr. Heidi Hammel, Earth, Atmospheric and Planitary Sciences, MIT, "Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Swan Song of Shoemaker-Levy 9"

April 6, Professor George D. Watkins, Department of Physics, Lehigh University, "Vacancies and Interstitials in Semi Conductors"

April 13, Sixth Hubert M. James Lecture, Walter Kohn, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Electronic Structure of Atoms, Molecules, and Solids: An Alternative Approach"

April 20, Professor Hakki B. Ogelman, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Recent Results in X-ray Astronomy"

April 27, Dr. Roy Richter, Physics Department, General Motors Research and Development Center, "Life as a Physicist in the Automotive Industry"