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Fall 1995

August 24, Robert Pohl, Department of Physics, Laboratory of Atomic & Solid State, Physics, Cornell University, "Many Phases of Carbon: Lattice Vibrations of Diamond Graphite and Buckyballs"

August 31, Maryjane Taylor, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, "Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Nova Cygni 1992"

September 7, A. Pinczuk, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, "Collective Excitations (Rotons) in Quantum Hall Liquids"

September 14, Peter Geltenbort, Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France, "Fundamental Physics with Neutrons at Institut Laue Langevin and Recent Progress in Microstrip and Microgap Gas Chambers"

September 21, Mark Tincknell, Department of Physics, Purdue, "How Applicable is Thermodynamics to Nuclei?"

September 28, Ronald K. Thornton, Center for Science and Math Teaching, Departments of Physics and Education, Tufts University, Medford, Masschusetts, "Enhancing Physics Learning in Large Classes with Microcomputer-based Interactive Lecture Demonstrations"

October 5, Trevor C. Weekes, Whipple Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian, Center for Astrophysics, "TeV Gamma-ray Observations of AGN's"

October 12, Bart Kahr, Department of Chemistry, Purdue, "New Tricks With Old Mixed Crystals"

October 19, Anthony Arrott, Simon Fraser University, "How Do You Erase a Tape?" or "Self Organized Criticality and the Devolution of a Collective Magnetic Moment"

October 26, Chris Hill, Theory Group, Fermilab, "The Top Quark and the Origin of Mass"

November 2, Anthony P. French, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Using Physics History in the Classroom"

November 9, Owen Gingerich, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "Circles of the Gods: Copernicus, Kepler, and the Ellipse"

November 30, Vernard Foley, History, Purdue, "The Trebuchet"

December 7, Dan Elliott, Electrical Engineering, Purdue, "Solid-State Tunable Dye Lasers: Progress and Prospects"

Spring 1996

January 11, Larry Braile, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue, "Earthquake Prediction in the Midwest"

January 18, Jainendra Jain, State University of New York-Stony Brook, "The Composite Fermion Transformation and the Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect"

January 25, Professor Bob Callender, Physics Department, City College of New York, "The Primary Dynamics in Protein Folding: The Earliest Kinetic Steps"

February 1, Professor Steve Durbin, Department of Physics, Purdue, "The First Hundred Days of X Rays"

February 8, Patricia Heller, University of Minnesota, "Teaching Problem Solving in Large Introductory Lecture Courses"

February 15, Steve Shore, Indiana University-South Bend, "Messy Eaters: Accretion Phenomena in Astrophysical Environments"

February 22, Charles Townes, Department of Physics, University of California-Berkeley, "What's Happening at the Center of our Galaxy?"

February 29, Professor Freeman J. Dyson, Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Studies-Princeton, Hubert and Madeline James Lecture, "How The Dinosaurs Might Have Been Saved: Detection And Deflection Of Earth-Impacting Bodies"

March 14, Professor Hellmut Fritzsche, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, "Unexpected Interactions of Light and Matter"

March 28, Bob Batterman, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University, "One Hundred Years of X-Rays"

April 4, Paul Debevec, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, "A New Measurement of the Muon G-2 Factor"

April 11, Werner Wolf, Department of Physics, Yale University, "The Future of Physics Education"

April 18, A.P. Ramirez, Bell Laboratories, "Geometrical Frustration in Magnetism"

April 25, Klaus Halbach, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, "Understanding and Designing Magnets with the Help of Conformal Mapping Techniques"