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Fall 1997

September 4, Professor John R. Albright, Purdue, Calumet, "The Life and Scientific Achievements of P.A.M. Dirac"

September 11, Professor Serguei Khlebnikov, Dept. of Physics, Purdue, "Non-linear dynamics of Reheating in Inflationary Cosmology"

September 25, The Sixth Hubert M. James Lecture, Professor David M. Lee, Cornell University, "Superfluidity in Liquid Helium Three"

October 2, Professor John Finley, Dept. of Physics, Purdue, "the Very High Energy Gamma Ray Sky"

October 9, Professor Steve Durbin, Dept. of Physics, Purdue, "Modern X-Ray Physics: New Science from New Sources"

October 16, Dr. Steve Lamoreaux, Los Alamos National Lab., "A Demonstration of the Casimir Force in the 0.6 to 6 Micrometer Range"

October 24, Professor Veit Elser, Cornell University, "Atomicity and Phase Determination in Crystallography"

October 30, Professor Carl E. Wieman, Dept. of Physics, U. of Colorado, "Bose-Einstein Condensation in an Ultracold Gas"

November 6, Professor Samuel A. Werner, Dept. of Physics, U of Missouri-Columbia, "Observation of Berry's Geometric Phase and the Scaler Aharonov-Bohm Effect by Neutron Interferometry"

November 20, Professor George Vourvopoulos, Western Kentucky University, "The Use of Neutrons for the Detection of Explosives and Illicit Drugs"

December 1, Professor J.A. Glazier, Dept of Physics, University of Notre Dame, "How Do Cells Know Where to Go?"

December 11, Dr. Witold Nazarewicz, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Tennessee and Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Nuclear Structure at the Limits"

Spring 1998

January 15, Professor Phillip Mannheim, University of Connecticut, "How Good is Newton's Law of Gravity?"

January 22, Professor R. Kruger, Indiana University Medical Center, "Theromoacoustic Ultrasound-A New Medical Imaging Paradigm"

January 29, Professor Lillian C. McDermott, University of Washington, "Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and Learning"

February 5, Dr. Keith Schwab, California Institute of Technology, "Yocto-Calorimetry: Thermal Transport and Calorimmetry at the Quantum Limit (Yocto=10^24)"

February 12, Dr. Sunil K. Sinha, Argonne National Laboratory, "The Use of Coherent and Incoherent X-Ray Beams to Study Fluctuatiosn in Condensed Matter"

February 19, Dr. P. Colestock, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, "The Zoology of Nonlinear Coherent Phenomena in Synchrotrons"

February 26, Professor Gabriel Weinreich, University of Michigan, "Directional Tone Color"

March 5, Professor Ralph O. Simmons, University of Illinois-Urbana, "Excitations in Helium Crystals"

March 26, Professor Robert B. Griffith, Carnegie-Mellon University, "Thinking Clearly About Quantum Theory"

April 3, Professor George V. Coyne, University of Arizona at Tucson, "A Search for Protoplanetary Disks by Polarimetry"

April 9, Dr. Lawrence Wai, University of Wshington, "The Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory"

April 16, Professor David H. Templeton, University of California at Berkeley, "Ida Tacke, Rhenium, Masurium, and Atomic Fission"

April 23, Professor Franco Bassani, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, "Excitons and Polaritons in Semiconductor Nanostructures"

April 30, Professor Neil W. Ashcroft, Cornell University, "The Quest for Metallic Hydrogen"