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Fall 1998

August 27, Professor Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University,"Life, the Universe and Nothing: The Case for a Cosmological Constant"

September 3, Dr. Malcolm Derrick, Argonne National Laboratory, "What does the proton look like these days?"

September 10, Professor Nick Giordano, Purdue University, "Physics of the Piano"

September 17, Professor Raffaele Resta, University of Trieste, Italy, "Modern Theory of Dielectric Polarization"

September 24, Professor Margaret Murnane, University of Michigan, "Extreme NonLinear Optics - Generation of Coherent, Femtosecond, X-Ray Pulses"

October 1, Professor David Nolte, Purdue University, "Backwards Through The Looking Glass: Optical Explorations of Classical Time Reversal'

October 8, Professor Wolfgang Bauer, Michigan State University, "Are the Days of Classroom Lectures Numbered? (Teaching via the Internet)"

October 15, Professor Ian Shipsey, Purdue University, "Broken Symmetries and the Universe"

October 22, Professor Ivar Giaever, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "An Electrical Method to Monitor Cell In Tissue Culture" The Tenth Hubert M. James Lecture

October 29, Dr. David Wineland, National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Trapped Ions, Schrodinger's Cat, and Quantum Logic"

November 5, Professor Jacqueline Hewitt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Applied Gravitational Lensing"

November 12, Professor Robert Birgeneau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Quantum Magnetism and High Temperature Super Conductivity"

November 19, Professor Edward Redish, University of Maryland, College Park, "Physics Education: The Hidden Curriculum; What Do You Really Want our Students to Learn?"

December 10, Professor C. Fred Driscoll, University of California at San Diego, "Single Species Plasmas: From Near-Ideal 2-D Fluids to Cryogenic 3-D Crystals"

Spring 1999

January 14, Dr. Maury Goodman,Argonne National Laboratory, "The Neutrino Oscillation Industry"

January 21, Professor Dan Dahlberg, University of Minnesota, "Microbes, Magnetism and Microscopy"

January 28, Professor Edward Ott, University of Maryland, "Chaotic Flows and Magnetic Dynamos: The Origin of Magnetic Fields in the Universe"

February 4, Dr. Jeffrey Quintenz, Sandia National Laboratories, "Pulsed Power Fusion"

February 11, Professor Steve Girvin, Indiana University, "Nuclear Physics Meets the Quantum Hall Effect: Skyrmions, NMR, and Giant Nuclear Specific Heat in Quantum Hall Ferromagnets"

February 18, Professor Martha Chiscon, Professor David Elmore, Purdue University, "Assessment of Learning Outcomes and New Teaching Techniques"

February 25, Professor Uli Nienhaus, University of Ulm, "Conformational Motions in the Rugged Energy Landscape of Proteins"

March 4, Professor Berndt Mueller, Duke University, "SOME LIKE IT HOT: Recreating the Big Bang in Vitro"

March 11, Professor Roger Romani, Stanford University, "The Unidentified Accelerators in the Gamma-Ray Sky"

April 1, Dr. Edwin Krupp, Griffith Observatory, "Skywatchers, Shamans, & Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power"

April 8, Professor Tore Straume, University of Utah, "Radiation studies of the fallout from Chernobyl, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki"

April 15, Professor Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "Physicists and Wall Street"

April 23, Professor David Burke, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, "At the Forefront of High Energy Physics"

April 26, Dr. William Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology- Maryland, "Almost Absolute Zero: The Story of Laser Cooling and Trapping"

May 14, Professor Shoji Tanaka, Superconductivity Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, "High Temperature Superconductivity: Past, Present, and Future", The 1999 Honorary Degree Lecture