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Fall 1999

September 16, Professor J.J. Quinn, University of Tennessee,"Composite Fermions and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect"

September 23, Professor Marvin L. Cohen, University of California at Berkeley, "Predicting New Materials: Alchemy with Computers", The Eleventh Hubert M. James Lecture

October 7, Professor Eugene Haller, University of Californiaat Berkeley, Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering," Isotopically Controlled Semiconductors"

October 14, Professor Michael Stone, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, Department of Physics, "Vortex dynamics: the Magnusforce and its Analogues"

October 21, Professor Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Laser Inferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory"

October 28, Professor Steve Durbin, Purdue University, Physics Department, "Using physics to get from protein structure tobiological function: vibrational dynamics of myoglobin."

November 11, Professor Joseph Natowitz, Texas A & M University, Cyclotron Institute, "Light Particle Probes of Expansion and Temperature Evolution: Coalescence Model Analyses of Heavy Ion Collisions at 47A MeV"

November 18, Professor Thomas Greytak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Atomic, Molecular and Atomic Physics Group,"Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Hydrogen"

December 9, Professor Ruth Chabay and Professor Bruce Sherwood,Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Innovation in Learning andDepartment of Physics, "Making Introductory Physics More Like RealPhysics"

Spring 2000

January 13, Professor Paul Muzikar, Purdue University, PhysicsDepartment, "Modern Radiocarbon Dating"

January 27, Professor Timothy Baker, Purdue University,Department of Biological Sciences, "Electron Cryo-Microscopy and Image Reconstruction of Viruses - More than Meets the Eye"

February 3, Professor Srinivasan Chandrasekar, Purdue University, Industrial Engineering, "Prince Rupert's Drops"

February 10, Dr. R.S. Lytel, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, "Light Matters: The Use of Photons in Computing Environments"

February 17, Dr. Eric Cornell, University of Colorado, "Bose-Einstein Condensation and Topology"

February24, Dr. R.V.F. Janssens, Argonne National Laboratory, "The Rare Isotope Accelerator Project"

March 9, Professor Horst Stormer, Columbia University, Dept. Physics and Dept. Appl. Physics and Appl. Mathematics, "Fractional Charges and other Tales from Flatland"

March 30, Professor Margaret Geller, Harvard University, Department of Physics, "Mapping the Universe"

April 6, Professor Robert Knox, University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, "Albert Rose revisited: will increasing the usage of non-solar energy warm the planet?"

April 13, Professor David Goodstein, Caltech, "Richard Feynman's Life and Career"

April 14, Professor Robert Laughlin, Stanford University, Department of Physics

April 27, Professor Xavier Le Pichion, College de France,Paris, "The Deformation of Japan as Measured from Space and its Implications on the Seismic Cycle"