| 19 Sept. | Physics and Astronomy faculty – Williams College Title: “All about graduate school” |
| 26 Sept. | Prof. Scott Hill ’97- University of Dallas Title: “An Introduction to Small-world Networks” |
| 3 Oct. | Prof. Elizabeth Rhoades – Yale University Title: “Adventures on the energy landscape: watching singleproteins fold” |
| 17 Oct. | Prof. Marek Demianski – Warsaw University and Visiting Professor of Astronomy at Williams College Title: “Planck Mission: A new window at the very early universe” |
| 24 Oct. | Prof. Anthony Dinsmore – University of Massachusetts Title: “How Crystals Form: Colloids as a Tool to Study Phase Transitions” [abstract] |
| 31 Oct. | Prof. Christina (Reynolds) Dunn ’97 – Bennington College Title: “Creating the Giant: Fabricating the Mirrors of the European Extremely Large Telescope” [abstract] |
| 7 Nov. | Dr. Andrew Speck ’00 – Harvard University Title: “Manipulating Atoms and Other Physical Systems with Half-Cycle Electromagnetic Pulses” |
| 14 Nov. | Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik – Harvard University Title: “Quantum computation for quantum chemistry” |
| 21 Nov. | Prof.Emily Maher – Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Title: “Final Tau-Neutrino Results from the DONuT Experiment” |
| 5 Dec. | Prof. David Griffiths – Reed College Title: “Hidden Momentum” |
| 9 Jan. | Hornor Thesis Progress Talks |
| 6 Feb. | “Summer Research Extravaganza” |
| 13 Feb. | Prof. Jonathan Friedman – Amherst College Title: “Relaxation and Tunneling in Single-Molecule Magnets” [abstract] |
| 27 Feb. | Prof. Laura Cadonati – U Mass Amherst Title: “LIGO and its progress towards gravitational wave astronomy” [abstract] |
| 6 Mar. | Prof. Alain Laederach, Department of Biomedical Sciences & School of Public Health – SUNY Albany Title: “Identifying RNA folding through kinetic model enumeration” [abstract] |
| 13 Mar. | Prof. Jorge Moreno – Haverford College Title: “Do mergers of dark matter halos trigger quasars?” [abstract] |
| 10 April | Toby Schneider ’07 – MIT/Woods Hole and Joseph Shoer ’06 – Cornell University Title: “Engineering after Williams” (Autonomous Marine Vehicles, Flux Pinned Spacecraft and a tour of engineering reseach |
| 16,17 April | Prof. James Carlton – Williams/Mystic Seaport Program Sigma Xi Faculty Research Lectures |
| 24 April | Dr. Steve Maxwell – NIST – Gaithersburg, MD Title: “Dynamics of a sodium spinor condensate” [abstract] |
| 1 May | Prof. Jack Harris – Yale University Title: “How an atomic orbital can flow through a resistive wire ” [abstract] |
| 8 May | Dr. Seth Shostak – SETI Institute Title: “Efficiency in SETI Searches” [abstract] |
| 18 May | Honors Thesis Presentations |
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