| 15 Sept. | Prof. Timothy Halpin-Healy – Barnard College BSC 106 – 2:30 PM “Extremal Paths in a Random Energy Landscape” |
| 21 Sept. | Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, The Open University (UK) Convocation – Public Lecture – TCL 123 – 8:30 PM “Tick, Tick, Tick Pulsating Star, How We Wonder What You Are!” |
| 23 Sept. | Prof. Daniel Kleppner – M.I.T. Convocation – Public Lecture – TCL 123 – 3:00 PM “Two Hundred Years of Quantum Physics” |
| 6 Oct. | Astronomy Summer Students Research Talks TBL 202 – 2:30 PM Students: Gabriel Brammer ’02, Bethany Cobb ’02, Kathleen Gibbons ’03, Mike Gioiello ’02, Daniel Seaton ’01, Joel Iams ’01, Joey Shapiro ’01, and Darik Velez ’01 |
| 13 Oct. | Prof. Priyan Dias – University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka TBL 202 – 2:30 PM “Constructing a Philosophy of Engineering” [abstract] |
| 20 Oct. | Dr. Alexander D. Cronin – M.I.T. – Cambridge, MA TBL 202 – 2:30 PM “Atom-beam Interferometry and the Transition from Quantum to Classical Behavior” |
| 27 Oct. | Prof. David S. Citrin ’85 – Washington State University TBL 202 – 2:30 PM “How Fast Can Semiconductors Emit Light? Exciton Polaritons in Low-Dimensional Systems” [abstract] |
| 3 Nov. | Prof. Frank Moscatelli – Swarthmore College TBL 202 – 2:30 PM “NIST F2 – The Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock” [abstract] |
| 10 Nov. | Prof. Bill Wootters – Williams College Joint Computer Science/Physics/Astro colloquium TCL 202 – 2:30 PM “Computing in Parallel Worlds: The Quantum Search Algorithm” |
| 30 Nov. | Dr. Seth Shostak, SETI Inst. Public Lecture – Brooks Rogers – 8:00 PM Title: Searching for Extraterrestrials” |
| 1 Dec. | Prof. John Krupczak – Hope College – Holland, MI TBL 202 – 2:30 PM “Demystifying Technology: Using Consumer Products to Explain Some Principles of Physics” |
| 3 Jan. | Dr. Eric Pilger – Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology/SOEST TPL 205 – 2:30 PM “Hotspot Detection: Remote Monitoring of Fires and Volcanoes Using Weather Satellites” |
| 4 Jan. | Dr. Michael I. Larkin – Columbia University TPL 205 – 4:15 PM “Unconventional Superconductors: How Many Ways Can Electrons Avoid the Pauli Exclusion Principle?” |
| 5 Jan. | Honors Thesis Progress Reports TPL 205 – 2:30 PM Students: Benjamin Cooper ’01, Paul Friedberg ’01, Andrew Sullivan ’01, Kenneth Dennison ’01, Duane Lee ’01 |
| 8 Jan. | Dr. Philip Collins – T.J. Watson Research Center TPL 205 – 4:15 PM “Carbon Nanotube Electronic Devices” |
| 10 Jan. | Prof. Janice Hudgings – Mount Holyoke College TPL 205 – 4:15 PM “Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers: A Bright Idea” |
| 11 Jan. | Dr. James Voelkel – The Johns Hopkins University TPL 205 – 2:30 PM “The Early Reception of Keplerian Astronomy in the 17th Century” Sponsored by the Astronomy Dept. and the Leadership Program |
| 15 Jan. | Dr. Dwight Whitaker – University of Colorado – JILA TPL 205 – 4:15 PM “The People’s BEC: Towards a Bose-Einstein Condensate for the Masses” |
| 15 Jan. | Dr. Robert Williams – Former Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute Brooks-Rogers Auditorium – 8:00 PM “Probing The Universe With the Hubble Space Telescope” Sponsored by the Astronomy Dept., the Leadership Program and the Lecture Committee |
| 24-25 Jan. | Bernhard Science Symposium – Women Scientists Organizers: Sarah Bolton – Physics Dept. & Lee Park – Chemistry Dept. |
| 9 – Feb. | Dr. David DiVincenzo – IBM Watson Research Center TPL 205 – 2:30 PM “Prospects for the Physical Implementation of Quantum Computation” |
| 2 March | Dr. Susanne Lee – SUNY Albany TPL 205 – 2:30 PM “The Illuminating Case of the Bent X-rays” |
| 9 March | Prof. Jay Lawrence – Dartmouth College TPL 205 – 2:30 PM “Nonexponential Decay and Quantum Measurement Paradoxes” |
| 11 April | Alphonse Sterling – Marshall Space Flight Center TPL 205 – 12:00 NOON “Current Investigations in Solar Physics” |
| 13 April | Dr. Chad Orzel – Yale University TPL 205 – 2:30 PM “Squeezed States in a Bose-Einstein Condensate” |
| 18 April | Dr. Ted Jacobson – University of Maryland TPL 205 – 2:30 PM “Black Hole Entropy and the Holographic Principle” |
| 27 April | Dr. Jim Lerczak TPL 205 – 2:30 PM “Oceanic Internal Waves: From Internal Tides to Internal Surf” |
| 4 May | Dan Butts – Harvard Medical School TPL 205 – 2:30 PM “How Does Early Activity in the Retina Guide Brain Development?” |
| 14 May | Physics and Astrophysics Thesis Talks TPL 205 – starting at 10:00 am Ben Cooper, Paul Friedberg, Ken Dennison, Duane Lee, Joey Shapiro, Darik Vélez, Dan Seaton and Misa Cowee |