| 13 Sept. | Physics Faculty – Williams College “Getting Acquainted with the Physics Dept.” |
| 20 Sept. | Dr. Kees Storm – University of Pennsylvania “Strain Hardening in Biopolymer Networks” |
| 27 Sept. | Dr. Ronald Walsworth – Harvard University Title: The Story of “Stopped Light” |
| 11 Oct. | Dr. Benjamin Schumacher – Kenyon College “Entropy, Randomness and the Physics of Computation” [abstract] Sponsored by Physics, Astronomy & Computer Science |
| 25 Oct. | Dr. Todd Stievater (Williams ’95) – Naval Research Laboratory “Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Single Quantum Dots: Quantum Computing in Semiconductors” |
| 1 Nov. | Dr. Peter Swain – Mcgill University “Stochastic Gene Expression in Single Cells” |
| 8 Nov. | Dr. Alan Palevsky (Williams ’73) – Raytheon Corporation Title: Satellite Communication |
| 15 Nov. | Dr. Lutz Huwel – Wesleyan University 4:00 PM, Thompson Physical Lab 205 Title: TBA |
| 20 Nov. | Dr. Seth Shostak – SETI Institute Public Lecture: 8:00 PM, Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall Title: TBA |
| 22 Nov. | Nathan Hodas ’03 – Williams College “Why Good Traffic Goes Bad: Simulating Highway Traffic Flow” |
| 7 Jan. | Dr. James Williams – N.I.S.T. “CreatingVortices in a Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensate” – 4:00pm |
| 8 Jan. | Dr. David Smith – M.I.T. “The Hierarchy Problem and Physics Beyond the Standard Model” 4:00pm |
| 10 Jan. | Student Thesis Talks Jeffrey A. Garland, Nathan O. Hodas, Naim Majdalani, Sarah R. Nichols, Naila A. Baloch, Kathleen S. Gibbons, and Christopher D. Holmes – starting at 2:00pm |
| 13 Jan. | Dr. Gary Felder – Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics “The Very Early Universe” – 4:00pm |
| 15 Jan. | Dr. Sima Setayeshgar – Princeton University “Twist and Buckle: Spatiotemporal Patterns in the Heart” – 4:00pm |
| 21 Jan. | Dr. Vangal N. Muthukumar – Princeton University “Superconductivity in Doped Mott Insulators” – 4:00pm |
| 28 Jan. | Dr. Joshua Winn – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics “Measuring the Universe with Gravitational Lenses” |
| 21 Feb. | Dr. Susan Ginsberg – American Physical Society “From Lewis and Clark to Nanotechnology: How Science Policy REALLY Works” – 3:00pm [abstract] |
| 28 Feb. | Christopher Elkinton ’98 – University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Deep Water Offshore Wind Energy” |
| 4 March | Student Thesis Talk – Kristen Shapiro ’03 4:15pm |
| 7 March | Dr. James Dunlop – Yale University “Recreating the Big Bang at RHIC: 10^12 Degrees in the Shade” |
| 13-14 March | Sigma Xi Faculty Research Lectures: Prof. Sarah Bolton – Williams College – 4:00pm |
| 11-12 April | Joint Meeting of the New England Sections of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers |
| 18 April | Dr. Robert Hallock – University of Massachusetts “The Magical World of Two-Dimensional 3He corks on a Shallow 4He Ocean” |
| 25 April | Dr. Howard Bond – Space Telescope Science Institute “Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Light Echo Around V838 Monocerotis: An Astronomical CAT Scan” |
| 30 April | Dr. Joris Gerssen – Space Telescope “A Search for Black Holes in Globular Clusters” – 4:00pm |
| 2 May | Kerwyn Casey Huang – M.I.T. – Department of Physics “E. coli’s Division Decision: Modeling Min-protein Oscillations” 2:35pm – Joint with Biology Department |
| 9 May | Dr. George Benedek – M.I.T. “The Physical Basis of Protein Condensation Diseases: With Application to Cataract and Alzheimer’s Disease” |
| 13 May | Dr. Martin Guerrero – University of Illinois “X-ray Bubbles: from Planetary Nebulae to Superbubbles” – 4:00pm |
| 16 May | Dr. Elizabeth Simmons – Dept. of Physics – Boston University “Why is this Quark Different from all Other Quarks?” |
| 19 May | Student Thesis Talks – Jeffrey A. Garland, Nathan O. Hodas, Naim Majdalani, Sarah R. Nichols, Kathleen S. Gibbons, Christopher D. Holmes and Kristen L. Shapiro 1:00pm |