| 12 Sept. | Prof. Courtney Lannert – Wellesley College “Monte Carlo Methods Applied to Magnetic Systems” |
| 19 Sept. | Nick Zammuto ’99 – North Adams, MA “Waves, Resonances & Art” |
| 26 Sept. | Prof. David Hafemeister – California Polytechnic State University “Physics and Public Policy” |
| 24 Oct. | Prof. David DeMille – Yale University “Polar Molecules” |
| 31 Oct. | Prof. Douglas H. Turner – University of Rochester “Folding and Targeting RNA” Joint colloquium with Chemistry Dept. |
| 7 Nov. | Dr. John Underkoffler (science advisor to Spielberg’s Minority Report) and Kevin Parent (theme park consultant) “Entertainment Science” |
| 14 Nov. | Prof. Enrique J. “Kiko” Galvez – Colgate University “Manifestations of Geometric Phase” [abstract] |
| 21 Nov. | Prof. Grant Wilson – U-Mass Amherst “Back-lighting the Pregnant Night with the Cosmic Microwave Background” |
| 4 Dec. | Dr. Ralph Uhl “Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Analytical Spectrometry using Lasers” |
| 5 Dec. | Prof. John Percy – University of Toronto “Pulsating Red Giant Stars” |
| 8 Dec. | Prof. William Randall Babbitt – Physics Dept. and Spectrum Lab, Montana State University “Analog Optical Signal Processing with Spectral-Spatial Holography” |
| 9 Dec. | Paul Crittenden ’04 – Thesis Talk – 2:00pm – TPL205 |
| 12 Jan. | Senior Thesis Presentations – Samuel Arons, Mark Burkhardt, Eric Daub, Jesse Dill and Matthew Hoffman – Brief Break for refreshments in TPL207 – Galen Thorp, David Ticehurst, Sarah Iams and Leon Webster – 3:00 – 5:00pm |
| 15 Jan. | Senior Thesis Presentation – Davis Stevenson – 3:15pm |
| 16 Jan. | Nadya Mason – Harvard University “Nanotubes and the Electronics of Small Scale Structures” [abstract] |
| 6 Feb. | Prof. James Valles – Brown University “Manipulating Cells with Static Magnetic Fields” [abstract] |
| 17 Feb. | Prof. Brett Fadem – Colby College “Putting the Squeeze on Nuclear Matter” – 4:15pm [abstract] |
| 19 Feb. | Rebecca Christianson – Harvard University “Crystallization of Two-Component Colloidal Mixtures” – 4:15pm [abstract] |
| 27 Feb. | Prof. Heidi Newberg – R.P.I. “Streams of Stars in the Halo of the Milky Way Galaxy” |
| 4 March | Faculty Lecture Series, Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall “Assembling and Decoding the Genome,” by Daniel Aalberts, associate professor of physics 4:15pm |
| 5 March | Prof. Noah Graham – Middlebury College “Something Will Come of Nothing: An Introduction to the Casimir Energy”” |
| 9 March | Prof. Wesley J. Wildman – Boston University – PUBLIC LECTURE “Rationality in Science and Religion: A Pragmatic Approach” Griffin 6, 4:00pm Sponsored by the Philosophy, Physics and Religion Departments with a grant from the American Scientific Affiliation |
| 12 March | Prof. Zhenya Zastavker – Olin College “Spiraling Into Gallstone Disease” [abstract] |
| 6 April | Dr. Leonidas Pantelidis – Swarthmore College “Dynamics of the Heisenberg Model” 4:15pm [abstract] |
| 9 April | Prof. Joseph Hollweg – University of New Hampshire “Origin of the Fast Solar Wind: Our current Understanding and How we got Here” |
| 16 April | Prof. Phillip Gould – University of Connecticut “Laser Cooled Atoms: Collisions at 10^-8 eV” [abstract] |
| 20 April | Dr. Alan Walton – University of Cambridge/Cavendish Laboratory “From Babbling Brooks to Sonoluminescence; the Physics of Bubbbles in Liquids” 4:15pm [abstract] |
| 23 April | Dr. Leon Golub – Havard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics “The X-ray Corona of the Sun” |
| 30 April | Prof. John Doyle – Harvard University “Trapping Neutral Atoms” |
| 7 May | Dr. Peter Foukal – Heliophysics, Inc., Nahant, MA 01908 “The Sun and Climate” |
| 14 May | Senior Thesis Talks – 2:30pm Samuel Arons; 2:55pm Eric Daub; 3:20pm Jesse Dill; 3:45pm break; 3:55pm Galen Thorp; 4:20pm Lissa Ong |
| 17 May | Senior Thesis Talks – 1:30pm Mark Burkhardt; 1:55pm Leon Webster; 2:20pm Matthew Hoffman; 2:45pm Break; 2:55pm Davis Stevenson; 3:20pm David Ticehurst |