16 SEP 1991	NEUTRINO PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
	Dr. Eric Norman of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory will discuss research on Nature's most elusive and enigmatic particles, neutrinos, and will describe recent experiments which indicate neutrinos may be much heavier than previously thought.
23 SEP 1991	WHY DOES LIGHT SLOW DOWN IN MATTER?
	Dr. Mary James of Reed College will explain the interaction of light and matter which results in reflection, transmission, and a reduction in the velocity of light.
30 SEP 1991	VERY-LONG-BASELINE INFRARED INTERFEROMETRY
	Dr. William Danchi of the University of California at Berkeley will describe the recently developed Infrared Spatial Interferometer, and will discuss dust formation around stars and how atmospheric fluctuations affect the design of large ground-based telescopes.
7 OCT 1991	DETECTING CELESTIAL 21-CENTIMETER RADIO EMISSION
	Bruce Erickson of Hewlett Packard, Rohnert Park, will discuss the theory and design of the integrating receiver in use at Sonoma State University.
14 OCT 1991	THE 21-CENTIMETER RADIO SKY
	Dr. Carl Heiles of the University of California at Berkeley will discuss radio observations of the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen and their relation to the general physics of the interstellar medium and to galactic evolution.
21 OCT 1991	STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND PROTEIN FOLDING
	Dr. Hue Sun Chan of the University of California, San Francisco will describe simple physical models for the self-assembly of biomolecules.
28 OCT 1991	WHAT BOUNCING NEUTRONS CAN REVEAL ABOUT POLYMER SYSTEMS
	Dr. Anne Mayes of the IBM Almaden Research Center will discuss neutron reflectivity studies of phase-separating polymers.
4 NOV 1991	THE SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY VERY SMALL ARRAY
	Greg Sprehn of Sonoma State University will discuss the history and present the most recent observations with the radio interferometer on the roof of Darwin Hall.
11 NOV 1991	OPERATORS AND ENGINEERS: TWO VIEWS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT OPERATIONS
	Dr. Gene Rochlin and Ms. Alexandra Suchard will discuss methods and results of social and organizational research on complex, highly technical organizations faced with the dilemma of delivering efficient services while maintaining high levels of performance and public safety.
18 NOV 1991	LONG-BASELINE OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY
	Dr. Michael Shao of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will discuss the Mark III stellar interferometer and plans for future interferometers on the ground and in space.[CANCELLED]
25 NOV 1991	INSTRUMENT CONTROL AND DATA COLLECTION FOR THE REST OF US
	Dr. Sam Greene of Sonoma State University will discuss LabView—a computer program that uses virtual instruments for digital equipment control, data collection and data analysis—and its use in recent experiments in the Lasers and Holography Laboratory.
2 DEC 1991	STALKING THE WILY HACKER
	Dr. Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg,  will tell the true story of how a 75-cent accounting error led him to track down a German computer programmer spying for the Soviets.

10 FEB 1992	POKING THE PAST WITH POWERFUL TELESCOPES
	Dr. David C. Koo of the Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, will explore some current paradoxes on the number, nature, and large-scale distribution of galaxies at distances of billions of light years.
24 FEB 1992	FUSION: PHYSICS, PROGRESS, AND PROMISES
	Dr. Don Correll of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will describe the physics of fusion research, recent progress toward achieving net fusion energy, and the promises from the fusion research community.
2 MAR 1992	SCIENTIFIC RESULTS FROM THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE WIDE-FIELD PLANETARY CAMERA
	Dr. Sandra M. Faber of the Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, will discuss the optical problems of the HST, methods for circumventing them, and recent observations of galaxies.
9 MAR 1992	RADIOISOTOPE PRODUCTION FOR POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY
	Allyson Bishop of the University of California, Los Angeles will discuss some interesting medical applications of nuclear physics.
16 MAR 1992	ART AND PHYSICS: PARALLEL VISIONS OF SPACE, TIME, AND LIGHT
	Dr. Leonard Shlain, surgeon and author of Art and Physics, will discuss the integration of modern art and twentieth century physics.
23 MAR 1992	THE HUNT FOR IRAQI NUCLEAR WEAPONS
	Dr. Jay C. Davis of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will discuss the political and technical aspects of the United Nations inspections of Iraqi nuclear facilities.
30 MAR 1992	PHYSICS AND CONGRESS: LOOKING AT SDI, TERRORISTS, AND OTHER SPECIES
	Dr. Anthony Fainberg of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and Stanford University will discuss some issues he has worked on as an advisor to Congress on technical matters.
6 APR 1992	THE BIG PROMISE IN SMALL SYSTEMS
	Dr. Richard S. Muller of the University of California, Berkeley will describe how micromechanics can team with microelectronics to bring about a new era of integrated microsystems.
20 APR 1992	A SELF-REPRODUCING UNIVERSE
	Dr. Andrei Linde of Stanford University will discuss the present picture of the evolution of the universe according to the inflationary theory.
27 APR 1992	PHYSICS APPLICATIONS OF QUANTUM WELL OPTOELECTRONICS
	Dr. Daniel S. Chemla of the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory will present recent investigations of semiconductor quantum well structures and their applications to novel optoelectronics devices.
4 MAY 1992	NEUTRONS AT LOS ALAMOS IN THE NINETIES
	Dr. John R. Dunning of Sonoma State University will describe the production of neutrons, diffraction from stressed metals, and small-angle scattering from thin films.
11 MAY 1992	DETECTING EXPLOSIVES WITH NUCLEAR PHYSICS
	Dr. Peter Ryge of Science Applications International Corp. will discuss techniques for detecting contraband in airline baggage using prompt gamma neutron activation analysis.

14 SEP 1992	AEROGELS: THE WORLD'S LIGHTEST SOLIDS
	Thomas M. Tillotson of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will discuss the synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications of some remarkable materials.
21 SEP 1992	SEEING THE UNIVERSE THROUGH INFRARED GLASSES
	Ben Owen of Sonoma State University will describe the discovery of large numbers of new variable stars and other objects while cataloging and analyzing data from the Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS).
28 SEP 1992	COMETS DISGUISED AS ASTEROIDS
	Dr. Jane Luu of the University of California at Berkeley will describe how comets can evolve to appear asteroidal and how these comets might be identified.
5 OCT 1992	PERMAFROST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
	Francis Moraes ('90) of the Oregon Graduate Institute will discuss climate models and how changes in the permafrost region can tell us about past and future climate changes.
12 OCT 1992	NEW DIAMOND SCIENCE
	Dr. Maurice Landstrass of Crystallume Engineered Diamond Products will describe recent advances in the art and science of diamond growth and discuss the applications of this new technology.
19 OCT 1992	OBSERVING ATOMS AND MOLECULES WITH POWERFUL NEW MICROSCOPES
	Dr. Miquel Salmeron of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory will describe observation and manipulation of atoms, small molecules, and large biological structures (DNA and viruses) with scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopes.
26 OCT 1992	DOLPHINS, SOUND, AND SUPERCOMPUTERS
	James Aroyan ('87) of the University of California, Santa Cruz, will discuss the biophysics of dolphin echolocation and the numerical simulation of echolocation beam formation.
2 NOV 1992	THE EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET SKY
	Dr. Isabel Hawkins of the University of California at Berkeley will present early results from the all-sky survey being carried out by the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite.
9 NOV 1992	MICROMACHINING, SILICON STRUCTURES, AND SENSORS
	Dr. Patricia Ann Beck of Hewlett-Packard Co. will discuss the use of silicon's mechanical properties as well as its electrical ones in fabricating microchip sensors.
16 NOV 1992	THE THEORY OF IDEAL METALS
	Dr. Herbert B. Shore of San Diego State University will show how simple electron gas models provide a basis for understanding these properties universal properties that all metals have in common.
23 NOV 1992	THERMOACOUSTIC REFRIGERATION
	Dr. Thomas J. Hofler of the Naval Postgraduate School will discuss a totally new kind of refrigerator that runs on sound waves.
30 NOV 1992	ENERGETIC JETS AND OUTFLOWS FROM YOUNG STARS
	Dr. Steven Stahler of the University of California at Berkeley and NASA Ames Research Center will discuss how radio and optical astronomy have revealed hot jets streaming from young stars still forming out of dense interstellar clouds.
7 DEC 1992	A COMPLETE MOTION LABORATORY ON A COMPUTER
	Gregory Baszucki of Knowledge Revolution will demonstrate Interactive Physics II, a complete and easy to use physics simulation laboratory.

8 FEB 1993	SO MANY GALAXIES, SO LITTLE TIME
	Dr. John Huchra of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will discuss galaxy red shift surveys, maps of the nearby universe and their consequences for cosmology.
22 FEB 1993	CRYSTAL ACOUSTIC DETECTORS AND SEARCHES FOR DARK MATTER
	Dr. Barbara Neuhauser of San Francisco State University will discuss a new kind of elementary particle detector which senses sound waves rather than electricity.
1 MAR 1993	PULSAR SHOCK WAVES
	Dr. Roger Romani of Stanford University will show how observations of pulsars interacting with their environment provide a new probe of these spinning neutron stars.
8 MAR 1993	THE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACY OF THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE
	Scott Saleska of the University of California at Berkeley and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Washington, D. C. will describe some of the hazards remaining in the U. S. and the former Soviet Union resulting from the production of nuclear weapons.
15 MAR 1993	THE STATUS OF SEARCHES FOR EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETS
	Dr. Geoff Marcy of San Francisco State University and the University of California at Berkeley will review the many efforts currently underway to detect other solar systems, along with suggestive evidence of their formation around young stars.
22 MAR 1993	MODERN LINEAR ACCELERATORS AND THE BUSINESS OF PHYSICS
	Drs. Robert and Marianne Hamm of AccSys Technology, Inc. will describe the company they founded (with two other physicists), and the radio-frequency ion linear accelerators they are building for several physics applications, including the Superconducting Super Collider.
29 MAR 1993	GLOBAL CHANGE AND THE DARK OF THE MOON
	Dr. Steven E. Koonin of the California Institute of Technology will discuss how changes in the Earth's climate system can be monitored by observing the ghostly glow of the face of the moon.
5 APR 1993	POSITRONIUM ON THE LIGHT CONE
	Dr. Ovid Jacob of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Sonoma State University will discuss a new way to solve for the mass of strongly interacting systems of elementary particles.
19 APR 1993	ULTRA-VIOLET AND SOFT X-RAY DIAGNOSTICS OF CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES
	Dr. Christopher Mauche of the Laboratory for Experimental Astrophysics at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will discuss observations of the winds and disks in interacting white dwarf binary systems.
26 APR 1993	QUANTUM CONDENSATION THEORY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
	Dr. Mario Rabinowitz of the Electric Power Research Institute will present the world's simplest and most general theory of superconductivity.
3 MAY 1993	COMPACT DISCS: WHAT IT TAKES TO BE ERASABLE
	Dr. Carmen Ortiz of the IBM Almaden Research Center will discuss the future of compact discs and other optical storage applications.
10 MAY 1993	RADIATION THERAPY IN THREE DIMENSIONS
	Dr. Lynn Verhey of the University of California at San Francisco will discuss an array of new technologies in medical physics which can be used to plan, implement and verify three dimensional radiation dose distributions in cancer patients.

13 SEP 1993	ALBERT EINSTEIN: HOW I SEE THE WORLD
	Actor William Hurt narrates this insightful video on the physicist who developed the theories of special and general relativity, Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, and much more.
20 SEP 1993	TRANSPORTATION AND ITS LINKS TO ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
	Senior transportation analyst Deborah Gordon of the Union of Concerned Scientists will discuss the role transportation plays in the environment and will review innovative policy-making efforts underway.
27 SEP 1993	SPECTROSCOPIC DETERMINATIONS OF STELLAR LUMINOSITIES
	Dr. Dorrit Hoffleit of Yale University will discuss the history of the discovery of luminosity criteria in stellar spectra and their application to stellar distance determinations.
4 OCT 1993	MODELING THE EARTH'S DEEP INTERIOR
	Dr. Louise Kellogg of the University of California at Davis will describe how recent computer simulations reveal the dynamics and structure of the Earth's mantle.
11 OCT 1993	TEN FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES AND THE FIRST STEP IN VISION
	Dr. Robert W. Schoenlein of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory will discuss techniques for producing laser pulses of only a few optical cycles in duration, and the use of these pulses to study such ultrafast events as the first step in vision.
18 OCT 1993	INTERVENTIONAL MRI: TOWARDS MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY
	Dr. Keyvan Farahani ('85) of the University of California, Los Angeles will discuss current applications of magnetic resonance imaging in guidance and monitoring of minimally invasive tumor therapy.
25 OCT 1993	GOD PLAYS DICE: A PHYSICAL DEMONSTRATION
	Dr. Marvin Chester of the University of California, Los Angeles will discuss and illustrate the quantum theory result that nature herself doesn't know her own course of action; she is the victim of chance.
1 NOV 1993	LARGE AREA AMORPHOUS SILICON TECHNOLOGY
	Dr. Warren B. Jackson of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center will discuss present and future applications of large area electronic technology for displays, printing, imaging, and neural processing.
8 NOV 1993	LASER GUIDE STARS AND ADAPTIVE OPTICS FOR ASTRONOMY
	Dr. Claire E. Max of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will describe techniques for greatly improving the angular resolution of ground-based astronomical telescopes by removing the blurring due to turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
15 NOV 1993	LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
	Dr. Waguih Ishak of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories will describe recent advances in photonics, devices, and subsystems for optoelectronic and lightwave communication.
22 NOV 1993	THE EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET: A NEW WINDOW ON THE UNIVERSE
	Dr. Roger F. Malina of the University of California at Berkeley will describe some of the discoveries made by NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite, including extremely hot white dwarf stars, hot coronae of relatively cool stars, supernova remnants, and other interstellar gas.
29 NOV 1993	THE OPTICS OF EYEGLASS LENSES
	Mary Howland ('86) of Signet Armorlite, Inc. will discuss the design and evaluation of aspheric and progressive lenses, including bifocals without lines.
6 DEC 1993	ROBOTS FOR PEOPLE WITH SEVERE IMPAIRMENT
	Dr. Larry Leifer of the Stanford University Center for Design Research will review the issues and demonstrate the use of robotics technology in assistive devices that help persons with severe physical disabilities gain a measure of independence.

7 FEB 1994	BUCKMINSTERFULLERENES: SELF-ASSEMBLING GEODESIC SHELLS OF CARBON
	Dr. Robert D. Johnson of the IBM Almaden Research Center will discuss the discovery, structure and dynamics of carbon fullerenes and fullerene cages with atoms or metal clusters trapped inside.
14 FEB 1994	ACTIVE STARS IN THE SOLAR NEIGHBORHOOD
	Dr. Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will describe studies of magnetic activity in sunlike stars—observations which may reveal their ages and the past, present and future of the sun's magnetism and its influence on the earth.
28 FEB 1994	DEEP FOCUS EARTHQUAKES AND THE COMMON COLD
	Dr. Keith Brister ('82) of Cornell University will discuss experiments performed at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, including high pressure geophysics experiments and virus crystallography.
7 MAR 1994	THE OTHER LARGE LASER AT LIVERMORE
	Dr. Isaac L. Bass of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will describe the diverse laser technologies used in the Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation program.
14 MAR 1994	THE IONOSPHERE AND THE AURORA
	Dan Nottingham ('89) of Boston University will describe his worldwide travels, images of the whole sky, and the significance of stable auroral red arcs.
21 MAR 1994	THE EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES
	Dr. Paul Hodge of the University of Washington will describe how recent study of nearby galaxies has revealed a complicated and puzzling pattern of galaxy evolution, which apparently includes episodes of violent gravitational interaction and galaxy mergers.
28 MAR 1994	MIND, MATTER, AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
	Dr. Henry P. Stapp of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory will explain how one can use quantum theory to integrate causally effective conscious thoughts into the brain as described in neurophysiology and physics.
11 APR 1994	SQUID MAGNETOMETRY
	Dr. Robin Cantor of Conductus, Inc. will discuss applications of Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) in such magnetic field-sensing applications as biomagnetism, geophysics, and laboratory instrumentation.
18 APR 1994	X-RAY OUTBURSTS FROM NEUTRON STARS IN BINARY SYSTEMS
	Mallory Roberts of Sonoma State University will discuss observations of binary star systems in which neutron stars interact with massive main sequence companions.
25 APR 1994	THE TRAVELING SALESMAN, RANDOM NETWORKS, AND THE STRUCTURE OF AMORPHOUS SILICON
	Dr. Frederick Wooten of the University of California, Davis/Livermore, will demonstrate the connection between a simple mathematical problem and the characteristics of an important semiconductor material.
2 MAY 1994	ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: WHAT IT IS AND ISN'T
	Lauren J. Novatne ('89) of the Monterey County Department of Health will describe how the immediate and long-term health and safety of the public and the environment are protected.
9 MAY 1994	DUMAND: A NEW WINDOW ON THE UNIVERSE
	Dr. John G. Learned of the University of Hawaii will describe the Deep Underwater Muon and Neutrino Detector, a bold attempt to see the cosmos from the bottom of the sea.[Dr. Hank Crawford of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory gave this lecture.]

12 SEP 1994	DARK MATTER, MICROLENSING AND MACHOS
	Dr. Kem Cook of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will discuss the evidence that most of the mass of the universe is in a currently undetected form, and will describe the MACHO project, which is attempting to define the dark matter component ofo our galaxy.
19 SEP 1994	ADVANCED ELECTRICITY TECHNOLOGY: FROM PHYSICS TO COMMERCIALIZATION
	Jim Eyer, '83, of the PG&E Research and Development Department will describe how physics is affecting development of selected advanced power technologies, and the value of business acumen for physicists working in today's commercial environment.
26 SEP 1994	HOW TO BE A GOOD ENGINEER
	Joseph Wujek of the University of California, Berkeley, will explore some of the ethical issues in engineering and science and furnish some guidance in resolving them.
3 OCT 1994	A PHYSICIST IN AIR POLLUTION RESEARCH
	Dr. Walter John, recently retired from the California Department of Health Services, will explain his mid-career change from nuclear physics to the study of airborne particles, and will discuss the technical challenges and rewards in the field of environmental health.
10 OCT 1994	YOUNG PULSARS: GREAT LIGHTHOUSES OF THE UNIVERSE
	Ion-Alexis Yadigaroglu of Stanford University will discuss recent advances in understanding the geometry of pulsar emission zones, illustrated by a computer animation of these powerful beams of radiation that sweep out our galaxy.
17 OCT 1994	INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION
	Dr. Roger Bangerter of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory will discuss recent progress in the use of lasers and accelerators to ignite inertial fusion targets.
24 OCT 1994	COMETS, FREE RADICALS AND LASERS
	Dr. William Jackson of the University of California, Davis, will discuss the nature and origin of comets and relate how lasers can be used to confirm different mechanisms for the production of observed free radicals in comets.
31 OCT 1994	STYLES AND PERSONALITIES OF PHYSICISTS
	Dr. Max Dresden of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center will discuss the ways in which personal attitudes and scientific expectations influence the type of physics research, the way that research is carried out and in particular, the way that results are interpreted.
7 NOV 1994	WERE BOHR, FERMI, SZILARD AND OPPENHEIMER REALLY SPIES?
	Dr. David Holloway of Stanford University will discuss the recent allegations that Bohr, et al, knowingly passed secret information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
14 NOV 1994	THE NUCLEAR BOMB PUMPED X-RAY LASER
	Dr. Thomas Ramos of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will discuss the history of the research and the uses for one of the bigger defense projects of the 1980s.
21 NOV 1994	FLASH AND FIRE: COMET COLLIDES WITH JUPITER
	Dr. Garrett Jernigan of the University of California, Berkeley will discuss observations of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter, illustrated with images from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
28 NOV 1994	A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
	This remarkable film explores the life and theories of physicist Stephen Hawking.
5 DEC 1994	THE STANFORD LINEAR COLLIDER
	Dr. Nan Phinney of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center will describe the challenge of building and operating the first electron-positron linear collider and the recent success in producing a record number of Z particles.

6 FEB 1995	ASTRONOMY AND EMPIRE: THE INCA
	Dr. David Dearborn of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will discuss the sky watching practices of the Inca, who considered themselves to be the children of the sun.
13 FEB 1995	MERCEDES' "STUDY-A"—AN ELECTRIC CAR FOR THE FUTURE?
	Nickolas Mota Melville ('93) of the University of California, Davis will discuss the development of a dynamic vehicle simulation program used to model power train performance for the Daimler-Benz Study A electric car.
27 FEB 1995	GROWING SUPER-AND SEMI-CONDUCTORS
	Dr. Valerie Leppert ('87) of Northwestern University will discuss recent developments in the use of nanosecond pulsed lasers to grow electronic thin films with complex stoichiometry and architecture.
6 MAR 1995	FASCINATION WITH A COLD WORLD
	Dr. Douglas Osheroff of Stanford University will recount moments of discovery and challenge in his quest to understand the novel ordered phases of Helium-3 near absolute zero.
13 MAR 1995	PRODUCING AND STUDYING THE ULTIMATE IONS IN A TABLE-TOP DEVICE
	Dr. Peter Beiersdofer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will discuss the production of bare uranium ions in an electron beam ion trap and describe the type of experiments enabled by this ion source.
20 MAR 1995	PROBING THE INTERIOR OF A STAR: HELIOSEISMOLOGY FROM SPACE
	Dr. Philip Scherrer of Stanford University will describe the Solar Oscillations Investigation which will examine the Sun's interior as part of the NASA/ESA SOHO  mission.
27 MAR 1995	A GUIDED TOUR OF CHESS
	Dr. Keith Brister ('82) of Cornell University will describe the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) facility and will discuss various experiments that use its resulting X-rays.
3 APR 1995	THE ANATOMY OF A HIGH ENERGY PARTICLE DETECTOR
	Eric Weiss ('91) of the University of Washington will present an overview of the SLD detector, its subsystems and how they detect and reconstruct particle physics events.
10 APR 1995	RINGS OF FIRE: THERMONUCLEAR COMBUSTION ON NEUTRON STARS
	Dr. Lars Bildsten of the University of California, Berkeley will describe the thermonuclear fires that burn freshly accreted matter on neutron star surfaces and relate how the luminosity from this burning is observed.
24 APR 1995	AESTHETICS OF A DISCRETE ELEMENT TORSIONAL TRANSMISSION LINE
	Dr. Marvin Chester, Emeritus Professor at UCLA, will demonstrate an activatable sculpture and will explore what its varied and visually captivating response says about nature.
1 MAY 1995	PHYSICS OF THE VIOLIN
	Dr. William Atwood of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, who has been studying and making violins and violas for over 10 years, will present a physicist's perspective as to what makes great violins.
8 MAY 1995	CLEA—COMPUTERS IN ASTRONOMY EDUCATION
	Dr. Mia Luehrmann of Gettysburg College will show how computers can be used to simulate the universe.

29 JAN 1996	THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF SMART SWITCHABLE GLASS
	Dr. Carl M. Lampert of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will describe the applied physics, device construction, and potential applications of electronically switchable glass for use in buildings and vehicles.
5 FEB 1996	THE SOLAR NEUTRINO PROBLEM AND HOW WE KNOW STARS RUN ON NUCLEAR ENERGY; COBE  AND HOW WE KNOW THE UNIVERSE WENT THROUGH A BIG BANG; GAMMA RAY BURSTERS AND HOW SOMETIMES WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
	Dr. Virginia Trimble of the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Maryland will attempt to persuade you that we understand a number of important things about the universe around us, but not everything.
12 FEB 1996	THE SCIENCE AND ART OF LASER LIGHT SHOWS
	Steve Anderson, technician for the SSU Department of Physics and Astronomy and laserist for Laser Dreams, will discuss the physical process of making laser light dance to music.
26 FEB 1996	VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION
	Steve Bryson of NASA Ames Research Center will discuss the application of virtual reality techniques to the investigation of simulated air flow.
4 MAR 1996	IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF ONES AND ZEROS
	Nancy Kunnari ('90) of National Semiconductor will describe the physics behind testing memory-intensive semiconductor products and designing for testability and failure analysis.
11 MAR 1996	PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
	Dr. Joseph S. Tenn of Sonoma State University will demonstrate how anyone with a computer and access to the Internet can obtain an enormous amount of up-to-date information.
18 MAR 1996	DIELECTRON PRODUCTION IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS
	Dr. R. Jefferson Porter ('83) of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will discuss the use of electron-positron pairs produced in heavy-ion collisions as probes into the hot and highly compressed states of nuclear matter.
25 MAR 1996	COMMERCIALIZING HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE: RISKS AND REWARDS
	Dr. Matthew Bashaw of Stanford University will describe how holographic data storage has the potential to meet many of our future storage needs and will discuss the technical hurdles which must be resolved to bring it to market.
1 APR 1996	HOW NEW MEASURES OF QUASARS AND GALAXIES SUPPORT A CHANGED PICTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
	Dr. Halton C. Arp of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics will show how recent observations from the ROSAT  X-ray satellite support an ejection origin for quasars and call into question Big Bang cosmological models.
15 APR 1996	PHYSICISTS TAKE ON GLOBAL WARMING
	Dr. David B. Goldstein of the Natural Resources Defense Council will describe what the NRDC and other nonprofit and for-profit organizations are doing to improve energy efficiency and encourage use of renewable energy sources.
22 APR 1996	WRITING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC TOPICS
	Dr. Barbara G. Levi of Physics Today   will describe some scientific issues with implications for society and her experiences in reporting on them.
29 APR 1996	THE GALILEO  PROBE MISSION TO JUPITER
	Dr. Richard E. Young of NASA Ames Research Center will present results from the first entry into the atmosphere of an outer planet.

16 SEP 1996	WIRING THE BRAIN - A PHYSICIST LOOKS AT DEVELOPMENT
	Dr. Marla Feller of the University of California, Berkeley will explain how the immature circuitry of the developing retina creates the patterns necessary for proper wiring of the adult visual system.
23 SEP 1996	A QUANTUM BROOM SWEEPS CLEAN
	Dr. Bernhard Haisch of the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory will describe a new unified theory that suggests that inertia and gravitation may be electromagnetic in origin.
30 SEP 1996	UNVEILING A SUPERNOVA REMNANT
	Dr. James Graham of the University of California, Berkeley will show wide-field X-ray and optical images of the Cygnus Loop that illustrate the effects of the blastwave on interstellar clouds.
7 OCT 1996	HANDS ON UNIVERSE
	Dr. Susana Deustua of the E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will describe an interactive astronomy program for high school students using automated telescopes.
14 OCT 1996	FINDING THE QUARKS
	Dr. Richard Taylor of Stanford University will describe electron-proton scattering experiments that led to the Nobel prize winning demonstration of the existence of quarks.
21 OCT 1996	REVERSALS OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD: A WINDOW INTO THE DEEP INTERIOR
	Dr. Ken Hoffman of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo will discuss what paleomagnetic records from rocks tell us about the process by which the Earth's north and south magnetic poles exchange positions.
28 OCT 1996	OPTICAL POSITION SENSORS FOR ROBOTS AND OTHER APPLICATIONS
	Dr. Jeffrey Koch of the FANUC Berkeley Laboratory will discuss the physical basis of interferometric position sensors, with particular application to the design and development of industrial machines.
4 NOV 1996	THE PAULI-JUNG DISCUSSION AND QUANTUM REALITY
	Dr. Kai Woehler of the United States Naval Postgraduate School will discuss recent findings in quantum mechanics and their implications for the nature of reality in light of the recently published dialogue between the Nobel prize winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung in the 1930's to 1950's.
11 NOV 1996	WEIGHING THE UNIVERSE WITH SUPERNOVAE
	Dr. Saul Perlmutter of the E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will discuss modern techniques that are used to measure the expansion of the universe.
18 NOV 1996	AN ADAPTIVE OPTIC
	Greg Sprehn ('93) of Massie Research Laboratories, Inc. will discuss the design and fabrication of a small adaptive optic that would enhance the planet-searching capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope in a 2002 upgrade mission.
25 NOV 1996	GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF A VOLCANO WITH GPS
	Susan Owen of Stanford University will discuss the active fault that lies beneath Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano and how she uses Global Positioning Satellites to characterize both the fault and Kilauea's rift system.
2 DEC 1996	ICE AGES AND THE EARTH'S ORBIT
	Dr. Richard Muller of the University of California at Berkeley will discuss recent findings about the controversial mechanism that may link our climate to astronomy.

3 FEB 1997	WHEN DID PHYSICS BEGIN?
	Dr. C.W. Francis Everitt of Stanford University will discuss some of the surprising results that emerge when one asks this provocative question.
10 FEB 1997	APPLICATIONS OF HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
	Dr. Christine E. Platt of the U.S. Department of Energy will describe recent outstanding successes in the development of high temperature superconductivity applications, including world-record demonstrations of electrical equipment, the continual improvement of wire performance and cost, and others.
24 FEB 1997	THE DISCOVERY OF LIQUID METALLIC HYDROGEN
	Dr. William Nellis of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will describe how he and his colleagues discovered the material believed to make up most of the solar system outside the sun.
3 MAR 1997	BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY IN SOLID STATE LASERS
	Jason Alexander ('92) of Lightwave Electronics will discuss the latest developments in laser devices and explore the potential impact of these devices on our everyday lives.
10 MAR 1997	SONOLUMINESCENCE: A TABLE-TOP ENIGMA
	Dr. Michael J. Moran of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will describe his work studying sonoluminescence, light generated by an acoustic interaction, which has defied physicists' attempts both to characterize its behavior and to find convincing explanations for its unusual properties.
17 MAR 1997	COMET HALE-BOPP IS UPON US
	Dr. Donald K. Yeomans of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will discuss why impressive comets like Hale-Bopp have had such an extraordinary impact upon life on Earth.
24 MAR 1997	EINSTEIN'S BIGGEST BLUNDER WASN'T
	Kevin Krisciunas of the University of Washington will discuss the possibility that completely empty space, a pure vacuum, actually has energy, and that this leads to a repulsive force that will cause the universe to expand forever.
7 APR 1997	THE EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES IN THE DISTANT UNIVERSE
	Dr. Nicole P. Vogt of the University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz will discuss galaxies recently observed with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck 10-meter telescopes, exploring their evolution back to half the age of the universe.
14 APR 1997	X-RAY MICROSCOPY AND EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LITHOGRAPHY
	Dr. David Attwood of the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will discuss new applications of short wavelength electromagnetic radiation.
21 APR 1997	THE PHYSICS OF MAGNETIC RECORDING
	Dr. Alison Chaiken of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will describe how physicists contribute to the design and manufacture of disk drives with ever-increasing storage capacity.
28 APR 1997	EXPLORING JUPITER'S MOONS WITH GALILEO
	Dr. Jeffrey M. Moore of NASA Ames Research Center will present recent discoveries on the geology and surface properties of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter.
5 MAY 1997	SOLAR ENERGY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND THE LAWS OF PHYSICS
	Geoffrey Syphers ('93) of Eley Associates will propose a scientific definition for sustainability and will explore resource dynamics in a solar economy.

8 SEP 1997	ATOMIC RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY
	Dr. Ronald Gronsky of the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will describe how scientists are able to look at the building blocks of matter using modern electron microscopes.
15 SEP 1997	WHAT IS A B FACTORY AND WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
	Dr. Helen Quinn of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center will describe the new facility under construction at SLAC and what physicists hope to learn with it.
22 SEP 1997	GLAST:   A KEENER EYE FOR THE GAMMA-RAY SKY
	Dr. Lynn R. Cominsky of Sonoma State University will describe plans for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, which is being designed to study nature's highest energy particle accelerators.
29 SEP 1997	AN EDUCATION IN PHYSICS:  THE TECHNICAL PATH TO CAREER AGILITY
	Kimberly Wiefling of Hewlett-Packard Company's Chemical Analysis Group will discuss her experience of the diversity of career opportunities available to those with an education in physics.
6 OCT 1997	FLYWHEELS AND FLYING CARPETS
	Dr. Richard F. Post of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will describe work on electromechanical batteries and magnetic levitation.
13 OCT 1997	AMORPHOUS SILICON ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING AND DISPLAY
	Dr. Robert A. Street of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center will describe how a new material, amorphous silicon, developed from a research curiosity to a ten billion dollar industry.
20 OCT 1997	AN ILLUMINATING DISCUSSION OF THE DISPLAY INDUSTRY
	David Lamb ('94) of the University of Alabama in Huntsville will demonstrate efficient means of illuminating common displays such as automobile dashboards and radios using thick optical waveguides.
27 OCT 1997	COMETS, METEORITES, AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
	Dr. Scott Sandford of NASA Ames Research Center will review the collection of cosmic dust from comets and asteroids, the analysis of meteorites from Antarctica, and NASA's forthcoming mission to retrieve a sample of a comet.
3 NOV 1997	USING MATHEMATICA IN PHYSICS EDUCATION
	Dr. Patrick Tam of Humboldt State University, the author of A Physicist's Guide to Mathematica, will discuss the usefulness and pitfalls of Mathematica in learning and teaching physics.
10 NOV 1997	PROBING THE MYSTERIOUS OUTER LAYERS OF THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE
	Dr. Arthur B.C. Walker II of Stanford University will present recent high-resolution images of the solar chromosphere and corona and discuss efforts to understand their anomalously high temperatures.
17 NOV 1997	NEW CHEAP AND EFFICIENT FUEL CELLS
	Dr. Steven J. Visco of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will discuss the development of thin ceramic membranes for fuel cells and oxygen generation technologies.
24 NOV 1997	EARTH INVADES MARS!  DETAILS AT 11:00
	Dr. Mark Adler of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay out NASA's ambitious plans for the robotic exploration of Mars and the preparation for eventual human missions to the red planet.
1 DEC 1997	X-RAY DIFFRACTION FROM TECHNOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT INTERFACES
	Dr. Michael F. Toney of the IBM Almaden Research Center will describe what a physicist can do in the computer industry and will focus on experiments to understand materials used in flat panel displays and magnetic recording heads.

2 FEB 1998	PHYSICS IN THE VINEYARDS
	Michael A. Porter of Mike Porter Vineyards Consulting, Inc. will review applications of high tech instrumentation and remote sensing in the premium wine industry.
9 FEB 1998	FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND REAL LIFE
	Dr. Richard R. Freeman of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and theUniversity of California, Davis/Livermore will discuss the physics behind extreme ultraviolet lithography.
23 FEB 1998	THE INVENTION OF THE TRANSISTOR
	Dr. Michael Riordan of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics will describe how the transistor was born at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1947-48, recounting the contributions of John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley in achieving this stunning breakthrough. (Dr. Riordan will autograph Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Ageand The Shadows of Creation : Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe afterward.)
2 MAR 1998	LEARNING PHYSICS THROUGH INQUIRY
	Dr. Barry Kluger-Bell of the Lawrence Hall of Science and the Exploratorium’s Institute for Inquiry will describe how inquiry-based science teaching can lead to deep understanding of content.
9 MAR 1998	FROM COMPUTER CHIPS TO POTATO CHIPS: HOW PLASMA PHYSICS AFFECTS OUR EVERYDAY LIFE
	Dr. Francis F. (Frank) Chen of the University of California, Los Angeles will discuss the challenges of plasma processing, especially of fast computer chips.
16 MAR 1998	THE INTEGRATED MATERIAL CHIP
	Dr. Xiao-Dong Xiang of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will describe a new approach to the discovery and optimization of solid state materials.
23 MAR 1998	EXPERIENCES OF A NEOPHYTE PHYSICS TEACHER
	Matthew Davis (’93) of Santa Rosa High School will discuss the challenges, triumphs, and rewards of teaching physics to today’s students.
30 MAR 1998	SMALL PARTICLES AND LARGE COMPUTERS
	Dr. Gregory Kilcup of the Ohio State University will describe how physicists are using the most powerful supercomputers to study the interactions of quarks.
6 APR 1998	SPACE TELESCOPES AND THE SEARCH FOR ORIGINS
	Dr. Alan Dressler of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington will discuss the quest with the Hubble Space Telescope and future space observatories to understand the origins of our Galaxy, our planet, and life.
20 APR 1998	RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS
	Dr. Dennis Derickson of Hewlett Packard will describe how erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and wavelength division multiplexing have changed the way fiber optic systems are designed.
27 APR 1998	HOW THE UNIVERSE GOT ITS SPOTS
	Dr. Janna Levin of the University of California at Berkeley will discuss how the global shape of the universe can induce patterns in the sky reminiscent of a leopard’s spots or even a zebra’s stripes.
4 MAY 1998	THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE
	Dr. Michael Bolte of the UCO/Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz will describe our current understanding of stars and their life cycles and explain how stellar observations can be used to set limits on the values of the expansion rate and average density of the universe.

14 SEP 1998	E=MC2, REALLY
	Dr. Glenn Horton-Smith of Stanford University will describe an experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center which, among other things, created tiny amounts of matter and anti-matter by colliding light with light.
21 SEP 1998	USING X-RAY EMISSION FROM COMPACT OBJECTS TO STUDY GRAVITY (PART 1)
	Dr. Lynn Cominsky of Sonoma State University will summarize the gravitational processes that produce X-ray emission in neutron stars and black holes, and review their observational status.
28 SEP 1998	USING X-RAY EMISSION FROM COMPACT OBJECTS TO STUDY GRAVITY (PART 2)
	Dr. Lynn Cominsky of Sonoma State University will explain how X-ray observations are used to determine fundamental physical parameters of neutron stars and black holes, and how these measurements can be used to test some predictions of General Relativity.
5 OCT 1998	THE NETWORKED SCIENCE MUSEUM
	Dr. Robert Semper of the Exploratorium will discuss new developments using the Internet to extend the museum's role in the public understanding of science.
12 OCT 1998	QUANTUM WHISTLES FROM SUPERFLUID HELIUM-3
	Dr. Richard Packard of University of California, Berkeley will describe the discovery of effects in a neutral quantum liquid similar to those seen in superconducting Josephson junctions.
19 OCT 1998	FEMTOSECOND X-RAYS AT THE ADVANCED LIGHT SOURCE
	Dr. Robert Schoenlein of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will discuss how femtosecond x-ray pulses can be generated using lasers and relativistic electrons, and how such pulses can be used to measure ultrafast events such as the motion of atoms in materials.
26 OCT 1998	LITTLE GREEN MEN AND ALL THAT
	Dr. Leo Blitz of the University of California, Berkeley will describe how radio telescopes are evolving into huge arrays that are capable of measuring the rate of expansion of the Universe, how stars and solar systems are born and whether there is intelligent life out there after all.
2 NOV 1998	SEARCHING FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (SETI): PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS
	Dr. Peter Backus of the SETI Institute will describe recent observations at the Arecibo Observatory by Project Phoenix and plans for even more powerful searches in the future.
9 NOV 1998	THE MILKY WAY'S GAMMA-RAY HALO: FIRST LIGHT FROM DARK MATTER?
	Dr. Dave Dixon of the University of California, Riverside will discuss the discovery of a gamma-ray "glow" which appears to surround the Milky Way galaxy, and its possible relationship to Galactic dark matter.
16 NOV 1998	NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY: LOOKING DOWN TO SEE INTO THE HEART OF GALAXIES
	Dr. David Nygren of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will discuss an emerging branch of science that couples the techniques of elementary particle physics with the goals of astronomy to provide a new way of seeing.
23 NOV 1998	DNA AND PROTEIN STRUCTURES
	Monika Ivancic ('93) of Oregon State University will discuss how Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy can be used to determine the structure and conformation of macromolecules.
30 NOV 1998	THE NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY: STATUS AND APPLICATIONS
	Dr. Jeff Koch of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will discuss the next generation of high-power lasers and applications to fusion energy and national security.

1 FEB 1999	IMAGING THE EARTH’S MAGNETOSPHERE
	Mario Marckwordt (’95) of the University of California at Berkeley will discuss a relatively new method of imaging using medium energy neutral atoms that will be employed by the IMAGE spacecraft.
8 FEB 1999	THE HUNT FOR BROWN DWARFS
	Dr. Gibor Basri of the University of California at Berkeley will describe the discovery in 1995 of the first substellar objects (intermediate in mass between stars and planets), and the great progress in the field since then.
22 FEB 1999	NANOCOMPUTERS IN A BOTTLE
	Dr. Stan Williams of Hewlett Packard Laboratories will describe how the combination of physics, chemistry and computer architecture may provide the platforms on which computation will be performed in the next century.
1 MAR 1999	PINCHING THE DOUGHNUT: QUANTUM BLACK HOLES AND THE GLOBAL STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
	Dr. Raphael Bousso of Stanford University will describe how quantum gravity leads to the production of tiny black holes in the early universe, and how they may have caused space to disintegrate into many daughter universes.
8 MAR 1999	MAGNETIC FIELDS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM, or, DON’T LEAVE EARTH WITHOUT A MAGNETOMETER!
	Dr. Margaret Galland Kivelson (also here) of the University of California, Los Angeles will discuss the generation and properties of magnetic fields of planets and moons and explain how one can use spacecraft magnetometer measurements to learn about the interiors of these bodies.
15 MAR 1999	THE RENEWABLE ENERGY TRANSITION
	Dr. Donald Aitken of the Union of Concerned Scientists will present a pictorial overview and discussion of the technologies and economics of the forthcoming major societal shift.
22 MAR 1999	RECENT ADVANCES IN PRECISION OPTICAL COATINGS
	Dr. Robert Sargent of Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. will review recent improvements in the performance of precision optical interference filters, and will describe how such filters are employed in fiber-optic communications systems.
29 MAR 1999	OPTICAL METROLOGY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS OF LITHOGRAPHY
	Dr. Gary Sommargren of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will describe the development of visible light interferometers to measure aspheric mirrors with sub-nanometer accuracy.
12 APR 1999	IMAGING OF QUANTIZED VORTICES IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS
	Dr. J.C. Séamus Davis of the University of California at Berkeley will describe studies using low temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy of the surfaces of several materials, measurements which yield much information about the quantum mechanics of a phenomenon which holds the promise of revolutionizing electronics, power transmission and transport.
19 APR 1999	WHAT CAN WE KNOW ABOUT THE UNIVERSE?
	Dr. Andreas Albrecht of the University of California, Davis will describe how modern cosmologists seek to understand not just how the Universe evolved, but its “initial conditions” as well.
26 APR 1999	THE PHYSICS OF FORENSIC SCIENCE
	Dr. Ian D. Hutcheon of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will discuss how applications of state-of-the-art analytical tools, such as high sensitivity mass spectrometry, are moving forensic science from the crime scene to the laboratory.
3 MAY 1999	PLASTIC ELECTRONICS: FROM SOLAR CELLS TO TRANSISTORS
	Dr. Sue A. Carter of the University of California, Santa Cruz will describe studies of printable polymer-based semiconductor electronics, including light emitting devices, solar cells, and transistors.

13 SEP 1999	AN OVERVIEW OF PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH
	Dr. Bruce Birkett of the University of California, Berkeley will describe the rapidly growing field of research that investigates how to best help students learn physics.
20 SEP 1999	DOLLARS AND STAMPS, X-RAY DIFFRACTION AND FLUORESCENCE
	Dr. John Dunning of Sonoma State University will demonstrate the striking differences seen when comparing five dollar bills from Australia and the US using both X-ray diffraction and fluorescence.
27 SEP 1999	OWL’S AIRWATCH: DETECTING THE HIGHEST ENERGY COSMIC RAYS
	Dr. David Lamb (’94) of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, will describe some of fundamental mysteries that are presented by the highest energy cosmic rays and his role in designing the optical system for OWL, a proposed giant air-shower observatory.
4 OCT 1999	ARE SOLAR NEUTRINOS OSCILLATING?
	Dr. Peter Sturrock of Stanford University will present data from two experiments which measure solar neutrinos and will explain how the data provide evidence for neutrino oscillations. (http://hbar.stanford.edu/sturrock/)
11 OCT 1999	ISAAC NEWTON AND BEN FRANKLIN WEREN’T ALWAYS RIGHT
	Dr. Joel Fajans of the University of California, Berkeley will explain some simple curiosities in charged plasma research.
18 OCT 1999	PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS WITH THE SUPER-KAMIOKANDE OBSERVATORY
	Dr. Kenneth Ganezer of CSU, Dominguez Hills will discuss new results from neutrino observations that go beyond the standard model of particle physics.
25 OCT 1999	THE RIGHT STUFF ON LIFT
	Dr. Lewis Carroll Epstein, author of Thinking Physics, explains why the airplane wing’s lift does not require a downdraft, believe it or not! (http://www.appliedthought.com/InsightPress/ThinkingPhysics.html)
1 NOV 1999	SCRUTINIZING STAR CLUSTERS WITH SPACE OBSERVATORIES
	Dr. Adrienne Cool of San Francisco State University will discuss current and future developments in the understanding of globular star clusters in the Milky Way, based on satellite observations.
8 NOV 1999	QUANTUM GRAVITY IN FLATLAND
	Dr. Steven Carlip of the University of California, Davis will describe the lessons we can learn about quantum gravity from looking at a simple model of general relativity in two dimensions of space plus one of time.
15 NOV 1999	STELLAR SEISMOLOGY USING A RECYCLED SPACECRAFT
	Dr. Derek Buzasi of the University of California, Berkeley will describe how he has converted the failed WIRE mission into an astroseismology mission.
22 NOV 1999	YOU SAY SCIENCE, MATH, LANGUAGE ARTS, AND HISTORY, I SAY ASTRONOMY!
	Dr. Laura Whitlock of Sonoma State University will demonstrate how just about everything can be taught using astronomy and astronomical concepts.
29 NOV 1999	EINSTEIN’S LABORATORY: THE FAST WORLD OF X-RAY ASTRONOMY
	Dr. Garrett Jernigan of the University of California, Berkeley, will explain how recent observations of black holes and neutron stars with NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer can be used to test General Relativity.

7 FEB 2000	GALILEO’S NEW VIEWS OF IO
	Dr. Rosaly Lopes-Gautier of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will present the results of the recent close flyby of the solar system’s most volcanically active body.
14 FEB 2000	THE UBIQUITY AND POWER OF ANALOGIES IN PHYSICS
	Dr. Douglas Hofstadter of Indiana University and Stanford University will show how the cognitive mechanism of borrowing of previous ideas in physics (and often blending two or more ideas in what seems to be an utterly incoherent fashion) has repeatedly enabled physicists to come up with radically new and deeply right insights and thus to leapfrog ahead at amazing speeds.
28 FEB 2000	ELECTRON TRANSFER IN BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES
	Dr. Daniel L. Cox of the University of California, Davis will give a simple overview of the physical ideas of electron transfer and the relevance of quantum mechanical tunneling and magnetic moments to processes in DNA and other biological molecules.
6 MAR 2000	ASTRONOMY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
	Dr. Joseph S. Tenn of Sonoma State University will describe progress in solar system, stellar, and extragalactic astronomy and show how the oldest science has become a branch of physics.
13 MAR 2000	ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR REMOTE OBSERVATORIES
	Tom McMahon (’85) of the University of Arizona will describe the design and construction of instrumentation for observatories at the South Pole and in space, including the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, Terrestrial Planet Finder, and gossamer optics.
20 MAR 2000	COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF GEOMAGNETIC FIELD REVERSALS
	Dr. Gary Glatzmaier of the University of California, Santa Cruz will present three-dimensional, time-dependent computer simulations of the geodynamo which help us understand the generation of the Earth's magnetic field in the outerfluid core, the super-rotation of the solid inner core, and magnetic dipole reversals.
27 MAR 2000	THE SEARCH FOR WIMPS
	Dr. Blas Cabrera of Stanford University will describe the use of a new generation of superconducting detectors in the search for dark matter in the form of weakly interactive massive particles.
3 APR 2000	A PHYSICS STUDENT’S TOOL KIT FOR INDUSTRY
	Angela Duprez of Sonoma State University will explain how a little knowledge of thin films, fiber optics, and LabVIEW helped her to complete an automated test station at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. for her summer internship.
17 APR 2000	ELECTRONIC PAPER: THE PHYSICS AND THE HUMAN ISSUES
	Nicholas Sheridon of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center will present the technology of the Gyricon and other approaches to electronic paper and will discuss the forthcoming impact on human culture.
24 APR 2000	COSMIC DARK MATTER AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION
	Dr. J. Anthony Tyson of Lucent Bell Laboratories will show how opportunities in pure and applied physics are often related through new technologies.
1 MAY 2000	GO WITH THE MICROFLOW
	Dr. Dawn Kataoka of Sandia National Laboratories will discuss recent developments in microfluidic devices and the trend toward smaller is better.
8 MAY 2000	SOAP BUBBLES, RAINDROPS AND INKJETS
	Dr. Lynn Orr of Stanford University will demonstrate some of the magical physics of phenomena controlled by surface tension.

11 SEP 2000	THE CROOKES RADIOMETER: HOW A TOY PUSHED THE FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS
	Dr. Andrés Larraza of the Naval Postgraduate School will present the history of the radiometer as an example of how science develops, two ways to reverse the direction of its spin, and a radiometer that responds directly to acoustic radiation pressure.
18 SEP 2000	STAR CLUSTERS: GALACTIC ASTROPHYSICAL LABORATORIES
	Dr. Randy L. Phelps of California State University, Sacramento will discuss the use of star clusters to investigate a wide variety of astrophysical questions in the fields of star formation, stellar evolution, Galactic structure and the distance scale and age of the Universe.
25 SEP 2000	SPECTACULAR IMAGES WITH ADAPTIVE OPTICS
	Dr. Imke de Pater of the University of California at Berkeley will present new images of Titan, Neptune, and Io obtained with the Keck 10-meter telescope.
2 OCT 2000	A COSMIC SOUP OF QUARKS AND GLUONS
	Dr. Iwona Sakrejda of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will describe an unusual state of matter, the Quark-Gluon Plasma, which filled the early universe for approximately 10 microseconds after the Big Bang, and which is now being recreated in laboratories around the world.
9 OCT 2000	ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE PHOSPHORS
	Dr. Michael Ansell of Sonoma State University will discuss current phosphor technologies and the prospects for improved materials that glow in the dark.
16 OCT 2000	FIRST, KILL A PHYSICIST
	Dr. Camille Minichino of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (retired) will describe how she writes mystery novels with science in the foreground, introducing physicists with engaging personalities—ones who don’t want to take over the world, don’t leave the house with two different socks on, and aren’t social misfits.
23 OCT 2000	THE AMAZING TALE OF THE TINY NEUTRINOS
	Dr. Giorgio Gratta of Stanford University will discuss the study of neutrinos in deep mines, the depths of the ocean, the Antarctic icecap, and the world’s largest particle accelerators and nuclear reactors, and the implications of the recent reports that some neutrinos have finite mass.
30 OCT 2000	QUANTUM MIRAGES
	Dr. Donald Eigler of IBM Almaden Research Center will show how electrons trapped in custom built nanometer structures called quantum corrals exhibit all of the nice properties of waves in confining structures.
6 NOV 2000	THE LONG SOUGHT SUPERHEAVY ELEMENTS
	Dr. Darleane Hoffman of the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will discuss the long search for SuperHeavy Elements and the recently reported discoveries of elements 114, 116, and 118 at Berkeley and 114 in Russia.
13 NOV 2000	THOROUGHLY MODERN MEASUREMENTS OF THE DENSITY AND CURVATURE OF THE UNIVERSE
	Dr. Andrew Jaffe of the University of California at Berkeley will show how recent measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation allow cosmologists to determine the curvature of the Universe and the distribution of its contents.
20 NOV 2000	ALMOST ABSOLUTE ZERO: THE STORY OF LASER COOLING AND TRAPPING OF ATOMS
	Dr. William D. Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology will discuss the work which won him a share of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics in this videotaped lecture.
27 NOV 2000	BIO-PARTICLE THREAT DETECTION USING LASER INDUCED AUTOFLUORESCENCE
	Dr. Richard DeFreez (’80) of Pacific Scientific Instruments will discuss the development of state-of-the-art realtime bio-particle detectors for defense against biowarfare and bioterrorist attacks.

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