2000-2001 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series 

15 Sept.	Prof. Timothy Halpin-Healy - Barnard College BSC 106 - 2:30 PM Title: "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 Title: "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 Title: "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 Title: "Constructing a Philosophy of Engineering" [abstract]
20 Oct.	Dr. Alexander D. Cronin - M.I.T. - Cambridge, MA TBL 202 - 2:30 PM Title: "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 Title: "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 Title: "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 Title: "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 Title: "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 Title: "Hotspot Detection: Remote Monitoring of Fires and Volcanoes Using Weather Satellites"
4 Jan.	Dr. Michael I. Larkin - Columbia University TPL 205 - 4:15 PM Title: "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 Title: "Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers: A Bright Idea"
11 Jan.	Dr. James Voelkel - The Johns Hopkins University TPL 205 - 2:30 PM Title: "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 Title: "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 Title: "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 Title: "Prospects for the Physical Implementation of Quantum Computation"
2 March	Dr. Susanne Lee - SUNY Albany TPL 205 - 2:30 PM Title: "The Illuminating Case of the Bent X-rays"
9 March	Prof. Jay Lawrence - Dartmouth College TPL 205 - 2:30 PM Title: "Nonexponential Decay and Quantum Measurement Paradoxes"
11 April	Alphonse Sterling - Marshall Space Flight Center TPL 205 - 12:00 NOON Title: "Current Investigations in Solar Physics"
13 April	Dr. Chad Orzel - Yale University TPL 205 - 2:30 PM Title: "Squeezed States in a Bose-Einstein Condensate"
18 April	Dr. Ted Jacobson - University of Maryland TPL 205 - 2:30 PM Title: "Black Hole Entropy and the Holographic Principle"
27 April	Dr. Jim Lerczak TPL 205 - 2:30 PM Title: "Oceanic Internal Waves: From Internal Tides to Internal Surf"
4 May	Dan Butts - Harvard Medical School TPL 205 - 2:30 PM Title: "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