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Autumn Quarter 1993 - Gene F. Mazenko, Chairman

Oct. 7
Michael J. O'Donnell
University of Chicago
Electronic Publication, Refereeing, and the Economy of Attention

Oct. 14
Albert Libchaber
Princeton University
Playing with Proteins: Polymers and Motors

Oct. 21
no colloquium
Inaugural week

Oct. 28
E. Flanagan
California Inst. of Technology
Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binaries and the Information They Carry

Nov. 4
Stephen H. Shenker
Rutgers University
Random Matrices and Random Surfaces

Nov. 11
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Fullerenes, Tubules and Their Unique Properties
Zachariasen Lecture

Nov. 18
Geoffrey Grinstein
IBM/Watson Research Center
Coherent Periodic Oscillations in Noisy Systems

Nov. 25
Thanksgiving Holiday

Dec. 2
Leo P. Kadanoff
University of Chicago
From lnterfaces to Singularities

Dec. 9
Jeffrey Harvey
University of Chicago
Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics

Winter Quarter 1994 - Peter G. O. Freund, Chairman

Jan. 6
George Crabtree
Argonne National Laboratory
Vortex Melting Phenomena in Superconductors

Jan. 13
David Kutasov
University of Chicago
QCD and String Theory

Jan. 20
David Thouless
University of Washington
Topological Quantum Numbers and the Quantum Hall Effect

Jan. 27
John Schiffer
University of Chicago/ Argonne National Laboratory
A Unique Form of Matter in the Condensed State:
Cold Classical Coulombic Systems

Feb. 3
Andre Leclair
Cornell University
On the Universality of Exact Solvability in Two Dimensional Physics

Feb. 10
Karl Rubin
Ohio state University
The Solving of Fermat's Last Theorem

Feb. 17
Stephan Meyer
University of Chicago
Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy

Feb. 24
Edward Witten
Institute for Advanced Study
Reflections Concerning the Fate of Space-Time

Mar. 3
A. C. Newell
University of Arizona
Do Resonantly Forced Internal Solitary waves Protect the fuel of Hurricanes?

Mar. 10
Morris Swartz
Stanford Linear Accel. Center
A Precise Test of the Electroweak Standard Model at the Polarized SLC

Spring Quarter 1994 - Dietrich Müller, Chairman

Mar. 31
Dale Meade
Princeton University
Deuterium-Tritium Fusion Experiments in Princeton

Apr.7
Lincoln Wolfenstein
Carnegie Mellon University
Lepton-Hadron Symmetry and Neutrino Mass

Apr. 14
Carl Fichtel
NASA Goddard Space Center
High Energy Gamma Ray Astrophysics: Results from the Compton Observatory

Apr. 21
Konrad Mauersberger
University of Minnesota
Another Ozone Problem?

Apr. 28
Brian Schwartz
APS/Brooklyn College
Life After the Ph.D.

May 5
Melvyn Shochet
University of Chicago
A View from the Top

May 12
Malcolm Beasley
Stanford University
Experimental Tests of the Symmetry of the Pair Wave Function
in High-Temperature Superconductors

May 19
David Grier
University of Chicago
Interactions, Microstructure, and Dynamics in Colloidal Phase Transitions

May 26
Christopher Stubbs
University of California/Sauta Barbara
Searching for Baryonic Dark Matter: A Report from the MACHO Collaboration

June 2
Pierre Sokolsky
University of Utah
Joules from the Sky:
Fly's Eye Results on Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays

Autumn Quarter 1994 - Isaac Abella, Chairman

Oct. 6
S. Chandrasekhar
University of Chicago
The Series Paintings of Claude Monet and the Landscape of General Relativity

Oct. 13
Robert Janssens
Argonne Nat'l Laboratory
Superdeformation and New Nuclear Symmetries

Oct. 20
Elias Snitzer
Rutgers University
Fiber optics

Oct. 27
Marshall Rosenbluth
Univ. of California/San Diego
Physics Issues for Fusion
Zachariasen Lecture

Nov. 3
Eric Mazur
Harvard University
Understanding or Memorization: Are We Teaching the Right Thing?

Nov. 10
James Hartle
Univ. of California/Sta. Barbara
Quantum Mechanics in the Light of Quantum Cosmology

Nov. 17
Aron Pinczuk
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Roton Excitations in Quantum Hall Systems

Nov. 24
Thanksgiving Holiday

Dec. 1
Hugh Wilson
University of Chicago
Non-linear Dynamics and Human Retinal Function

Dec. 8
Robert Sachs
University of Chicago
Schroedinger's Cat Revisited: Relation between Theory and Experiment in Physics

Winter Quarter 1995 - Thomas Witten, Chairman

Jan. 5
Carlos Bustamante
University of Oregon
Measurement of Elastic Response of Single DNA Molecules Using Magnetic Beads

Jan. 12
Charles K. Rhodes
University of Illinois/Chicago
"Since We Must Be Strong, We Must Also Be One":
Coherence Decree for X-ray Amplification

Jan. 19
Michael Turner
University of Chicago
Toward a Grander Big Bang Model

Jan. 26
Leonid Levitov
Mass. Institute of Technology
Plants, Packing, and Number Theory

Feb. 2
Earl Peterson
University of Minnesota
Do Neutrinos Oscillate?

Feb. 9
Gene F. Mazenko
University of Chicago
Science in the National Interest: Directions for US Science Policy

Feb, 16
C. Robert O'Dell
Rice University
The First Year of the Repaired Hubble Space Telescope

Feb. 23
David DiVencenzo
IBM/Yorktown Heights
Quantum Computing Using Spins

Mar.2
John Kirtley
IBM Yorktown Heights
Half-integer Flux Quanta and the Symmetry of the High-T_c Superconducting Order Parameter

Mar. 9
Boris Shklovskii
University of Minnesota
How Perfect is the Quantum Hall Effect?

Spring Quarter 1995 - Roland Winston, Chairman

Mar. 30
Michael Zeller
Yale University
Studying Decays of the Other K Meson

Apr. 6
Alexei Abrikosov
Argonne National Laboratory
Quantum Phenomena in Conductivity and Mesoscopics

Apr. 13
Walter F. Henning
Argonne National Laboratory
Nuclei Far from Stability: Physics Opportunities with Radioactive Beams

Apr. 20
Leonard Mandel
University of Rochester
Quantum and Non-local Effects in Optical Interference

Apr. 27
Nathan Seiberg
Rutgers University
Exact Results in Four Dimensional Field Theory

May 4
Sidney Drell
Stanford University
Technical Issues of a Test Ban

May 11
Owen Gingerich
Harvard -Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Circles of the Gods: Copemicus, Kepler, and the Ellipse

May 18
Robert Kirshner
Harvard University
Taking the Measure of the Universe

May 25
William Beckman
University of Wisconsin
Impact on a Utility, Utility Customers, and the Environment
of an Ensemble of Solar Domestic Hot Water Systems

June 1
Eugene Parker
University of Chicago
Spontaneous Discontinuities in Magnetic Fields.
The Optical Analogy and Stellar X-ray Emissions

Autumn Quarter 1995 - Bruce Winstein, Chairman

Oct. 5
Robert Eisenstein
National Science Foundation
The Times, They Are a-Changin'

Oct. 12
Carl Wieman
University of Colorado
Bose-Einstein Condensation in an Ultracold Gas

Oct. 19
Research Institutes' 50th Anniversary Symposium
A two-day program, Oct. 19-20, at Ida Noyes Hall
Interdisciplinary Science and Technology:
Past Experience and Prospects for the 21st Century

Oct. 26
Robert L. Jaffe
Mass. Institute of Technology/Harvard University
Quantum Mechanics in Twisting Tubes

Nov. 2
Christopher Hill
Fermi Nat'l Accelerator Lab
The Top Quark and the Origin of Mass

Nov. 9
T. D. Lee
Columbia University
Symmetry and Asymmetry
Zachariasen Lecture

Nov. 16
Norval Fortson
University of Washington
Using Atoms to Probe the Particle Physics Frontier

Nov. 23
Thanksgiving Holiday

Nov. 30
David B. Malament
University of Chicago
An Old Question about Newtonian Gravitation Theory

Dec. 7
Hellmut Fritzsche
University of Chicago
Puzzling Interactions of Light with Matter

Winter Quarter 1996 - Paul Wiegmann, Chairman

Jan. 4
No colloquium

Jan. 11
Michael Brenner
Mass. Inst. of Technology
Bouncing Through Minefields: A Bubble's Route to Sonoluminescence

Jan. 18
A. Polyakov
Princeton University
Turbulence and Quantum Field Theory

Jan. 25
Woowon Kang
University of Chicago
What is a Composite Fermion, Anyway?

Feb. 1
Jeffrey Harvey
University of Chicago
Duality in Field, Sting and Brane

Feb. 8
David Schramm
University of Chicago
Shadows of Creation: The Dark Matter of the Universe

Feb. 15
Gabriel Aeppli
NEC Research Institute
From Insulator to Superconductor with Hot and Cold Neutrons

Feb. 22
Robert Laughlin
Stanford University
Numerical Evidence for Strong Interaction Physics in Quantum Antiferromagnets

Feb. 29
AkiraTonomura
Hitachi, Ltd. Advanced Research Lab
Electron Holography

Mar. 7
Boris Altshuler
NEC/Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
From Anderson Localization to Quantum Chaos

Spring Quarter 1996 - Hellmut Fritzsche, Chairman

March 28
Roger Penrose, FRS
University of Oxford
Twistors and General Relativity: Some New Developments

Apri1 4
James P. Wolfe
University of Illinois
Seeing Sound in Solids

April 11
Alain Connes
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette
Gravity Coupled with Matter and the Spectral Action Principle

April 18
James W. Cronin
University of Chicago
The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatories

April 25
Susan N. Coppersmith
University of Chicago
Force Fluctuations in Granular Materials

May 2
Robert P. Geroch
University of Chicago
Whither Path Integrals?

May 9
Marc Kastner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phase Transitions in a Droplet of 30 Electrons

May 16
Jabez McClelland
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Nanofabrication Using Atom Optics

May 23
John Clarke
University of California/Berkeley
High-T_c SQUIDS: An Emerging Technology

May 30
Anthony J. Tyson
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Weighing the Universe with Weak Lensing

June 6
David T. Wilkinson
Princeton University
Even Closer Looks at the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Autumn Quarter 1996 - Susan Coppersmith, Chairman

Oct. 3
Peter Saulson
Syracuse University
Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection at LIGO '

Oct. l0
Andrew Strominger
University of California/Santa Barbara
String Theory and Black Holes

Oct. 17
Corbin Covault
University of Chicago
Gamma-Ray Astronomy with Solar Towers: Cracking men the Window

Oct. 24
David Kutasov
University of chicago
New Phenomena in Strongly Coupled Field and String Theories

Oct. 31
Special colloquium in honor of John Simpson
Eugene Parker, Heinrich Vök, Edward Stone, Roald Sagdeev, Juan Roederer, Reimar Lüst

Nov. 7
Stephan Meyer
University of Chicago
Precision Mapping of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) Anisotropy

Nov. 14
Chryssa Kouveliotou
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Three-Decade Mystery

Nov. 21
Kenneth Wilson
Ohio State University
Building a 2 lst Century Research University

Nov. 28
Thanksgiving

Dec. 5
Gregory Boebinger
AT&T BellLabs
Correlated Electrons in a Million Gauss

Dec. 12
Abhay Ashtekar
Penn State University
Quantum Theory of Geometry

Winter Quarter 1997 - Jonathan L. Rosner, Chairrnan

Jan. 9
Paul Mackenzie
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Progress in Lattice QCD

Jan. 16
Brian Greene
Cornell University
Strings, Black Holes, and the Structure of Spacetime

Jan. 23
Gerald Gabrielse
Harvard University
CPT Tests with Antiprotons and Antihydrogen

Jan. 30
James Shapiro
University of Chicago
Bacterial Pattem Formation: Does It Hold Lessons for Physics?

Feb. 6
Donald Schneider
Pennsylvania State Univ
Scanning for Violence at the Edge of the Universe

Feb. 13
David Goodstein
Calif Inst of Technology
The Big Crunch: The End of Expansion in Science

Feb. 20
Sidney Nagel
University of Chicago
Granular Liquids, Gases and Solids: What is Sand Anyway?

Feb. 27
Kenneth Lane
Boston University
TECHNICOLOR or How We Learned to Replace Ugly Higgs Bosons
with Beautiful New Strong Forces at High Energies

Mar. 6
Richard Garwin
IBM Watson Research Center
Adventures of a Physicist in National Security Technology and Policy
Zachariasen Lecture

Mar. 7
Steven Chu
Stanford University
Ultra-high Precision Atom Interferometry

Mar. 13
Henry Frisch
University of Chicago
The Top Quark and Beyond

Spring Quarter 1997 - Michael S. Turner, Chairman

Apr. 3
Mark Oreglia
University of Chicago
A Guide to Electron-Positron Annihilation Physics:
The Past, Present, and Future at LEP

Apr. 10
Charles Steidel
California Institute of Technology
The Epoch of Galaxy Formation: Found?

Apr. 17
Alan Dressler
Carnegie Observatories
Galaxy Evolution:
Clues from the Hubble Space Telescope about the Role of Environment

Apr. 24
David R. Nelson
Harvard University
Localization and Population Biology

May 1
No colloquium today, deferring to U of C Ryerson Lecture
Eugene N. Parker
Probing Space Through Measurements and Meditations on Your Porch

May 8
Fred C. Adams
University of Michigan
A Dying Universe: The Long Term Fate and Evolution of Astrophysical Objects

May 15
Albert Libchaber
Rockefeller University
Playing with DNA: Information Retrieval and Computation

May 22
John Carlstrom
University of Chicago
Imaging the Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect: Measuring the Age of the Universe

May 29
David Black
NASA Lunar Planetary Inst
The Search for Habitable Planets in Other Planetary Systems

June 5
Sidney Coleman
Harvard University
Quantum Mechanics in Your Face

June 12
Carl Wieman
Univ of Colorado at Boulder
Parity Violation in Atomic Cesium:
Atomic, Particle, and Nuclear Physics on the Same Table

Autumn Quarter 1997 - Corbin Covault, Chairman

Oct. 2
René Ong
University of Chicago
Exploring a New Window in Gamma-Ray Astrophysics

Oct. 9
Woowon Kang
University of Chicago
Probing the Unknowns of Sonoluminescence with Magnetic Fields

Oct. 16
David Grier
University of Chicago
Microscopic Origins of Macroscopic Phenomena in Model Condensed Matter Systems

Oct. 23
Elizabeth Simmons
Boston University
Why is This Quark Different from All Other Quarks?

Oct. 30
John N. Bahcall
Inst for Advanced Studies
What Have We Learned about Solar Neutrinos?

Nov. 6
Elizabeth Praton
Franklin & Marshall College
At the Center of the Bull's-Eye: A Curious Illusion in Galaxy Maps

Nov. 13
Marvin L. Goldberger
Univ of Califomia/San Diego
The Chicago Atom Bomb Project and Its Legacy
Zachariasen Lecture

Nov. 20
William Purcell
Ball Aerospace Corp.
Galactic Positron Production and Annihilation Processes

Nov. 27
Thanksgiving Holiday
no colloquium

Dec. 4
Jonathan Widom
Northwestern University
Biophysical Studies of Chromosomes:
Structure and Function of DNA, from Angstroms to Meters

Winter Quarter 1998 - Gene F. Mazenko, Chairman

Jan. 5
Steven M. Block
Princeton University
Using Optical Tweezers to Study Biological Motors

Jan. 15
Emil J. Martinec
University of Chicago
Gravitons, Membranes, Black Holes, and Matrix Mechanics

Jan. 22
Patrick A. Lee
Mass Inst. of Technology
High T_c Superconductors:
Unconventional Normal State & Newly Conventional Superconducting State

Jan. 29
Alan T. Dorsey
University of Florida
From Dendrites to Labyrinths:
The Morphology of Magnetic Flux Patterns in Superconductors

Feb. 5
James W. Dufty
University of Florida
Statistical Mechanics, Kinetic Theory and Hydrodynamics of Uniform Shear Flow

Feb. 6
Steven Chu
Stanford University
Experiments with Single Biomolecules

Feb. 12
Robert M. Wald
University of Chicago
Black Holes, Thermodynamics, and the Information "Paradox"

Feb. 19
Charles Marcus
Stanford University
Small Electronics and Quantum Chaos

Feb. 26
Alexander L. Fetter
Stanford University
Physics of Dilute Bose-Einstein Trapped Condensates

Mar. 5
Stephen L. Sass
Cornell University .
The Substance of Civilization: Materials Through the Ages

Mar. 12
Yuhai Tu
IBM Watson Research Center
Dynamics of Flocking: How Birds Fly Together

Spring Quarter 1998 - Peter G. O. Freund, Chairman

Apr. 2
R. Stephen Berry
University of Chicago
Topographies and Dynamics in Many Dimensions: Clusters and Protein Models

Apr. 9
Paul C. Sereno
University of Chicago
Bones, Ashes, and Island Continents: A Global Look at Dinosaur Evolution

Apr. 16
Valentine L. Telegdi
University of California/San Diego
Leo Szilard as an Inventor: Accelerators and More

Apr. 23
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University
Strings, Geometry and Physics

Apr. 30
Edward Farhi
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Computational Speedup from Quantum Mechanics

May 7
Paul Steinhardt
University of Pennsylvania
Penrose Tiling and Quasicrystals Revisited

May 14
Kevin Corlette
University of Chicago
Harmonic Maps between Surfaces

May 21
Peter Galison
Harvard University
Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics

May 28
Astronomy & Astrophysics Bishop Lecture
Scott Tremaine
Princeton University
The Case for Massive Black Holes in the Centers of Nearby Galaxies

June 4
Michael A. Weiss
University of Chicago
The Polymer Physics of DNA: Beyond the Flexible Worm

June 11
George Zweig
Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory
Listening to the Ear

Autumn Quarter 1998 - Stephan Meyer, Chairman

Oct. 8
Heinrich Jaeger
University of Chicago
Mesoscopic Self-Assembly with Polymers

Oct. 15
Harvey Moseley
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Submillimeter Probe of the Evolution of Cosmic Structure (SPECS)

Oct. 22 Jerome Friedman
Mass. Institute of Technology
New Horizons in Particle Physics
Zachariasen Lecture

Oct. 29
Type Ia Supernovae Conference Sessions
Alexei Filippenko, Univ of California/Berkeley
Cosmology with Type Ia Supemovae by the High-z Supenova Search Team
Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supenovae:
Is the Universe Really Accelerating?

Nov. 5
Paul Chaikin
Princeton University
Hard Spheres in Space

Nov. 12
Robert Sachs
University of Chicago
Gibbs, Von Neumann, and the "QCD Vaccuum"

Nov. 19
Evan Evans
Univ of British Columbia
Using Dynamic Force Spectroscopy to Explore Energy Landscapes
of Biomolecular Bonds and Structural Cohesion

Nov. 26
Thanksgiving Holiday

Dec. 3
Roger Hildebrand
University of Chicago
The Polarization Spectrum: Magnetic Fields and Embedded Stars

Dec. 10
Lawrence R. Sulak
Boston University
Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations...
First Indication of Physics Beyond the Standard Model?

Winter Quarter 1999 - Roland Winston, Chairman

Jan. 7
Michael Paesler
North Carolina State University
Near Field Microscopy

Jan. 14
Narkis E. Shatz
Science Applications lnt'l Corp.
Advances in Global Optimization with Application to the Physical Sciences

Jan. 21
H. Jeff Kimble
California Inst. of Technology
Quantum Information Science: The Promise, the Problems, and the Plumbing

Jan. 28
Kwang-Je Kim
Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago
From Synchrotron Radiation to Free Electron Lasers:
Current and Future Light Sources

Feb. 4
Thomas E. Henkel
Wagner College
Cooling with the Sun: Solar-Powered Thermal Air Conditioning

Feb. 11
Rainer Weiss
Mass. Inst. of Technology
An Update on LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory

Feb. 18
Thomas A. Witten
The University of Chicago
Crumpling: How Smooth Space Makes Sharp Structures

Feb. 25
Allan Kaufman
Univ. of California/Berkeley
Ray Phase-Space Methods for Wave Conversion Processes
in Plasma Physics and Oceanography

Mar. 4
Robert Littlejohn
Univ. of California/Berkeley
Falling Cats, Phases, and the N-Body Problem

Mar. 11
Emil Wolf
University of Rochester
The Development of Optical Coherence Theory

Spring Quarter 1999 - Kathryn Levin, Chairman

Apr. 1
Yau Wah
University of Chicago
Symmetry and Conservation Laws:
New Results from Kaon and Pion Decays

Apr. 8
Thomas J. Greytak
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Hydrogen

Apr. 15
Donald Saari
Northwestern University
Math of Different Dimensional Spaces

Apr. 22
Michael Marder
University of Texas/Austin
How Things Break

Apr. 29
David Griffiths
Reed College
The Power of Instruction: Teaching and Writing about Physics

May 6
Gordon A. Thomas
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
The Physics Behind an Optical Communications Breakthrough

May 13
J. Craig Wheeler
University of Texas
Asymmetric Supernovae, Magnetars, and Gamma-Ray Bursts

May 20
Steven Kivelson
University of California/Los Angeles
Relieving the Frustration:
High T_c superconductivity in Doped Antiferromagnets

May 27
Norbert F. Scherer
University of Chicago
The Institute for Biophysical Dynamics and
a Tale of Biology Impacting Chemical Physics

June 3
Roland Winston
University of Chicago
The Fluid Mechanics of Light

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