Date 
(2000)

Speaker

Speaker's 
Institution

Title

Local 
Host

Jan 18

Dave Luzzi*

University of Pennsylvania

 Nanoscopic Hybrid Carbon Materials:  Synthesis and Characterization

Tomanek

Jan 25

Toni Mezzacappa

Oak Ridge National Lab 

 Future Directions in Simulations of Core Collapse Supernovae

Hanson/
Austin

Feb 1

Bert Halperin

Harvard University 

 The Quantum Hall Effects

Dykman

Feb 8

Alan Soper

ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK

Secrets of water revealed in 1999

Billinge

Feb 15

Lawrence Krauss

Case Western Reserve University 

 Life the Universe and Nothing: Einstein's Biggest Blunder?

Lynch

Feb 22

 Walter Greiner

 University of Frankfurt

 On the Extension of the Periodic System

Bauer

Feb 29

P. Chris Hammel

Los Alamos National Lab

High Resolution Scanned Probe Magnetic Resonance Microscopy 

Billinge

Mar 7

SPRING BREAK 

Mar 14

Phaedon Avouris

IBM-Yorktown 

 Molecular and Nanoelectronics:  Carbon Nanotubes and Silicon Nano-devices

Tessmer

Mar 21

Joey Huston

Michigan State University

 Post-Millennial Physics

n/a

Mar 28

Shimshon Gottesfeld**

Los Alamos National Lab

Fuel Cells: Green and Efficient Sources for the Future

Schroeder

Apr 4

Paul Hansma

University of California, Santa Barbara

Single Molecule Mechanics Measured with the Atomic Force Microscope

Golding

Apr 11

Michael Thorpe 

Michigan State University

 Protein Flexibility and Folding

n/a 

Apr 18

Barbara Jacak

SUNY Stony Brook

Is the Quark Gluon Plasma in Hand?

Lynch

Apr 25

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