5 April 2001
Professor Richard Ellis, Caltech, Director Palomar Observatory
"The Origin and Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies"
12 April 2001
Prof. Andrei Shkel, UCI
"Smart MEMS: Micro-Structures with Error-Suppression and Self-Calibration
Control Capabilities"
19 April 2001
Dr. Michael Rich, UCLA
"The Age and Composition of the Galactic Bulge"
26 April 2001
Dr. Douglas Michael, Caltech
"Where have all the Earthly neutrinos gone?"
3 May 2001
Dr. Stuart Shaklan, JPL
"The Space Interferometry Mission"
10 May 2001
Prof. Gary Chanan, UCI
"CELT: The California Extremely Large Telescope"
17 May 2001
Prof. Eric Adelberger, University of Washington
"Sub-millimeter Tests of the Gravitational Inverse Square Law"
24 May 2001
Prof. Gudrun Magnusdottir, UCI
"How the earth moves heat poleward: A sensitivity study."
31 May 2001
Dr. Peter Gorham, JPL
"Extreme Astronomy: Neutrinos from Beyond the Edge"
7 June 2001
tbd
Winter Quarter, 2001
11 January 2001
Kathryn Moler, Stanford University
"Mesoscopic Magnetic Tests of Mechanisms of Superconductivity"
18 January 2001
Jill Tartar, SETI
"SETI 2020: A Roadmap For Future SETI Observing Projects"
25 January 2001
James Smith, LANL
"What is in between plain old superconductivity and magnetism"
1 February 2001
Robert Ecke, LANL
"Soap Film Hydrodynamics - Wakes & Turbulence"
8 February 2001
Michael Dennin, UCI
"A theory of spatiotemporal chaos: What does that mean and how
close are we?"
15 February 2001
Alycia Weinberger, UCLA
"The Evolution of Dusty Circumstellar Disks"
22 February 2001
Jason Prochaska, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
"Searching for Metals in the Early Universe and Baryons in the Local
Universe"
1 March 2001
Lori Lubin, Johns Hopkins
"Charting Cluster Evolution since z ~ 1"
8 March 2001
Dr. David Kirkby, Stanford University
"Physics Through the Looking Glass: What's the Matter with Antimatter?"
15 March 2001
Akira Hasegawa, Kobe Womens University and Himeji Dokkyo University
"Current Status of Ultra-High Speed Optical Transmissions"
Note: Prof. Hasegawa is the most recent winner of the prestigious
James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.
Fall Quarter, 2000
28 September 2000
Dr. Steven White, UCI
Materials Chaos and High Temperature Superconductivity
5 October 2000
Andrew Lange, Caltech
Imaging the Early Universe: First Results from BOOMERANG
12 October 2000
Dr. Jason X Prochaska, Carnegie Observatories
Investigating Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe with Quasar Absorption
Line Systems
19 October 2000
(no Colloquium scheduled on this day)
26 October 2000
Prof. Alex Zettl, UC Berkeley
Big Fun with Small Structures: Nanotubes
2 November 2000
Prof. Riley Newman, UCI
Gravitation and materials research with a cryogenic torsion pendulum
9 November 2000
(no Colloquium scheduled on this day)
16 November 2000
Prof. B. Finlayson-Pitts, UCI
Reactions at Air-Water Interfaces in the Atmosphere: The New Frontier
in Atmospheric Chemistry
23 November 2000
(no Colloquium -- Thanksgiving holiday)
30 November 2000
Prof. Myron Bander, UCI
Black Holes and Particle Physics