August 29:    No seminar scheduled.

September 5:  Prof. Charles Holbrow, Colgate University, "Photon Quantum Mechanics for Undergraduates"

September 12: Colgate Student Research Talks, Michael Fine '02, "Galaxy Clustering at Redshift z~3"; Kyle Helland '02, "210Pb Dating of Sediment Core Samples from White Lake, MI"; Mariah Lyndaker '01, "Identification of Possible Supernova Remnants in the Galaxy M33"

September 19: Colgate Student Research Talks, Jennifer Ward '01, "Surface Composition of Mars:  Examination of Syrtis Major using Thermal Infrared Data"; Garrett Mason '03, "Infrared Studies of Binary Blackhole and Neutron Star Systems"; PJ Haglin '01, "Geometric Phase, Poincare Spheres and p- Rotators"

September 26: Colgate Student Research Talks, Michelle Caler '02, "Variable Stars in the BL Lacertae Field"; Jeyhan Kartaltepe '03, "1989-2000 Optical Light Curve for 3C 279 and a Possible X-ray Correlation"; Joe Loomis '01, "Terahertz Spectroscopy of Mn₁₂ Acetate, Fe₈, and Cr₄"

October 3:  Prof. Daniel Aalberts, Physics Department, Williams College, "Ultrafast Photoisomerization:  The First Step in Vision"

October 10:  No seminar, mid-term recess.

October 17:  "Celebrate and Demonstrate: Three Functions of Lathrop 154", Prof. Victor Mansfield & Computational Mechanics class  will be celebrating and demonstrating the new technology in our new computer classroom.  Come join us for special refreshments and some elegant uses of new technology.  154 LATHROP HALL.

October 24:  Dr. Romulo Ochoa, College of New Jersey, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Self-Diffusion in Silicon Carbide."

October 31: Shimon Malin, Colgate University, "Einstein, God and the Dice"

November 7:  No seminar scheduled.

November 14: Marcos Dantus, Michigan State University, "Observing and Controlling Molecules with Ultrafast Lasers"  (joint seminar with Chemistry Department)

November 21: No seminar scheduled.

November 28:  Alan Middleton, Syracuse University, Physics Department, "The Dynamics of Jello on Sandpaper and Rain on Dirty Windshields"  Seminar rescheduled to January 30, 2001.

December 5: Niels Bohr movie.

December 1: Dr. Andrea Stout, Physics & Astronomy Department, Swarthmore College, "Using Optical Forces to Probe Single Molecules"  (Science Colloquium in 209 Lathrop, 3:30pm - refreshments at 3:15). 

January 23:    No seminar scheduled.

January 30:    Alan Middleton, Syracuse University, Physics Department, "The Dynamics of Jello on Sandpaper and Rain on Dirty Windshields"

February 6:    Craig Caylor, Cornell University, "Protein Crystallization is a Dirty Wor(l)d"

February 13:  Colgate Physics & Astronomy Faculty, "Physics & Astronomy - Programs and Opportunities" (a discussion on concentration requirements, pre-engineering, research opportunities and job opportunities)

February 20:  Albert Bartlett (CU'44), Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Colorado,  "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy"

February 27: Shane Larson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Montana State University, "The Dark Side of the Galaxy: Investigating the Nature of the Galactic Halo"

March 6: No seminar.

March 8: Nathan Harshman, University of Texas at Austin, "Exact Symmetries, Violated Symmetries and Asymmetry in Particle Scattering"  Note special day for this seminar (Thursday

March 13:  No seminar, mid-term recess.

March 20: Prabasaj Paul, University of Utah, Physics Department, "Tailoring Bandgaps Using Variational Methods"

March 27: Paul Urayama, Cornell University Biophysics Department, "Pressurizing Biological Materials: Why You Don’t Have to Squeeze Hard to Get Large Effects"  

April 3:   Joseph Shiang,  GE Corporate Research and Development, "Medical X-Ray Detectors:  An Application of Physics and Chemistry in Industry"

April 10: Thomas Morgan, Wesleyan University, Physics Department, "A Highly Excited Atom in an Electric Field:  An Interface Between the Classical and Quantum World"

April 17: Suzanne Amadore Kane, Haverford College, Physics Department, "Adventures in Biophysics:  Applications of Laser Tweezers in Immunology and Biopolymer Micromanipulation"

April 24: Colgate Student Research Talk, Henry Sztul '01 & PJ Haglin '01, "The Competitve Edge: Mathematical Modeling and Video Analysis in Contemporary Sports"

May 1: Colgate Student Project Presentations - Physics 282 (157 Lathrop)

March 31: Observatory Open House: Colgate University’s Foggy Bottom Observatory would like to invite the Hamilton community to a spring open house March 31, 2001.  Rain date is April 1.  Hours are 8pm to 10pm.  Come see the first quarter moon, Jupiter, and Saturn through the observatory telescopes, and learn about your favorite constellations.  Viewers of all ages welcome.  

April 24: Ravi Ravindra, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, "Science and the Sacred", 209 Lathrop, 8:00 pm - refreshments served at 7:30pm.  (Evening lecture sponsored by CORE SP, Divisions of University Studies & Natural Science & Math; and Dean of Faculty's Office)

April 25: Ravi Ravindra, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, "Einstein, Relativity Theory and Religion" (217 Lathrop, 10:30 am - refreshments served at 10:20 am)

April 25: Martin Harwit, Professor Emeritus, Astrophysics at Cornell University, former director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, "The Extragalactic Infrared Background Radiation and its Cosmological Implications" (217 Lathrop, 8:00pm - refreshments served at 7:45pm)