Aug 28 Classes Begin No Seminar - First Week of Classes! Sep 4 Ron Kantowski, OU "The effects of inhomogeneities on evaluating the cosmic mass parameter and the cosmological constant." Sep 11 George Kalbfleisch, OU "Monopoles at OU" Sep 18 Stan Robertson, Southwest Oklahoma State University "X-Ray Novae as Strong-Field Tests of General Relativity" Sep 25 Qimiao Si, Rice University "Which way did they go?: Experimental probes spin-charge separation in electronic systems." Oct 2 Reggie Dufour, Rice University "HST Observations of the Youngest of Nearby Galaxies: I Zwicky 18" Oct 13 Kenneth Trantham, The Australian National University "New Experimental Techniques in Low Energy Electron Scattering" (NOTE SPECIAL DATE) Oct 16 Paul Goldbart, UIUC "Vulcanized Matter" Oct 23 Greg Adkins, Franklin and Marshall College "QED and Positronium" Oct 30 Jagdish Mehra, University of Houston "The Birth of Quantum Mechanics" Oct 31 Jagdish Mehra, University of Houston Special History of Science Colloquium: "The Historical Origins of General Relativity" Nov 6 Brian Kendrick, Los Alamos "Geometrical Phases in Atomic Scattering" Nov 13 Tibor Herczeg, University of Rochester. "X-ray Novae" Nov 20 Moses Chan, Penn. State University "Superfluid Helium" Nov 27 Thanksgiving Vacation No Seminar Dec 4 Nicholas Bigelow, University of Rochester "Optical Molasses" Topic TBA Dec 11 Paul Houston, Cornell University "Photofragment Imaging Studies of Ozone Photodissociation: Implications for the Stratosphere"