September 15, 1997
Dr. Helen Quinn
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
What Is a B Factory and What Is It Good for?
September 8, 1997
Dr. Ronald Gronsky
University of California at Berkeley
Atomic Resolution Microscopy
May 5, 1997
Geoffrey Syphers
Eley Associates
Solar Energy, Sustainability, and the Laws of Physics
April 28, 1997
Dr. Jeffrey M. Moore
NASA Ames Research Center
Exploring Jupiter’s Moons With Galileo
April 21, 1997
Dr. Alison Chaiken
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Physics of Magnetic Recording
April 14, 1997
Dr. David Attwood
University of California at Berkeley
X-Ray Microscopy and Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
April 7, 1997
Dr. Nicole P. Vogt
University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz
the Evolution of Galaxies in the Distant Universe
March 24, 1997
Kevin Krisciunas
University of Washington
Einstein’s Biggest Blunder Wasn't
March 17, 1997
Dr. Donald K. Yeomans
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Comet Hale-Bopp Is Upon Us
March 10, 1997
Dr. Michael J. Moran
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Sonoluminescence: A Table-Top Enigma
March 3, 1997
Jason Alexander
Lightwave Electronics
Breakthrough Technology in Solid State Lasers
February 24, 1997
Dr. William Nellis
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
the Discovery of Liquid Metallic Hydrogen
February 10, 1997
Dr. Christine E. Platt
U.S. Department of Energy
Applicationsof High Temperature Superconductivity
February 3, 1997
Dr. C.W. Francis Everitt
Stanford University
When Did Physics Begin?
December 2, 1996
Dr. Richard Muller
University of California at Berkeley
Ice Ages and the Earth's Orbit
November 25, 1996
Susan Owen
Stanford University
Getting to the Bottom of a Volcano With Gps
November 18, 1996
Greg Sprehn
Massie Research Laboratories, Inc.
an Adaptive Optic
November 11, 1996
Dr. Saul Perlmutter
E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Weighing the Universe With Supernovae
November 4, 1996
Dr. Kai Woehler
United States Naval Postgraduate School
the Pauli-Jung Discussion and Quantum Reality
October 28, 1996
Dr. Jeffrey Koch
FANUC Berkeley Laboratory
Optical Position Sensors for Robots and Other Applications