April 14, 1986
Dr. Jeffrey Cuzzi
NASA Ames Research Center
Voyager Discoveries at Uranus
April 7, 1986
Dr. William T. Chu
UC Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
the Biomedical Use of Heavy Ions
March 31, 1986
Dr. William A. Fowler
California Institute of Technology
the Quest for the Origin of the Elements
March 17, 1986
Dr. Douglas R. Martin
Sonoma State University
What Do Physicists Do, Anyway? The Copernican Case
March 10, 1986
Dr. Darrel W. Smith
University of California, Riverside
the Discovery of the W and Z Particles
March 3, 1986
Dr. Alexander L. Fetter
Stanford University
Superfluid Physics
February 24, 1986
Dr. Richard Karas
Sonoma State University
Microcomputing in China
February 10, 1986
Dr. Lynn R. Cominsky
University of California, Berkeley
Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy
November 25, 1985
Dr. John Billingham
NASA-AMES Research Center
Life in the Universe
November 18, 1985
Dr. Joe Tenn
Sonoma State University
the Hugginses, the Drapers, and the Beginnings of Astrophysics
November 11, 1985
Dr. David E. Coope
SRI International
Frequency Modulation Spectroscopy
November 4, 1985
Dr. Neville Connell
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Erasable Optical Storage: A Revolution in Recording Technology
October 28, 1985
Dr. W. B. Herrmannsfeldt
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Heavy Ion Accelerators for Inertial Confinement Fusion
October 21, 1985
Eric Reiter
Computer Continuum
Interfacing Computers to Physics Experiments
October 14, 1985
Dr. Kenneth Manes
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
High-Powered Lasers
October 7, 1985
Dr. Jerome Swalen
IBM Research Laboratories
Optical Properties of Thin Films
September 30, 1985
Dr. Thomas Barnebey
Sonoma State University
Computer-Aided Acoustical Measurements
September 23, 1985
Dr. Lawrence B. Coleman
University of California, Davis
Why Saran Wraps
September 16, 1985
Ms. Helen V. Michel
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California
the Asteroid and the Dinosaur
May 13, 1985
Dr. Richard Packard
University of California, Berkeley
Experiments on Rotating Superfluid 3he: What's New Near Absolute Zero?