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Liquid Helium Nano-droplets, a Superfluid Solvent? (February 1, 2000)

Speaker(s): Ken Janda

Confining a Fusion Fire: A Grand Challenge for Science and Technology (January 18, 2000)

Speaker(s): Dale M. Meade

What’s in Your Hard Drive: Thin Films for Magnetic Recording (November 30, 1999)

Speaker(s): Matt Carey (’85)

Challenges and Opportunities for Affordable Human Exploration of the Solar System (November 16, 1999)

Speaker(s): John C. Mankins (’78)

Optical Materials for Waveguide and Fiber Devices (November 9, 1999)

Speaker(s): Denise M. Krol

The Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope, or, Why I Should Have Paid Attention in Theo-Mech (October 26, 1999)

Speaker(s): Roger Carlson (’89)

The Formation of Stars and Planetary Systems in Our Era (October 5, 1999)

Speaker(s): Mary Barsony

Use of Naturally Occurring Low Frequency Electromagnetic Waves for Determination of Feologic Structure (September 21, 1999)

Speaker(s): Stephen K. Park

Something Quantum This Way Comes (May 4, 1999)

Speaker(s): Paul Kwiat

What Can Happen in a Few Femtoseconds? (April 20, 1999)

Speaker(s): Harry Tom

Colloquium

Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 p.m. in Shanahan B460. The talks are open to all students and to the public, and are frequently attended by scientists from the other Claremont Colleges, Cal Poly Pomona, and others. The series features speakers from a broad range of institutions and fields of physics.