| date | speaker | institution | title | host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 10 | Sid Redner | Boston University | "Aggregation Kinetics in Gelation, Traffic, Wealth, and other Everyday Phenomena" | Gould |
| September 17 | Bill Klein | Boston University | "The Physics of Earthquakes" | Gould |
| September 24 | Karin Dahmen | Harvard University | "Hysteresis, Avalanches, Earthquakes, and Plain Old Criticality" | Kudrolli |
| October 1 | Nathan Israeloff | Northeastern University | "Disco Honey? Probing Nanoscale Dynamics in Glass" | Gould |
| October 8 | Mehran Kardar | MIT | The `Friction' of Vacuum, and other Fluctuation-Induced Forces - Abstract | Kudrolli |
| October 15 | no colloquium | - | - | - |
| October 22 | Chris Marone | MIT | "Laboratory Derived Friction Laws for Seismic and Aseismic Faulting" | Kudrolli |
| October 29 | Sharon Finberg | Penn State University | "He atom scattering studies on Aluminum surfaces" | Gould |
| November 5 | Daniel Hong | Lehigh | Effect of excluded volume and gravity on granular dynamics: 'Fermi statistics' and condensation | Kudrolli |
| November 6, 7 | physics symposium | Talks by Gene Mazenko, Ray Mountain, Jon Machta, Fereydoon Family, Jan Tobochnik, Ivan Kramer, Fred Wu, and panel discussion moderated by Peter Reynolds with Bruce Boghosian and Richard Brower. | ||
| Special Seminar: Tuesday, November 10, 4:00 pm | Kristian Schaadt | Clark & Niels Bohr Institute | Quantum Chaos and Vibrating Plates | Kudrolli |
| November 12 | K. R. Sreenivasan | Yale University | "Conundrums of Scaling in Turbulence" | Gould |
| November 19 | Virginia Long | SUNY Binghamton, Chemistry | tentative title: "Far-infrared study of the Jahn-Teller effect in a fulleride salt" | Landee |
| November 26 | Thanksgiving | - | - | - |
| December 3 | Randal Harrington | University of Maine | "Theoretical Frameworks for Conducting Research in Physics Education: An Example from Electrostatics." view abstract | Gould |
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