Date	Speaker	Institution	Title/Topic
Sept. 9	Dan Spiegel	TU	Pattern Formation in  Liquid Crystals
Sept. 9	Gene Clark	TU	A Principal Component Analysis of  Quasars
Sept. 9	David Hough	TU	Radio-Loud  Quasars and Active Galaxies
Sept. 9	Dennis Ugolini	TU	Developing a LIGO Prototype Lab at Trinity
***MONDAY***, Sept. 15, ***in SLH***	Caty Pilachowski	Indiana U.	Neutron-Capture Nucleosynthesis in the Early Galaxy
Sept. 23	Barbara McClain	TU	Adventures with Quasi-Particles and Gamma Rays
Sept. 23	Brett Miracle	TU	Laser Pulse Characterization by Autocorrelation
Sept. 23	Alan Puchot	TU	Refinement of Liquid Crystal Samples
Sept. 23	Ben Sadler	TU	Parsec-scale Radio Jets in the Quasars 3C207 and 3C263
Sept. 30	Truc Bui-Thanh	TU	Spatial Variation of Parameters in Partial Differential Equations
Sept. 30	Elliot Johnson	TU	Electric Field Gradients in Liquid Crystal Samples
Sept. 30	Landon Nemoto	TU	Numerical Modeling of Partial Differential Equations using MATLAB
Oct. 7	Jason Hafner	Rice U	Nanometer Scale Charge Density Mapping in Biological Systems
Oct. 14	Vijay Jain	SwRI	High Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
***WEDNESDAY***, Oct. 22	Donald Olson	Texas State U - San Marcos	From Shakespeare's Stars to van Gogh's Skies: Astronomy in Art, Literature, and History
Oct. 28	Tim Gilheart	Rice U	Building Single-Electron Transistors on Silicon-Germanium
Nov. 4, ***in SLH***	Fred Loxsom	TU	Renewable Energy in Costa Rica
Nov. 11	Steve Alexander	Southwestern U	Numerically Integrating the Schroedinger Equation
Nov. 18	"2-D Brian Greene"	Columbia U	Welcome to the 11th Dimension (film based on his book, The Elegant Universe)
Dec. 9	Jennifer Steele	Rice U	Plasmon Excitations on Metallodielectric Gratings
***THURSDAY***, Dec. 11,***3:00 PM***	Theodosia Gougousi	North Carolina State U	Stability and Interface Reactivity of High Dielectric Constant Materials
Dec. 16	Sofie Tan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Single Molecule Study of Protein-Protein Interaction Dynamics in Cell Signaling