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Date Speaker Institution Title/Topic Sept. 5 Eugene Clark TU Physics of Quasars Sept. 5 David Hough TU Parsec-Scale Radio Jets in Quasars Sept. 5 Gordon MacAlpine TU Alchemy and the Roestta Stone: Elements from a Crustacean
Sept. 12 Dennis Ugolini TU Charging Issues in LIGO, or How a Few Electrons Can Ruin Your Whole Day Sept. 12 Jennifer Steele TU Plasmonics: Big Ideas in a Nanoworld Sept. 12 Daniel Spiegel TU Localized Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals
Sept. 19 Erin Beitel TU Plasmonic Band Gap Manipulation in Silver Nanogratings Sept. 19 Eric Danielson TU Modeling Debris Disk Observations from the Spitzer IR Spectrograph Sept. 19 Bobby McKinney TU Development of a Capacitive Probe to Measure Surface Charge Sept. 19 Steven Vanderveer TU On the Possibility of Positive Ion Removal from the Surface of Young, Hot Neutron Stars
Sept. 26 Luis Schettino TU Psychology Making Sense of the Brain
Oct. 3 Gordon MacAlpine TU Global Warming
Oct. 10 Gene Clark & Diana Glawe TU Physics & Engineering Science Designing High Performance University Buildings
Oct. 24 Daniel Spiegel TU A New Biophysics Course
Nov. 7 Jennifer Steele TU Sensors in Nanotechnology
Nov. 14 Volker Bromm UT-Austin The First Stars in the Universe
Nov. 21 Mark Holtz Texas Tech Nanophotonics Research at Texas Tech University
Nov. 28 Erin Beitel TU Plasmonic Band Gap Manipulation in Silver Nanogratings Nov. 28 Eric Danielson TU High-resolution Imaging of Parsec-scale Quasar Jets Nov. 28 Bobby McKinney TU Moving the LIGO Charge Probe into Vacuum
Dec. 5 E. J. Fischer TU Scanning Tunneling Microscopy on Graphite Films Dec. 5 Andy Hamel TU Surface Plasmons on Silver Films Dec. 5 Steven Vanderveer TU Determining the Surface Characteristics of Young, Hot Neutron Stars Dec. 5 Stephanie Wiele TU VLBI Polarization Imaging of the Quasar 3C275.1