| Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Abstract |
| 5/13/1999 |
Gerard 't Hooft |
Professor, Utrecht University |
The Holographic Principle |
Abstract |
| 1/25/1999 |
Helen Quinn |
SLAC |
Who Decides What Science to Teach in California Public Schools? |
Abstract |
| 2/1/1999 |
Nima Arkani-Hamed |
SLAC |
Large New Dimensions and Quantum Gravity Around the Corner |
Abstract |
| 2/8/1999 |
Val Telegdi |
Caltech/CERN |
Why did Arnold Sommerfeld never get the Nobel Prize? |
Abstract |
| 2/16/1999 |
Matthias Neubert |
SLAC |
A New Competitor in the Race for Direct CP Violation |
Abstract |
| 2/22/1999 |
John Bahcall |
Institute for Advanced Study |
Solar Neutrinos and Neutrino Oscillations |
Abstract |
| 3/8/1999 |
Tony S. Johnson |
SLAC |
The Role of JAVA in High Energy Physics |
Abstract |
| 3/15/1999 |
Nuala P. Ewins |
Stratigraphic Sciences, Chevron |
Geology in the Oil Business - Quenching the Thirst |
Abstract |
| 3/20/1999 |
Harald Fritzsch |
Professor, Munich University |
The Problem of Mass for Quarks and Leptons |
Abstract |
| 3/22/1999 |
Andreas Weber and Homer Antoniadis |
Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto |
Microdisplays and their Applications and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes: a Novel Emissive Display Technology |
Abstract |
| 3/27/1999 |
David Spergel |
Professor, Princeton |
MAP and the Emerging Standard Model of Cosmology |
Abstract |
| 4/3/1999 |
Chris Quigg |
Fermilab |
Physics Opportunities in Fermilab's Futures [full talk PDF] |
Abstract |
| 4/12/1999 |
James R. Fruchterman |
President and CEO, Arkenstone |
Adaptive Technology: Barrier Busting for People with Disabilities |
Abstract |
| 1/11/1999 |
John Seeman |
SLAC |
PEP-II So Far |
Abstract |
| 5/3/1999 |
Charles Beichman |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cal Tech |
The Search for Habitable Planets Beyond the Solar System |
Abstract |
| 8/23/1999 |
David Horn |
Professor, Tel Aviv University |
Neural Computing: A Meeting Point of the Physical and Life Sciences |
Abstract |
| 5/17/1999 |
Carl E. Wieman |
Professor, JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado |
Measurement of Parity Violation in Atomic Cesium: Particle and Nuclear Physics on a Tabletop |
Abstract |
| 6/7/1999 |
Paul F. Kunz |
SLAC |
Bringing the Web to America |
Abstract |
| 6/28/1999 |
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky |
Director Emeritus, SLAC |
Analysis and Discussion of the Cox Report on Chinese Intelligence Activities |
Abstract |
| 10/25/1999 |
Krishna Rajagopal |
Professor, MIT |
Exploring the QCD Phase Diagram |
Abstract |
| 11/1/1999 |
Glennys Farrar |
Professor, NYU |
Astrophysics and Particle Physics: Complementary Tools and Unraveling a Paradox Concerning Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays |
Abstract |
| 11/15/1999 |
Daniel M. Kammen |
Professor, Energy & Resources Group, UC Berkeley |
Energy Technology R&D: A Policy Challenge |
Abstract |
| 11/22/1999 |
Baruch Blumberg |
Director of Astrobiology Institute, NASA Ames |
Astrobiology |
Abstract |
| 11/29/1999 |
Joseph E. Shepherd |
Professor of Aeronautics, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech |
Aviation Safety and the Crash of Flight 800 |
Abstract |
| 12/6/1999 |
Ted Lempert |
Assemblyman |
Education in California: A New Era |
Abstract |
| 12/9/1999 |
Lev Okun |
Professor, ITEP Moscow |
Mass, Photons, Gravity |
Abstract |
| 12/13/1999 |
Emlyn Hughes |
Professor, Caltech |
The SLAC Fixed Target Program |
Abstract |
| 9/20/1999 |
Claudio Pellegrini |
Professor, UCLA |
Galileo and the Phases of Venus - Transition from Mythology to Science |
Abstract |
| 4/19/1999 |
Antonio Rangel |
Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University |
A Map to the Debate on Social Security Reform |
Abstract |