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September 30

Nuclear Archaeology in Iraq: The Hunt for Saddam Hussein's Weapons
Dr. Jay Davis
Environmental Programs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Abstract

October 7

A Physicist's Approach to Violin Making
Dr. William Atwood
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Abstract

October 14

The Search for Baryonic Dark Matter via Microlensing
Dr. Kim Griest
Dept. of Physics, UC San Diego

October 21

Quantum Information and Quantum Computation
Dr. John Preskill
California Institute of Technology

October 28

String Duality -- What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?
Dr. Joe Polchinski
Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara
Colloquium

November 4

RESCHEDULED

November 11

DNA Triplets and Human Disease
Dr. Norman Arnheim
Dept. of Biological Sciences, USC

November 18

Synchronous Picosecond Sonoluminescence
Dr. Seth Putterman
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UC Los Angeles

November 25

Physics at the Edge: Strange States in the Quantum Hall Effect
Dr. Matthew Fisher
Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara

December 2

Superspectroscopy
Dr. Michael Peskin
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center