| Spring 2001 | 
      
        | Date | Speaker | Topic | 
      
        |  | 
    
        | 18 January Thur
 | Chandraleka Singh Pittsburgh
 | Learning and Understanding How Students Learn and Understand Physics | 
    
        | 23 January Tues
 | Scott Bonham North Carolina State
 | Can Web Homework Really Make a Difference? | 
    
        | 01 February Thur
 | Sanjay Rebello Clarion
 | Adapting Research-Based Pedagogy: Lessons Learned | 
    
        | 06 February Tues
 | Mel Sabella Washington
 | The Role of Multiple Formats and Contexts in 
	Systematic Investigations of Student Learning | 
    
        | 27 February Tues
 | James Peebles Princeton
 | How I Learned to Love the Cold Dark Matter Model for Cosmic 
	Structure Formation and Still Avoid Settling Bets on the
	Cosmological Tests | 
    
        | 05 March Mon - CW103
 | Ken Wharton LLNL
 | Hot Electrons from Intense Laser-Solid Interactions | 
    
        | 12 March Mon - CW103
 | Zenghu Chang Michigan
 | High Intensity Laser for Ultrafast X-Ray Science | 
    
        | 15 March Thur
 | George  Musser Scientific American
 | Bridging Science and Journalism: The Inner Workings of Scientific American | 
| 19-23 March | Spring Break | 
    
        | 27 March Tues
 | Kip Thorne Cal Tech
 | LIGO and 
	LISA: 
	Opening the Gravitational Wave Window onto the Universe | 
    
        | 29 March Thur
 | Chunlei Guo LANL
 | Cartoon Solutions of Multielectron Problems in Strong Laser Fields | 
    
        | 10 April Tues
 | Michael O'Shea KSU
 | Nanostructered Magnetic Materials | 
    
        | 19 April Thur
 | Yun Wang Oklahoma
 | Probing Fundamental Physics with Cosmological Data | 
   
        | 30 April Mon
 | Paul Corkum NRC (Canada)
 | Spinning Molecules Until They Break |