March 9, 2000

Richard Brown,

Dept of Chemistry, MTU

Title: "The Electronic Structure and Stabilities of the

Symmetric Gas Phase Anion Clusters of Hydrogen Fluoride"

March 16, 2000

Jeffrey Skolnick

Danforth Plant Science Center; St. Louis, Missouri, Laboratory of Computational Genomics

Title: " Prediction of Protein Structure and function on a Genomic Scale"

March 23, 2000

Michael Wertheim

Physics Department, MTU

Title: "Hard Particle Fluids: Hard Problems"

March 30, 2000

William H. Cooke

Center for Biomedical Engineering, MTU

Title: "Frequency domain analyses explore Human Cardiovascular Responses to Microgravity"

April 6, 2000

Shura A. Hayryan

Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Title: "A Simple Method for Parallel Calculations of

Biopolymer Energies with Continuos Potential"

April 13, 2000

****Together with Chemical Engineering****

Christodoulos A. Floudas

Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University

Title: "Deterministic Global Optimization in Molecular Structure Prediction"

April 20, 2000

Constantino Tsallis

Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and

Physics Department, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Title: "When is Boltzmann-Gibbs Statistical Mechanics Valid"

April 27, 2000

John A. J. Matthews

New Mexico Center for Particle Physics, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy,

University of New Mexico

Title: "The Dark Side of Cosmic Rays"

May 4, 2000

Robert Swendsen

Department of Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Title: "Transition Matrix Monte Carlo Simulations"

May 11, 2000

To be announced