| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 31 Mar | Daniel Phillips | Electroweak Unification: Theoretical Background and
Experimental Evidence You should have recieved the reading handout from Perkins in your mailbox. |
| 7 Apr | Yannis Parpottas | The Z0 Resonance Measurements of cross sections and forward-backward asymmetries at the Z resonance and determination of electroweak parameters, The L3 Collaboration , Eur. Phys. J. C 16, 1-40 |
| 14 Apr | Deepshikha Choudhury | Physics Beyond the Standard Model Precise Determination of Electroweak Parameters in Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering, G.P. Zeller et al., Phys. Rev. Lett 88, 091802 (2002). A Departure from Prediction: Electroweak Physics at NuTeV K.S. McFarland et al. |
| 21 Apr | Group Discussion | Debate: Are Physicists Arrogant? Arrogance - A Dangerous Weapon of the Physics Trade?, J. Murray Gibson |
| 28 Apr | George Caia | The case for the relativistic hot Big Bang cosmology P.J.E. Peebles, D.N.Schramm, E.L.Turner, and R.G. Kron, Nature 352, 769 (1991). You should have recieved this handout in your mailbox. |
| 5 May | Yuri Pidopryhora | Inflation and the New Era of High-Precision
Cosmology Alan H. Guth. You should have recieved this handout in your mailbox. |
| 12 May | Catalin Matei | Cosmology / Cosmic Microwaves First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Preliminary Maps and Basic Results, C.L. Bennett et al. |
| 19 May | Ishaq Hleiqawi | University of Washington Gravity Experiments Submillimeter Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law: A Search for "Large" Extra Dimensions, C. D. Hoyle, U. Schmidt, B. R. Heckel, E. G. Adelberger, J. H. Gundlach, D. J. Kapner, and H. E. Swanson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1418 (2001). |
| 26 May | no meeting | Memorial Day |