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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. C.D. Hoyle Humboldt State University Standing the Test of Time (And Space): 100 Years of General Relativity
Dr. Xiaosheng Huang University of San Francisco Light From Distant Supernovae
Dr. Frank Shu UC San Diego the Future of Energy
Dr. Frances A. Houle from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Making Fuels From Sunlight, Water and Air
Dr. Norna Robertson Caltech and the University of Glasgow Advanced Ligo and the Search for Gravitational Waves
Dr. Amir Huda CSU-Fresno the Changing Role of Biomedical Physics in Medicine
Dr. Vera Luth Stanford University Symmetries and Invariance in Particle Physics
Dr. Kurt Kornbluth the Uc Davis D-Lab: Interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning
Dr. Jim Gaffney LLNL Bringing Star Power to Earth
Chris Boshuizen Planet Labs Cubesats for Earth Imaging
Film presentation Cosmos - "The Electric Boy"
Andy Weir the Martian
Dr. Claire Poppett Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Probing Dark Energy With Optical Fibers and 5000 Robots
Dr. Jessica Werk University of California, Santa Cruz Galactic Flows and Winds
Dr. Andreas Heinrich IBM Research Manipulating Atoms
Dr. Michael Martin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Spectroscopic Imaging With a $100 Million Light Bulb
Dr. Marc Fisher Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Energy and Environment
Dr. Kenneth Freeman Australian National University Shrouds of the Night
Dr. Ann-Marie Madigan University of California, Berkeley Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
Dr. Lindsay Glesener University of California, Berkeley Studying X-Rays From Solar Flares