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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Film presentation Cosmos - "A Sky Full of Ghosts"
Dr. Joel Fajans University of California, Berkeley Rapping and Studying Antihydrogen Atoms
Dr. Robert Van Buskirk Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Technology Innovation Forecasting
Dr. Leif Svalgaard Stanford University the Effects of Solar Activity on Our Earth
Dr. Beate Heinemann University of California, Berkeley the Large Hadron Collider: Observation of the Higgs Boson
Dr. Derek Padilla Santa Rosa Junior College the Side Effects of Research: Making Room for the Unexpected
Dr. Nicholas Boruta What Did This Physicist Do? The Many Facets of an Applied Physics Career!
Dr. Lydia Sohn UC Berkeley Node-Pore Sensing--How a Simple Four-Terminal Measurement Can Screen Cancer Cells
Melissa Crain Geissinger New Skin Media Physics Springboard: From Ba to Entrepreneur
Dr. Jocelyn Read CSU Fullerton Listening to the Symphony of Spacetime
Dr. Charles Lawrence the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory the Universe According to Planck
Dr. Hendrik Ohldag the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Big Instruments and Tiny Magnets - Doing Science With a Synchrotron
Dr. Doug Clarke Lawrence Livermore National Lab Star in a Jar: The Physics of Single Bubble Sonoluminescence
Dr. Warren Wiscombe NASA the Beginning of the Climate Field in the 1970s
SSU physics major Kevin Zack Ssu's First Satellite: T-Logoqube
Dr. Deborah Bard SLAC and KIPAC the Dark Universe Through Einstein's Lens
Dr. Jerry Johnston from Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. What (Some) Physicists Do: One Hillbilly's Perspective on the Subject
Dr. Leslie Atkins California State University, Chico Developing Scientific Writing: Curriculum and Classrooms to Support Science Literacy
Dr. Joel Ager the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Solar Fuels Production by Artificial Photosynthesis
Dr. Giorgio Gratta Stanford University Exo and the Quest for Majorana Neutrino Masses