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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Carolyn MacKenzie Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Practicing Health Physics Around the World
Dr. Hongtao Shi Sonoma State University Impact of Magnetism Doping on the Optical Properties of Zinc Oxide
Dr. Ransom Stephens Emmy Noether and the Fabric of Reality
Dr. Peter Schwartz California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Carbon Reduction With Appropriate Technology
Joseph S. Tenn Sonoma State University Dimensional Analysis
Dr. Bill Imler Squirrel Hill Associates Low Cost Manufacturing of High Quality Solar Grade Silicon for Photovoltaics
Dr. Edward E. Prather University of Arizona General Education Earth, Astronomy and Space Science: A Stem Transformation Vehicle That Really Works
Nicole Ackerman Stanford University Cancer+Physics: Mice, Dice, and Faster Than Light Particles
Zee Hakimoglu ClearOne Planning for a Business Career With a Physics Degree: The Basics to Succeed That an Mba May Not Teach You
Dr. John Dunning Sonoma State University Geothermal Electricity From the Geysers: A 40 Year Perspective
Dr. Ilke Arslan University of California, Davis Characterization of Energy Materials Using Advanced Techniques in the Electron Microscope
Dr. Brenda Frye University of San Francisco How the Milky Way Came to Be
Dr. Tony Piro California Institute of Technology Type Ia Supernovae
Dr. Hari Manoharan Stanford University Atomic and Molecular Manipulation
Dr. Marusa Bradač University of California, Davis Dark Side of the Universe
Dr. Holger Müller University of California, Berkeley Precision Tests of General Relativity With Matter Waves
Dr. Peter Jacobs Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Recreating the Big Bang in the Laboratory
Dr. Adrienne Traxler University of California, Santa Cruz Salt Fingering in Oceans and Stars
Dr. Philip H. Bucksbaum Stanford University the Ultrafast Quantum World of Atoms and Molecules
Dr. Puragra Guhathakurta University of California, Santa Cruz the Galaxy Next Door