Sonoma State University

What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Wilson Ho University of California, Irvine Visualization of Quantum Mechanics
Dr. Mark Ammons Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Exoplanets/Carbon Fiber Deformable Mirrors for Telescopes
Film presentation the Hubble Space Telescope
Dr. Scott Severson Sonoma State University Adaptive Optics/Undergraduate Research at Ssu
Dr. Sasha Sher, University of California, Santa Cruz Exploring Neural Function, Structure, and Development
Dr. Pei-Chun Ho, Fresno State University Study of Unconventional Superconductivity in pros4sb12 via Chemical Substitution
Dr. Garrett Jernigan Space Science Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley Science With Small Satellites Designed, Built, and Operated by Students
Dr. Kirill Filimonov University of California, Berkeley Extreme Astronomy: Eyeing the Cosmos Through a Cubic Kilometer of Ice
Dr. Maxwell Chertok University of California, Davis the Building Blocks of Matter
Dr. Zongfu Yu Stanford University Nanophotonic Light-Trapping in Solar Cells
Dr. Carl Mears Remote Sensing Measuring Climate Change Using Earth-Sensing Satellites
Dr. Michael Kuhlen University of California, Berkeley Dark Matter Substructure in the Milky Way
Geof Syphers Codding Enterprises Neighborhood Physics and the Science of Sustainable Communities
Dr. Phil Marshall Stanford University Studying the Universe With Gravitational Lenses
Dr. Timothy W. Peterson Becton Dickinson Biosciences High-Speed Cell Sorting and Cytometry: Applications From Stem Cell Therapies to Environmental Microbiology
Dr. Raymond Jeanloz University of California, Berkeley Science and Global Security
Dr. Alex Zettl University of California, Berkeley Nanoelectromechanical Devices
Dr. Steven Ritz University of California, Santa Cruz Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Film presentation Eyes on the Skies
Dr. Richard N. Boyd Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Creating a Star in the Laboratory: The National Ignition Facility