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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Dr. Jeremy Qualls Magnetic Materials at Ssu
Dr. Anthony Aguirre University of California, Santa Cruz the Inflationary Multiverse
Dr. Daqing Zhang Nanostructure Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications
Dr. Douglas Singleton Fresno State University Introduction to Extra Dimensions
Ransom Stephens, Ph.D. the Physicist’s Dilemma: What Physicists *Really* Do
Dr. Per Soderlind Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Plutonium, the Most Enigmatic of All Metals
Dr. John Conway University of California, Davis the Search for the Higgs Boson
Dr. Jonathan Fortney University of California, Santa Cruz Extreme Planetary Atmospheres
Dr. Constance Rockosi University of California, Santa Cruz the Milky Way’s Hidden Past
Dr. Dana Backman, the director NASA Sofia — the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
Dr. Mariska Kriek Princeton University Formation and Evolution of Massive Galaxies