Sonoma State University

What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Dr. Gibor Basri, Professor University of California at Berkeley First Results From the Kepler Mission to Find Earth-Sized Exoplanets
Dr. Tom Banks University of California, Berkeley the Rich Physics of Nuclear Muon Capture
Dr. Tom Greene NASA's Ames Research Center Peeking at the Youngest Stars
Dr. Anne Metevier Center for Adaptive Optics at UC Santa Cruz Cultivating Scientist and Engineer Educators
Dr. Thomas Peter Devereaux Stanford University Condensed Matter Light Scattering
Dr. Paul Kalas University of California, Berkeley Imaging a Planet Around Fomalhaut Using the Hubble Space Telescope
Dr. Joseph S. Tenn Sonoma State University Thirty-Nine Years of Physics and Astronomy at Sonoma State University
Dr. Bryant Hichwa Sonoma State University the Acoustics of Baroque Bassoons
Dr. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz University of California, Santa Cruz Cosmic Colliders
Dr. Jodi Cooley Stanford University Whispers in the Dark
Jeremy Hieb University of California, Santa Cruz Energy Research in Denmark
Dr. Lynn Cominsky Sonoma State University Exploring the Extreme Universe With Fermi
Dr. Andrew Minor University of California at Berkeley Nanomechanics: Why the Strength of a Material Is Related to Its Size
Dr. Stefano Marchesini Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Imaging With X-Ray Lasers
Dr. Michael M. Mielke Raydiance, Inc. Ultrashort Pulse Lasers in Industrial Applications
Dr. Anja von der Linden Stanford University the Light, the Dark, and the Hot Gas: Dissecting Galaxy Clusters