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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Carol Stoker NASA Ames Research Center First Results From the Phoenix Lander Mission
Dr. Richard Muller University of California at Berkeley Physics for Future Presidents
Dr. Risa Wechsler Stanford University Lighting Up the Dark: Galaxies as Probes of the Dark Universe
Dr. Hongtao Shi Sonoma State University Fabrication and Studies of Magnetic Nanostructures
Dr. James Aroyan JRJ Simulation & Design a Physicist’s Playground: From Dolphins to Touchscreens
Dr. Shailendhar Saraf Sonoma State University Ligo: Lasers, Optics, and Interferometry in the Search for Gravitational Waves
Dr. Inez Fung University of California at Berkeley the Warming Will Accelerate the Warming
Dr. Tom Slanger SRI International Studies of the Terrestrial Upper Atmosphere With Astronomical Instruments
Audrey Chang Natural Resources Defense Council the Role of Energy Efficiency in California’s Efforts to Curb Global Warming
Dr. Raymond Hall California State University, Fresno Demarcation: Is There a Sharp Line Between Science and Pseudoscience?
Dr. Jacqueline van Gorkom Columbia University the Evolution of Galaxies in Different Environments
Dr. Donald K. Yeomans Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory the Tunguska Event 100 Years Later: Finding Near Earth Objects Before They Find Us
Dr. David Wittman University of California, Davis Massive Sky Surveys of the Next Decade
Dr. Maryam Modjaz University of California at Berkeley Supernovae: Violent Deaths of Stars
Dr. Thomas Berger Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope: A Solar Microscope in Space
Dr. Ali Shakouri University of California, Santa Cruz Thermionic Energy Conversion for Waste Heat Recovery
Dr. Mark Topinka Stanford University Nanostructured Organic Solar Cells
Dr. Donald S. Bethune IBM Almaden Research Center Carbon and Metals: The Discovery of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Dr. Holland Ford Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute the Search for Planets Around Low Mass Stars
Dr. Scott Severson Sonoma State University a Sharper View of the Universe