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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Joseph S. Miller University of California, Santa Cruz California Observatories as Leaders in the Development of Very Large Optical Telescopes
Dr. Helen Quinn Stanford Linear Accelerator Center the Mystery of the Missing Antimatter
Dr. Sally Dodson-Robinson California Institute of Technology Chemistry of Planet Formation
Dr. Marvin L. Cohen University of California at Berkeley Einstein, Nanoscience, and Superconductivity
Dr. Bill Imler Squirrel Hill Associates Advanced Solar Cells for Terrestrial Concentrating Photovoltaic Systems
Dr. Chris Barty Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Making and Using “nuclear” Photons With Lasers
Dr. Miquel Salmeron Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory the Simplest Chemistry There Is: Doing Reactions One Molecule at a Time
Dr. Eli Rotenberg Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Studies of the Electronic Structure of Low Dimensional Novel Metals
Dr. Adam Bernstein Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Fundamental and Applied Antineutrino Physics
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