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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Douglas J. Mudgway William H. Pickering: America’s Deep Space Pioneer
Dr. Robin Erbacher University of California, Davis to the Top and Beyond: Particle Physics in the New Century
Michael Fulton Ion Beam Optics, Inc. From Deep Space to Earth: Photovoltaic Concentrators Impact the Future of Terrestrial Solar Energy Production
Dr. Fred Kuttner University of California, Santa Cruz Quantum Enigma: Reality, Entanglement, and Consciousness
Dr. Jeremy Qualls Sonoma State University the Attraction and Dangers of Extreme Magnetic Fields
Dr. Wim Leemans Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From Zero to One Billion Electron Volts in 3.3 Centimeters
Ned Kahn Turbulent Fields
Alan Heeger and Walter Kohn University of California, Santa Barbara the Power of the Sun
Dr. Alexander Tielens NASA Ames Research Center Astromaterial Sciences
Dr. Sarah Church Stanford University the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and the Origin of the Universe
Dr. Yuri Suzuki University of California at Berkeley Spintronics: From Materials to Devices