Sonoma State University

What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Dr. Aparna Venkatesan University of San Francisco the First Stars in the Universe
Dr. Alan Meier Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Reducing Leaking Electricity to a Trickle
Dr. Jim Kafka Spectra-Physics Ultrafast Lasers and Ultrafast Science
Dr. Adam Stanford University of California, Davis Islands in the Sky
Dr. Uwe Bergmann Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Secrets in the Ancient Goatskin: Archimedes’ Manuscript Under X-Ray Vision
Dr. Chris Greene University of Colorado How Atoms Dance and Join Together in the Ultracold
Dr. Leonard Susskind Stanford University the Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
Dr. Michael Crommie University of California at Berkeley Exploring and Manipulating Nanostructures at the Single Molecule Level
Dr. Joel Primack University of California, Santa Cruz the View From the Center of the Universe