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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Dr. Kevin Baines Jet Propulsion Laboratory New Views of Hidden Worlds
Dr. Joan Ogden University of California, Davis Is Hydrogen the Fuel of the Future?
Dr. Debra Fischer San Francisco State University the Search for Terrestrial Planets
Dr. Christine Orme Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Biomineralization—nature’s Way of Crystallizing
Dr. Andrew Frank University of California, Davis the Plug-In Hybrid
Dr. Mason Williams Hitachi San Jose Research Lab Beyond the Limits of Magnetic Recording
Dr. Jasmina Vujic University of California at Berkeley Is It Time to Revive the Nuclear Energy Option?
Dr. Philip Duffy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Climate Change: Observational Evidence, the Role of Humans, and Societal Impacts
Dr. Simon Labov Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Making the World Safer: Nuclear Terrorism and What Physicists Can Do
Dr. Frances Hellman University of California at Berkeley Spin Electronics: Magnets and Semiconductors
Dr. Arun Majumdar University of California at Berkeley Nanoscale Transport of Heat, Liquids, and Macromolecules