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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Hitoshi Murayama University of California at Berkeley Seeing the Invisibles: The Challenge to Particle Physics in the New Millennium
Bruce Clarke Stanford University Testing Einstein: The Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission
Dr. Susanne Hering Aerosol Dynamics Inc. Nanoparticles in Earth’s Atmosphere
Dr. Eliot Quataert University of California at Berkeley Black Holes: The Science Behind the Science Fiction
Dr. Karen Meech University of Hawaii First Look Inside a Comet
Dr. Chris Roat University of California, Davis What Can Gravitational Lensing Tell Us About the Universe?
Dr. Lawrence Badash University of California, Santa Barbara Albert Einstein the Peacenik
Dr. Rena Zieve University of California, Davis Vortices Large and Small: Studying Cyclones Through Superfluids
Dr. Daniel Palanker Stanford University Artificial Sight: An Optoelectronic Retinal Prosthesis
Dr. Hashem Akbari Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Cooling the Cities to Reduce Energy Use and Improve Urban Air Quality
Dr. Ramamoorthy Ramesh University of California at Berkeley Nano Y Mano: The Basics of Nanoscale Science
Dr. Chris McKay NASA Ames Research Center Titan Results From the Huygens Probe
Dr. Kurt Woschnagg University of California at Berkeley Extreme Neutrinos: Using a Cube of 50,000-Year-Old South Pole Ice to Peer Into Space
Dr. Katherine Rhode Wesleyan and Yale Universities Digging for the Fossils of Galaxy Formation
Dr. Lynn Cominsky Sonoma State University Catching Gamma Ray Bursts on the Fly
Dr. Laura Smoliar Lightwave Electronics New Developments in Fiber Lasers and Ultraviolet Lasers
Dr. Shirley Chiang University of California, Davis High Resolution Surface Microscopy of Chemical Reactions and Phase Transitions
Tom Ramos Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Physics and National Defense
Dr. Bruce Schumm University of California, Santa Cruz Deep Down Beauty: Particle Physics, Mathematics, and the World Around Us
Dr. Tilman Sauer Caltech Einstein and the Riddle of His Creativity