Sonoma State University

What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Dr. Natalie Roe Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory New Eyes on the Expanding Universe: The Snap Satellite
Dr. Keith Jackson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Frontiers of Nanolithography: The Science of Making the Small Stuff
Dr. Stuart Parkin IBM Almaden Research Center the Spin on Electronics
Dr. Jeong Park Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Novel Friction Properties of Quasicrystals
Dr. Roger Blandford Stanford University Cosmic Tennis
Dr. Eric Becklin University of California, Los Angeles Sofia: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
Dr. Gordon Spear Sonoma State University Robotic Telescopes at Sonoma State University
Dr. Enrique Izaguirre University of California, San Francisco Biomaterials and Biosensors
Professor Emeritus Tony Siegman Stanford University “light Brings Us News of the Universe...”
Dr. Carl Haber Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Recovering Historical Sound Recordings Using Optical Methods
Dr. Bruce Hasegawa University of California, San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley Visualizing Human Health and Disease With Medical Imaging