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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. JoAnne L. Hewett Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Probes of Extra Spacetime Dimensions
Dr. Chris Van de Walle Palo Alto Research Center the Fascinating Physics and Applications of Hydrogen in Materials
Dr. David G. Stork Ricoh Innovations and Stanford University Did the Great Masters "Cheat" Using Optics?
Dr. John Goree University of Iowa Making a Plasma Act Like a Crystal
Dr. Daniel Roitman Agilent Technologies a Biomolecular Sensor Based on Nanoparticles
Dr. William P. Risk IBM Almaden Research Center Quantum Cryptography With Fiber-Optic Interferometers
Dr. Steve Selesnick University of Missouri, St. Louis Quantum Logic: What's It Good for?
Dr. Dean Wilkening Stanford University Ballistic Missile Defense: Technical Frontier or Technical Folly?
Dr. Mark Halpern University of British Columbia Measuring How the Universe Began
Dr. Carlos Bustamante University of California at Berkeley Grabbing the Cat by the Tail
Helene Grossman University of California at Berkeley Squids, Bugs, Brains, and Hearts
Dr. Chad Trujillo California Institute of Technology Expanding the Solar System: Moving Beyond Quaoar to Super-Plutos
Dr. Katherine McCall University of Nevada, Reno Rocks in the Physics Laboratory
Dr. Greg Madejski Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Astrophysics From Space
Dr. David Goldhaber-Gordon Stanford University a Few Electrons in a Box
Dr. Thomas D. Gutierrez University of California, Davis Measuring the Size of Subatomic Collisions
Dr. Saeid Rahimi Sonoma State University the Cerent Laboratories at Sonoma State University
Dr. Claudia Alexander Jet Propulsion Laboratory Nasa’s Mission to Seek Extraterrestrial Life
Dr. Miquel Salmeron Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Playing With Single Atoms and Molecules
Dr. Bryant Hichwa Sonoma State University Optical Mems: An Enabling Technology for Next Generation Switching Devices