Sonoma State University

What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Ka-Ngo Leung Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory the Development and Applications of Compact Neutron Sources
Dr. Jean Brodie University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz Extragalactic Globular Clusters: Insights Into Galaxy Formation
Dr. Geoffrey C. Bower University of California at Berkeley the Allen Telescope Array and the Next Generation of Radio Telescopes
Joe Jordan NASA Ames Research Center Atmospheric Wonders: Light and Color, Fire and Ice in the Sky
Dr. Kent Cullers SETI Institute Extending the Senses
Dr. Pablo Rovira Nanometrics, Inc. the Use of Light to Measure Nanometer Scale Geometries
Dr. Ferdinand Cap University of Innsbruck Famous Physicists I Have Known
Dr. Diane Wooden NASA Ames Research Center Are We Stardust? Crystals, Comets, and the Formation of Solar Systems
R. Allan Baker Sonoma State University Doing Physics at the South Pole
Dr. Marvin Chester UCLA Physics as Symmetry
Lecture Cancelled
Dr. Margaret Murnane University of Colorado and JILA Ultrafast Light Pulses — Life in the Fast Lane
Dr. Wallace Tucker Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and University of California, San Diego the Nature and Nurture of Black Holes
Dr. Thomas H. Jarrett Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory the Universe Revealed: The Two Micron All Sky Survey
Dr. Denise M. Krol University of California, Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Glass and Its Novel Applications in Photonics
Dr. Herbert Kroemer University of California, Santa Barbara Quasi-Electric Fields and Band Offset: Teaching Electrons New Tricks
Dr. J. Campbell Scott IBM Almaden Research Center Organic Light Emitting Diodes for Flat Panel Displays
Dr. Charles Carniglia Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. the Optical Coating Engineer — From Star Wars to Telecommunications
Dr. Kevin Lesko Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Observing the Sun From 6800 Ft Underground: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Steve Collins Jet Propulsion Laboratory Deep Space One: Exploring the Solar System on an Ion Drive