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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Vladan Vuletic Stanford University Atoms and Photons in a Box: Wave Properties of Laser Cooled Atoms
Dr. Alexandra von Meier Sonoma State University Physics in Buildings: A Case Study of Ssu’s Environmental Technology Center
Dr. Philip Plait Sonoma State University Bad Astronomy
Dr. Ben R. Oppenheimer University of California at Berkeley the Most Ancient Objects Ever Studied
Dr. Norman K. Glendenning Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Neutron Star Evolution and Millisecond Pulsars
Dr. Max Bernstein SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center Organic Molecules From Space and the Origin of Life
Dr. Phil Collins Covalent Materials Nanoscale Electronics From Carbon Nanotubes
Dr. Brock Weiss Sonoma State University Nanotechnology: What Is All the Hype?
Dr. Sossina M. Haile California Institute of Technology Solid State Proton Conductors for Fuel Cell and Other Applications
LECTURE WAS CANCELLED Lecture Cancelled
Dr. Enrique Izaguirre Sonoma State University Biomolecular Photonics: Working With Photons and Organic Materials
Dr. Nicholas Suntzeff Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory the Dark Universe: The Age and Ultimate Death of the Cosmos
Film presentation Mysteries of Deep Space:  Exploding Stars and Black Holes
Dr. Valerie Leppert University of California, Davis Quantum Dot Optoelectronics
Dr. Michael Nauenberg University of California, Santa Cruz What Happened to the Kepler-Bohr Orbits in Quantum Mechanics?
Dr. Mark Kubinec University of California at Berkeley Making Molecules Think: An Introduction to Molecular Quantum Computing
Dr. Greg Laughlin NASA Ames Research Center Extrasolar Planets — Diverse New Worlds
Siana Hurwitt Alcorn Sonoma Technology, Inc. Tracking Air Pollution in California
Dr. Vasilli Shelkov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Matter, Antimatter, and Cp Violation
Dr. Chris Lantman Flex Products, Inc. Fighting Counterfeiting With Interference Optics