Sonoma State University

What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh University of California at Berkeley Fast Flow: How Basal Water Controls the Motion and Stability of Glaciers
Dr. Daniel M. Kammen University of California at Berkeley Renewable Energy: Now a Realistic Challenge to Oil
Justin Flory Sonoma State University the Atomic Hard Disk
Dr. Melora Larson Jet Propulsion Laboratory Low Temperature Research on the International Space Station
Dr. Richard DeFreez Pacific Scientific Instruments Bio-Particle Threat Detection Using Laser Induced Autofluorescence
Dr. William D. Phillips National Institute of Standards and Technology Almost Absolute Zero: The Story of Laser Cooling and Trapping of Atoms
Dr. Andrew Jaffe University of California at Berkeley Thoroughly Modern Measurements of the Density and Curvature of the Universe
Dr. Darleane Hoffman University of California at Berkeley the Long Sought Superheavy Elements
Dr. Donald Eigler IBM Almaden Research Center Quantum Mirages
Dr. Giorgio Gratta Stanford University the Amazing Tale of the Tiny Neutrinos
Dr. Camille Minichino Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory First, Kill a Physicist