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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Dr. Michael Ansell Sonoma State University Environmentally Safe Phosphors
Dr. Iwona Sakrejda Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory a Cosmic Soup of Quarks and Gluons
Dr. Imke de Pater University of California at Berkeley Spectacular Images With Adaptive Optics
Dr. Randy L. Phelps California State University, Sacramento Star Clusters: Galactic Astrophysical Laboratories
Dr. Andrés Larraza Naval Postgraduate School the Crookes Radiometer: How a Toy Pushed the Frontiers of Physics
Dr. Lynn Orr Stanford University Soap Bubbles, Raindrops and Inkjets
Dr. Dawn Kataoka Sandia National Laboratorie Go With the Microflow
Dr. J. Anthony Tyson Lucent Bell Laboratories Cosmic Dark Matter and Optical Communication
Nicholas Sheridon Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Electronic Paper: The Physics and the Human Issues