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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Angela Duprez Sonoma State University a Physics Student’s Tool Kit for Industry
Dr. Blas Cabrera Stanford University the Search for Wimps
Dr. Gary Glatzmaier University of California, Santa Cruz Computer Simulations of Geomagnetic Field Reversals
Tom McMahon University of Arizona Astronomical Instruments for Remote Observatories
Dr. Joseph S. Tenn Sonoma State University Astronomy in the Twentieth Century
Dr. Daniel L. Cox University of California, Davis Electron Transfer in Biological Molecules
Dr. Douglas Hofstadter Indiana University and Stanford University the Ubiquity and Power of Analogies in Physics
Dr. Rosaly Lopes-Gautier Jet Propulsion Laboratory Galileo’s New Views of Io
Dr. Garrett Jernigan University of California, Berkeley Einstein’s Laboratory: The Fast World of X-Ray Astronomy
Dr. Laura Whitlock Sonoma State University You Say Science, Math, Language Arts, and History, I Say Astronomy!
Dr. Derek Buzasi University of California, Berkeley Stellar Seismology Using a Recycled Spacecraft
Dr. Steven Carlip University of California, Davis Quantum Gravity in Flatland
Dr. Adrienne Cool San Francisco State University Scrutinizing Star Clusters With Space Observatories
Dr. Lewis Carroll Epstein, author Thinking Physics the Right Stuff on Lift
Dr. Kenneth Ganezer CSU, Dominguez Hills Particle Astrophysics With the Super-Kamiokande Observatory
Dr. Joel Fajans University of California, Berkeley Isaac Newton and Ben Franklin Weren’t Always Right
Dr. Peter Sturrock Stanford University Are Solar Neutrinos Oscillating?
Dr. David Lamb University of Alabama, Huntsville Owl’s Airwatch: Detecting the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Dr. John Dunning Sonoma State University Dollars and Stamps, X-Ray Diffraction and Fluorescence
Dr. Bruce Birkett University of California, Berkeley an Overview of Physics Education Research