Sonoma State University

What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Dr. Sue A. Carter University of California, Santa Cruz Plastic Electronics: From Solar Cells to Transistors
Dr. Ian D. Hutcheon Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory the Physics of Forensic Science
Dr. Andreas Albrecht University of California, Davis What Can We Know About the Universe?
Dr. J.C. Séamus Davis University of California at Berkeley Imaging of Quantized Vortices in High-Temperature Superconductors
Dr. Gary Sommargren Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Optical Metrology for Future Generations of Lithography
Dr. Robert Sargent Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. Recent Advances in Precision Optical Coatings
Dr. Donald Aitken Union of Concerned Scientists the Renewable Energy Transition
Dr. Margaret Galland Kivelson (also here) University of California, Los Angeles Magnetic Fields in the Solar System, or, Don’t Leave Earth Without a Magnetometer!
Dr. Raphael Bousso Stanford University Pinching the Doughnut: Quantum Black Holes and the Global Structure of the Universe
Dr. Stan Williams Hewlett Packard Laboratories Nanocomputers in a Bottle
Dr. Gibor Basri University of California at Berkeley the Hunt for Brown Dwarfs