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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Mario Marckwordt University of California at Berkeley Imaging the Earth’s Magnetosphere
Dr. Jeff Koch Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory the National Ignition Facility: Status and Applications
Monika Ivancic Oregon State University Dna and Protein Structures
Dr. David Nygren Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Neutrino Astronomy: Looking Down to See Into the Heart of Galaxies
Dr. Dave Dixon University of California, Riverside the Milky Way's Gamma-Ray Halo: First Light From Dark Matter?
Dr. Peter Backus SETI Institute Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti): Progress and Prospects
Dr. Leo Blitz University of California, Berkeley Littlegreen Men and All That
Dr. Robert Schoenlein Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Femtosecondx-Rays at the Advanced Light Source
Dr. Richard Packard University of California, Berkeley Quantum Whistles From Superfluid Helium-3