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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Edward Parker Associate Physical Scientist at the RAND Corporation From Frustrated Quantum Magnetism to Public Policy Research
Dr. Alex Kinsella Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution A Journey from String Theory to Oceanography
Dr. Rodolfo Barniol Duran Sacramento State University From Black Holes to Fireworks: Understanding Astrophysical Jets
Professor JC Holbrook University of Edinburgh and Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow Astrophysics Culture
Natalie Sanborn, Juan Garcia Vega, Andrew Evans, and Katie Toman Sonoma State University Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Student Edition!
Dr. Stacy Copp UC Irvine Programmable light-matter interactions
Dr. Francisco Ponce Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Using Quantum Sensors to Search for Dark Matter
Dr. Louise Anderson Google AI From Black Holes to Neural Networks
Dr. Christina Knapp Microsoft Quantum Computing with a Topological Phase of Matter
Dr. Kevin Satzinger, Google Quantum AI Quantum computing with superconducting circuits at Google
Dr. David Ramirez Brown University What black holes can teach us about superconductors
Dr. Isabel Lipartito Lockheed Martin Focalplane Instrumentation in Astronomy
Jacque Benitez California Academy of Sciences The physicist as a prism
Dr. Cora Fujiwara Get Ultracold!
Dr. Lia Medeiros Institute for Advanced Study Testing Einstein’s theory of gravity using the first image of a black hole
Dr. Daniel Hernandez St. Luke's Cancer Institute What Medical Physicists Do
Dr. Becky Belisle Wellesley College From Particles to Power
Dr. Joseph S. Tenn Sonoma State University, Emeritus Astronomy Genealogy Project
Dr. Emilija Pantic UC Davis Dark Matter
Dr. Kathy Cooksey University of Hawaii at Hilo  Work/Life Balance