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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Bernhard Haisch Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory a Quantum Broom Sweeps Clean
Dr. Marla Feller University of California, Berkeley Wiring the Brain - a Physicist Looks at Development
Dr. Richard E. Young NASA Ames Research Center the Galileo  Probe Mission to Jupiter
Dr. Barbara G. Levi Physics Today Writing About Global Warming and Other Scientific Topics
Dr. David B. Goldstein Natural Resources Defense Council Physicists Take on Global Warming
Dr. Halton C. Arp Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics How New Measures of Quasars and Galaxies Support a Changed Picture of the Universe
Dr. Matthew Bashaw Stanford University Commercializing Holographic Data Storage: Risks and Rewards
Dr. R. Jefferson Porter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dielectron Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Dr. Joseph S. Tenn Sonoma State University Physics and Astronomy on the World Wide Web
Nancy Kunnari National Semiconductor It's Just a Bunch of Ones and Zeros
Steve Bryson NASA Ames Research Center Virtual Environments and Scientific Visualization
Steve Anderson Sonoma State University the Science and Art of Laser Light Shows
Dr. Virginia Trimble University of California, Irvine the Solar Neutrino Problem and How We Know Stars Run on Nuclear Energy; Cobe  and How We Know the Universe Went Through a Big Bang; Gamma Ray Bursters and How Sometimes We Don't Know Anything
Dr. Carl M. Lampert Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory the Science and Technology of Smart Switchable Glass
Dr. William Bialek NEC Research Institute From Photons to Perception
Dr. Ling-Lie Chau University of California, Davis Frontiers in Particle Physics
Cliff Stoll What Physicists Do When They Are Unemployed
Dr. Geoffrey A. Wilson Coherent Technologies, Inc. Coherent Laser Radar Applications
Dr. Frances Houle IBM Almaden Research Center Simulating Chemical Processes in Thin Films
Dr. Calvin F. Quate Stanford University the Silicon Chip as a New Frontier for Nanometer Structures