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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Calvin F. Quate Stanford University the Silicon Chip as a New Frontier for Nanometer Structures
Paul Hewitt Conceptual Physics — Live
Professor Marvin L. Cohen University of California at Berkeley Predicting New Materials: Alchemy With Computers
Dr. Jay C. Davis Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Other Things a Physicist Can Do
Dr. Kevin Hurley University of California at Berkeley Probing the Gamma-Ray Sky
Dr. Curtis Gleason University of California, San Francisco an Exercise System for Quadriplegics
Dr. Joel Primack University of California, Santa Cruz What Is the Dark Matter in the Universe?
Ben Owen California Institute of Technology and Now for Something Completely Different: Gravity Waves
Dr. Mia Luehrmann Gettysburg College Clea—computers in Astronomy Education
Dr. William Atwood Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Physics of the Violin
Dr. Marvin Chester Emeritus Professor at UCLA Aesthetics of a Discrete Element Torsional Transmission Line
Dr. Lars Bildsten University of California, Berkeley Rings of Fire: Thermonuclear Combustion on Neutron Stars
Eric Weiss University of Washington the Anatomy of a High Energy Particle Detector
Dr. Keith Brister Cornell University a Guided Tour of Chess
Dr. Philip Scherrer Stanford University Probing the Interior of a Star: Helioseismology From Space
Dr. Peter Beiersdofer Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Producing and Studying the Ultimate Ions in a Table-Top Device
Dr. Douglas Osheroff Stanford University Fascination With a Cold World
Dr. Valerie Leppert Northwestern University Growing Super-And Semi-Conductors
Nickolas Mota Melville University of California, Davis Mercedes' "Study-A"—an Electric Car for the Future?
Dr. David Dearborn Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Astronomy and Empire: The Inca