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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Dr. Nan Phinney Stanford Linear Accelerator Center the Stanford Linear Collider
Film presentation a Brief History of Time
Dr. Garrett Jernigan University of California, Berkeley Flash and Fire: Comet Collides With Jupiter
Dr. Thomas Ramos Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory the Nuclear Bomb Pumped X-Ray Laser
Dr. David Holloway Stanford University Were Bohr, Fermi, Szilard and Oppenheimer Really Spies?
Dr. Max Dresden Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Styles and Personalities of Physicists
Dr. William Jackson University of California, Davis Comets, Free Radicals and Lasers
Dr. Roger Bangerter Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Inertial Confinement Fusion
Ion-Alexis Yadigaroglu Stanford University Young Pulsars: Great Lighthouses of the Universe
Dr. Walter John California Department of Health Services a Physicist in Air Pollution Research