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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Joseph Wujek University of California, Berkeley How to Be a Good Engineer
Jim Eyer PG&E Research and Development Department Advanced Electricity Technology: From Physics to Commercialization
Dr. Kem Cook Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dark Matter, Microlensing and Machos
Dr. John G. Learned University of Hawaii Dumand: A New Window on the Universe
Lauren J. Novatne Monterey County Department of Health Environmental Health: What It Is and Isn't
Dr. Frederick Wooten University of California, Davis/Livermore the Traveling Salesman, Random Networks, and the Structure of Amorphous Silicon
Mallory Roberts Sonoma State University X-Ray Outbursts From Neutron Stars in Binary Systems
Dr. Robin Cantor Conductus, Inc. will discuss applications of Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) in such magnetic field-sensing applications as biomagnetism, geophysics, and laboratory instrumentation. Squid Magnetometry
Dr. Henry P. Stapp Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics
Dr. Paul Hodge University of Washington The Evolution of Galaxies