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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Leonard Shlain Art and Physics: Parallel Visions of Space, Time, and Light
Allyson Bishop University of California, Los Angeles Radioisotope Production for Positron Emission Tomography
Dr. Sandra M. Faber Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz Scientific Results From the Hubble Space Telescope Wide-Field Planetary Camera
Dr. Don Correll Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Fusion: Physics, Progress, and Promises
Dr. David C. Koo Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz Poking the Past With Powerful Telescopes
Dr. Cliff Stoll Stalking the Wily Hacker
Dr. Sam Greene Sonoma State University Instrument Control and Data Collection for the Rest of Us
Lecture Cancelled
Dr. Gene Rochlin and Ms. Alexandra Suchard Operators and Engineers: Two Views of Nuclear Power Plant Operations
Greg Sprehn Sonoma State University the Sonoma State University Very Small Array
Dr. Anne Mayes IBM Almaden Research Center What Bouncing Neutrons Can Reveal About Polymer Systems
Dr. Hue Sun Chan University of California, San Francisco Statistical Mechanics and Protein Folding
Dr. Carl Heiles University of California at Berkeley the 21-Centimeter Radio Sky
Bruce Erickson Hewlett Packard Detecting Celestial 21-Centimeter Radio Emission
Dr. William Danchi University of California at Berkeley Very-Long-Baseline Infrared Interferometry
Dr. Mary James Reed College Why Does Light Slow Down in Matter?
Dr. Eric Norman Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Neutrino Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Lillian McDermott University of Washington What We Teach and What Is Learned—closing the Gap
Dr. David E. Root Hewlett-Packard Do Transistors Conserve Charge?
Dr. John Dunning Sonoma State University X-Ray Diffraction at Ssu