Sonoma State University

What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Bryant Hichwa Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. Comparison of Energetic Thin Film Deposition Processes
Dr. Lewis Carroll Epstein City College of San Francisco Is Physics a Religion?
Dr. Carol Christian University of California, Berkeley High Resolution Imaging From the Ground
Dr. Joel Primack University of California, Santa Cruz the Beginning and the End of Time
Dr. Helen V. Gourley System Sciences Group More Heat Than Light
Dr. Dana Backman NASA Ames Research Center Nearby Stars With Circumstellar Material
Dr. Raymond Y. Chiao University of California, Berkeley Testing Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics
Dr. Charles Alcock Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory the Search for Dark Matter in Our Galaxy
Dr. Richard I. Klein University of California, Berkeley Supernova Explosions and Interstellar Clouds
Dr. Natalie Roe Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory the Physics of Beauty
Dr. Yuen-Ron Shen University of California at Berkeley Surfaces Illuminated by Light
Dr. Geoff Owen Flex Products Organic Photo Receptors
Dr. Ashok Gadgil Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Energy Efficiency in Bombay
Dr. Edwin Salpeter Cornell University Are Stars Older Than the Universe?
Dr. Lynn Cominsky Sonoma State University Binary X-Ray Pulsars
Dr. Robert Borchers Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Scientific Computation: The Third Way
Dr. Art Huffman University of California, Los Angeles Relativistic Travel to the Stars
Dr. Gibor Basri University of California at Berkeley Observations of Young Suns With Protoplanetary Disks
Dr. Ian Brown Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Ion Sourcery, Materials, and Diamonds
Dr. Sallie Baliunas Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics the Sun, Stars, and Climate: Why Louis Xiv Had Cold Feet