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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
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