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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Dr. Nick Herbert, author Quantum Reality and Faster than Light Quantum Reality
Dr. Douglas Osheroff Stanford University What Happens Near Absolute Zero?
Dr. George Smoot Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Observational Cosmology With Cobe
Dr. Heinz K. Henisch Pennsylvania State University Crystal Growth in Space; High Tech Research in a Test Tube
Dr. Alex Filippenko University of California at Berkeley Supernova 1987a: Cosmic Fireworks
Dr. Marjorie Olmstead University of California at Berkeley Science at the Edge
Dr. Aslam Khalil Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology Global Change and Atmospheric Perspective
Dr. Edward Engler IBM Almaden Research Cente Challenges and Opportunities in Optical Storage
Dr. Heidi Hammel Jet Propulsion Laboratory Neptune: Exploration of the Most Distant Giant Planet
Dr. Melvin Schwartz Digital Pathways, Inc. the First High Energy Neutrino Experiment