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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Geraldine J. Peters University of Southern California Mass Loss and Photospheric Activity in Hot Stars
Dr. Paul Doherty Exploratorium Building Science Exhibits for the Public
Dr. Manuel F. Morales University of California at San Francisco How Muscle Works
Dr. François Bouchet University of California at Berkeley Cosmic Strings and Large Scale Structures in the Universe
Dr. Aharon Kapitulnik Stanford University Science and Technology of High Temperature Superconductors
Dr. Saeid Rahimi Sonoma State University Negative Capacitance?
Paul Robinson Edison-Computech High School, Fresno Physics First
Dr. Paul E. Boynton University of Washington Experimental Search for a Fifth Force
Dr. Gordon G. Spear Sonoma State University Cepheids Are Not Just Standard Candles
Dr. Donald E. Osterbrock Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz Lick Observatory: The First Century
Dr. Robert E. Steele Motion Engineering, Santa Barbara Problems in Robot Design
Dr. Ling-Lie Chau University of California, Davis Frontiers in Particle Physics
Dr. Vahé Petrosian Stanford University Giant Luminous Arcs as Gravitational Mirages
Dr. Roger Bland San Francisco State University in Quest of the Free Quark
Dr. Donald A. Glaser University of California, Berkeley the Human Visual System: Should You Believe What You See?
Kenneth A. Ritley Sonoma State University Madelung, Ewald, and 1-2-3
Dr. William Imler Hewlett Packard Corporation Amorphous Silicon
Mr. Storrs Hoen Physics Graduate Assistant at the Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley Advances in High Temperature Ceramic Superconductor Synthesis
Dr. Richard A. London Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Recent Progress in X-Ray Lasers
Dr. George A. Seielstad Assistant Director National Radio Astronomy Observatory Exploring the Invisible Universe