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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Sandra M. Faber Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz Irregularities in the Expansion of the Universe
Dr. Herman Marshall Space Sciences Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei: Past and Present
Steve McGrew Light Impressions, Inc. in Santa Cruz, C Holography: Light Waves Aren't Heavy
Dr. Supriya Chakrabarti a Senior Fellow at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory Extreme and Far Ultraviolet Aeronomy
Professor Edward R. Harrison University of Massachusetts, Amherst Have You Seen the Big Bang Lately?
Dr. Robert B. Laughlin Stanford University the Quantum Hall Effect
Dr. Oswald Siegmund Space Sciences Laboratory University of California, Berkeley the Microchannel Plate Imaging Detector System
Dr. Patricia Rife National University and Sonoma State University Lise Meitner and the Interpretation of Nuclear Fission
Dr. Richard K. DeFreez Oregon Graduate Center and Portland State University Semiconductor Lasers for Space Communications
Louis V. Divone U.S. Department of Energy the Modern Ancient Art of Windmills
Nancy J. Brown UC Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Spectroscopic Measurements of Combustion Emissions
George Morrow Intelligent Access the Physics of Super-Twist Lcd's
Dr. Leonard Susskind Stanford University Strings
Lecture Cancelled
Dr. John Faulkner University of California, Santa Cruz Solar Oscillations and Quivering Wimps
Dr. Oystein Fischer University of Geneva and Stanford University Magnetism and Superconductivity
Dr. Bernard Sadoulet University of California, Berkeley Prospects for the Detection of Dark Matter
Dr. Roger M. MacFarlane IBM Almaden Research Center Applications of Laser Spectroscopy
Dr. Garrett Jernigan Space Sciences Laboratory University of California, Berkeley Large Scale Structure of the Universe
Dr. Steven Stahler NASA Ames Research Center How Stars Are Made