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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Stefano Profumo the Quantum and the Cosmos: The Quest for the Origin of Ordinary and Dark Matter
Jeremy Qualls Making at Ssu
Wes Farriss Sonoma State University Why I'm Not Rich
Alexander Tchekhovskoy Simulations of Black Hole Accretion, Jets, and Outflows
Scott Manley Can You Really Learn Rocket Science From a Video Game?
Michael Griffo Griffo Distillery the Science of Distilling (Or How Learned to Stop Worrying and Drink Thermodynamics)
Dr. Zahid Hussain Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Energy Science Using Light Sources of Today and Tomorrow
Dr. Bruce Macintosh Stanford University Imaging Extrasolar Planets
Dr. Stephen Kane San Francisco State University Finding a New Earth: Exoplanets and the Habitable Zone
Dr. Michael Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Extreme Weather in a Changing Climate
Dr. Tokio K. Ohska Analyzing Fukushima: How to Prevent It From Happening Again
Dr. Monika Kress San Jose State Searching for Meteorites in Antarctica
Dr. Scott Severson Sonoma State University Science and Society
Geof Syphers Sonoma Clean Power How the Electric Grid Turned Upside Down
Dr. Raja GuhaThakurta UC Santa Cruz the Universe of Galaxes and Stem Research Opportunities for Young People
Dr. Daniel Soto, Chair Sonoma State University Consider a Shperical Planet: Can Physics Address Global Issues?
Dr. Wim Leemans Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Solving Big Problems With Small Accelerators: From Colliders to Medical Devices Based on Laser Plasma Accelerators
Dr. Kai Vetter UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Gamma-Ray Vision
Dr. Kim Coble Using Results From Research on Undergraduate Learning in Cosmology to Build and Test an Interactive Student-Centered Curriculum
Dr. Sue Carter UC Santa Cruz Innovation in a Changing Climate