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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Vicky Scowcroft Observatories Carnegie Institution for Science Cepheids and Leavitt's Law
Parker Fagrelius UC Berkeley Protodesi: A Pathfinder for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey
Dr. Maria Giovanna Dainotti Jagiellonian University Study of the Gamma Ray Burst (Grb) Fundamental Plane
Dr. Juan Carlos Diaz Velez Neutrino and Cosmic Ray Astrophysics With the Icecube Neutrino Observatory
Dr. Carl Wieman Stanford Taking a Scientific Approach to Science Education
SSU Alum Katie Badham Lockheed Martin Generating Vector Beams With a Programmable Spatial Light Modulator
Michael Dobbs Sonoma State University B-Quark Tagging Algorithm Characterization
Dr. Ron Olowin, Saint Mary's College Eureka! Cosmic Explorations of Archimedes, Alexander Von Humboldt and Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. David Koo UC Santa Cruz Norad, Meteor Burst Communication and the Deep Universe
Dr. Colin Milburn UC Davis Gaming Science
Dr. Alex Rudolph CSU-Pomona Campare and Cal-Bridge: Engaging Underrepresented Groups in Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Tom Barclay NASA Ames Nasa's k2 Mission, Extending Kepler's Legacy
Prof. Lynn Cominsky Sonoma State University Gravitational Waves From Merging Black Holes
Dr. Leslie Young Southwest Research Institute New Horizons Mission to Pluto
Dr. Amy Furniss Very-High-Energy Astroparticle Physics
Dr. James Lloyd Cornell University the Hunt for New Planets
Film presentation Big Bang Machine
Dr. Dan McKinsey UC Berkeley Who Has Seen the Wimp? Neither You Nor I
Film presentation Video Presentation
Dr. Sangyoun Gee Sonoma State University Ultrashort Pulse Laser Science and Its Applications