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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
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