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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Surya Ganguli Stanford University a Tour Through Neurophysics
Jim Pedgrift Sonoma State University Anti-Science
Dr. Michael Griffo Nano-Particles, Stocks, Bonds, and High Proof Alcohol, a Physicist's Perspective on Careers
Dr. Norbert Werner Stanford University the Beating Hearts of Galaxies
Dr. Rachael Beaton Observatories Carnegie Institution for Science Stellar Haloes: The Galactic Wild West
Dr. Austin Roorda UC Berkeley Adaptive Optics Tools for Testing Human Vision on a Cellular Scale
Film presentation Direct From Pluto
Dr. C.D. Hoyle Humboldt State University Standing the Test of Time (And Space): 100 Years of General Relativity
Dr. Xiaosheng Huang University of San Francisco Light From Distant Supernovae
Dr. Frank Shu UC San Diego the Future of Energy
Dr. Frances A. Houle from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Making Fuels From Sunlight, Water and Air
Dr. Norna Robertson Caltech and the University of Glasgow Advanced Ligo and the Search for Gravitational Waves
Dr. Amir Huda CSU-Fresno the Changing Role of Biomedical Physics in Medicine
Dr. Vera Luth Stanford University Symmetries and Invariance in Particle Physics
Dr. Kurt Kornbluth the Uc Davis D-Lab: Interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning
Dr. Jim Gaffney LLNL Bringing Star Power to Earth
Chris Boshuizen Planet Labs Cubesats for Earth Imaging
Film presentation Cosmos - "The Electric Boy"
Andy Weir the Martian
Dr. Claire Poppett Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Probing Dark Energy With Optical Fibers and 5000 Robots