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What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
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