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Department of Physics and Astronomy
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3609
Phone: (707)664-2119
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Email: phys.astro@sonoma.edu
Physics and Astronomy
Physics is the most fundamental of all the scientific disciplines. Ranging from the applied to the abstract, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, and from quarks to the cosmos, the study of physics seeks to explain all the complicated phenomena in the natural world by providing a description of these phenomena in terms of a few basic principles and laws.
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What Physicists Do
Updated with Spring 2012 Schedule. Our lecture series has brought outstanding scientists and engineers to the campus each week since 1971, including fourteen Nobel laureates. These speakers present lectures ranging from the hottest discoveries in physics and astronomy to inside views of physicists' daily lives at a level undergraduate students can understand.
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Our very own Dr. Hongtao Shi kicks off the Spring 2012 What Physicists Do series February 6. Entitled Impact Of Magnetism Doping On The Optical Properties Of Zinc Oxide, Dr. Shi will describe a project in which SSU physics students use an electrochemical method to enhance the optical properties of ZnO, which is a semiconductor with potential applications in ultraviolet sensors.
SSU now a Space Grant affiliate
SSU Grad invents puzzle, contest won by SSU student