May 5, 2025
Lynn Cominsky
Sonoma State University, EdEon
Reflections on nearly 40 years of SSU Physics & Astronomy
April 21, 2025
Mary Barsony
SETI Institute
Two Eyes are Better than One: JWST and ALMA Look at Star Formation
April 14, 2025
Giorgio Gratta
Stanford
Testing Gravity at ever shorter scale: a trip into exotic experimental physics
April 7, 2025
Laura Peticolas
Sonoma State University, EdEon
Eclipse Megamovie: From 2017 to 2024
March 31, 2025
N/A
Cesar Chavez Day - No Lecture
March 24, 2025
N/A
No Lecture
March 17, 2025
N/A
Spring Break - No Lecture
March 10, 2025
Victoria Xu
UC Berkeley
The quantum limit of gravitational-wave detection
March 3, 2025
CD Hoyle
Humboldt
TBA
February 24, 2025
Peter Michelson
Stanford
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: A quest to explore the restless, high-energy Universe
February 17, 2025
Ned Kahn
Artist
Analogies of the Higgs Field
February 10, 2025
Joe Tenn
Emeritus
Tips on choosing a grad school in astronomy or physics
February 3, 2025
Hunter Kanniainen
UC Berkeley
FOXSI-4: The Science and Engineering Behind the Suborbital Rocket Capturing Solar Flares
November 18, 2024
Dr. Benjamin L. Gerard
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Technology Development
November 4, 2024
Jairo Velasco
UC Santa Cruz
Graphene Quantum Dots
October 28, 2024
Enrico Ramirez Ruiz
UC Santa Cruz
Cosmic Alchemy: How Neutron Star Smash-Ups Forge Heavy Atoms
October 21, 2024
Nancy Aggarwal
UC Davis
Dark Matter Searches Using Gravitational Wave Detectors
October 14, 2024
Lauren Corlies
Lick Observatory
One Path to an Astronomy Outreach Career
October 7, 2024
Madison Ambriz, Bahareh Adami Ardestani, Merlin Goddard, and Aaron Russell
Sonoma State University
Student Research Talks
September 30, 2024
Daniel Contreras
The Physics of Micromachines