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What Physicists Do

ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH SERIES
Spring 2025

All Lectures Free and Open to All
Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
Darwin 103

This series is supported by private donations and Instructionally Related Activities funds.

Lectures

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Hunter Kanniainen UC Berkeley FOXSI-4: The Science and Engineering Behind the Suborbital Rocket Capturing Solar Flares
Joe Tenn Emeritus Tips on choosing a grad school in astronomy or physics
Ned Kahn Artist Analogies of the Higg’s Field 
Peter Michelshon TBA
CD Hoyle Humboldt TBA
TBA TBA
N/A Spring Break - No Lecture
N/A No Lecture
N/A Cesar Chavez Day - No Lecture
Mary Barsony SETI Institute Two Eyes are Better than One: JWST and ALMA Look at Star Formation
Laura Peticolas Sonoma State University, EdEon Eclipse Megamovie: From 2017 to 2024
Giorgio Gratta Stanford Testing Gravity at ever shorter scale: a trip into exotic experimental physics
Lynn Cominsky Sonoma State University, EdEon TBA