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The B.S. in Physics Returns to Sonoma State University!

Sonoma State University is proud to re-launch its Bachelor of Science in Physics, featuring a redesigned, student-centered curriculum available beginning Fall 2026. The revised program offers a rigorous physics foundation, small class sizes, close faculty mentorship, and flexible pathways that support timely graduation. Please see our degree programs page for more information.

What Physicists Do - Archive

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
William Hurt Albert Einstein: How I See the World
Dr. Lynn Verhey University of California at San Francisco Radiation Therapy in Three Dimensions
Dr. Carmen Ortiz IBM Almaden Research Center Compact Discs: What It Takes to Be Erasable
Dr. Mario Rabinowitz Electric Power Research Institute Quantum Condensation Theory of Superconductivity
Dr. Christopher Mauche Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Ultra-Violet and Soft X-Ray Diagnostics of Cataclysmic Variables
Dr. Ovid Jacob Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Sonoma State University Positronium on the Light Cone
Dr. Steven E. Koonin California Institute of Technology Global Change and the Dark of the Moon
Drs. Robert and Marianne Hamm AccSys Technology, Inc. Modern Linear Accelerators and the Business of Physics
Dr. Geoff Marcy San Francisco State University and the University of California at Berkeley the Status of Searches for Extra-Solar Planets
Scott Saleska University of California at Berkeley the Environmental Legacy of the Nuclear Arms Race
Dr. Roger Romani Stanford University Pulsar Shock Waves
Dr. Barbara Neuhauser San Francisco State University Crystal Acoustic Detectors and Searches for Dark Matter
Dr. John Huchra Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics So Many Galaxies, So Little Time
Gregory Baszucki Knowledge Revolution a Complete Motion Laboratory on a Computer
Dr. Steven Stahler University of California at Berkeley Energetic Jets and Outflows From Young Stars
Dr. Thomas J. Hofler Naval Postgraduate School Thermoacoustic Refrigeration
Dr. Herbert B. Shore San Diego State University the Theory of Ideal Metals
Dr. Patricia Ann Beck Hewlett-Packard Co. Micromachining, Silicon Structures, and Sensors
Dr. Isabel Hawkins University of California at Berkeley the Extreme Ultraviolet Sky
James Aroyan University of California, Santa Cruz Dolphins, Sound, and Supercomputers