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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
Dr. Bernard Sadoulet University of California, Berkeley Prospects for the Detection of Dark Matter
Dr. Roger M. MacFarlane IBM Almaden Research Center Applications of Laser Spectroscopy
Dr. Garrett Jernigan Space Sciences Laboratory University of California, Berkeley Large Scale Structure of the Universe
Dr. Steven Stahler NASA Ames Research Center How Stars Are Made
Lecture Cancelled
Dr. Edith Bourret UC Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Growing Single Crystals for Semiconductor Devices
Dr. Alexander Pines University of California, Berkeley Irreversibility?
Dr. John Vallerga University of California, Berkeley the Charge Coupled Device
Dr. Karl Hufbauer University of California, Irvine Exploring the Solar Wind
Dr. J. D. Jackson University of California, Berkeley From the Cyclotron to the Ssc
Dr. Theodore Foster University of California, Santa Cruz Physical Oceanography and the Antarctic Ocean
Dr. Zvonko Fazarinc Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and Stanford University Can Computers Promote Intuitive Understanding of Physics?
Dr. Albert V. Baez Stanford University X-Ray Microscopes, Telescopes, and Holograms-The Early Days
Scott Anderson Anderson Studies Microcomputer Simulations
Dr. Hyron Spinrad University of California, Berkeley Halley's Comet: What Have We Learned?
Dr. Darleane C. Hoffman UC Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory How Many Elements Are There?
Dr. John Oldenburg California State University, Sacramento Biomedical Engineering Career Opportunities
Dr. Jeffrey Cuzzi NASA Ames Research Center Voyager Discoveries at Uranus
Dr. William T. Chu UC Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory the Biomedical Use of Heavy Ions
Dr. William A. Fowler California Institute of Technology the Quest for the Origin of the Elements