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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. Len Forbes University of California, Davis Semiconductor Materials Characterization: Gallium Arsenide And Silicon
Dr. Douglas Henderson IBM Research Laboratory Do States Matter? Phase Transitions In Two And Three Dimensions
Dr. Chin-Fu Tsang Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Hot And Chilled Water Storage In Underground Formations
Dr. Thomas F. Gallagher SRI International Resonant Collisions Between Rydberg Atoms
Dr. Elton J. Cairns Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley Advanced Batteries: A Step Toward Energy Independence
Dr. Donald E. Osterbrock Lick Observatory Active Galactic Nuclei
Dr. David Morrison University of Hawaii The Voyager Exploration Of Saturn
Dr. Bernardo Huberman Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Stanford University The Sound Of Chaos
Dr. Wilson K. Talley University of California, Davis and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The Crisis In Science And Technology: It's Here Now
Dr. Helen R. Quinn Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Grand Unification Theories
Keith Brister Sonoma State University Gases In Solids
Dr. Michael Chanowitz Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory The Unity Of The Electromagnetic And Weak Nuclear Forces
Dr. C. W. Francis Everitt Stanford University The First Great Unification In Physics
Dr. Hyron Spinrad University of California, Berkeley Spectroscopic Studies Of Recent Comets
Dr. Melvin Calvin University of California, Berkeley Solar Energy Capture And Storage By Water Splitting
Keith Soreng Sonoma State University Optical Levitation
Dr. Richard Karas Sonoma State University Erosion Of The Earth's Magnetic Field
Dr. Will Siri Lawrence Berkeley Assessments Of Tomorrow's Energy: A New Venture For Physicists
Dr. Isaac L. Bass Quanta Ray, Inc. Tunable Visible And Ultraviolet Laser Light: Getting There From The Infrared
Stephanie Snedden Sonoma State University Be And Shell Stars