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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. Dean Wilkening Stanford University Ballistic Missile Defense: Technical Frontier or Technical Folly?
Dr. Mark Halpern University of British Columbia Measuring How the Universe Began
Dr. Carlos Bustamante University of California at Berkeley Grabbing the Cat by the Tail
Helene Grossman University of California at Berkeley Squids, Bugs, Brains, and Hearts
Dr. Chad Trujillo California Institute of Technology Expanding the Solar System: Moving Beyond Quaoar to Super-Plutos
Dr. Katherine McCall University of Nevada, Reno Rocks in the Physics Laboratory
Dr. Greg Madejski Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Astrophysics From Space
Dr. David Goldhaber-Gordon Stanford University a Few Electrons in a Box
Dr. Thomas D. Gutierrez University of California, Davis Measuring the Size of Subatomic Collisions
Dr. Saeid Rahimi Sonoma State University the Cerent Laboratories at Sonoma State University
Dr. Claudia Alexander Jet Propulsion Laboratory Nasa’s Mission to Seek Extraterrestrial Life
Dr. Miquel Salmeron Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Playing With Single Atoms and Molecules
Dr. Bryant Hichwa Sonoma State University Optical Mems: An Enabling Technology for Next Generation Switching Devices
Dr. Ka-Ngo Leung Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory the Development and Applications of Compact Neutron Sources
Dr. Jean Brodie University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz Extragalactic Globular Clusters: Insights Into Galaxy Formation
Dr. Geoffrey C. Bower University of California at Berkeley the Allen Telescope Array and the Next Generation of Radio Telescopes
Joe Jordan NASA Ames Research Center Atmospheric Wonders: Light and Color, Fire and Ice in the Sky
Dr. Kent Cullers SETI Institute Extending the Senses
Dr. Pablo Rovira Nanometrics, Inc. the Use of Light to Measure Nanometer Scale Geometries
Dr. Ferdinand Cap University of Innsbruck Famous Physicists I Have Known