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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. Rosaly Lopes-Gautier Jet Propulsion Laboratory Galileo’s New Views of Io
Dr. Garrett Jernigan University of California, Berkeley Einstein’s Laboratory: The Fast World of X-Ray Astronomy
Dr. Laura Whitlock Sonoma State University You Say Science, Math, Language Arts, and History, I Say Astronomy!
Dr. Derek Buzasi University of California, Berkeley Stellar Seismology Using a Recycled Spacecraft
Dr. Steven Carlip University of California, Davis Quantum Gravity in Flatland
Dr. Adrienne Cool San Francisco State University Scrutinizing Star Clusters With Space Observatories
Dr. Lewis Carroll Epstein, author Thinking Physics the Right Stuff on Lift
Dr. Kenneth Ganezer CSU, Dominguez Hills Particle Astrophysics With the Super-Kamiokande Observatory
Dr. Joel Fajans University of California, Berkeley Isaac Newton and Ben Franklin Weren’t Always Right
Dr. Peter Sturrock Stanford University Are Solar Neutrinos Oscillating?
Dr. David Lamb University of Alabama, Huntsville Owl’s Airwatch: Detecting the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Dr. John Dunning Sonoma State University Dollars and Stamps, X-Ray Diffraction and Fluorescence
Dr. Bruce Birkett University of California, Berkeley an Overview of Physics Education Research
Dr. Sue A. Carter University of California, Santa Cruz Plastic Electronics: From Solar Cells to Transistors
Dr. Ian D. Hutcheon Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory the Physics of Forensic Science
Dr. Andreas Albrecht University of California, Davis What Can We Know About the Universe?
Dr. J.C. Séamus Davis University of California at Berkeley Imaging of Quantized Vortices in High-Temperature Superconductors
Dr. Gary Sommargren Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Optical Metrology for Future Generations of Lithography
Dr. Robert Sargent Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. Recent Advances in Precision Optical Coatings
Dr. Donald Aitken Union of Concerned Scientists the Renewable Energy Transition