Sonoma State University

Announcing the revised B.S. in Physics starting Fall 2026!

Sonoma State University is proud to launch its revised 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
Jeremy Qualls Dean of the College of Science, Technology, and Health at University of Southern Maine A Deans Life
Boris Haeussler European Southern Observatory BUDDI-MaNGA: a statistical spectroscopic survey of galaxy bulges and discs
Kalina Nedkova Tufts University How have galaxies grown over the last 10 billion years?
TBA TBA
Valton Smith TBA
Aman Gill and Demitri Call Department of Physics at University of Nevada, Reno TBA
Sirio Belli Harvard University What turns galaxies off?
Tim Rawl European Space Agency Webb Space Telescope and the Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec)
Elisabetta Valiante 1QBIT TBA
Dr. Alex Walter Jet Propultion Laboratory (JPL) Exploring the Cosmos with Superconducting Detectors
SSU STEP Program Sonoma State University Becoming a Middle or High School STEM Teacher
Dr. Brianna Grado-White Brandeis University Building Traversable Wormholes (In Theory)
Dr. James Battat Wellesley College Testing Einstein with Lasers and the Moon
Dr. Christine Koh Sonoma State University Spectroscopic Characterization of Bioaerosols
Dr. Edward Parker Associate Physical Scientist at the RAND Corporation From Frustrated Quantum Magnetism to Public Policy Research
Dr. Alex Kinsella Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution A Journey from String Theory to Oceanography
Dr. Rodolfo Barniol Duran Sacramento State University From Black Holes to Fireworks: Understanding Astrophysical Jets
Professor JC Holbrook University of Edinburgh and Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow Astrophysics Culture
Natalie Sanborn, Juan Garcia Vega, Andrew Evans, and Katie Toman Sonoma State University Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Student Edition!
Dr. Stacy Copp UC Irvine Programmable light-matter interactions