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
Dr. Saul Perlmutter E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Weighing the Universe With Supernovae
Dr. Kai Woehler United States Naval Postgraduate School the Pauli-Jung Discussion and Quantum Reality
Dr. Jeffrey Koch FANUC Berkeley Laboratory Optical Position Sensors for Robots and Other Applications
Dr. Ken Hoffman California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field: A Window Into the Deep Interior
Dr. Richard Taylor Stanford University Finding the Quarks
Dr. Susana Deustua Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Hands on Universe
Dr. James Graham University of California, Berkeley Unveiling a Supernova Remnant
Dr. Bernhard Haisch Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory a Quantum Broom Sweeps Clean
Dr. Marla Feller University of California, Berkeley Wiring the Brain - a Physicist Looks at Development
Dr. Richard E. Young NASA Ames Research Center the Galileo  Probe Mission to Jupiter
Dr. Barbara G. Levi Physics Today Writing About Global Warming and Other Scientific Topics
Dr. David B. Goldstein Natural Resources Defense Council Physicists Take on Global Warming
Dr. Halton C. Arp Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics How New Measures of Quasars and Galaxies Support a Changed Picture of the Universe
Dr. Matthew Bashaw Stanford University Commercializing Holographic Data Storage: Risks and Rewards
Dr. R. Jefferson Porter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dielectron Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Dr. Joseph S. Tenn Sonoma State University Physics and Astronomy on the World Wide Web
Nancy Kunnari National Semiconductor It's Just a Bunch of Ones and Zeros
Steve Bryson NASA Ames Research Center Virtual Environments and Scientific Visualization
Steve Anderson Sonoma State University the Science and Art of Laser Light Shows
Dr. Virginia Trimble University of California, Irvine the Solar Neutrino Problem and How We Know Stars Run on Nuclear Energy; Cobe  and How We Know the Universe Went Through a Big Bang; Gamma Ray Bursters and How Sometimes We Don't Know Anything