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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. Edward Engler IBM Almaden Research Cente Challenges and Opportunities in Optical Storage
Dr. Heidi Hammel Jet Propulsion Laboratory Neptune: Exploration of the Most Distant Giant Planet
Dr. Melvin Schwartz Digital Pathways, Inc. the First High Energy Neutrino Experiment
Dr. Max Dresden Stanford University Determination and Chaos
Dr. Robert A. Helliwell Stanford University Pursuing Whistlers in Antarctica
Dr. Robert Cahn Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory the Superconducting Super Collider
Dr. Lambertus Hesselink Stanford University Three-Dimensional Display and Evaluation of Scientific Data
Dr. Isabel Hawkins University of California at Berkeley Distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Dr. Joseph Tenn Sonoma State University From Hubble to Hubble: A Century of Astronomy
Dr. Jonathan Dorfan Stanford Linear Accelerator Particle Physics at the Stanford Linear Collider
Dr. Ronald Pellegrino Electronic Arts Production Visualizing Music
Dr. Robert Becker University of California at Davis Radio Observations of Supernova Remnants
Estelle Condon NASA Ames Research Center the Arctic and the Antarctic Ozone Experiments
Dr. Jay Marx Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Synchrotron Radiation—x-Ray Beams of Unprecedented Brightness
Dr. Brian Holmes San Jose State University Physics of Brass Musical Instruments
Dr. Douglas Martin Sonoma State University How Children and the Rest of Us Learn Science
Dr. Carl Pennypacker Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Discovery of the Optical Pulsar in Supernova 1987a
Dr. Raymond Jeanloz University of California at Berkeley A Tour Through Spaceship Earth
Dr. Kevin Hurley University of California at Berkeley Explosions in Space
Dr. Rob Shaw MacArthur Fellow the Paradox of Prediction