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. John Reynolds University of California, Berkeley A Physicist In Yellowstone With A Mass Spectrometer
Dr. Eicke Weber University of California, Berkeley Deep Level Defects In Semiconductors
Dr. Michael Werner NASA-Ames Research Center The Infrared Universe: Iras Discoveries And The Promise Of Sirtf
Dr. Gerson Goldhaber University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Particles With Hidden And Naked Charm
Dr. Martin Cohen University of California, Berkeley and NASA Ames Research Center The Birth Of Stars
Dr. Eugene E. Haller Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley Semiconductor Research At The Center For Advanced Materials
Dr. M.R. Beasley Stanford University Superconductivity, Pendula, And Chaos
Gary K. Starkweather Xerox Palo Alto Resaearch Center Xerographic Imaging And Its Uses
Dr. Robert Bray Hewlett-Packard Company Surface Acoustic Wave Devices
Dr. James B. Pollack NASA Ames Research Cente Climatic Change On The Earth And Its Neighbors
Eugene F. Pischel Lockheed Missiles and Space Company Processing And Display Of Three-Dimensional Data
Paul LeFebvre Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. Anti-Reflection Coatings On Video Display Terminals
Arthur V. Farmer Gunn High School, Palo Alto Have You Thought Of High School Physics Teaching?
Dr. Bruce R. Wheaton University of California, Berkeley Renaissance Of The Lightquantum
Dr. Nancy Kerr Del Grande Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Taking The Earth's Temperature With Blackbody Radiation
Dr. Milton Van Dyke Stanford University Picturing Fluid Flow
Dr. Von Eshleman Stanford University Radio Exploration Of The Saturn System
William F. Cabral Martin Marietta Space Shuttle And Secondary Payloads
Dr. Narinder Kapany Kaptron, Inc. Three Decades In Fiber Optics
Judith Goldhaber University of California Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Telling About Science