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What Physicists Do

ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH SERIES
Spring 2025

All Lectures Free and Open to All
Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
Darwin 103

This series is supported by private donations and Instructionally Related Activities funds.

Lectures

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Ned Kahn Artist Analogies of the Higg’s Field 
Peter Michelson Stanford Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: A quest to explore the restless, high-energy Universe
CD Hoyle Humboldt TBA
Victoria Xu UC Berkeley The quantum limit of gravitational-wave detection
N/A Spring Break - No Lecture
N/A No Lecture
N/A Cesar Chavez Day - No Lecture
Mary Barsony SETI Institute Two Eyes are Better than One: JWST and ALMA Look at Star Formation
Laura Peticolas Sonoma State University, EdEon Eclipse Megamovie: From 2017 to 2024
Giorgio Gratta Stanford Testing Gravity at ever shorter scale: a trip into exotic experimental physics
Lynn Cominsky Sonoma State University, EdEon Reflections on nearly 40 years of SSU Physics & Astronomy