The Sonoma State University
Department of Physics and Astronomy

presents a series of lectures, demonstrations, and films

WHAT PHYSICISTS DO

"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself." - N. Bohr

EIGHTY THIRD SERIES
Spring 2012

Mondays at 4:00 p.m. Darwin 103 Coffee at 3:30 p.m.

Date Speaker Affiliation Topic
Feb 06 Dr. Hongtao Shi Sonoma State University Impact Of Magnetism Doping On The Optical Properties Of Zinc Oxide
Feb 13 Dr. Carolyn Mac Kenzie Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Practicing Health Physics Around the World
Feb 20 Presidents Day - No Speaker
Feb 27 Dr. Joseph Perl Stanford University Targeting Cancer: Simulation Tools to Improve Radiation Therapy
Mar 05 TBA
Mar 12 Dr. Wilson Ho University of California at Irvine Visulization of Quantum Mechanics
Mar 19 Dr. Brad Holden University of California Santa Cruz Searching for High Redshift Galaxies
Mar 26 Spring Break - No Speaker
Apr 02 Dr. Peter Hosemann University of California Davis Material science in Nuclear Applications
Apr 09 Gary Shambat Stanford University Advanced nanophotonic devices for ultralow power and ultrafast lasers and LEDs
Apr 16 Andrew Leker CEO, Electrified Games, Inc. Tales of a Physicsist and Entreprenuer
Apr 23 TBA

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

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