The Sonoma State University
Department of Physics and Astronomy

presents a series of lectures, demonstrations, and films

WHAT PHYSICISTS DO

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." - C. Sagan

EIGHTY FIFTH SERIES
Spring 2013

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

Date Speaker Affiliation Topic
January 28 Jim Eyer E&I Consulting Distributed Energy Resources
February 4 Dr. Beverly Berger LIGO Project Searching for Gravitational Waves with LIGO
February 11 Dr. Kevin McLin Sonoma State University Not Just for Scientists: NASA and SSU Bring Scientific Advances to The Classroom and The World
February 25 Dr. Bryan Rebar Cal Poly STEM teacher and Researcher (STAR) Program
March 4 Dr. Jay Davis Hertz Foundation Nuclear Weapons Reduction
March 11 Dr. Franck Marchis SETI Institute Moons Around Asteroids
March 25 Dr. Jeremy Qualls Sonoma State University Laboratory Physics at SSU
April 8 Frederick Arioli Lockheed Martin NIRCam for the James Webb Space Telescope
April 15 Dr. Bryant Hichwa Sonoma State University (emeritus) Physics of Baroque Bassoons
April 22 Dr. Monika Ivancic University of Wisconsin Interesting Things about NMR

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