2025 Physics Department Seminar Series
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are Fridays at 2 pm in SCI 250 hosted by Dr. Anna Petrova-Mayor. All are welcome to attend!
| Date | Title | Speaker | Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 31 | Supporting Physics Departments for Planning and Implementing Transformational Change | Dr. Joel Corbo, University of Colorado at Boulder | Flyer (PDF) |
| February 7 | On the Trail of Black Body Radiation | Dr. Louis J. Buchholtz, Professor Emeritus, California State University Chico | Flyer (PDF) |
| February 14 | Rethinking What it Means to be Underprepared in Physics | Dr. Geraldine Cochran, Physics Dept., The Ohio State University | |
| February 21 | Transforming Galactic Astrophysics with Data Science | Dr. Trey Wenger, NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| February 28 | Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble: Experimenting Within the Cauldron of Mira Variable Atmospheres | Dr. Dana K. Baylis-Aguirre, New Mexico Tech | |
| March 7 | Looking Inside and Out: Directly Observing the Gas Ejected From, and Falling Onto, Galaxies at "Cosmic Noon" | Dr. Evan Núñez, PhD Candidate at Caltech Astro | |
| March 14 | Lunar Dust Mitigation | Alumnus Jason Stockton (via Zoom), NASA Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX) | |
| March 28 | The Final Frontier: Space Science Missions from Phase-A to Phase-F | Alumna Dr. Lena Heffern, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics | |
| April 4 | Evidence of Dynamical Chaos in Stellar Evolution Models | The Future Dr. Camron Crossland, Chico State Physics Major | |
| April 4 | Elliptic Orbits for the Schwarzschild Metric | The Future Dr. Alex McPeck, Chico State Physics Major | Flyer (PDF) |
| April 11 | Müller Matrix Polarimetry for Cancer Detection | The Future Dr. Katherine Bramasco, Chico State Engineering & Physics Major | Flyer (PDF) |
| April 11 | Estimating Convective Heat Transfer Coefficients from Experimental Data - A Model-Based Approach | The Future Dr. Pablo Herrador Sanchez de Murga, Chico State Physics Major | Flyer (PDF) |
| April 18 | Pedagogical Frameworks for Effective Physics Teaching | The Future Dr. Tyson Trento, Chico State Physics Major | Flyer (PDF) |
| April 25 | An Undergraduate Approach to Magnetic Field Mapping | The Future Dr. Caius Smallhouse, Chico State Physics Major | Flyer (PDF) |
| April 25 | Single Photon Interference Through Piezo Path Length Shifted Interferometer | The Future Dr. David Marquez, Chico State Physics Major | Flyer (PDF) |
| May 2 | Electron-Positron Annihilation of Radioactive Isotope 22Na | The Future Dr. Blayne Hass, Chico State Physics Major | Flyer (PDF) |
| May 2 | From Passive to Active Learning: A Case for Expanding ISLE in Physics Education | The Future Dr. David Medina, Chico State Physics Major | |
| May 9 | Characterizing Through-Focus Pulse-Front Tilt | The Future Dr. Silvia Herzenach, Chico State Physics Major | Flyer (PDF) |
May 9 | A Study of Silicon Dioxide Defects in MOSFETs Through Molecular Simulations | The Future Dr. Katherine Bramasco, Chico State Physics Major |