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Summer Session Courses

Physics and Astronomy summer session classes are a great way to accelerate your path to graduation. Course offerings in the 2025 calendar year include the algebra-based introductory physics series (PHYS 2A and 2B), the calculus-based introductory physics series (PHYS 50, 51, 52), and ASTR 101. Registration opens up on April 9th.

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Undergraduate BS and BA degrees in Physics, minors in Astronomy and Physics, and MS programs in Physics, Quantum Technology, and Science Education.

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News Highlights

Accolades in Nuclear Threat Reduction

3/15/2025

Brianne Gutmann has been selected as a 2025 Next-Generation Fellow by the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction.

AAAS Conference

2/14/2025

Undergraduate student Emily Foreman presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in conjunction with a project she is undertaking with Assistant Professor Curtis Asplund.

Lattice Physics Takes Center Stage

2/11/2025

Ehsan Khatami and the members of his research group are pushing the physics of lattices foward in fascinating ways.

Cal-Bridge Mentor Spotlight

1/30/2025

MS student Mariana Rojas-Montoya and her faculty mentors Curtis Asplund and Sarah Loebman have been featured in the Cal-Bridge Mentor Spotlight.

CU*iP 2025

1/27/2025

Students Mariana Rojas-Montoya and Emily Foreman attended a Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (CU*iP) this past weekend at UC Berkeley.

Space Dust

1/23/2025

Thomas Madura and collaborators have a new paper out using the James Webb Space Telescope to examine carbon-rich dust shells in the Wolf-Rayet star system.