Doc Morris Public Lecture Series
Artist sketch of Doc Morris by Courtney Parker.
The SDSU Physics Department presents a FREE public lecture once a year, which is intended to make physics, and science, accessible to a general audience. For enquiries please email the office. Please consider making an annual donation to us to support the lecture series.
2013 Academic Year
Title: “The Origin of Heavy Elements: Cauldrons of the Cosmos”
Date: Friday, April 26th, 2013 at 7:30 PM in GMCS-333 (‘Geology Math and Computer Science’ Building)
Event: DOC MORRIS AND JOHN D. SCHOPP PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: Rachid Ouyed, Physics and Astronomy University of Calgary, Canada
About Professor (Doc) Richard H. Morris
Honored for Distinguished teaching in 1967-1968 Faculty Awards.
In 2007, the SDSU Department of Physics named it’s Annual Public Lecture the “Doc Morris Public Lecture Series” in honor of it’s most senior Faculty Member Prof. Richard H. Morris who joined the SDSU Physics faculty 50 years ago (his original hire date is August 30, 1957). Doc is the longest serving active faculty member at SDSU! And one of the longest serving in the entire cal-state system.
Artists sketch of Doc Morris by Navarro.
Doc Morris received his PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957. He has supervised well over thirty graduate theses and dozens of undergraduate thesis projects in electromagnetism and optics. His PHYS 357 Advanced Physical Measurement class is legendary amongst our graduates.
Previous Lectures:
2012 Academic Year
Title: “What to do with the coldest stuff in the Universe?”
Date: Friday, May 4th, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Event: DOC MORRIS PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: Prof. Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley .
2010 Academic Year
Title: “Nanoscience; The physics of small things”.
Date: Tuesday 4th May 2010 at 7:03pm in NE-60
Event: DOC MORRIS PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: Prof. Ivan K. Schuller, Physics Department and Center for Advanced Nanoscience, University of California-San Diego
2009 Academic Year
Title: “Molecular imaging of the biology of disease with Positron Emission Tomography (PET)”.
Date: Friday 1st May 2009 at 7:00pm in NE-60
Event: DOC MORRIS PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: Prof. Michael Phelps, University of California, Los Angeles
2008 Academic Year
Title: “Neutrinos: Stealthy Agents of Destruction and Creation in the Cosmos”
Date: Thursday 8th May 2008 at 7:00pm in GMCS 333
Event: DOC MORRIS PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: Prof. George Fuller, University of California, San Diego
2007 Academic Year
Title: “The Story of Stopped Light”
Date: Thursday 12th April 2007 at 7:00pm in GMCS 333
Event: DOC MORRIS PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: Prof. Ronald Walsworth, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
