Name: Laser Lectures in Santa Monica
Start: 2025-01-27T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-01-27T21:30:00-08:00
Location: UnUrban Organic Food & Coffee

$5 or pay what you can
Delicious food and drinks available to enjoy during the lectures
Replete with cartoons, jokes, trivia, and historical and personal anecdotes, the lectures promise to be entertaining as well as enlightening. Dr. Bobbs is also renowned for his comedy/poetry performances.
1st, laser fundamentals, explained for layhumans in a way that is understandable to any adult, regardless of science or math background (or lack thereof)
Next, a laser app demo and game!
Then … Is it wrong to love a laser? Come hear about some of the more interesting lasers that Dr. Bobbs has encountered (or invented) during his career. You’ll hear stories about the zebra laser, the dog-replacement laser, the frog-legs laser, three lightning-bolt lasers, the day-dreaming laser, the edible laser, the golden-rectangle laser, and many more.
The lectures are aimed at adults, but would also be understood by exceptionally inquisitive teens.
Dr. Bobbs has a long career researching laser and electro-optical physics, and has been Adjunct Professor of Physics at Moorpark College and California Lutheran University. He currently works at Intelligent Optical Systems in Torrance as Senior Scientist of the Laser Ultrasonics Group, and lives in Redondo Beach.
If this new venue for physics lectures goes well, then stay tuned for "Philosophical Mysteries of Quantum Physics" here.