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Events Archive

People gathered in a field for the 2017 eclipse.

The Oregon State University Physics Department has been host to many amazing events over the years. Learn more about our past events by exploring below.

DateTypeEvent
ColloquiumState of the Department and Welcome New Students
Davide Lazzati
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ColloquiumChaotic advection and fractal generation in 2D active nematics
Kevin Mitchell, University of California, Merced
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ColloquiumVibronic Couplings in Singlet Fission and at Interfaces
Professor Yi Rao, Utah State
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ColloquiumOn W-mass measurements and what they mean
Heidi Schellman, Oregon State University
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ColloquiumDynamics of Quantum Systems in Resonant Optical Cavities
Maxim Sukharev, Arizona State University
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ColloquiumPhysical models of vascular and cancer biology
Dr. Alex Brummer, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope
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ColloquiumPhysics Town Hall
Graduate Student Council (Jonathon Alfson, Jerry Sun & Pedram Esfahani)
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Colloquium(Extremely!) High Velocity Outflows in Quasars
Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo, Univ. Washington, Bothell
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ColloquiumLightning and Thunder: Probing the Extreme Universe using both Electromagnetic and Gravitational Waves
Ben Margalit
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ColloquiumThe Dark Side Of Distant Massive Galaxies, And New Light With JWST
Christina Williams
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ColloquiumFrontiers of multi-messenger astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays
Maria Charisi
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ColloquiumLumbering giants and nanohertz unicorns: Using pulsars to search for low-frequency gravitational waves
Jeff Hazboun
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ColloquiumEinstein on the Computer: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Computational Physics
Masha Okounkova
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ColloquiumBinary Massive Black Holes, Active Galactic Nuclei, and Gravitational Waves
Luke Kelley
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ColloquiumTBA
Z. Yasemin Kalender
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ColloquiumInterdisciplinary and Participatory Approaches to Qualitative Physics Education Research
Brian Zamarripa
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ColloquiumDiagrams, Remote Teaching, and Assessments in Physics: a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Physics Education Research Talk
Mike Vignal
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ColloquiumSearching for a CURE? The impacts of a remote, high-enrollment, course-based undergraduate research experience in physics
Alexandra Werth
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ColloquiumRacism and Sexism in Gateway Science Courses
Jayson Nissen
Colloquium
ColloquiumPhysics Town Hall
Graduate Student Council (Jonathon Alfson, Jerry Sun & Pedram Esfahani)
Colloquium
ColloquiumSpin glasses, replicas and graphical models
Guenter Schneider, OSU Physics
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ColloquiumOpening the Gravitational-Wave Window
Beverly Berger, LIGO Collaboration, Stanford University
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ColloquiumClimatic and Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear War
Alan Robock, Rutgers University
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ColloquiumCell language: The role of cell-environment communication in tumor invasion
Mingming Wu, Cornell University
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ColloquiumModeling protostellar systems
Kathryn Hadley, OSU Physics
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ColloquiumEffective Practices for Physics Programs: A Personal View of the EP3 Initiative
David Craig, OSU Physics
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ColloquiumMonte Carlo Simulation at All Temperatures
David Roundy, OSU Physics
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ColloquiumPhysics Town Hall
Grad Student Council (Jonathan Alfson, Pedram Esfahani, Jerry Sun)
Colloquium
ColloquiumState of the Department / Welcome & Introductions
Davide Lazzati, new grads
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ColloquiumFirst Results from the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab
Tammy Walton (Fermilab)
Colloquium
Colloquium“Student Thinking about Measurements and Uncertainty in Physics.”
Gina Passante - Cal State Fullerton
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ColloquiumDynamic Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions One Molecule at a Time
Sharonda LeBlanc (North Carolina State University)
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ColloquiumUnder pressure: How mechanical forces “shape” the function of membranes and proteins
Juan Vanegas (Vermont)
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ColloquiumFirst-principles modeling of optical properties of chromophores in the condensed phase
Tim Zuehlsdorff (OSU Chemistry)
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ColloquiumDisappearing stars without a trace: what is their maximum angular momentum?
Ariadna Murguia-Berthier (UCSC)
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ColloquiumUnderstanding the Higgs Boson and Top Quark at the Large Hadron Collider
Peter Onyisi (University of Texas - Austin)
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ColloquiumThe Perseverance Rover: First Results from Mars and Next Steps in the Search for Life Beyond Earth
Briony Horgan (Purdue)
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ColloquiumUnraveling phenotypic heterogeneity from live cell images using deep learning
Kwonmoo Lee (Boston Children Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
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ColloquiumQuantum Information Science approaches for physical science applications: motivation and challenges
Panagiotis Spentzouris (FermiLab)
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ColloquiumMachine Learning enables a new view in the agriculture industry
Jennifer Hobbs
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ColloquiumStructural Instability and Potential Collapse of Thwaites Glacier's Eastern Ice Shelf, West Antarctica
Erin Pettit (OSU, CEOAS)
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ColloquiumGalactic and Stellar Archaeology in the Big Data Era
Keith Hawkins (University of Texas at Austin)
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ColloquiumThe APS Bridge Program: Enhancing diversity in physics graduate education
Monica Plisch (APS)
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Colloquium“Seeing Gold” - Evolving Nanotechnologies for Ophthalmology Applications
Marilyn Rampersad Mackiewicz (OSU Chemistry)
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ColloquiumMore Than the Sum of its Parts | A Superposition of Teaching and Physics Education Research
KC Walsh (OSU - Physics)
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ColloquiumJourney to Paradise: The story of my transition to the Left Coast and the wonders I’ve discovered since arriving, with lots of pictures
Fred DeAngelis (OSU - Physics)
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ColloquiumThe NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Are we nearly there?
Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia)
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Colloquium How do you make a binary black hole?
Carl Rodriguez (CMU)
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ColloquiumThe 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
David Craig and Xavier Siemens
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ColloquiumCore-Collapse Supernovae: From Neutrino-Driven 1D Explosions to Light Curves and Spectra
Sanjana Curtis - North Carolina State
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