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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
Senior ThesisThe Lag-luminosity Correlation in Time-resolved Episodes of Long Gamma-ray Bursts
Sam Kowash
Senior Thesis
OutreachSolar Observations at Garfield Elementary
Davide Lazzati
Outreach
Special LectureJanet Tate delivers the Gilfillan Lecture
Janet Tate
Special Lecture
ColloquiumBuilding an informative machine-learning model of gene regulatory control
Molly Megraw
Colloquium
OutreachTransit of Mercury in front of the Sun
Davide Lazzati, Randy Milstein
Outreach
OutreachScience Pub (Eugene)
Dr. Randy Milstein
Outreach
SeminarHybrid Imaging
David Finch
Seminar
OutreachDiscovery Days
Physics students and faculty
Outreach
OutreachDiscovery Days
Physics students and faculty
Outreach
ColloquiumQuantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming
Prof. Brad Marston (Brown University)
Colloquium
SeminarDynamics of Magnetic Oblate Spheroids Suspended in Newtonian Fluids under Magnetic Field
Travis Walker (Chem Eng, OSU)
Seminar
General EventSpecial joint seminar for Physics/Biochemistry Biophysics
Daniel Zuckermann, Pitt
General Event
ColloquiumUltrafast Snapshots: Tracking Electronic and Vibrational Dynamics in Complex Materials
Robert Kaindl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Colloquium
Special LectureAdvantage Accelerator Visit
Advantage Accelerator
Special Lecture
ColloquiumDiscovery of a Thorne-Zytkow Object Candidate in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Emily Levesque (UW)
Colloquium
SeminarNew Surface Science Research Capabilities at Oregon State University: Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Greg Herman
Seminar
OutreachScience Pub: Gravity Waves
Shane Larson
Outreach
ColloquiumGravity has a story to tell: Seeing the Cosmos in gravitational waves
Shane Larson (Northwestern)
Colloquium
OutreachOregon Science Olympiad
Matt Graham, Bo Sun
Outreach
SeminarTBA
Patrick De Leenheer
Seminar
SeminarDynamics and control of a patched model for the spread of malaria
Patrick De Leenheer
Seminar
OutreachIntroduction to Nanoscience
Ethan Minot
Outreach
ColloquiumProgress toward measuring the mass of the neutrino
Hamish Robertson (UW)
Colloquium
ColloquiumDirect Detection of Gravitational Waves
James Brau
Colloquium
SeminarAPS March Meeting Practice Talks II
Lee Aspitarte, Jihan Kim, and Garrett Potter
Seminar
ColloquiumBiologically inspired soft matter devices in robotics
Yigit Menguc (Mechanical Engineering)
Colloquium
OutreachDiscovering the Scientist Within
Various
Outreach
Open HouseProspective Graduate Student Open House
Faculty & Students
Open House
OutreachHoover Elementary Science Night (Corvallis)
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
SeminarAPS March Meeting Practice Talks I
Dan McCulley and Chris Jones
Seminar
Special LectureWhat is the World made of: From the Very Small to the Very Large
Ken Krane
Special Lecture
Special LectureMagnetics + Mechanics + Nanoscale = Electromagnetics Future
Dr. Greg P. Carman
Special Lecture
ColloquiumSystems biology approaches to study gene regulation: dynamical modeling and inverse problems
Stephen Ramsey (Computer Sci/Biomed Sci)
Colloquium
OutreachScience Night - Periwinkle Elementary (Albany)
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
OutreachSolar observations in the Quad
Davide Lazzati and Randy Milstein
Outreach
SeminarPiezoelectrics: Putting the “squeeze” on new materials
Michelle Dolgos
Seminar
OutreachLab tours for Toledo AP Physics
Various
Outreach
ColloquiumSynchronization of Large Linear Oscillator Arrays
Peter Veerman (Portland State)
Colloquium
General EventWhitney Shepherd-SPS Event
Whitney Shepherd
General Event
SeminarInter-molecular order at a hidden interface in a small-molecule organic semiconductor thin film
Cathy Wong
Seminar
ColloquiumTBA
Corinne Manogue
Colloquium
SeminarFinding graphene a “bandgap” by giving it a twist
Matt Graham
Seminar
ColloquiumFast and Furious: Extreme Electron Dynamics in Condensed Matter
Yun-Shik Lee (OSU Physics)
Colloquium
ColloquiumThe coming Cascadia Great Earthquake: How did we get here?
Chris Goldfinger (OSU, CEOAS)
Colloquium
ColloquiumProbing Dirac electron physics in graphitic materials
Prof. Feng Wang (UC Berkeley)
Colloquium
ColloquiumTBA
Charles De Leone, California State Univ., San Marcos
Colloquium
SeminarGlass Rules Everything Around Me
Eric Corwin
Seminar
SeminarCGRB Seminar: "Single-molecule studies of plant kinesin motor proteins"
Weihong Qiu
Seminar
ConferenceOSU Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
Various
Conference
Special LectureNeutrinos to Higgs - Data Analysis in Particle Physics
Stephen Wolbers, OSU Research Computing
Special Lecture