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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
ColloquiumBlood flow, cardiac mechanics, and congenital heart disease: Recapitulating the chicken and the egg problem
Sandra Rugonyi, Oregon Health & Science University
Colloquium
ColloquiumObserving Gamma-Ray Bursts with a computer
Davide Lazzati, Department of Physics, Oregon State University
Colloquium
SeminarGold Nanostar Probes for Imaging and Therapeutics
Prof. Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry
Seminar
ColloquiumLong noncoding RNAs: structure, function, and classification
David Hendrix, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University
Colloquium
ColloquiumState of the Department
Heidi Schellman
Colloquium
Ph.D. DefenseTheory of Inhomogeneous Fluids
Eric Krebs
Ph.D. Defense
Ph.D. DefenseTerahertz Imaging and Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Semiconductors using Plasmonic Devices
Zachary Thompson
Ph.D. Defense
SeminarInfrared near-field nanoscopy: from imaging and spectroscopy to “nanoellipsometry” and depth profiling
Alexander Govyadinov
Seminar
Ph.D. DefenseElectronic and Optical Properties of Organic Semiconductors: Experiment and Simulation
Brian Johnson
Ph.D. Defense
Special Lecture Probing attosecond electron emission dynamics at solid surfaces
Prof. Jürg Osterwalder, Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Special Lecture
M.S. DefenseTBA
Chad Larson
M.S. Defense
M.S. DefenseComparing Excitonic vs. Bulk Electronic Properties in Few Layer Dichalcogenides
Kyle McLelland
M.S. Defense
Senior Thesis Senior Thesis Presentation Part II
Class of 2015
Senior Thesis
General EventGraduating Seniors Dinner
General Event
Senior ThesisDetermining Free Energies of Hard Sphere via Monte Carlo Simulation
Austin Valeske
Senior Thesis
Ph.D. DefenseApplications of Holographic Optical Tweezers: Multiplexed Fluorescence Spectroscopy and the Micromechanics of Type-I Collagen
Matt Cibula
Ph.D. Defense
Senior ThesisSenior Thesis Presentation Part I
Class of 2015
Senior Thesis
Senior ThesisOptimizing Monte Carlo Simulation of the Square-Well Fluid
Michael Perlin
Senior Thesis
ColloquiumThe 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
Prof. Janet Tate, Oregon State University
Colloquium
Senior ThesisOptical Tweezers-Based Probe of Change Transfer in Organic Semiconductors at Microscopic Scales
Jacob Busche
Senior Thesis
Senior ThesisA quantitative analysis of three-dimensional contact guidance by breast cancer cells
Emma Krnacik
Senior Thesis
SeminarPaper Microfluidic Sensors for Point-of-care Diagnostic Applications in Low-resource Settings
Elain Fu
Seminar
Senior ThesisA magnetotelluric investigation of shallow conductivity sources beneath the Cascadia Volcanic Arc
L Bonner
Senior Thesis
SeminarAdventures in Astrophysics: Simulations of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Stardust Formation
Atul Chhotray and Christopher Mauney
Seminar
ColloquiumThe Ocean’s Role in Climate
Prof. Juan Restrepo, Dept. of Mathematics, Oregon State U
Colloquium
SeminarDesignable Matter: New Shape-Shifting Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
Alex Greaney, School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, OSU
Seminar
Special Lecture30th Annual Mathematics Lonseth Lecture "Plateau's Problem and the Geometry of Soap Films"
Harold R. Parks
Special Lecture
ColloquiumNeutrino Nus
Prof. Heidi Schellman, Oregon State University
Colloquium
Seminarinternal event, no SSO seminar
Seminar
ColloquiumYunker lecture
Colloquium
Yunker LectureFascination with Fluids and Flows
Howard Stone, Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Yunker Lecture
SeminarDetermining the rate limiting steps of hydrocarbon chain growth on Co catalyst, using Density Functional theory.
Liney Arnadottir
Seminar
ColloquiumThe Geometry of Relativity
Prof. Tevian Dray, Department of Mathematics, OSU
Colloquium
ColloquiumNitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond for quantum information and sensing applications
Prof. Kai-Mei Fu, Dept. of Physics, U of Washington
Colloquium
SeminarRobotics and Geometry
Prof. Ross Hatton, OSU MIME
Seminar
ColloquiumConflict resolution through collective oscillations in microbial communities
Prof. Gurol Suel, Div. of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego
Colloquium
ColloquiumNobel Prize in Chemistry 2014: super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
Oksana Ostroverkhova, Dept. of Physics, OSU
Colloquium
General EventEdwards Lecture: Taking Uncertainties into Account in Geosciences, Physics, and Engineering
Prof. Juan M. Restrepo, Department of Mathematics
General Event
SeminarUsing noisy light from atomic coherence to measure magnetic fields
Prof. Shannon O'Leary
Seminar
ColloquiumA mechanistic approach to microbial degradation of organic matter and crude oil in the ocean: The importance of interfacial processes
Dr. Gabriel Juarez
Colloquium
SeminarMarch Meeting practice talks
Patel, Potter, Jones, Sahu
Seminar
General EventSimple groups simplified
Robert A. Wilson, Queen Mary, University of London
General Event
ColloquiumNear-field Nantennas and Neutral Atom Microscopes: New Nanoscale Imaging Techniques
Prof. Erik Sanchez, Dept. of Physics, Portland State University
Colloquium
General EventAsymptotic Behavior of Non Round Neckpinches in Ricci Flow
Prof. James Isenberg, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon
General Event
Special LectureSeminar PER candidate 4
PER candidate 4
Special Lecture
ColloquiumColloquium PER candidate 4
PER candidate 4
Colloquium
Special LectureSeminar PER candidate 3
PER candidate 3
Special Lecture
ColloquiumColloquium PER candidate 3
PER candidate 3
Colloquium
Special LectureSeminar PER candidate 2
PER candidate 2
Special Lecture
ColloquiumColloquium PER candidate 2
PER candidate 2
Colloquium