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Events Archive

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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
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
Special LectureSeminar PER candidate 1
PER candidate 1
Special Lecture
ColloquiumColloquium PER candidate 1
PER candidate 1
Colloquium
SeminarChanging Quantum-Dot Optical Properties with the Twist of a Knob
Prof. John Essick, Reed College
Seminar
ColloquiumStability of Fermion Clusters: Application to Cold Atoms and Unconventional Superconductivity
Pavel Kornilovich, Hewlett Packard, Corvallis OR
Colloquium
General EventHoliday party in honor of Henri Jansen
Henri Jansen
General Event
SeminarPaper AND Plastic…and a mobile app
Professor Vince Remcho, OSU Chemistry
Seminar
ColloquiumSurpassing The Standard Model: Searching for Supersymmetry
Prof. Stephanie Majewski, Dept. of Physics, University of Oregon
Colloquium
SeminarAtomic-Resolution Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Materials
Prof. George Nazin, Dept. of Chemistry, U of Oregon
Seminar
ColloquiumInvestigating student understanding at the upper division: thermal physics and the related mathematics
John Thompson, Dept. of Physics, University of Maine
Colloquium
SeminarMultimode Quantum State Tomography of Stored Light
Professor Andrew Dawes, Pacific University
Seminar
General EventGraduate Student Town Hall Meeting
All
General Event
SeminarEnhanced photovoltaic efficiency through heterojunction-assisted impact ionization
Jet Meitzner, UO Chemistry
Seminar
ColloquiumThe Genetics and Biophysics of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT): Can Theory Help Cancer Biology?
Prof. Herbert Levine, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
Colloquium
SeminarMetals and jets in galaxy clusters
Brian Morsony
Seminar
ColloquiumExploring the Bio-Nano interface: integrating live cells with nanosensors
Bianxiao Cui, Chemistry Department, Stanford University
Colloquium
SeminarGraphene transistors as biological sensors
Professor Michael Crosser, Linfield College Physics
Seminar
ColloquiumModeling Macromolecular Electrostatics with DelPhi Poisson-Boltzmann solver: Improvements and applications
Prof. Emil Alexov, Department of Physics,Clemson University
Colloquium
SeminarFrom OSU to the Comet Wild/2 and Mars: The story of the development of NASA’s Aerogel
Doug Buettner
Seminar
SeminarSculpted electron beams as a probe of magnetization and plasmons
Professor Ben McMorran, Univ. of Oregon Physics
Seminar
Yunker LectureParticle paleontology: looking for fossils from the early universe inside the electron
Eric Cornell, Fellow of JILA, NIST & University of Colorado at Boulder; Professor Adjoint of Physics, University of Colorado
Yunker Lecture
General EventSPS Mentorship Potluck #2
General Event
ColloquiumDynamics and mechanism of ultraviolet-damaged DNA repair by photolyase
Prof. Dongping Zhong, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University
Colloquium
Ph.D. DefenseNonlinear terahertz spectroscopy of carbon nanomaterials and semiconductor nanostructures
Michael Paul
Ph.D. Defense
General EventCOS Welcoming Social
General Event
General EventCollege of Science Fall Awards reception
General Event
General EventCollege of Science Fall Awards ceremony
General Event
M.S. Defense2D Collective Motion in Human Breast Cancer Cells
Andrew Bartlein
M.S. Defense
Ph.D. DefenseLiquid-Gated Carbon Nanotube Transistor Noise Sources and Sensitivity Limits
Tal Sharf
Ph.D. Defense
General EventBiological Motions through the Lens Day 2
NA
General Event
General EventBiological Motions through the Lens
NA
General Event
M.S. DefenseThermal conductivity measurements of amorphous metal thin films via the 3-omega method
Kai Zhan
M.S. Defense