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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
SeminarHybrid Plasmonic/Photonic-Crystal Devices for Optical Communication and Sensing
Professor Alan Wang, EECS, OSU
Seminar
ColloquiumCarbon at the Cutting-Edge: Nanotubes, graphene, and spins in diamond
Prof. Benjamín Alemán, Department of Physics, University of Oregon
Colloquium
General EventSociety of Physics Students Bi-monthly Meeting
General Event
ColloquiumSingle molecule superresolution imaging reveals a dimeric Ras signaling module
Prof. Xiaolin Nan, OHSU
Colloquium
SeminarMethane Hydrates: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
Prof. Malgorzata Peszynska
Seminar
General EventThe Nuts and Bolts of Vision
Prof. Heidi Schellman
General Event
ColloquiumNo Colloquium, Physics Open House
None
Colloquium
General EventFifth Annual Physics Open House
Several Faculty Members
General Event
Special LectureTwinkle, Twinkle little loop
Prof. Heidi Schellman
Special Lecture
General EventWhere I come from and where we are going: a vision for Oregon State Physics
Prof. Ilias Perakis
General Event
Special LectureQuantum Tricks In The Shadows Of Relativity and The Coulomb Force: Teaching Magnetic Systems To Think Ultra-Fast
Prof. Ilias Perakis
Special Lecture
General EventSociety of Physics Students Bi-monthly Meeting
General Event
SeminarSeeing is Believing: Direct Observation of a General Quantum State
Jeff Lundeen, Physics Dept., University of Ottawa
Seminar
ColloquiumRice, Locusts, and Excitonic Bose-Einstein Condensation: A Hydrodynamic Theory of Polar Active Smectics
Prof. John Toner, Department of Physics, University of Oregon
Colloquium
General EventVision for OSU Physics
Prof. David McIlroy
General Event
Special LectureThe physics of electronic transport in 1D-nanostructures: From one to a disordered array of many.
Porf. David McIlroy
Special Lecture
General EventPhysics 2025
Prof. Janet Tate
General Event
Special LectureThin-film semiconductors: Materials Discovery at OSU
Prof. Janet Tate
Special Lecture
ColloquiumExploring ultrafast dynamics on the nanoscale
Prof. Frank Hegmann, University of Alberta
Colloquium
General EventSociety of Physics Students Bi-monthly Meeting
General Event
ColloquiumRecombination Losses in Organic and Hybrid Solar Cells
Prof. David Ginger, University of Washington
Colloquium
General EventSPS Journal Club: Graphene Radio Receiver
Nick Singh
General Event
General EventProspective Graduate Student Open House
Faculty & students
General Event
SeminarRegulation of the motor protein myosin in the cell
David Altman, Willamette University
Seminar
ColloquiumDynamics and mechanism of ultraviolet-damaged DNA repair by photolyase
Prof. Dongping Zhong, The Ohio State University
Colloquium
ColloquiumNo Colloquium, APS March Meeting
None
Colloquium
SeminarAPS March meeting practice talks
Tal Sharf, Lee Aspitarte, Daniel Gruss
Seminar
ColloquiumColloquium Canceled
Colloquium
SeminarSi/ZnS interfaces and film celebrities: Stability, band alignment, 2D electron liquids, and why the formal polarization of Si is the set of odd integers
David Foster
Seminar
ColloquiumThe physical biology of thrombosis and cancer metastasis
Prof. Owen McCarty, OHSU
Colloquium
SeminarRelating Material Properties to the Atomic Solid State Energy Scale
Ram Ravichandran, OSU EECS
Seminar
ColloquiumSurpassing The Standard Model: Searching for Supersymmetry (CANCELLED)
Prof. Stephanie Majewski, Dept. of Physics, U of Oregon
Colloquium
SeminarImproving Spectrochemical Biosensing and Spectral Resolution Techniques for Two-Photon Applications
Sean Burrows, OSU Chemistry
Seminar
Senior ThesisRaman spectroscopy of graphene
Nicholas Coyle, OSU Physics
Senior Thesis
ColloquiumThe interplay between condensation and chemistry in the formation of solid particles in the ejecta of supernova explosions
Prof. Davide Lazzati, Oregon State University
Colloquium
SeminarAmorphous Oxide Semiconductor Thin-Film Transistors
Bao-Sung Yeh, OSU EECS
Seminar
Ph.D. DefenseCarbon nanotube optoelectronics
Tristan DeBorde
Ph.D. Defense
ColloquiumAn amorphous oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor route to oxide electronics
Prof. John Wager, EECS, Oregon State University
Colloquium
ColloquiumNo Colloquium, MLK Day
None
Colloquium
SeminarUnraveling Ultrafast Phonon Dynamics in Transparent Thin Medium with Time-Resolved Surface Third-Harmonic Generation
Chong Fang, OSU Chemistry
Seminar
ColloquiumDirect Detection of Classically Undetectable Dark Matter through Quantum Decoherence
Dr. C. Jess Riedel, IBM Watson Research Center
Colloquium
Seminarno SSO seminar (1st week)
Seminar
SeminarResistance Switching Properties in the Partially Oxidized Platinum and Niobium-doped Strontium Titanate Schottky Junctions
Dr. Sakyo Hirose, Murata Manufacturing Co. Japan
Seminar
ColloquiumNobel Prize 2013: Peter W. Higgs and François Englert
Prof. Al Stetz, Department of Physics, OSU
Colloquium
Special LectureVoltage Sensing Inorganic Nanoparticles
Prof. Shimon Weiss, UCLA
Special Lecture
SeminarCatalysts and Interfaces in Oxygen Evolving Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting
Prof. Shannon Boettcher, University of Oregon
Seminar
ColloquiumGraphene Micro-Femto Energetics
Prof. Matt Graham, Department of Physics, OSU
Colloquium
SeminarSeeing light with electrons
Prof. Rolf Könenkamp, Portland State University
Seminar
ColloquiumHarnessing Defects in Graphene: from Plasmonics to Chemical Functionalization
Dr. Kirill A. Velizhanin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Colloquium
SeminarFunctional Nanostructured Materials: Scalable Synthesis and Modification
David Xiulei Ji, OSU Chemistry
Seminar