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.
Events Archive
| Date | Type | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Colloquium | Hybrid Polymer Photonic Materials and Devices for Optical Communications Prof. Robert Norwood, University of Arizona Colloquium | |
| General Event | Student lunch with Prof. Bob Norwood Prof. Bob Norwood General Event | |
| Seminar | High Efficiency Solar Absorbers Ram Ravichandran, EECS Seminar | |
| General Event | Fourth Annual Physics Open House Several Faculty Members General Event | |
| Seminar | Imaging Microbial Biofilms in Porous Media: Technique and Applications Prof. Dorthe Wildenschild Seminar | |
| Special Lecture | Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution Prof. Chris O'Dea Special Lecture | |
| Colloquium | Rogue Atoms in Flatland: Imaging structural disorder in novel 2D materials with transmission electron microscopy Pinshane Huang, Cornell University Colloquium | |
| Open House | Prospective Graduate Student Visit Several Open House | |
| M.S. Defense | Masters Final Oral Examination: Design of a Data Storage System for the Start-Up Biological Sensor Company, Dahl Natural Jessica McCartney M.S. Defense | |
| Seminar | March Meeting practice talks Daniel Gruss, Jason Vielma, David Foster Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Single Molecule Bioelectronics Prof. Phil Collins, UC Irvine Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Using Electronic Spectroscopy to Study the Local Conformations and Kinetics of Biological Macromolecules Prof. Andrew H. Marcus, Department of Chemistry, Oregon Center for Optics, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon Colloquium | |
| General Event | College of Science Winter Awards Day General Event | |
| Seminar | TBA Dr. Weihong Qiu, Harvard Medical School Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Shining Light on the Mechanism of Nature’s Nanomachines Dr. Weihong Qiu, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cell Biology Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Faculty candidate - holding open TBA Seminar | |
| Seminar | TBA Dr. Paulo Araujo, MIT Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Optical Spectroscopy and Phonon Self-Energy Renormalizations in Carbon Materials Dr. Paulo T. Araujo, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Colloquium | |
| Seminar | TBA Dr. Patrice Genevet, Harvard University Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Photonic metasurfaces, a modern approach to designing optical components Dr. Patrice Genevet, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Colloquium | |
| General Event | Discovering the Scientist Within Discovering the Scientist Within General Event | |
| Seminar | TBA Dr. Hajin Kim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Seminar | |
| Seminar | Faculty candidate - holding open TBA Seminar | |
| Colloquium | The role of fluctuations in biology at the molecular level Dr. Hajin Kim, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Colloquium | |
| Seminar | TBA Dr. Sanghyuk Lee, UC Berkeley Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Counting molecules one at a time by Pointillism optical nanoscopy Dr. Sang-Hyuk Lee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and UC Berkeley Colloquium | |
| Seminar | TBA Dr. Lee Bassett, UCSB Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Harnessing the atom-like properties of single spins in diamond Dr. Lee Bassett, University of California, Santa Barbara Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Faculty candidate - holding open TBA Seminar | |
| Seminar | TBA Dr. Matthew Graham, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Cornell University Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Electronic carbon correlations in reduced dimensions; from light absorption to current production Dr. Matt W. Graham, Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science and Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Acoustic Assisted Magnetic Recording: Making un-writeable hard disk media writeable using acoustic waves Prof. Albrecht Jander, OSU EECS Seminar | |
| Colloquium | The Higgs Boson and the Puzzle of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Prof. James Brau, University of Oregon Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Membranes, microbes, and microscopy Prof. Raghu Parthasarathy, UO Physics Seminar | |
| Colloquium | TBA Owen McCarty Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Single Molecule Enzyme Catalysis: steps towards accurate kinetic schemes Prof. Kerstin Blank, Radboud University, Nijmegen Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Inertial Pump: new way of moving fluids through micro-channels Dr. Pavel Kornilovich, Hewlett Packard, Corvallis OR Colloquium | |
| Ph.D. Defense | Optoelectronic Properties of Organic Semiconductors: From Bulk to Single Molecule Whitney Shepherd Ph.D. Defense | |
| Seminar | New Strategies for Electrochemical Energy Devices Prof. David Ji, OSU Chemistry Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Nobel Prize Lecture David McIntyre, Oregon State University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Speckle patterns and purity of quantum states Steven van Enk, University of Oregon Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Electron-Electron Interaction Effects on the Photophysics of Carbon Nanostructures. Prof. Sumit Mazumdar, U of Arizona Physics Seminar | |
| Colloquium | New Materials for a Clean Energy Future: From Basic Properties to Computational Materials Design Guenter Schneider, Oregon State University Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Bi-based Piezoelectric Thin Films via Chemical Solution Deposition Prof. Brady Gibbons, OSU Materials Science Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Quantum phase transitions Bogdan Damski, Los Alamos National Laboratory Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Multiphoton Spectroscopy for Biological Analysis Prof. Sean Burrows, OSU Chemistry Seminar | |
| Colloquium | A tale of two E's: Energy and entropy in aqueous interfaces David Roundy, Oregon State University Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Spin caloritronics – more than spin-dependent thermoelectrics Prof. Gerrit Bauer, Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Standards Based Grading with Voice Andy Rundquist, Department of Physics, Hamline University Colloquium | |
| Special Lecture | Tracking water molecules in proteins Prof. Robin Hochstrasser, Uni. of Pennsylvania Special Lecture |