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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
Special LectureOSU Distinguished Professor lectures
Reimers, Subramanian, Weiss
Special Lecture
SeminarNNSA Graduate Fellowship Opportunities through PNNL
Matt MacDougall, PNNL
Seminar
OutreachFamily Science Night
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
OutreachFoster Elementary School Family Science Night
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
SeminarCommunication is everything: Entrepreneurial insights for sharing your work
Michelle Marie, Innovation X, OSU
Seminar
ColloquiumPIQL: A new assessment of mathematical reasoning development in physics instruction
Suzanne Brahmia (University of Washington)
Colloquium
OutreachFamily Science Night at Mountain View
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
SeminarSearching for The Invisible Universe
Gordon Watts, Physics, University of Washington
Seminar
OutreachDiscovery Days
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
OutreachDiscovery Days
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
OutreachWhat do the Nobels mean?
Prof. David McIntyre
Outreach
ColloquiumDisks, jets, and other black hole-powered transients
Sasha Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern)
Colloquium
OutreachHoover Family Science Night
Student and Faculty Volunteers
Outreach
SeminarUnderstanding (Photo)electrocatalysis on Epitaxial Oxide Surfaces
Kelsey Stoerzinger, CBEE, Oregon State University
Seminar
OutreachOutreach club meeting
Ethan Minot
Outreach
ColloquiumQuantum Computers and Raising Schrödinger's Cat
David Wineland (University of Oregon)
Colloquium
ColloquiumDesign principles of molecular machines: efficient control and functional coupling
David Sivak (Simon Fraser University)
Colloquium
ColloquiumDirac Electrons in One, Two and Three Dimensions
Prof. Vikram Deshpande, U. Utah
Colloquium
SeminarPhotospheric Polarization Signatures of Long Gamma Ray Bursts
Tyler Parsotan
Seminar
Open HouseProspective Grad Student Open House
Open House
ColloquiumSpontaneous generation of large-scale active biological networks
Kazuhiro Oiwa (NICT, Japan)
Colloquium
ColloquiumTBD
Eric Kuo (University of Pittsburgh)
Colloquium
OutreachPeriwinkle Family Science Night
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
General EventWeniger Block Party
General Event
SeminarAPS Practice: Field-Enhanced Exciton Dissociation in Carbon Nanotube Photodiodes, Universal interaction-driven gap in metallic carbon nanotubes
APS Speakers, Dan McCulley, Mitch Senger
Seminar
ColloquiumLong live long-lived supersymmetry --- CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER --- Rescheduled for June 3rd
Laura Jeanty (UofO)
Colloquium
SeminarInvestigations into the nature of magnetism in transition-metal-doped phthalocyanines
Dr. Zhengjun Wang, West Virginia University
Seminar
ColloquiumChemical and Physical Considerations in Producing a Cup of Coffee
Christopher Hendon (UofO)
Colloquium
SeminarDr. Scott Fisher
Dr. Scott Fisher, University of Oregon
Seminar
ColloquiumCancelled due to Weather
Suzanne Brahmia (UW)
Colloquium
General EventSecond Annual Departmental Dinner by PhIS
General Event
Special LectureModeling the Melt: What Math Tells Us About Disappearing Polar Sea Ice
Prof. Ken Golden
Special Lecture
ColloquiumDense Packing of Hard Particles
Yang Jiao (Arizona State U)
Colloquium
OutreachFranklin Family Science Night
Student and Faculty Volunteers
Outreach
SeminarWhere in the world are Heidi and Maggie: adventures in detectors at CERN
Heidi Schellman, Maggie Greenwood
Seminar
ColloquiumNobel Prize in Physics 2018: Optical Tweezers And Generation Of High-Intensity, Ultra-Short Optical Pulses
David McIntyre
Colloquium
Senior ThesisLahiru Fernando senior thesis presentation
Lahiru Fernando
Senior Thesis
ColloquiumImaging All the Sky All the Time in Search of Radio Exoplanets
Gregg Hallinan (Caltech)
Colloquium
M.S. DefenseJonathan Alfson, MS Defense
Jonathan Alfson
M.S. Defense
ColloquiumStudying X-ray Binaries and Neutron Star Interiors through Globular Clusters
Craig Heinke (Alberta, Edmonton)
Colloquium
Ph.D. DefenseAli Mousavian, PhD Defense
Ali Mousavian
Ph.D. Defense
General EventUndergrad physics majors talk about transition to industry
Chris May, Ally Mueller, Mattson Thieme
General Event
ColloquiumElectron videography . . . in the twinkling of an eye
Matthew Graham
Colloquium
OutreachDiscovery Days
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
OutreachDiscovery Days
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
ColloquiumKinesin-14s: Moving Into a New Paradigm
Weihong Qiu
Colloquium
ColloquiumTeaching Physics Sensemaking
Liz Gire
Colloquium
Special LectureThe Wei Family Private Foundation lecture: “Atomic Sandwich: Photonics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional materials"
Prof. Jie Shan, Cornell Applied Physics
Special Lecture
ColloquiumQuantitative Behavior: Understanding what animals do and how brains control them
Joshua W. Shaevitz (Princeton University)
Colloquium
ColloquiumRevisiting the mechanical feedback between tumors and their microenvironment
Bo Sun
Colloquium