Events Archive | Department of Physics

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.

Date	Type	Event
2018-05-14	General Event	Sigma Pi Sigma Induction Ceremony General Event
2018-05-14	Colloquium	TBA Cancelled Colloquium
2018-05-11	Special Lecture	Distinguished Professor Lecture: With a little help from my friends: collaborative materials research and incorporating research into the undergraduate curriculum Prof. Janet Tate Special Lecture
2018-05-09	Seminar	Heterostructural Semiconductor Alloys Andriy Zakutayev, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Seminar
2018-05-08	Outreach	Family Science Night Student and faculty volunteers Outreach
2018-05-07	Colloquium	Phase transitions and the principle of detailed balance in living systems Fred Macintosh (Rice University) Colloquium
2018-05-03	Special Lecture	Of Predators and Prey Dr. Henri Berestycki Special Lecture
2018-05-02	Outreach	Discovery Days Faculty and student volunteers Outreach
2018-05-01	Outreach	Discovery Days Faculty and student volunteers Outreach
2018-04-20	Yunker Lecture	The Dark Energy of Quantum Materials Laura H. Greene, Francis Eppes Professor of Physics, Florida State University & Chief Scientist, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Yunker Lecture
2018-04-20	General Event	Reception and poster session for Yunker lecture Laura Greene General Event
2018-04-19	Seminar	The Topological Kondo Insulator SmB6: Surface States and Bulk Spin Excitons Laura Greene, Florida State University Seminar
2018-04-09	Colloquium	Cancelled due to speaker unavailability Eric Agol Colloquium
2018-04-05	Special Lecture	Catalyzing the transformation of science learning at OSU Prof. Corinne Manogue Special Lecture
2018-04-05	Outreach	Family Science Night Student and faculty volunteers Outreach
2018-04-02	Colloquium	Discovery potential of pulsar timing arrays Xavier Siemens (UW Milwaukee) Colloquium
2018-03-26	Colloquium	High-throughput materials discovery and development: breakthroughs and challenges in the mapping of the materials genome Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (North Texas) Colloquium
2018-03-26	Seminar	MRS Practice Talks Mitchell Senger, Carly Fengel Seminar
2018-03-15	Outreach	Periwinkle Family Science Night Faculty and student volunteers Outreach
2018-03-09	Outreach	Astronomy Open House Astronomy Club Outreach
2018-03-09	Conference	2018 Physics Prospective Graduate Student Poster Fair Physics Graduate Student Conference
2018-03-09	Open House	Prospective Graduate Students Open House Open House
2018-03-03	Outreach	Discovering the Scientist Within Faculty and student volunteers Outreach
2018-02-28	Seminar	Excitons, biexcitons, and the role of dynamic disorder in two-dimensional lead-halide perovskitoids Carlos Silva, Georgia Tech University Seminar
2018-02-28	Colloquium	Excitons, biexcitons, and the role of dynamic disorder in two-dimensional lead-halide perovskitoids Carlos Silva, Georgia Tech Colloquium
2018-02-22	Outreach	Science Night at Santiam Christian School Faculty and student volunteers Outreach
2018-02-21	Seminar	Coherent ultrafast hot electron generation at plasmonic heterojunctions Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh Seminar
2018-02-21	Colloquium	Coherent ultrafast hot electron generation at plasmonic heterojunctions Hrvoje Petek, U of Pittsburgh Colloquium
2018-02-14	Seminar	The fight between BCC and icosahedral clusters in the supercooled tantalum liquid through computer simulation and visualization Donghua Xu, Materials Science, OSU Seminar
2018-02-07	Seminar	Hybrid-Halide Compounds for Thin-Film Electronics Prof. John Labram, OSU EECS Seminar
2018-02-05	Colloquium	Propofol Inhibition of Processive Kinesins Susan Gilbert (RPI) Colloquium
2018-02-01	General Event	Pizza dinner with Whitney Shepherd Whitney Shepherd General Event
2018-02-01	Special Lecture	Physicist Working In Industry Dr. Whitney Shepherd Special Lecture
2018-01-29	Colloquium	Near-field Acousto Characterization of Confined Mesoscopic Fluids Prof. Andres de la Rosa (PSU) Colloquium
2018-01-25	Outreach	Family Science Night Faculty and student volunteers Outreach
2018-01-24	Seminar	An Introduction to NMR and its Application in Living Cells Patrick Reardon, Director, OSU NMR Facililty Seminar
2018-01-22	Colloquium	The first 166 days of gravitational wave astronomy Ben Farr (UofO) Colloquium
2018-01-17	Colloquium	Connecting the first stars in the universe to the Milky Way Brian O'Shea (MSU) Colloquium
2018-01-10	Outreach	Outreach club meeting Ethan Minot Outreach
2017-11-27	Colloquium	Confessions of a Former Lecturer: Evidenced-based Reform in the Introductory Physics Sequence KC Walsh (OSU) Colloquium
2017-11-20	Colloquium	The Structure of Matter: Jefferson Lab and its Physics Hugh Montgomery-Jefferson Lab Colloquium
2017-11-15	Seminar	OSU Physics Undergraduates Report on 2017 Summer Research Mirek Brandt, Abraham Teklu, Hazel Betz Seminar
2017-11-13	Colloquium	Uncovering and Addressing Implicit Bias Stacey York, University of Oregon Colloquium
2017-11-08	Seminar	Intermediate state in type-I superconductors: a new look at an old story Vladimir Kozhevnikov Seminar
2017-11-07	General Event	REGISTRATION SKILLS WORKSHOP General Event
2017-11-06	Colloquium	Photophysics of organic materials: from single crystals to single molecules and from optoelectronics to entomology Oksana Ostroverkhova (OSU) Colloquium
2017-11-02	Ph.D. Defense	Liangdong Zhu, Thesis Defense Liangdong Zhu Ph.D. Defense
2017-10-30	Colloquium	The Dawn of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves: the first joint detection of GWs and Light Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern) Colloquium
2017-10-25	M.S. Defense	High-fraction brookite films from amorphous precursors James Haggerty M.S. Defense
2017-10-25	Seminar	High-fraction brookite films from amorphous precursors James Haggerty Seminar