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Physics at Oregon State University

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The physics department is actively engaged in the following research areas: Computational Physics, Materials Physics, Physics Education, Optical Physics, and several multidisciplinary research projects

Tenure track positions available

We are accepting applications for several tenure track positions starting Fall 2012. For details see the announcement below.

Prospective graduate students

We are now accepting applications for our graduate program for Fall term 2012. Please visit our information page for more details. The dead-line to apply for full TA support is January 15, 2012.
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Events scheduled for today

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Next three scheduled events

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Date-Timesort icon Location Type Speaker Title
2012-01-30 16:00 Weniger 153 Colloquium Dr. Robin Blume-Kohout, Los Alamos National Laboratory The power of small quantum information processors
2012-02-03 13:00 Weinger 377 Research Seminar Michael Zwolak Big opportunities to research small things
2012-02-10 13:00 377 Weniger Research Seminar David McIntyre & Yun-Shik Lee Graduate research opportunities in Optics

Announcements

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2012 Jan 27

Congratulations to Prof. David McIntyre, whose book Quantum Mechanics: A Paradigms Approach was just published by Addison Wesley

2012 Jan 27

Congratulations to Prof. Ken Krane, whose third edition of his book Modern Physics was just published by Wiley

2012 Jan 6

Congratulations to Prof. Ethan Minot, who has been awarded an NSF CAREER award for "Modifying Electron-Electron Interactions to Control the Optical and Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes"

2011 Dec 12

Congratulations to Prof. Micheal Zwolak, whose article Non-local quantum superpositions of topological defects is published in Nature.

2011 Dec 1

The video of the Yunker lecture from 11/11/11 is now available at
http://media.oregonstate.edu/index.php/show/physics-24th_annual_yunker_lecture_november_11%2c_2011?id=0_rzje5x27

2011 Nov 21

Congratulations to Afina Neunzert, who was awarded the Janet Richens Wiesner University Honors College Scholarship for Undergraduate Women in Science!

2011 Nov 16

Congratulations to Bill Hetherington, who was awarded an Oregon Space Grant Consortium Faculty Research Grant to support his work on the OSU Radio Telescope and PicoSatellite projects. This is a great opportunity for him and all students who are working on these two projects.

2011 Oct 24

Our department hosted the thirteenth annual meeting of the Northwest Section of the American Physical Society, October 20-22, 2011. The conference started with a public lecture by Prof. Mario Livio, and the video of the talk can be found at this location HERE . For details, this link will lead you to the relevant web-pages.

2011 Sep 23

Congratulations to Prof. David McIntyre, who was awarded the Frederick H. Horne Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching Science by the College of Science.

2011 Sep 23

Faculty Position at Oregon State University
Physics Education Research


The Physics Department at Oregon State University invites applications for a full time, 9-month, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level, with an anticipated start date of Sept 16, 2012. Candidates should apply online at https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/ , job# 0008059. Go here for more information.