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Colloquium Archive

Previous Colloquia

Date-Time Location Event Speaker Title Local Contact
2021 Jan 11 - 16:00 Zoom Monica Plisch (APS) The APS Bridge Program: Enhancing diversity in physics graduate education Liz Gire
2020 Nov 30 - 16:00 Zoom Marilyn Rampersad Mackiewicz (OSU Chemistry) “Seeing Gold” - Evolving Nanotechnologies for Ophthalmology Applications Davide Lazzati
2020 Nov 23 - 16:00 Zoom KC Walsh (OSU - Physics) More Than the Sum of its Parts | A Superposition of Teaching and Physics Education Research Heidi Schellman
2020 Nov 16 - 16:00 Zoom Fred DeAngelis (OSU - Physics) Journey to Paradise: The story of my transition to the Left Coast and the wonders I’ve discovered since arriving, with lots of pictures Heidi Schellman
2020 Nov 9 - 16:00 Zoom Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia) The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Are we nearly there? Xavi Siemens
2020 Nov 2 - 16:00 Zoom Carl Rodriguez (CMU) How do you make a binary black hole? Heidi Schellman
2020 Oct 26 - 16:00 Zoom David Craig and Xavier Siemens The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Davide Lazzati
2020 Oct 19 - 16:00 Zoom - The zoom link will be sent to people Physics Department. If you are not on our mailing lists and are interested in attending please visit https://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/physics-events to subscribe to our colloquium announcements Sanjana Curtis - North Carolina State Core-Collapse Supernovae: From Neutrino-Driven 1D Explosions to Light Curves and Spectra Davide Lazzati
2020 Oct 12 - 16:00 Zoom - The zoom link will be sent to people Physics Department. If you are not on our mailing lists and are interested in attending please visit https://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/physics-events to subscribe to our colloquium announcements Danny Caballero (Michigan State) Modernizing Quantitative Physics Education Research KC Walsh
2020 Oct 5 - 16:00 Zoom - The zoom link will be sent to people Physics Department. If you are not on our mailing lists and are interested in attending please visit https://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/physics-events to subscribe to our colloquium announcements Heidi Schellman and the new grads State of the Department and introduction of the 2020 graduate cohort Davide Lazzati
2020 Jun 1 - 16:00 ZOOM Jens Koch (Northwestern) On the road to quantum computing: what's a qubit, why would you make it superconducting, and why do we care? Heidi Schellman
2020 May 18 - 16:00 ZOOM David Strubbe (UC Merced) 2D materials and defects: adventures in atomic-scale simulations Heidi Schellman
2020 May 11 - 15:30 Zoom - password will be sent before the meeting. Gabriel Merrell and Tracy Bentley-Townlin Special Colloquium: "Accessibility Quick Tips for Remote Instruction" Heidi Schellman
2020 May 4 - 16:00 ZOOM Eric Agol (UW) Transiting Earth-sized planets in TRAPPIST-1: dynamics-based compositions and prospects for JWST Davide Lazzati
2020 Apr 27 - 16:00 ZOOM Kate Scholberg (Duke) What Stubs and Sparkles In Vast Vats of Liquid Will Tell Us About Exploding Stars Heidi Schellman
2020 Apr 6 - 16:00 Zoom Colloquium Jayson Nissen ZOOM Colloquium - Associations Between Learning Assistants, Passing Introductory Physics, and Equity: A QuantCrit Investigation Liz Gire
2020 Mar 9 - 16:00 WNGR116 Ramón Barthelemy (University of Utah) From Grass Roots to Changing National Policy: LGBT Advocacy in Physics Davide Lazzati
2020 Feb 24 - 16:00 WNGR116 Ryota IINO Watching Dynamic Motions of Protein Molecular Motors One at a Time Weihong QIU
2020 Feb 17 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Jane Waite (Social Justice Education Initiative) Roots and Branches of Exclusion: What is the story of our Oregon community – where have we been before today? Davide Lazzati
2020 Feb 10 - 16:00 WNGR116 Davide Lazzati & Xavier Siemens The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics Davide Lazzati
2020 Jan 27 - 16:00 WNGR116 Prof. Benjamín Alemán, University of Oregon The fall and rise of the mass on a spring Ethan Minot
2020 Jan 13 - 15:30 WNGR 328 All Physics Faculty and Students Winter Term Grad Students Town Hall Liz Gire
2019 Dec 2 - 16:00 WNGR116 Kendall Mahn Neutrinos Heidi Schellman
2019 Nov 25 - 16:00 WNGR 328 Anne Gillies (Search Advocate Program) Implicit Bias Workshop PhIS
2019 Nov 18 - 15:30 Weniger 328 Faculty and Students Town Hall Meeting (Note: event starts at 3:30) Davide Lazzati
2019 Nov 13 - 16:00 Weniger 149 Prof. Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, MIT Action at the nanoscale: Single-molecule studies of protein motion Graham
2019 Nov 4 - 16:00 WNGR116 Karen Daniels (NCSU) Granular Materials: From Quotidian to Astronomical Davide Lazzati
2019 Oct 28 - 16:00 WNGR116 Davide Lazzati Multimessenger Astrophysics
2019 Oct 21 - 16:00 WNGR116 Ethan Minot Electrons Dancing on a String Heidi Schellman
2019 Oct 14 - 16:00 WNGR116 Lauren Aycock (AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow) Sexual Harassment Reported by Undergraduate Women in Physics. Davide Lazzati
2019 Jun 3 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Laura Jeanty (UofO) Long live long-lived supersymmetry Davide Lazzati
2019 Apr 29 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Suzanne Brahmia (University of Washington) PIQL: A new assessment of mathematical reasoning development in physics instruction Liz Gire
2019 Apr 22 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Sasha Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern) Disks, jets, and other black hole-powered transients Davide Lazzati
2019 Apr 15 - 16:00 WNGR 116 David Wineland (University of Oregon) Quantum Computers and Raising Schrödinger's Cat David McIntyre
2019 Apr 10 - 16:00 WNGR 304 David Sivak (Simon Fraser University) Design principles of molecular machines: efficient control and functional coupling Bo Sun
2019 Apr 8 - 16:00 WNGR 328 Prof. Vikram Deshpande, U. Utah Dirac Electrons in One, Two and Three Dimensions Ethan Minot
2019 Mar 11 - 16:00 WNGR 328 Kazuhiro Oiwa (NICT, Japan) Spontaneous generation of large-scale active biological networks Weihong Qiu
2019 Mar 4 - 16:00 Weniger 328 Eric Kuo (University of Pittsburgh) TBD Liz Gire
2019 Feb 25 - 16:00 WNGR 328 Laura Jeanty (UofO) Long live long-lived supersymmetry --- CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER --- Rescheduled for June 3rd Davide Lazzati
2019 Feb 18 - 16:00 WNGR 328 Christopher Hendon (UofO) Chemical and Physical Considerations in Producing a Cup of Coffee Davide Lazzati
2019 Feb 11 - 16:00 WNGR 328 Suzanne Brahmia (UW) Cancelled due to Weather Liz Gire
2019 Jan 28 - 16:00 WNGR 328 Yang Jiao (Arizona State U) Dense Packing of Hard Particles Bo Sun
2019 Jan 14 - 16:00 Weniger 328 David McIntyre Nobel Prize in Physics 2018: Optical Tweezers And Generation Of High-Intensity, Ultra-Short Optical Pulses Davide Lazzati
2018 Nov 26 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Gregg Hallinan (Caltech) Imaging All the Sky All the Time in Search of Radio Exoplanets Davide Lazzati
2018 Nov 19 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Craig Heinke (Alberta, Edmonton) Studying X-ray Binaries and Neutron Star Interiors through Globular Clusters Davide Lazzati
2018 Nov 5 - 16:00 WNGR116 Matthew Graham Electron videography . . . in the twinkling of an eye Matthew Graham
2018 Oct 29 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Weihong Qiu Kinesin-14s: Moving Into a New Paradigm
2018 Oct 22 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Liz Gire Teaching Physics Sensemaking Liz Gire
2018 Oct 15 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Joshua W. Shaevitz (Princeton University) Quantitative Behavior: Understanding what animals do and how brains control them Bo Sun
2018 Oct 8 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Bo Sun Revisiting the mechanical feedback between tumors and their microenvironment
2018 Oct 1 - 16:00 116 Weniger Professor Z. Valy Vardeny, University of Utah Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites; Photovoltaics and Beyond Graham
2018 Jun 4 - 16:00 WNGR 116 David Hammer (Tufts) The dynamics of students' engagement and persistence in science Liz Gire
2018 May 21 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Tim Andeen, University of Texas at Austin Building Blocks of the Universe Heidi Schellman
2018 May 14 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Cancelled TBA Weihong Qiu
2018 May 7 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Fred Macintosh (Rice University) Phase transitions and the principle of detailed balance in living systems Bo Sun
2018 Apr 9 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Eric Agol Cancelled due to speaker unavailability Davide Lazzati
2018 Apr 2 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Xavier Siemens (UW Milwaukee) Discovery potential of pulsar timing arrays Oksana Ostroverkhova
2018 Mar 26 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (North Texas) High-throughput materials discovery and development: breakthroughs and challenges in the mapping of the materials genome Davide Lazzati
2018 Feb 28 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Carlos Silva, Georgia Tech Excitons, biexcitons, and the role of dynamic disorder in two-dimensional lead-halide perovskitoids Matt Graham
2018 Feb 21 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Hrvoje Petek, U of Pittsburgh Coherent ultrafast hot electron generation at plasmonic heterojunctions Matt Graham
2018 Feb 5 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Susan Gilbert (RPI) Propofol Inhibition of Processive Kinesins Weihong Qiu
2018 Jan 29 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Prof. Andres de la Rosa (PSU) Near-field Acousto Characterization of Confined Mesoscopic Fluids Matt Graham
2018 Jan 22 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Ben Farr (UofO) The first 166 days of gravitational wave astronomy Davide Lazzati
2018 Jan 17 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Brian O'Shea (MSU) Connecting the first stars in the universe to the Milky Way Liz Gire
2017 Nov 27 - 16:00 WNGR116 KC Walsh (OSU) Confessions of a Former Lecturer: Evidenced-based Reform in the Introductory Physics Sequence Davide Lazzati
2017 Nov 20 - 16:00 WNGR116 Hugh Montgomery-Jefferson Lab The Structure of Matter: Jefferson Lab and its Physics Heidi Schellman
2017 Nov 13 - 16:00 WNGR116 Stacey York, University of Oregon Uncovering and Addressing Implicit Bias Allison Gicking
2017 Nov 6 - 16:00 WNGR116 Oksana Ostroverkhova (OSU) Photophysics of organic materials: from single crystals to single molecules and from optoelectronics to entomology Davide Lazzati
2017 Oct 30 - 16:00 WNGR116 Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern) The Dawn of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves: the first joint detection of GWs and Light Davide Lazzati
2017 Oct 23 - 16:00 WNGR116 David Craig and Davide Lazzati The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Davide Lazzati
2017 Oct 16 - 16:00 WNGR116 Mary James (Reed College) What Does Access Really Mean? Allison Gicking
2017 Oct 9 - 16:00 WNGR116 Paul Emigh (OSU) Paul Emigh-Improving Quantum Mechanics Instruction with Tutorials Liz Gire
2017 Oct 2 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Ahmet Yildiz (Berkeley) Ahmet Yildiz-The Mechanism of Dynein Motility Weihong Qiu
2017 May 24 - 16:00 116 Weniger Libai Huang, Purdue University Colloquium/SSO Libai Huang-Ultrafast Microscopy of Energy and Charge Transport Graham
2017 May 15 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz:Heavy Element Synthesis in the Universe Lazzati
2017 May 8 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Andrew Mugler, Purdue U Andrew Mugler-Collective Sensing by Communicating Cells Bo Sun
2017 May 1 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Michaela Kleinert, Willamette University Michaela Kleinert-Laser Ablation Studies at Willamette University Graham
2017 Apr 24 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Brian Smith, U of Oregon Brian Smith- Color and Shape: The Quantum State of a Single Photon and its Manipulation Lee
2017 Apr 17 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Erik Jensen, Chemeketa CC Erik Jensen: Distance-Learning Labs for Introductory Physics with IOLab Liz
2017 Apr 10 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Greg Mulder, LBCC/OSU Physics at Oregon’s Community Colleges and Shaping the Next Generation of Physicists Gire
2017 Mar 6 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Kelin Kuhn, OSU EECS Taking the Next Steps: CMOS and Beyond CMOS Scaling Lee
2017 Feb 27 - 16:00 WNGR 116 John Bush, MIT Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics Bo Sun
2017 Feb 20 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Guenter Schneider, OSU Physics The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics: Symmetry, Topology and Matter Lee
2017 Jan 30 - 16:00 WNGR 116 William Hancock, Penn State Observing the nanoscale dynamics of kinesin molecular motors by high-resolution gold nanoparticle tracking Weihong Qiu
2017 Jan 18 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Prof. Chuck De Leone, California State Of Bases and States: Challenges in Spins First Quantum Learning Gire
2017 Jan 11 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Prof. Steve Pollock, University of Colorado, Boulder A Research Validated Approach to Transforming Upper-Division Courses Gire
2016 Nov 18 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Gerd Kortemeyer, Michigan State University Special Colloquium: Lessons from Two Decades of Hybrid and Online Physics Courses at Michigan State University Heidi Schellman
2016 Nov 14 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Rosalba Perna Highly Magnetic Neutron Stars: Bewildering Astrophysical Laboratories and Cosmological Tools Davide Lazzati
2016 Nov 7 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Ray Beausoleil, HP Enterprise The “Music” of Light: Optical Resonances for Fun and Profit Janet Tate
2016 Oct 31 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Ross Hatton Vibration Propagation in Spider Webs Yun-Shik Lee
2016 Oct 24 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Henri Jansen Observations of Introductory Physics with Calculus Yun-Shik Lee
2016 Oct 17 - 16:00 WNGR116 Susan Gilbert (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Propofol Inhibition of Processive Kinesins Weihong Qiu
2016 Oct 12 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Daniel Turner Special Wednesday Colloquium: Experimental Detection of Branching at a Conical Intersection Matt Graham
2016 Oct 3 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Heidi Schellman, Chris Jones, Lee Aspitarte, Andrew Popchock The State of the Department Address and Reports on Graduate Research Yun-Shik Lee
2016 May 23 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Prof. Brandon Brown, University of San Francisco The Life and Legacy of Max Planck Janet Tate
2016 May 16 - 16:00 WNGR116 Gurol Suel (UCSD) Metabolic oscillations and electrical signaling in bacterial biofilms Bo Sun
2016 May 9 - 16:00 WNGR116 Molly Megraw Building an informative machine-learning model of gene regulatory control Davide Lazzati
2016 May 2 - 16:00 Kidder 350 (Joint with Math) Prof. Brad Marston (Brown University) Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming Davide Lazzati
2016 Apr 25 - 16:00 WNGR116 Robert Kaindl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Ultrafast Snapshots: Tracking Electronic and Vibrational Dynamics in Complex Materials Yun-Shik Lee
2016 Apr 18 - 16:00 WNGR116 Emily Levesque (UW) Discovery of a Thorne-Zytkow Object Candidate in the Small Magellanic Cloud Davide Lazzati

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