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Colloquium Archive

Previous Colloquia

Date-Time Location Event Speaker Title Local Contact
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
2016 Apr 11 - 16:00 WNGR116 Shane Larson (Northwestern) Gravity has a story to tell: Seeing the Cosmos in gravitational waves Davide Lazzati
2016 Apr 4 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Hamish Robertson (UW) Progress toward measuring the mass of the neutrino Davide Lazzati
2016 Mar 28 - 16:00 WNGR116 James Brau Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves Davide Lazzati
2016 Mar 7 - 16:00 WNGR161 Yigit Menguc (Mechanical Engineering) Biologically inspired soft matter devices in robotics Yun-Shik Lee
2016 Feb 29 - 16:00 WNGR161 Stephen Ramsey (Computer Sci/Biomed Sci) Systems biology approaches to study gene regulation: dynamical modeling and inverse problems Davide Lazzati
2016 Feb 22 - 16:00 WNGR116 Peter Veerman (Portland State) Synchronization of Large Linear Oscillator Arrays Henri Jansen
2016 Feb 15 - 16:00 WNGR116 Corinne Manogue TBA Davide Lazzati
2016 Feb 8 - 16:00 WNGR116 Yun-Shik Lee (OSU Physics) Fast and Furious: Extreme Electron Dynamics in Condensed Matter Yun-Shik Lee
2016 Feb 1 - 16:00 WNGR116 Chris Goldfinger (OSU, CEOAS) The coming Cascadia Great Earthquake: How did we get here? Davide Lazzati
2016 Jan 25 - 16:00 WNGR116 Prof. Feng Wang (UC Berkeley) Probing Dirac electron physics in graphitic materials Ethan Minot
2016 Jan 20 - 16:00 116 Weniger Charles De Leone, California State Univ., San Marcos TBA Gire
2016 Jan 11 - 16:00 WNGR116 Alison Crocker (Reed College) The current role of molecular gas and star formation in early-type galaxies Davide Lazzati
2015 Nov 23 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Matt von Hippel, Perimeter Institute Guessing Our Way to Four Loops: Hexagon Functions in N=4 super Yang-Mills Heidi Schellman
2015 Nov 16 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Laura King, HP Inc. Printing and Beyond – Complexities & Innovation of Ink Jet Janet Tate
2015 Nov 9 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Tristan Ursell, University of Oregon Biophysics of Growth and Shape Control in Bacteria Weihong Qiu(Weihong.Qiu@physics.oregonstate.edu)
2015 Nov 2 - 16:00 Weniger 116 David Johnson, University of Orgeon Materials by Design: Heterostructures with Targeted Nanoarchitecture and Tunable Properties Matt Graham
2015 Oct 26 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Sandra Rugonyi, Oregon Health & Science University Blood flow, cardiac mechanics, and congenital heart disease: Recapitulating the chicken and the egg problem Bo Sun
2015 Oct 19 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Davide Lazzati, Department of Physics, Oregon State University Observing Gamma-Ray Bursts with a computer Davide Lazzati (lazzatid@science.oregonstate.edu)
2015 Oct 12 - 16:00 Weniger 116 David Hendrix, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University Long noncoding RNAs: structure, function, and classification Weihong Qiu
2015 Oct 5 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Heidi Schellman State of the Department Davide Lazzati (lazzatid@science.oregonstate.edu)
2015 Jun 1 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Prof. Janet Tate, Oregon State University The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics Oksana
2015 May 18 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Prof. Juan Restrepo, Dept. of Mathematics, Oregon State U The Ocean’s Role in Climate Heidi Schellman
2015 May 11 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Prof. Heidi Schellman, Oregon State University Neutrino Nus Oksana
2015 Apr 27 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Prof. Tevian Dray, Department of Mathematics, OSU The Geometry of Relativity Oksana
2015 Apr 20 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Prof. Kai-Mei Fu, Dept. of Physics, U of Washington Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond for quantum information and sensing applications Oksana
2015 Apr 13 - 16:00 WNGR 116 Prof. Gurol Suel, Div. of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego Conflict resolution through collective oscillations in microbial communities Bo Sun
2015 Apr 6 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Oksana Ostroverkhova, Dept. of Physics, OSU Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014: super-resolved fluorescence microscopy NULL
2015 Mar 9 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Dr. Gabriel Juarez A mechanistic approach to microbial degradation of organic matter and crude oil in the ocean: The importance of interfacial processes Heidi Schellman
2015 Feb 23 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Prof. Erik Sanchez, Dept. of Physics, Portland State University Near-field Nantennas and Neutral Atom Microscopes: New Nanoscale Imaging Techniques Oksana
2015 Feb 5 - 16:00 Weniger 153 PER candidate 4 Colloquium PER candidate 4 Jansen
2015 Feb 2 - 16:00 Weniger 116 PER candidate 3 Colloquium PER candidate 3 Jansen
2015 Jan 29 - 16:00 Weniger 153 PER candidate 2 Colloquium PER candidate 2 Jansen
2015 Jan 26 - 16:00 Weniger 116 PER candidate 1 Colloquium PER candidate 1 Jansen

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