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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
ColloquiumStellar abundances in the Milky Way and their implications for nucleosynthesis
Emily Griffith, University of Colorado Boulder
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ColloquiumCan We Trust the Hype? Untangling AI Ethics & Legitimacy
Alicia Patterson, Oregon State University
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ColloquiumDepartment Town Hall
Graduate Student Council
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ColloquiumIn Totality: The story of how mankind learned to predict eclipses
Daniel Kennefick, University of Arkansas
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ColloquiumFrom Differentiation to Disease: Inferring Timing and Locality of DNA-Protein Binding Dynamics in Single Cells
Christopher Eddy, Oregon Health and Science University
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ColloquiumUnveiling the powerful transient jets launched by black holes
Lauren Rhodes, McGill University
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ColloquiumReframing physics student preparation: supporting conversation about ethics, science, and society in the classroom
Brianne Gutmann, San José State University
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ColloquiumCelebrating the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
Ethan Minot
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ColloquiumVision for the Department
Ethan Minot
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ColloquiumBest of the Best: constructing the 2d ideal glass
Prof. Eric Corwin, University of Oregon
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ColloquiumProbing and engineering quantum materials with light
Daniel Kaplan, Rutgers University
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ColloquiumExcitons Beyond Creation: Interactions and Dynamics in Emerging Materials
Jonah Haber, Stanford University
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ColloquiumTopology and Interaction in Graphene: From Physical Principles to AI-driven Discoveries
Jihang Zhu, University of Washington
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ColloquiumComputational Modeling of Materials Engineering with Light: From Recombination to Excitons
Fangzhou Zhao, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
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ColloquiumThe invisible magnets
Lin-Ding Yuan, Northwestern University
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ColloquiumQudits and logical qubits in metastable trapped ions
Jameson O'Reilly, University of Oregon
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ColloquiumEmergent Ferromagnetism in a Lattice Model of Interacting Electrons
Professor Ehsan Khatami, San Jose State University
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ColloquiumWhat does it mean for physics labs to be authentic?
Professor Natasha Holmes, Cornell University
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ColloquiumGravitational wave detection with apparent star motions
Professor Kris Pardo, University of Southern California
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ColloquiumOn the Physics of Chemical Bonding
Professor John F. Wager, School of EECS, Oregon State University
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Colloquium30 Years of Lessons from the Paradigms
Professor Corinne Manogue, Oregon State University
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ColloquiumPhysics Town Hall
Graduate Student Council
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ColloquiumListening to the sound of a million black holes singing
Professor Paul Baker, Widener University
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ColloquiumDepartment Head Welcome Address
Professor Ethan Minot, Oregon State University
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ColloquiumFrom Confusion to Consensus: Investigating Socio-Metacognition in Collaborative Physics Learning
Thanh Le, Western Washington University
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ColloquiumEcampus teaching strategies and fluid dynamics modeling in astrophysics
Dr. Kathryn Hadley, Oregon State Physics
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ColloquiumProfessor of Teaching Interview: A Conversation
Dr. Randall L. Milstein, Oregon State Physics
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ColloquiumThe Wonderful World of AGN Variability
Matthew Graham, California Institute of Technology
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ColloquiumDesigning Curriculum to Engage Students
Dr. Paul J. Emigh, Oregon State Physics
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ColloquiumSpace Navigation using an X-ray Telescope
Andrea Lommen, Haverford College
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ColloquiumThe Landscape of Multi-Messenger Astronomy in the LISA ERA
Shane L. Larson
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ColloquiumMapping the Local Interstellar Medium with Pulsar Scintillometry
Prof. James McKee
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ColloquiumLaser Spectroscopy for Characterizing Metals, Organic/Inorganic Semiconductors and Photovoltaics
Dr. Getasew Admasu Wubetu
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ColloquiumWhy we observe?- New perspectives in ice melt dynamics through in-situ observation at the glacier ice-ocean interface
Jonathan Nash
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Colloquium2024 Nobel Prize in Physics – How Physics Shapes Artificial Intelligence
Bo Sun
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ColloquiumCan Artificial Intelligence Help Bring About Fusion Energy?
Jesse Rodriguez
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ColloquiumDriving Electronics with Micro Defects and Femto Spin Flips
Prof. Matt W. Graham, Oregon State Physics
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ColloquiumTidal Disruption Events (TDEs): Progress, Open Questions, and Prospects
Yvette Cendes, University of Oregon
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ColloquiumDNA-Assembled Dye Aggregates as Possible Materials for Quantum Information Science
Ryan Pensack, Boise State University
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ColloquiumNew Direct Electron Imaging Techniques for Quantum Materials
Prof. Kayla Nguyen, University of Oregon, Physics
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ColloquiumUncovering extreme matter when gravity waves
Prof. Nico Yunes, UIUC
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ColloquiumThe self-force on static and dynamic charges in Schwarzschild spacetime using the method of images
Prof. Alan Wiseman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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ColloquiumWelcome back! A short Department prospectus for the upcoming year.
Prof. Davide Lazzati, Department Head
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ColloquiumYunker Lecture: Facilitating thinking and learning in and beyond the physics classrooms using research-based approaches
Prof. Chandralekha Singh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
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ColloquiumSharing Our Science: Challenges and Opportunities in Communicating STEM
Prof. Brandon R. Brown, University of San Francisco, Physics and Astronomy
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ColloquiumBinary evolution: a multi-messenger, multi-band puzzle
Prof. Katelyn Breivik, Carnegie Mellon University, Physics
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ColloquiumEVENT POSTPONED: New Direct Electron Imaging Techniques for Quantum Materials
Prof. Kayla Nguyen, University of Oregon, Physics
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ColloquiumSTEP UP: Supporting Teachers to Encourage the Pursuit of Undergraduate Physics for Women
Prof. Zahra Hazari, Florida International University
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ColloquiumChemical Bonding? Playing catch with electrons!
Prof. John F. Wager, Oregon State University, School of EECS
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ColloquiumReal-Space Superconductivity
Dr. Pavel Kornilovich, HP Corvallis and OSU Physics
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