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Events Archive

People gathered in a field for the 2017 eclipse.

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
ColloquiumTransiting Earth-sized planets in TRAPPIST-1: dynamics-based compositions and prospects for JWST
Eric Agol (UW)
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ColloquiumWhat Stubs and Sparkles In Vast Vats of Liquid Will Tell Us About Exploding Stars
Kate Scholberg (Duke)
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ColloquiumZOOM Colloquium - Associations Between Learning Assistants, Passing Introductory Physics, and Equity: A QuantCrit Investigation
Jayson Nissen
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ColloquiumFrom Grass Roots to Changing National Policy: LGBT Advocacy in Physics
Ramón Barthelemy (University of Utah)
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ColloquiumWatching Dynamic Motions of Protein Molecular Motors One at a Time
Ryota IINO
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ColloquiumRoots and Branches of Exclusion: What is the story of our Oregon community – where have we been before today?
Jane Waite (Social Justice Education Initiative)
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ColloquiumThe 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics
Davide Lazzati & Xavier Siemens
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ColloquiumThe fall and rise of the mass on a spring
Prof. Benjamín Alemán, University of Oregon
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ColloquiumWinter Term Grad Students Town Hall
All Physics Faculty and Students
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ColloquiumNeutrinos
Kendall Mahn
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ColloquiumImplicit Bias Workshop
Anne Gillies (Search Advocate Program)
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ColloquiumTown Hall Meeting (Note: event starts at 3:30)
Faculty and Students
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ColloquiumAction at the nanoscale: Single-molecule studies of protein motion
Prof. Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, MIT
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ColloquiumGranular Materials: From Quotidian to Astronomical
Karen Daniels (NCSU)
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ColloquiumMultimessenger Astrophysics
Davide Lazzati
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ColloquiumElectrons Dancing on a String
Ethan Minot
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ColloquiumSexual Harassment Reported by Undergraduate Women in Physics.
Lauren Aycock (AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow)
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ColloquiumLong live long-lived supersymmetry
Laura Jeanty (UofO)
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ColloquiumPIQL: A new assessment of mathematical reasoning development in physics instruction
Suzanne Brahmia (University of Washington)
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ColloquiumDisks, jets, and other black hole-powered transients
Sasha Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern)
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ColloquiumQuantum Computers and Raising Schrödinger's Cat
David Wineland (University of Oregon)
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ColloquiumDesign principles of molecular machines: efficient control and functional coupling
David Sivak (Simon Fraser University)
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ColloquiumDirac Electrons in One, Two and Three Dimensions
Prof. Vikram Deshpande, U. Utah
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ColloquiumSpontaneous generation of large-scale active biological networks
Kazuhiro Oiwa (NICT, Japan)
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ColloquiumTBD
Eric Kuo (University of Pittsburgh)
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ColloquiumLong live long-lived supersymmetry --- CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER --- Rescheduled for June 3rd
Laura Jeanty (UofO)
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ColloquiumChemical and Physical Considerations in Producing a Cup of Coffee
Christopher Hendon (UofO)
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ColloquiumCancelled due to Weather
Suzanne Brahmia (UW)
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ColloquiumDense Packing of Hard Particles
Yang Jiao (Arizona State U)
Colloquium
ColloquiumNobel Prize in Physics 2018: Optical Tweezers And Generation Of High-Intensity, Ultra-Short Optical Pulses
David McIntyre
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ColloquiumImaging All the Sky All the Time in Search of Radio Exoplanets
Gregg Hallinan (Caltech)
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ColloquiumStudying X-ray Binaries and Neutron Star Interiors through Globular Clusters
Craig Heinke (Alberta, Edmonton)
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ColloquiumElectron videography . . . in the twinkling of an eye
Matthew Graham
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ColloquiumKinesin-14s: Moving Into a New Paradigm
Weihong Qiu
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ColloquiumTeaching Physics Sensemaking
Liz Gire
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ColloquiumQuantitative Behavior: Understanding what animals do and how brains control them
Joshua W. Shaevitz (Princeton University)
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ColloquiumRevisiting the mechanical feedback between tumors and their microenvironment
Bo Sun
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ColloquiumHybrid Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites; Photovoltaics and Beyond
Professor Z. Valy Vardeny, University of Utah
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ColloquiumThe dynamics of students' engagement and persistence in science
David Hammer (Tufts)
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ColloquiumBuilding Blocks of the Universe
Tim Andeen, University of Texas at Austin
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ColloquiumTBA
Cancelled
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ColloquiumPhase transitions and the principle of detailed balance in living systems
Fred Macintosh (Rice University)
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ColloquiumCancelled due to speaker unavailability
Eric Agol
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ColloquiumDiscovery potential of pulsar timing arrays
Xavier Siemens (UW Milwaukee)
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ColloquiumHigh-throughput materials discovery and development: breakthroughs and challenges in the mapping of the materials genome
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (North Texas)
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ColloquiumExcitons, biexcitons, and the role of dynamic disorder in two-dimensional lead-halide perovskitoids
Carlos Silva, Georgia Tech
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ColloquiumCoherent ultrafast hot electron generation at plasmonic heterojunctions
Hrvoje Petek, U of Pittsburgh
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ColloquiumPropofol Inhibition of Processive Kinesins
Susan Gilbert (RPI)
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ColloquiumNear-field Acousto Characterization of Confined Mesoscopic Fluids
Prof. Andres de la Rosa (PSU)
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ColloquiumThe first 166 days of gravitational wave astronomy
Ben Farr (UofO)
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