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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
ColloquiumConnecting the first stars in the universe to the Milky Way
Brian O'Shea (MSU)
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ColloquiumConfessions of a Former Lecturer: Evidenced-based Reform in the Introductory Physics Sequence
KC Walsh (OSU)
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ColloquiumThe Structure of Matter: Jefferson Lab and its Physics
Hugh Montgomery-Jefferson Lab
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ColloquiumUncovering and Addressing Implicit Bias
Stacey York, University of Oregon
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ColloquiumPhotophysics of organic materials: from single crystals to single molecules and from optoelectronics to entomology
Oksana Ostroverkhova (OSU)
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ColloquiumThe Dawn of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves: the first joint detection of GWs and Light
Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern)
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ColloquiumThe 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
David Craig and Davide Lazzati
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ColloquiumWhat Does Access Really Mean?
Mary James (Reed College)
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ColloquiumPaul Emigh-Improving Quantum Mechanics Instruction with Tutorials
Paul Emigh (OSU)
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ColloquiumAhmet Yildiz-The Mechanism of Dynein Motility
Ahmet Yildiz (Berkeley)
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ColloquiumColloquium/SSO Libai Huang-Ultrafast Microscopy of Energy and Charge Transport
Libai Huang, Purdue University
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ColloquiumEnrico Ramirez-Ruiz:Heavy Element Synthesis in the Universe
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz
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ColloquiumAndrew Mugler-Collective Sensing by Communicating Cells
Andrew Mugler, Purdue U
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ColloquiumMichaela Kleinert-Laser Ablation Studies at Willamette University
Michaela Kleinert, Willamette University
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ColloquiumBrian Smith- Color and Shape: The Quantum State of a Single Photon and its Manipulation
Brian Smith, U of Oregon
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ColloquiumErik Jensen: Distance-Learning Labs for Introductory Physics with IOLab
Erik Jensen, Chemeketa CC
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ColloquiumPhysics at Oregon’s Community Colleges and Shaping the Next Generation of Physicists
Greg Mulder, LBCC/OSU
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ColloquiumTaking the Next Steps: CMOS and Beyond CMOS Scaling
Kelin Kuhn, OSU EECS
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ColloquiumPilot-Wave Hydrodynamics
John Bush, MIT
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ColloquiumThe 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics: Symmetry, Topology and Matter
Guenter Schneider, OSU Physics
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ColloquiumObserving the nanoscale dynamics of kinesin molecular motors by high-resolution gold nanoparticle tracking
William Hancock, Penn State
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ColloquiumOf Bases and States: Challenges in Spins First Quantum Learning
Prof. Chuck De Leone, California State
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ColloquiumA Research Validated Approach to Transforming Upper-Division Courses
Prof. Steve Pollock, University of Colorado, Boulder
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ColloquiumSpecial Colloquium: Lessons from Two Decades of Hybrid and Online Physics Courses at Michigan State University
Gerd Kortemeyer, Michigan State University
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ColloquiumHighly Magnetic Neutron Stars: Bewildering Astrophysical Laboratories and Cosmological Tools
Rosalba Perna
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ColloquiumThe “Music” of Light: Optical Resonances for Fun and Profit
Ray Beausoleil, HP Enterprise
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ColloquiumVibration Propagation in Spider Webs
Ross Hatton
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ColloquiumObservations of Introductory Physics with Calculus
Henri Jansen
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ColloquiumPropofol Inhibition of Processive Kinesins
Susan Gilbert (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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ColloquiumSpecial Wednesday Colloquium: Experimental Detection of Branching at a Conical Intersection
Daniel Turner
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ColloquiumThe State of the Department Address and Reports on Graduate Research
Heidi Schellman, Chris Jones, Lee Aspitarte, Andrew Popchock
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ColloquiumThe Life and Legacy of Max Planck
Prof. Brandon Brown, University of San Francisco
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ColloquiumMetabolic oscillations and electrical signaling in bacterial biofilms
Gurol Suel (UCSD)
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ColloquiumBuilding an informative machine-learning model of gene regulatory control
Molly Megraw
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ColloquiumQuantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming
Prof. Brad Marston (Brown University)
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ColloquiumUltrafast Snapshots: Tracking Electronic and Vibrational Dynamics in Complex Materials
Robert Kaindl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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ColloquiumDiscovery of a Thorne-Zytkow Object Candidate in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Emily Levesque (UW)
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ColloquiumGravity has a story to tell: Seeing the Cosmos in gravitational waves
Shane Larson (Northwestern)
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ColloquiumProgress toward measuring the mass of the neutrino
Hamish Robertson (UW)
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ColloquiumDirect Detection of Gravitational Waves
James Brau
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ColloquiumBiologically inspired soft matter devices in robotics
Yigit Menguc (Mechanical Engineering)
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ColloquiumSystems biology approaches to study gene regulation: dynamical modeling and inverse problems
Stephen Ramsey (Computer Sci/Biomed Sci)
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ColloquiumSynchronization of Large Linear Oscillator Arrays
Peter Veerman (Portland State)
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ColloquiumTBA
Corinne Manogue
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ColloquiumFast and Furious: Extreme Electron Dynamics in Condensed Matter
Yun-Shik Lee (OSU Physics)
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ColloquiumThe coming Cascadia Great Earthquake: How did we get here?
Chris Goldfinger (OSU, CEOAS)
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ColloquiumProbing Dirac electron physics in graphitic materials
Prof. Feng Wang (UC Berkeley)
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ColloquiumTBA
Charles De Leone, California State Univ., San Marcos
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ColloquiumThe current role of molecular gas and star formation in early-type galaxies
Alison Crocker (Reed College)
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ColloquiumGuessing Our Way to Four Loops: Hexagon Functions in N=4 super Yang-Mills
Matt von Hippel, Perimeter Institute
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