Events Archive | Department of Physics

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.

Date	Type	Event
2013-10-28	Colloquium	Equipping students to connect multivariable calculus with the physical world Prof. David Roundy, Department of Physics. OSU Colloquium
2013-10-21	Colloquium	Driving the self-organization of cellular system: mechano-chemical signaling Prof. Bo Sun, Department of Physics, OSU Colloquium
2013-10-14	Colloquium	Understanding Molecules and Solids Bit by Bit Prof. Guenter Schneider, Department of Physics, OSU Colloquium
2013-10-07	Colloquium	Shining Light on the Molecular Mechanism of Cytoskeleton-based Molecular Motors Prof. Weihong Qiu, Department of Physics, OSU Colloquium
2013-07-29	Colloquium	Gamma-Ray Bursts: numerical tools to understand the biggest explosions in the Universe Prof. Davide Lazzati Colloquium
2013-05-27	Colloquium	Coastal Physical Oceanography Kipp Shearman, College of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, OSU Colloquium
2013-05-20	Colloquium	Graphene Mechanical Wonders Scott Bunch, University of Colorado, Boulder Colloquium
2013-05-13	Colloquium	Pulsed Laser Irradiation of Doped Zinc Oxide Films Dr. Gregory Exarhos, PNNL Colloquium
2013-05-06	Colloquium	Cavity optomechanics: Controlling mechanical motion with light Hailin Wang, Department of Physics, University of Oregon Colloquium
2013-04-29	Colloquium	Memcomputing: a brain-inspired computing paradigm to store and process information on the same physical platform Prof. Massimiliano Di Ventra, University of California, San Diego Colloquium
2013-04-22	Colloquium	Hybrid Polymer Photonic Materials and Devices for Optical Communications Prof. Robert Norwood, University of Arizona Colloquium
2013-04-08	Colloquium	Rogue Atoms in Flatland: Imaging structural disorder in novel 2D materials with transmission electron microscopy Pinshane Huang, Cornell University Colloquium
2013-03-11	Colloquium	Single Molecule Bioelectronics Prof. Phil Collins, UC Irvine Colloquium
2013-03-04	Colloquium	Using Electronic Spectroscopy to Study the Local Conformations and Kinetics of Biological Macromolecules Prof. Andrew H. Marcus, Department of Chemistry, Oregon Center for Optics, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon Colloquium
2013-02-25	Colloquium	Shining Light on the Mechanism of Nature’s Nanomachines Dr. Weihong Qiu, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cell Biology Colloquium
2013-02-20	Colloquium	Optical Spectroscopy and Phonon Self-Energy Renormalizations in Carbon Materials Dr. Paulo T. Araujo, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Colloquium
2013-02-18	Colloquium	Photonic metasurfaces, a modern approach to designing optical components Dr. Patrice Genevet, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Colloquium
2013-02-13	Colloquium	The role of fluctuations in biology at the molecular level Dr. Hajin Kim, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Colloquium
2013-02-11	Colloquium	Counting molecules one at a time by Pointillism optical nanoscopy Dr. Sang-Hyuk Lee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and UC Berkeley Colloquium
2013-02-06	Colloquium	Harnessing the atom-like properties of single spins in diamond Dr. Lee Bassett, University of California, Santa Barbara Colloquium
2013-02-04	Colloquium	Electronic carbon correlations in reduced dimensions; from light absorption to current production Dr. Matt W. Graham, Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science and Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University Colloquium
2013-01-28	Colloquium	The Higgs Boson and the Puzzle of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Prof. James Brau, University of Oregon Colloquium
2013-01-20	Colloquium	TBA Owen McCarty Colloquium
2013-01-14	Colloquium	Inertial Pump: new way of moving fluids through micro-channels Dr. Pavel Kornilovich, Hewlett Packard, Corvallis OR Colloquium
2012-11-26	Colloquium	Nobel Prize Lecture David McIntyre, Oregon State University Colloquium
2012-11-19	Colloquium	Speckle patterns and purity of quantum states Steven van Enk, University of Oregon Colloquium
2012-11-12	Colloquium	New Materials for a Clean Energy Future: From Basic Properties to Computational Materials Design Guenter Schneider, Oregon State University Colloquium
2012-11-05	Colloquium	Quantum phase transitions Bogdan Damski, Los Alamos National Laboratory Colloquium
2012-10-29	Colloquium	A tale of two E's: Energy and entropy in aqueous interfaces David Roundy, Oregon State University Colloquium
2012-10-22	Colloquium	Standards Based Grading with Voice Andy Rundquist, Department of Physics, Hamline University Colloquium
2012-10-15	Colloquium	Complementarity of information and the emergence of the classical world Michael Zwolak, Oregon State University Colloquium
2012-10-08	Colloquium	Density Functional Theory calculations of metal-water interactions and the role of water and surface defects in chemical reactions Líney Árnadóttir, School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University Colloquium
2012-10-01	Colloquium	A geometric phase transition underlying jamming in 3d, and beyond Eric Corwin, Department of Physics, University of Oregon Colloquium
2012-06-04	Colloquium	Algorithms for association between genotype and the resulting physical traits while considering evolutionary history Dr. Farhat Habib Colloquium
2012-05-29	Colloquium	Cooperation, cheating, and collapse in microbial populations Prof. Jeff Gore, MIT Colloquium
2012-05-21	Colloquium	Fractal vision: using retinal implants to restore vision to the blind Prof. Richard Taylor, UO Physics Colloquium
2012-05-14	Colloquium	Nanofluidic landscapes and precision microscopy for studying molecular processes in living cells Prof. Jaan Mannik, Univ. Tennessee Colloquium
2012-05-08	Colloquium	The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics: The accelerating expansion of the Universe Prof. Greg Bothun, UO Colloquium
2012-04-30	Colloquium	Electron Beams with Angular Momentum and Their Application to Magnetic Imaging Prof. Ben McMorran, UO Colloquium
2012-04-23	Colloquium	Measurement and simulation of water vapor transport in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer Prof. Chad Higgins, Dept. of Biological and Ecological Engineering Colloquium
2012-04-16	Colloquium	Developing large-enrollment, conceptual physics courses: active-learning and scientific practices for non-majors Dr. Ed Price, Cal State San Marcos Colloquium
2012-04-09	Colloquium	No Colloquium: Open house for undergraduates Colloquium
2012-03-08	Colloquium	Student Sensemaking And Real-World Connections During Collaborative Group Problem Solving. Dr. Mathew Martinuk, University of British Columbia Colloquium
2012-03-05	Colloquium	How Do Physics Majors Become Physicists? Dr. Elizabeth Gire, University of Memphis Colloquium
2012-03-01	Colloquium	The Grammar of Physics Equations Dr. David Brookes, Florida International University Colloquium
2012-02-27	Colloquium	New Results from Physics and Astronomy Education Research Dr. Colin Wallace, Center for Astronomy Education (CAE), Steward Observatory, University of Arizona Colloquium
2012-02-13	Colloquium	From individuals to populations - the emergent behavior in cellular systems Dr. Bo Sun, Princeton University Colloquium
2012-02-09	Colloquium	Characterizing Biomolecular Dynamics at Interfaces using Single Molecule Tracking Dr. Robert Walder, University of Colorado, Boulder Colloquium
2012-02-06	Colloquium	Nobel Prize winners in Physics: Perlmutter, Schmidt, Riess. TBA Colloquium
2012-02-06	Colloquium	Nanoplasmonics & Metamaterials: From Physical Fundamentals to Life Sciences & Point of Care Diagnostics Dr. Ahmet Ali Yanik, Harvard Medical School Colloquium