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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
ColloquiumSeeing structure and function of biological molecular machines in real-time: angstrom-resolution optical trapping and single molecule fluorescence.
Dr. Matthew Comstock, UIUC
Colloquium
ColloquiumThe power of small quantum information processors
Dr. Robin Blume-Kohout, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Colloquium
ColloquiumNo big deal: Various adventures to the nanoscale and back
Prof. Michael Zwolak, OSU
Colloquium
ColloquiumNanophotonics: The Art of Managing Photons at the Nanoscale
Prof. Mark Brongersma, Stanford University
Colloquium
ColloquiumLearning and Forgetting in Large Introductory Courses
Prof. Eleanor Sayre, Kansas State University
Colloquium
ColloquiumBuilding electronics at the nanoscale to watch nature at the nanoscale
Prof. Ethan Minot
Colloquium
ColloquiumNew Frontiers in Optical Science: Terahertz Spectroscopy of Two Dimensional Systems
Prof. YunShik Lee
Colloquium
ColloquiumClickers in context: How is peer instruction used in the classroom (and what works?)
Stephanie Chasteen, U of Colorado
Colloquium
ColloquiumComputational Chemistry: Applying Computational Techniques Towards the Advancement of Synthesis, Materials, and Biology
Prof. Paul Cheong, Dept. of Chemistry, OSU
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ColloquiumDeveloping A Model for Future eTextBooks
Prof. Rubin Landau, Oregon State University
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ColloquiumGraphene Optoelectronics and Plasmonics
Prof. Xiaodong Xu, Uni. Wash.
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ColloquiumCANCELLED: Highly efficient inorganic cathode and anode for organic light emitting diodes
Hiroshi Yanagi, Yamanashi University
Colloquium
ColloquiumUpdate on introductory course reform and assessment in OSU Physics
Dedra Demaree
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ColloquiumTiny bubbles: The history of greenhouse gases and climate from polar ice cores
Prof. Edward Brook
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ColloquiumOpen House, No Colloquium
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ColloquiumSwitching Genes On and Off by Bending and Stretching DNA
Dr. Joshua Milstein, U. Michigan
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ColloquiumBiophysical Applications of a Combined Atomic Force/Fluorescence Microscope Part 1: Blood clotting and NanoSelection® drug discovery
Dr. Martin Guthold, Wake Forest University
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ColloquiumViral democracy: using live-cell imaging to learn how phages attack bacteria
Dr. Lanying Zeng
Colloquium
ColloquiumComputer Simulations of Membrane Water Channels and Ion Channels
Dr. Fangqiang Zhu
Colloquium
ColloquiumNonaffine deformation and nonlinear elasticity in biological materials
Dr. Qi Wen, University of Pennsylvania
Colloquium
ColloquiumConvex Lens-Induced Confinement: Enabling New Biophysical Measurements Under Previously Inaccessible Conditions
Dr. Sabrina R. Leslie, Harvard University
Colloquium
ColloquiumBase-by-base ratcheting of single-stranded DNA through a solid-state nanopore: toward low-cost and high-throughput sequencing of the human Genome
Dr. Binquan Luan
Colloquium
ColloquiumProbing the dynamics of biomolecules in liquid water by terahertz spectroscopy
Dr. Vinh Q. Nguyen, UC Santa Barbara
Colloquium
ColloquiumRapid DNA sequencing via transverse electronic transport
Dr. Michael Zwolak
Colloquium
ColloquiumNanopores and Nanoparticles: The Technology of the Very Small for Biomedical Applications
Dr. Hendrick de Haan
Colloquium
ColloquiumScanning Probe Measurements of Graphene
George Nazin, University of Oregon
Colloquium
Colloquium A Science Literacy Teaching Program Across Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Geology
Michael Raymer, University of Oregon
Colloquium
ColloquiumMLK Holiday - No Colloquium
MLK Holiday - No Colloquium
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ColloquiumErnest Rutherford and the Discovery of the Nuclear Atom
Prof. Ken Krane, OSU Physics
Colloquium
ColloquiumThe Nobel Prize in Physics: Graphene
Ethan Minot
Colloquium
ColloquiumClone of TBA
Colloquium
ColloquiumNo Colloquium, Yunker lecture was last friday
Colloquium
ColloquiumYunker Lecture: Single Molecule Nanometry for Biological Physics
TJ Ha, Uni. Illinois Urbana-Champagne
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ColloquiumOptical Tweezers Trapping for Biochemical Imaging
David McIntyre
Colloquium
ColloquiumCentromeres of Neurospora: Maintenance and Inheritance governed by Heterochromatin
Michael Freitag, Oregon State University
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ColloquiumScanning probe microscopy of graphene
Brian LeRoy, University of Arizona
Colloquium
ColloquiumUsing the body symbolically to understand physics
Rachel E. Scherr, Hunter G. Close, Sarah B. McKagan, and Eleanor W. Close
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ColloquiumTBA
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ColloquiumStructured Semiconductors for Solar Energy Conversion and Storage
Shannon Boettcher, University of Oregon
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ColloquiumTBA
David McIntyre
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