Information for speakers

Date-Timesort descending Location Speaker
2010 Oct 20 - 16:00 Wngr 304 Tom Novet, Voxtel Multiple Carrier Generation in Quantum-Dot Sensitized Solar Cells
2010 Oct 27 - 16:00 Wngr 304 Brian LeRoy, University of Arizona Scanning probe microscopy of graphene
2010 Nov 3 - 16:00 Wngr 304 Mike Lerner, OSU Chemistry Facile syntheses of graphenium and graphide compounds (aka graphite intercalation compounds)
2010 Nov 10 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Yi Liu, OSU Imaging Center Electron Microscopy - Some examples of Applications
2010 Nov 17 - 16:00 Wngr 304 Ji-Yong Park, Ajou University, Korea Local electrical characterization of nanoelectronic devices
2010 Nov 23 - 14:30 Wngr 304 (special day and time) Ernesta Meintjes, Univ. Cape Town and UCLA From NMR to MRI
2011 Jan 19 - 15:30 ALS 2009A Prof. Brian Matthews, University of Oregon Protein Crystallography: Getting in on the Ground Floor
2011 Jan 26 - 16:00 Gilbert 324 Johnson/Johnson/Keszler Center for Green Materials Chemistry
2011 Feb 16 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Dr. Hendrick deHaan Computational Studies of Biological Molecules and their Interaction with Nanotechnology for Biomedical Applications
2011 Feb 18 - 11:00 Weniger 304 Dr. Michael Zwolak Deconstructing structural transitions
2011 Feb 22 - 10:00 Wngr 304 Dr. Vinh Q. Nguyen, UC Santa Barbara Probing properties of complex materials using terahertz spectroscopy
2011 Feb 23 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Dr. Binquan Luan High Performance Computation for Biosensing and Mechanobiology
2011 Feb 25 - 11:00 Wngr 304 Dr. Sabrina R. Leslie, Harvard University New microscopy methods to elucidate fast biomolecular search processes
2011 Mar 1 - 10:00 Wngr 304 Dr. Qi Wen, University of Pennsylvania New materials for mechanics of tissue cells
2011 Mar 2 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Dr. Fangqiang Zhu Theories and Simulations for Molecular Biophysics
2011 Mar 4 - 11:00 Wngr 304 Dr. Lanying Zeng, UIUC Viral democracy: using live-cell imaging to learn how phages attack bacteria
2011 Mar 8 - 10:00 Wngr 304 Dr. Martin Guthold, Wake Forest University Biophysical Applications of a Combined Atomic Force/Fluorescence Microscope Part 2: Biomechanical Signaling
2011 Mar 11 - 11:00 Wngr 304 Dr. Joshua Milstein, U. Michigan Biomechanical Gene Regulation: A single-molecule approach to exploring intracellular forces on DNA in living cells
2011 Apr 6 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Nicholas Kuhta Optical Properties of Amorphous Nanolayers
2011 Apr 13 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Tom Giebultowicz Neutron scattering in artificial lattices composed of graphite and certain heavy metals: a Monte Carlo study
2011 Apr 20 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Peter Moeck, PSU Applied crystallography with scanning probe and transmission electron microscopes supported by open-access structure data
2011 Apr 27 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Chris Beaudry, Department of Chemistry Diaryl ether heptanoids: Molecular Mobius Strips… or Not?
2011 May 11 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Ethan Minot Carbon nanotube optoelectronics
2011 May 18 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Rolf Koenenkamp High resolution photoelectron microscopy
2011 May 25 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Whitney Shepherd Optoelectronic Properties of Organic Semiconductor Materials
2011 Jun 1 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Andy Jameson Terahertz Spectroscopy of Ni-Ti Alloy Thin Films
2011 Jun 15 - 16:00 304 Weniger Hall Prof. Kerstin Blank, Uni. of Nijmegen Single-Biomolecule Kinetics: The Art of Studying a Single Enzyme
2011 Aug 24 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Joo-Hiuk Son, Department of Physics, University of Seoul Terahertz molecular imaging and its applications
2011 Oct 5 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Dietrich Belitz, University of Oregon Phases, Broken Symmetries, and Goldstone Modes in Helical Magnets
2011 Oct 12 - 16:00 Weniger 304 OSU physics students APSNW practice talks
2011 Oct 19 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Ali Almaqwashi, OSU Shell rupture threshold of single UCA microbubbles
2011 Oct 26 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Craig Hetherington, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley Measurement of twisting and torquing by a single biological molecular motor reveals details of motor mechanism
2011 Nov 2 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Marek Rams, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dynamics of an inhomogeneous quantum phase transition
2011 Nov 9 - 16:00 Weniger 304 P. Alex Greaney, MIME, Oregon State University Exploiting Heat at the Nanoscale
2011 Nov 10 - 16:00 1007 KEC Prof. Philip Kim, Columbia University Electric Field Effect Control of Low-dimensional Transport Phenomena in Nanoscaled Materials
2011 Nov 16 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Sebastian Saliba, Univ. of Melbourne, Portland State Univ. Cold Atom Electron Source
2011 Nov 30 - 16:00 Weniger 304 David Altman, Willamette University Studies of the regulated activity of the motor protein myosin
2012 Jan 25 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Shinji Yuasa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan Magnetoresistance and spin-transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions
2012 Feb 3 - 11:00 Weniger 304 Dr. Matthew Comstock, UIUC Expanding the frontiers of single molecule biophysics: looking deeper and more broadly to further understanding and application.
2012 Feb 7 - 10:00 Weniger 304 Dr. Ahmet Ali Yanik Nanoplasmonics & Metamaterials
2012 Feb 10 - 11:00 Weniger 304 Dr. Robert Walder, University of Colorado, Boulder Characterizing Biomolecular Dynamics at Interfaces using Single Molecule Tracking
2012 Feb 14 - 10:00 Weniger 304 Dr. Bo Sun, Princeton University From individuals to populations - the emergent behavior in cellular systems
2012 Apr 18 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Dr. Alan Wang Photonic Bandgap Nano‐Devices for Optical Communication and Sensing
2012 May 2 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Michael Paul (OSU Physics) CLEO Conference Practice Talks
2012 May 9 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Whitney Shepherd and Mark Kendrick (OSU Physics) Photophysical Properties of High Performance Organic Semiconductor Materials and Their Donor/Acceptor Composites
2012 May 16 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Chong Fang (OSU Chemistry) Conformational Dynamics of a Photoacid in Solution Revealed by Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy
2012 May 23 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Bill Cowell (OSU EECS) Evaluation of Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling in Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) Diodes with Lower Amorphous Metal Electrodes
2012 May 30 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Alex Chang (OSU Material Science) Develop Scalable Nanomanufacturing using Microreactor-Assisted Nanomaterial Deposition(TM) Processes
2012 Oct 3 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. John Conley, OSU EECS Zinc-Tin-Oxide Memristors / Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) and Asymmetric Metal-Insulator-Insulator-Metal (MIIM) Tunnel Diodes
2012 Oct 10 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Marina Guenza Some challenges in coarse-graining and multiscale modeling of macromolecular systems
2012 Oct 17 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Ted Brekken, OSU EECS The Promise of Wave Power
2012 Oct 25 - 16:00 Gilbert 324 Prof. Gerrit Bauer, Spin caloritronics – more than spin-dependent thermoelectrics
2012 Oct 31 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Sean Burrows, OSU Chemistry Multiphoton Spectroscopy for Biological Analysis
2012 Nov 7 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Brady Gibbons, OSU Materials Science Bi-based Piezoelectric Thin Films via Chemical Solution Deposition
2012 Nov 13 - 14:00 Weniger 377 Prof. Sumit Mazumdar, U of Arizona Physics Electron-Electron Interaction Effects on the Photophysics of Carbon Nanostructures.
2012 Nov 28 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. David Ji, OSU Chemistry New Strategies for Electrochemical Energy Devices
2013 Jan 15 - 16:00 Weniger 304 NOTE: ON TUESDAY Prof. Kerstin Blank, Radboud University, Nijmegen Single Molecule Enzyme Catalysis: steps towards accurate kinetic schemes
2013 Jan 23 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Raghu Parthasarathy, UO Physics Membranes, microbes, and microscopy
2013 Jan 30 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Albrecht Jander, OSU EECS Acoustic Assisted Magnetic Recording: Making un-writeable hard disk media writeable using acoustic waves
2013 Feb 5 - 11:00 Weniger 379 Dr. Matthew Graham, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Cornell University TBA
2013 Feb 7 - 11:00 Weniger 379 Dr. Lee Bassett, UCSB TBA
2013 Feb 12 - 11:00 Weniger 379 Dr. Sanghyuk Lee, UC Berkeley TBA
2013 Feb 14 - 11:00 Weniger 379 Dr. Hajin Kim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign TBA
2013 Feb 19 - 11:00 Weniger 379 Dr. Patrice Genevet, Harvard University TBA
2013 Feb 21 - 11:00 Weniger 379 Dr. Paulo Araujo, MIT TBA
2013 Feb 26 - 11:00 Weniger 379 Dr. Weihong Qiu, Harvard Medical School TBA
2013 Mar 13 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Daniel Gruss, Jason Vielma, David Foster March Meeting practice talks
2013 Apr 10 - 16:00 304 Weniger Prof. Dorthe Wildenschild Imaging Microbial Biofilms in Porous Media: Technique and Applications
2013 Apr 17 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Ram Ravichandran, EECS High Efficiency Solar Absorbers
2013 Apr 24 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Ryan Mehl Expanding Chemical Biology with Broadly Permissive Synthetases
2013 May 1 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Koki Takanashi, Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University Advanced spintronic materials for generation and control of spin current
2013 May 2 - 16:00 Yunker Dr. Chih-Chun Chien, Los Alamos National Lab Resuscitating Large-N Theory for Atomic Gases: Mean-Field Theories from Path-Integral Formalisms
2013 May 8 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Skye Dorsett Breaking of angular momentum symmetry for light atoms; magnetic structures within the LDA.
2013 May 15 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Jason Francis Optical and Electronic Properties of the p-type semiconductors BiCuOSe and SnS
2013 May 22 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Tal Sharf, Tristan deBorde TBA
2013 May 29 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Guenter Schneider Doping and Defects in Complex Semiconductors
2013 Jun 5 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Rudolf Schaefer, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW), Dresden, Germany Magneto-Optic Analysis of Magnetic Microstructures
2013 Jul 30 - 11:00 Weniger 379 Prof. Davide Lazzati The formation of atomic clusters and nanoparticles from deposition in a saturated vapor
2013 Oct 9 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Ethan Minot Graphene and carbon nanotube based biosensors: an alternative to fluorescence detection
2013 Oct 23 - 04:00 Weniger 304 Julie Tucker, OSU MIME Order-Disorder Phase Transformation in Ni-Cr Alloys
2013 Oct 30 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Dipankar Koley, OSU Chemistry Applications of Electrochemical Techniques to Study Biological Systems : From Cancer Cells to Biofilms
2013 Nov 6 - 16:00 Weniger 304 David Xiulei Ji, OSU Chemistry Functional Nanostructured Materials: Scalable Synthesis and Modification
2013 Nov 13 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Rolf Könenkamp, Portland State University Seeing light with electrons
2013 Nov 20 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Shannon Boettcher, University of Oregon Catalysts and Interfaces in Oxygen Evolving Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting
2013 Dec 9 - 14:30 Weniger 304 Dr. Sakyo Hirose, Murata Manufacturing Co. Japan Resistance Switching Properties in the Partially Oxidized Platinum and Niobium-doped Strontium Titanate Schottky Junctions
2014 Jan 15 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Chong Fang, OSU Chemistry Unraveling Ultrafast Phonon Dynamics in Transparent Thin Medium with Time-Resolved Surface Third-Harmonic Generation
2014 Jan 29 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Bao-Sung Yeh, OSU EECS Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor Thin-Film Transistors
2014 Feb 5 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Sean Burrows, OSU Chemistry Improving Spectrochemical Biosensing and Spectral Resolution Techniques for Two-Photon Applications
2014 Feb 12 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Ram Ravichandran, OSU EECS Relating Material Properties to the Atomic Solid State Energy Scale
2014 Feb 19 - 16:00 Weniger 304 David Foster Si/ZnS interfaces and film celebrities: Stability, band alignment, 2D electron liquids, and why the formal polarization of Si is the set of odd integers
2014 Feb 26 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Tal Sharf, Lee Aspitarte, Daniel Gruss APS March meeting practice talks
2014 Mar 12 - 16:00 Weniger 304 David Altman Regulation of the motor protein myosin in the cell
2014 Apr 23 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Jeff Lundeen, Physics Dept., University of Ottawa Seeing is Believing: Direct Observation of a General Quantum State
2014 Apr 30 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Malgorzata Peszynska Methane Hydrates: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
2014 May 14 - 16:00 304 Weniger Professor Alan Wang, EECS, OSU Hybrid Plasmonic/Photonic-Crystal Devices for Optical Communication and Sensing
2014 May 28 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Dr. Sufei Shi, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley Manipulating light-matter interaction in graphene and other 2D materials
2014 Oct 15 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Professor Ben McMorran, Univ. of Oregon Physics Sculpted electron beams as a probe of magnetization and plasmons
2014 Oct 16 - 16:00 Weniger 379 Doug Buettner From OSU to the Comet Wild/2 and Mars: The story of the development of NASA’s Aerogel
2014 Oct 22 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Professor Michael Crosser, Linfield College Physics Graphene transistors as biological sensors
2014 Oct 29 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Brian Morsony Metals and jets in galaxy clusters
2014 Nov 5 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Jet Meitzner, UO Chemistry Enhanced photovoltaic efficiency through heterojunction-assisted impact ionization
2014 Nov 12 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Professor Andrew Dawes, Pacific University Multimode Quantum State Tomography of Stored Light
2014 Nov 19 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. George Nazin, Dept. of Chemistry, U of Oregon Atomic-Resolution Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Materials
2014 Dec 3 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Professor Vince Remcho, OSU Chemistry Paper AND Plastic…and a mobile app
2015 Jan 21 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. John Essick, Reed College Changing Quantum-Dot Optical Properties with the Twist of a Knob
2015 Feb 25 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Patel, Potter, Jones, Sahu March Meeting practice talks
2015 Mar 11 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Shannon O'Leary Using noisy light from atomic coherence to measure magnetic fields
2015 Apr 15 - 16:00 WNGR 304 Prof. Ross Hatton Robotics and Geometry
2015 Apr 29 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Liney Arnadottir Determining the rate limiting steps of hydrocarbon chain growth on Co catalyst, using Density Functional theory.
2015 May 13 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Alex Greaney, School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, OSU Designable Matter: New Shape-Shifting Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
2015 May 20 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Atul Chhotray and Christopher Mauney Adventures in Astrophysics: Simulations of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Stardust Formation
2015 May 27 - 16:00 WNGR 304 Elain Fu Paper Microfluidic Sensors for Point-of-care Diagnostic Applications in Low-resource Settings
2015 Aug 7 - 15:00 Weniger 304 Alexander Govyadinov Infrared near-field nanoscopy: from imaging and spectroscopy to “nanoellipsometry” and depth profiling
2015 Oct 14 - 16:00 LPSC 402 Prof. Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry Gold Nanostar Probes for Imaging and Therapeutics
2015 Nov 4 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Katie Banowetz, Keenan Cabrera, Sam Grimm, Evan Peters OSU Undergraduates report on summer research
2015 Nov 18 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. James Strother, OSU Integrative Biology Visualizing fly vision
2015 Dec 2 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Melissa Santala, OSU School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering Dynamic TEM: high temporal-resolution microscopy for materials science applications
2016 Jan 20 - 16:00 304 Eric Corwin Glass Rules Everything Around Me
2016 Feb 10 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Matt Graham Finding graphene a “bandgap” by giving it a twist
2016 Feb 17 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Cathy Wong Inter-molecular order at a hidden interface in a small-molecule organic semiconductor thin film
2016 Feb 24 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Michelle Dolgos Piezoelectrics: Putting the “squeeze” on new materials
2016 Mar 2 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Dan McCulley and Chris Jones APS March Meeting Practice Talks I
2016 Mar 9 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Lee Aspitarte, Jihan Kim, and Garrett Potter APS March Meeting Practice Talks II
2016 Apr 6 - 16:00 304 Patrick De Leenheer Dynamics and control of a patched model for the spread of malaria
2016 Apr 13 - 16:00 304 Weniger Greg Herman New Surface Science Research Capabilities at Oregon State University: Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
2016 Apr 27 - 16:00 304 Weniger Travis Walker (Chem Eng, OSU) Dynamics of Magnetic Oblate Spheroids Suspended in Newtonian Fluids under Magnetic Field
2016 May 4 - 16:00 WNGR 304 David Finch Hybrid Imaging
2016 May 18 - 16:00 304 Weniger Jeff Cina, U. of Oregon Ultrafast molecular spectroscopy signals: Calculation and Interpretation
2016 May 25 - 15:00 304 Weniger Poster Fair Solid State Electronic Structure Poster Fair
2016 Nov 2 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. David Cann The Mechanics of Scientific Communications
2016 Nov 9 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Ben Mason Sediment Instability during Tsunamis
2016 Nov 30 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Zhenxing Feng Linking Oxides’ Structures to Their Properties
2017 Jan 25 - 16:00 304 Weniger Chris Larson, Oregon State University Explore a Career in Industry with a Graduate Degree in Physics
2017 Feb 1 - 16:00 304 Weniger Ivan Lisenkov, Oregon State University Spin Current and THz Frequency Range Generation in Antiferromagnets
2017 Feb 15 - 16:00 304 Weniger Lee Aspitarte, Oregon State Achieving highly efficient carbon nanotube photodiodes
2017 Mar 8 - 16:00 304 Weniger APS: Jihan, Hiral & Kyle APS Practice Talks II
2017 Apr 19 - 16:00 WNGR 304 Fuxin Li, OSU An Introduction to Deep Learning
2017 Apr 26 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Prof. Erica Carlson, Purdue Erica Carlson-Decoding Spatial Complexity in Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems
2017 May 17 - 16:00 304 Weniger Dr. Arthur Barnard, Stanford University Probing Emergent Wave Phenomena at the Nanoscale
2017 May 31 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Student presentations PH 575 poster session
2017 Oct 11 - 16:00 304 Weniger Ethan Minot Electron-electron interaction driven phenomena in carbon nanotube devices
2017 Oct 25 - 16:00 Weniger 304 James Haggerty High-fraction brookite films from amorphous precursors
2017 Nov 8 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Vladimir Kozhevnikov Intermediate state in type-I superconductors: a new look at an old story
2017 Nov 15 - 16:00 Weniger 304 Mirek Brandt, Abraham Teklu, Hazel Betz OSU Physics Undergraduates Report on 2017 Summer Research
2018 Jan 24 - 16:00 304 Weniger Patrick Reardon, Director, OSU NMR Facililty An Introduction to NMR and its Application in Living Cells
2018 Feb 7 - 16:00 304 Weniger Prof. John Labram, OSU EECS Hybrid-Halide Compounds for Thin-Film Electronics
2018 Feb 14 - 16:00 304 Weniger Donghua Xu, Materials Science, OSU The fight between BCC and icosahedral clusters in the supercooled tantalum liquid through computer simulation and visualization
2018 Feb 21 - 16:00 116 Weniger Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh Coherent ultrafast hot electron generation at plasmonic heterojunctions
2018 Feb 28 - 16:00 Weniger 116 Carlos Silva, Georgia Tech University Excitons, biexcitons, and the role of dynamic disorder in two-dimensional lead-halide perovskitoids
2018 Mar 26 - 15:00 304 Weniger Mitchell Senger, Carly Fengel MRS Practice Talks
2018 Apr 19 - 15:00 328 Weniger (Thursday) Laura Greene, Florida State University The Topological Kondo Insulator SmB6: Surface States and Bulk Spin Excitons
2018 May 9 - 16:00 304 Wngr Andriy Zakutayev, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Heterostructural Semiconductor Alloys
2018 May 16 - 16:00 304 WNGR Chris Eddy Master Degree Defense : Decoding Cancer Cell Body Language with Deep Learning