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.
Events Archive
| Date | Type | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Colloquium | TBA Prof. Zahra Hazari, Florida International University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | TBA Prof. Daryl McPadden, Michigan State University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Improving Student Learning: The Dual Roles of Conceptual Understanding and Reasoning Ability Prof. Paula Heron, Physics, University of Washington Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | TBA Prof. Liz Gire, Oregon State Physics Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | The 3D (Discovering, Decoding, and Directing) State Space of Cells Prof. Bo Sun, Oregon State Physics Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | How quantum mechanics can help cosmologists solve their problems Prof. Craig Hogan, University of Chicago Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Using Photons to Understand and Change Defects in Semiconductors Prof. Matthew McCluskey, Washington State, Physics Colloquium | |
| Yunker Lecture | Yunker Lecture: Cell shapes keep cells in shape Gaudenz Danuser Yunker Lecture | |
| Colloquium | Welcome to the Department of Physics Prof. Davide Lazzati, Department Head Colloquium | |
| General Event | Undergraduate Senior Thesis Presentations Physics Majors General Event | |
| Outreach | Lab tours for Wilsonville High School students Outreach | |
| General Event | Undergraduate Senior Thesis Presentations Physics Majors General Event | |
| Outreach | School visit to Ashbrook Independent School Outreach | |
| M.S. Defense | Two-dimensional materials: towards organic-inorganic hybrid heterojunctions Vivek Jain M.S. Defense | |
| Ph.D. Defense | Singlet Fission Dynamics in Single-Crystal Organic Semiconductors (PhD Defense) Gina Mayonado Ph.D. Defense | |
| M.S. Defense | Two-dimensional materials: towards organic-inorganic hybrid heterojunctions Vivek Jain M.S. Defense | |
| Colloquium | Mesoscale scanning probes for studying interacting electrons in two-dimensional materials Prof. Arthur Barnard (U of Washington) Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Combining modeling and experiment to understand cell migration Dr. Wouter-Jan Rappel from Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Modeling the Binary SMBH Population: Linking Galaxy Observations to the nHz GW Background Dr. Joseph Simon, UC Boulder Seminar | |
| Colloquium | “Quantum alchemy” with two-dimensional materials Prof. Matthew Yankowitz (Department of Physics, University of Washington) Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Simulating excited-state processes in mesoscale molecular aggregates Prof. Doran Raccah Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Hans Geiger and the Birth of Modern Physics Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Hans Geiger and the Birth of Modern Physics Prof. Kenneth Krane Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | "Disruptive" vs. state-of-the-art solar photovoltaic technologies? Dr. Dirk Weiss, Head of Technology Assessment, First Solar, Inc. Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Nobel Prize in Physics 2022: Entangled States – From Theory to Technology Prof. David McIntyre, Oregon State University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Physics Colloquium Prof. Kenneth Krane Colloquium | |
| Seminar | APS March Meeting Pre-Departure Talks Graduate Students Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Metastable qubits and motional state interferometers in trapped-ion systems Prof. David Allcock (University of Oregon) Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Imaginary Mechanics from Spring Networks to Polymers Prof. Jayson Paulose from University of Oregon Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Seminar - Physics Education Research Dr. Patti Hamerski Seminar | |
| Seminar | Seminar - Physics Education Research Dr. Doris Li Seminar | |
| General Event | Women Rock at Science General Event | |
| Seminar | WIC Thesis Fair Seminar | |
| Seminar | Seminar - Physics Education Research Dr. Dina Alaee Zohrabi Seminar | |
| Seminar | Seminar - Physics Education Research Dr. Alex Werth Seminar | |
| Seminar | Seminar - Physics Education Research Dr. Mike Vignal Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 Prof. David McIntyre, Oregon State University Colloquium | |
| Seminar | TBA Dr. Karen Fonseca Romero, the National University of Columbia. Seminar | |
| M.S. Defense | Designing Exciton Polariton Properties in Organic Semiconductor Microcavites Roshell Lamug M.S. Defense | |
| Seminar | Supermassive Black Hole Binaries and Where to Find Them Dr. Bence Bécsy, Oregon State University [Siemens Group] Seminar | |
| Colloquium | How Random Are Quantum Random Numbers? Prof. Maximilian Schlosshauer, University of Portland Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | From a Grain of Sand to a (Quantum) Bit of Information Jim Clarke, Director of Quantum Hardware Intel Labs Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Presentation: Developing and Utilizing Computational Physics Approaches to Study Biology Problems Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Developing and utilizing computational physics approaches to study biology problems Prof. Lin Li, University of Texas at El Paso Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | TBA (event to be confirmed) Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | The Heavyweight W boson - an Upset to the Standard Model of Particle Physics Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke University Colloquium | |
| Seminar | TBA (W-mass) [Colloquium and SSO] Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke University Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Pursuing quantum spin liquids in the van der Waals material a-RuCl3 Prof. Erik Henriksen, Washington University in St Louis Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | What Is a Single Molecule, and What Can You Do With It? Prof. W.E. Moerner, Stanford University Colloquium | |
| Seminar | Coupling time-reversed systems: PT symmetry in quantum and classical domains Prof. Yogesh Joglekar, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis Seminar |