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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
General EventNew Graduate Student Orientation Week
various
General Event
Special LectureNanometer-scale Patterns Formed by Nitrogen Adsorption on Cu(001)
Dr. Masamichi Yamada, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo
Special Lecture
M.S. DefenseBilly Geerhart-MS Defense
Billy Geerhart
M.S. Defense
M.S. DefenseRyan Scheirer-MS Defense
Ryan Scheirer
M.S. Defense
OutreachAstronomy Open House
Outreach
SeminarUndergraduate Summer Research Symposium
Various
Seminar
OutreachAstro Night Volunteer Training
Outreach
ConferenceComp. Exam. Boot Camp
Heidi Schellman
Conference
OutreachMeet a Scientist
Ethan Minot
Outreach
Special LectureComplexity in Borides: exotic solids or useful materials
Prof. Barbara Albert Eduard-Zintl-Institute of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt Germany
Special Lecture
General EventAstro Open House Volunteer Meeting
General Event
Ph.D. DefensePhD Thesis Defense-Andrew Stickel:Terahertz Induced Non-linear Electron Dynamics in Nanoantenna Coated Semiconductors at the Sub-picosecond Timescale
Andrew Stickel
Ph.D. Defense
Ph.D. DefensePhD Thesis Defense-Byounghwak Lee: Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging of Carbon Nanomaterials
Byounghwak Lee
Ph.D. Defense
OutreachAstronomy Open House
Outreach
OutreachPhysics for 1st Graders
Davide Lazzati, Ethan Minot
Outreach
Ph.D. DefenseStudents’ Understanding of Complex Numbers in Middle-Division Physics
Emily Smith
Ph.D. Defense
Senior ThesisSenior Thesis Presentations Part II
Senior Class
Senior Thesis
OutreachSolar observations for 2nd graders
Davide Lazzati
Outreach
General EventGraduating Seniors Dinner
Beef, Chicken, Salmon, and Veggie
General Event
General EventOrals Prelim-Mulder
Greg Mulder
General Event
Senior ThesisSenior Thesis Presentations Part I
Senior class
Senior Thesis
OutreachBuddhism and Quantum Physics
Dee Denver / Ethan Minot
Outreach
General EventPhysics Mixer hosted by the Women in Physics Group
WiP Group
General Event
SeminarSolid State Electronic Structure Poster Fair
Poster Fair
Seminar
ColloquiumThe Life and Legacy of Max Planck
Prof. Brandon Brown, University of San Francisco
Colloquium
Ph.D. DefenseThesis Defense-Gruss
Daniel Gruss
Ph.D. Defense
SeminarUltrafast molecular spectroscopy signals: Calculation and Interpretation
Jeff Cina, U. of Oregon
Seminar
Yunker LectureBlack Holes and the Evolving Universe
Meg Urry, Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Director, Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Yale University
Yunker Lecture
OutreachPhysics Open House
Students and Faculty
Outreach
ColloquiumMetabolic oscillations and electrical signaling in bacterial biofilms
Gurol Suel (UCSD)
Colloquium
Senior ThesisThe Lag-luminosity Correlation in Time-resolved Episodes of Long Gamma-ray Bursts
Sam Kowash
Senior Thesis
OutreachSolar Observations at Garfield Elementary
Davide Lazzati
Outreach
Special LectureJanet Tate delivers the Gilfillan Lecture
Janet Tate
Special Lecture
ColloquiumBuilding an informative machine-learning model of gene regulatory control
Molly Megraw
Colloquium
OutreachTransit of Mercury in front of the Sun
Davide Lazzati, Randy Milstein
Outreach
OutreachScience Pub (Eugene)
Dr. Randy Milstein
Outreach
SeminarHybrid Imaging
David Finch
Seminar
OutreachDiscovery Days
Physics students and faculty
Outreach
OutreachDiscovery Days
Physics students and faculty
Outreach
ColloquiumQuantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming
Prof. Brad Marston (Brown University)
Colloquium
SeminarDynamics of Magnetic Oblate Spheroids Suspended in Newtonian Fluids under Magnetic Field
Travis Walker (Chem Eng, OSU)
Seminar
General EventSpecial joint seminar for Physics/Biochemistry Biophysics
Daniel Zuckermann, Pitt
General Event
ColloquiumUltrafast Snapshots: Tracking Electronic and Vibrational Dynamics in Complex Materials
Robert Kaindl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Colloquium
Special LectureAdvantage Accelerator Visit
Advantage Accelerator
Special Lecture
ColloquiumDiscovery of a Thorne-Zytkow Object Candidate in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Emily Levesque (UW)
Colloquium
SeminarNew Surface Science Research Capabilities at Oregon State University: Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Greg Herman
Seminar
OutreachScience Pub: Gravity Waves
Shane Larson
Outreach
ColloquiumGravity has a story to tell: Seeing the Cosmos in gravitational waves
Shane Larson (Northwestern)
Colloquium
OutreachOregon Science Olympiad
Matt Graham, Bo Sun
Outreach
SeminarTBA
Patrick De Leenheer
Seminar