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 |
|---|---|---|
| General Event | PhIS Meeting Various General Event | |
| Outreach | Family Science Night Faculty and Student Voluteers Outreach | |
| Colloquium | Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz:Heavy Element Synthesis in the Universe Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz Colloquium | |
| Outreach | Mi Familia - Science Demonstration Faculty and student volunteers Outreach | |
| Special Lecture | There Goes the Sun: The North American Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 Randall Milstein, OSU/Astronomer- in- Residence for the Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium Special Lecture | |
| Colloquium | Andrew Mugler-Collective Sensing by Communicating Cells Andrew Mugler, Purdue U Colloquium | |
| Yunker Lecture | Fermilab: 50 years of discovery Nigel Lockyer, Director, Fermilab Yunker Lecture | |
| Open House | Yunker Lecture Reception and Open House Open House | |
| General Event | PhIS Meeting Various General Event | |
| Outreach | Discovery Days Faculty and Student Volunteers Outreach | |
| Outreach | Discovery Days Faculty and Student Volunteers Outreach | |
| Colloquium | Michaela Kleinert-Laser Ablation Studies at Willamette University Michaela Kleinert, Willamette University Colloquium | |
| Outreach | Juntos Family Day - Physics Demos Student volunteers Outreach | |
| Special Lecture | Why Diversity Makes for Excellent Science Professor Jim Gates Special Lecture | |
| Seminar | Erica Carlson-Decoding Spatial Complexity in Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems Prof. Erica Carlson, Purdue Seminar | |
| Outreach | Department tour for high school students Faculty and student volunteers Outreach | |
| Colloquium | Brian Smith- Color and Shape: The Quantum State of a Single Photon and its Manipulation Brian Smith, U of Oregon Colloquium | |
| Outreach | Science worth spreading Faculty and students Outreach | |
| Seminar | An Introduction to Deep Learning Fuxin Li, OSU Seminar | |
| General Event | WiP Meeting General Event | |
| Colloquium | Erik Jensen: Distance-Learning Labs for Introductory Physics with IOLab Erik Jensen, Chemeketa CC Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Physics at Oregon’s Community Colleges and Shaping the Next Generation of Physicists Greg Mulder, LBCC/OSU Colloquium | |
| General Event | Women in Physics Meeting General Event | |
| General Event | Astro Club Meeting General Event | |
| General Event | WiP Meeting General Event | |
| Conference | Oregon AAPT sectional meeting Conference | |
| Outreach | Family Science Night - Hoover Faculty and Student Volunteers Outreach | |
| General Event | Astronomy Club Meeting Martin Fisk, CEOAS General Event | |
| Seminar | APS Practice Talks II APS: Jihan, Hiral & Kyle Seminar | |
| Colloquium | Taking the Next Steps: CMOS and Beyond CMOS Scaling Kelin Kuhn, OSU EECS Colloquium | |
| Outreach | Discovering the Scientist Within Faculty and Student Volunteers Outreach | |
| General Event | Sigma Pi Sigma pre-initiation General Event | |
| General Event | Women in Physics Meeting General Event | |
| General Event | Discovering the Scientist Withing Volunteer Meeting General Event | |
| Colloquium | Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics John Bush, MIT Colloquium | |
| Open House | Poster Session-Prospective Grad Open House Various Open House | |
| Open House | Prospective Grad Open House Various Open House | |
| General Event | Masters of Science in Education at OSU Nick Cabot-Coordinator MS in Ed. General Event | |
| General Event | Astronomy Club Meeting Various General Event | |
| Colloquium | The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics: Symmetry, Topology and Matter Guenter Schneider, OSU Physics Colloquium | |
| Outreach | Astronomy Open House Outreach | |
| General Event | Unofficial Astro Club Meeting General Event | |
| Seminar | Achieving highly efficient carbon nanotube photodiodes Lee Aspitarte, Oregon State Seminar | |
| General Event | WiP Meeting General Event | |
| General Event | Astro Night Volunteer Meeting General Event | |
| Outreach | Family Science Night - Periwinkle Faculty and Student Volunteers Outreach | |
| General Event | Astronomy Club Meeting General Event | |
| Seminar | Spin Current and THz Frequency Range Generation in Antiferromagnets Ivan Lisenkov, Oregon State University Seminar | |
| General Event | Women in Physics Meeting General Event | |
| Colloquium | Observing the nanoscale dynamics of kinesin molecular motors by high-resolution gold nanoparticle tracking William Hancock, Penn State Colloquium |