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Events Archive

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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
ColloquiumColloquium PER candidate 1
PER candidate 1
Colloquium
SeminarChanging Quantum-Dot Optical Properties with the Twist of a Knob
Prof. John Essick, Reed College
Seminar
ColloquiumStability of Fermion Clusters: Application to Cold Atoms and Unconventional Superconductivity
Pavel Kornilovich, Hewlett Packard, Corvallis OR
Colloquium
General EventHoliday party in honor of Henri Jansen
Henri Jansen
General Event
SeminarPaper AND Plastic…and a mobile app
Professor Vince Remcho, OSU Chemistry
Seminar
ColloquiumSurpassing The Standard Model: Searching for Supersymmetry
Prof. Stephanie Majewski, Dept. of Physics, University of Oregon
Colloquium
SeminarAtomic-Resolution Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Materials
Prof. George Nazin, Dept. of Chemistry, U of Oregon
Seminar
ColloquiumInvestigating student understanding at the upper division: thermal physics and the related mathematics
John Thompson, Dept. of Physics, University of Maine
Colloquium
SeminarMultimode Quantum State Tomography of Stored Light
Professor Andrew Dawes, Pacific University
Seminar
General EventGraduate Student Town Hall Meeting
All
General Event
SeminarEnhanced photovoltaic efficiency through heterojunction-assisted impact ionization
Jet Meitzner, UO Chemistry
Seminar
ColloquiumThe Genetics and Biophysics of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT): Can Theory Help Cancer Biology?
Prof. Herbert Levine, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University
Colloquium
SeminarMetals and jets in galaxy clusters
Brian Morsony
Seminar
ColloquiumExploring the Bio-Nano interface: integrating live cells with nanosensors
Bianxiao Cui, Chemistry Department, Stanford University
Colloquium
SeminarGraphene transistors as biological sensors
Professor Michael Crosser, Linfield College Physics
Seminar
ColloquiumModeling Macromolecular Electrostatics with DelPhi Poisson-Boltzmann solver: Improvements and applications
Prof. Emil Alexov, Department of Physics,Clemson University
Colloquium
SeminarFrom OSU to the Comet Wild/2 and Mars: The story of the development of NASA’s Aerogel
Doug Buettner
Seminar
SeminarSculpted electron beams as a probe of magnetization and plasmons
Professor Ben McMorran, Univ. of Oregon Physics
Seminar
Yunker LectureParticle paleontology: looking for fossils from the early universe inside the electron
Eric Cornell, Fellow of JILA, NIST & University of Colorado at Boulder; Professor Adjoint of Physics, University of Colorado
Yunker Lecture
General EventSPS Mentorship Potluck #2
General Event
ColloquiumDynamics and mechanism of ultraviolet-damaged DNA repair by photolyase
Prof. Dongping Zhong, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University
Colloquium
Ph.D. DefenseNonlinear terahertz spectroscopy of carbon nanomaterials and semiconductor nanostructures
Michael Paul
Ph.D. Defense
General EventCOS Welcoming Social
General Event
General EventCollege of Science Fall Awards reception
General Event
General EventCollege of Science Fall Awards ceremony
General Event
M.S. Defense2D Collective Motion in Human Breast Cancer Cells
Andrew Bartlein
M.S. Defense
Ph.D. DefenseLiquid-Gated Carbon Nanotube Transistor Noise Sources and Sensitivity Limits
Tal Sharf
Ph.D. Defense
General EventBiological Motions through the Lens Day 2
NA
General Event
General EventBiological Motions through the Lens
NA
General Event
M.S. DefenseThermal conductivity measurements of amorphous metal thin films via the 3-omega method
Kai Zhan
M.S. Defense
General EventSenior Graduation Dinner 2014
Several
General Event
Ph.D. DefenseFirst principles studies of optical, electronic and mechanical properties of organic molecules and solids
Faye Lyn Barras
Ph.D. Defense
M.S. DefenseApplying Renormalization Group Theory to the Square Well Liquid
Dan Roth
M.S. Defense
Senior ThesisSenior Thesis Presenations Part II
Class of 2014
Senior Thesis
ConferenceWorkshop on the Status of the Upper-Division Physics Curriculum: Whole Curriculum
Conference
ConferenceWorkshop on the Status of the Upper-Division Physics Curriculum: Thermal Physics
Conference
ConferenceWorkshop on the Status of the Upper-Division Physics Curriculum: Quantum Mechanics
Conference
ConferenceWorkshop on the Status of the Upper-Division Physics Curriculum: Electromagnetism
Conference
Senior ThesisSenior Thesis Presenations Part I
Class of 2014
Senior Thesis
ColloquiumA New "No-Go" Result for Quantum Mechanics
Prof. Maximilian Schlosshauer, Department of Physics, University of Portland
Colloquium
M.S. DefenseMS Thesis Presentation: Redundant Information in a Spin System Beyond Pure Decoherence
Andy Svesko
M.S. Defense
SeminarManipulating light-matter interaction in graphene and other 2D materials
Dr. Sufei Shi, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Seminar
Senior ThesisExamining Upper-Division Thermodynamics Using the Actor Oriented Transfer Framework
Grant Sherer
Senior Thesis
ColloquiumNo Colloquium, Memorial Day
None
Colloquium
General EventPH575 Poster Session
PH575 class
General Event
Senior ThesisElectrical and Thermal Properties of Silicon and Tetrahedrite
Rodney Snyder
Senior Thesis
General EventWomen in Physics meeting
General Event
General EventSociety of Physics Students Bi-monthly Meeting
General Event
ColloquiumUltrafast Dynamics of Polaron Formation
Prof. Sue Dexheimer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Washington State University
Colloquium
SeminarHybrid Plasmonic/Photonic-Crystal Devices for Optical Communication and Sensing
Professor Alan Wang, EECS, OSU
Seminar