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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
ColloquiumCounting molecules one at a time by Pointillism optical nanoscopy
Dr. Sang-Hyuk Lee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and UC Berkeley
Colloquium
SeminarTBA
Dr. Lee Bassett, UCSB
Seminar
ColloquiumHarnessing the atom-like properties of single spins in diamond
Dr. Lee Bassett, University of California, Santa Barbara
Colloquium
SeminarFaculty candidate - holding open
TBA
Seminar
SeminarTBA
Dr. Matthew Graham, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Cornell University
Seminar
ColloquiumElectronic carbon correlations in reduced dimensions; from light absorption to current production
Dr. Matt W. Graham, Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science and Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University
Colloquium
SeminarAcoustic Assisted Magnetic Recording: Making un-writeable hard disk media writeable using acoustic waves
Prof. Albrecht Jander, OSU EECS
Seminar
ColloquiumThe Higgs Boson and the Puzzle of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Prof. James Brau, University of Oregon
Colloquium
SeminarMembranes, microbes, and microscopy
Prof. Raghu Parthasarathy, UO Physics
Seminar
ColloquiumTBA
Owen McCarty
Colloquium
SeminarSingle Molecule Enzyme Catalysis: steps towards accurate kinetic schemes
Prof. Kerstin Blank, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Seminar
ColloquiumInertial Pump: new way of moving fluids through micro-channels
Dr. Pavel Kornilovich, Hewlett Packard, Corvallis OR
Colloquium
Ph.D. DefenseOptoelectronic Properties of Organic Semiconductors: From Bulk to Single Molecule
Whitney Shepherd
Ph.D. Defense
SeminarNew Strategies for Electrochemical Energy Devices
Prof. David Ji, OSU Chemistry
Seminar
ColloquiumNobel Prize Lecture
David McIntyre, Oregon State University
Colloquium
ColloquiumSpeckle patterns and purity of quantum states
Steven van Enk, University of Oregon
Colloquium
SeminarElectron-Electron Interaction Effects on the Photophysics of Carbon Nanostructures.
Prof. Sumit Mazumdar, U of Arizona Physics
Seminar
ColloquiumNew Materials for a Clean Energy Future: From Basic Properties to Computational Materials Design
Guenter Schneider, Oregon State University
Colloquium
SeminarBi-based Piezoelectric Thin Films via Chemical Solution Deposition
Prof. Brady Gibbons, OSU Materials Science
Seminar
ColloquiumQuantum phase transitions
Bogdan Damski, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Colloquium
SeminarMultiphoton Spectroscopy for Biological Analysis
Prof. Sean Burrows, OSU Chemistry
Seminar
ColloquiumA tale of two E's: Energy and entropy in aqueous interfaces
David Roundy, Oregon State University
Colloquium
SeminarSpin caloritronics – more than spin-dependent thermoelectrics
Prof. Gerrit Bauer,
Seminar
ColloquiumStandards Based Grading with Voice
Andy Rundquist, Department of Physics, Hamline University
Colloquium
Special LectureTracking water molecules in proteins
Prof. Robin Hochstrasser, Uni. of Pennsylvania
Special Lecture
Special LectureSymmetry breaking of aqueous ions seen through the vibrations
Prof. Robin Hochstrasse, Uni. of Pennsylvania
Special Lecture
SeminarThe Promise of Wave Power
Prof. Ted Brekken, OSU EECS
Seminar
ColloquiumComplementarity of information and the emergence of the classical world
Michael Zwolak, Oregon State University
Colloquium
SeminarSome challenges in coarse-graining and multiscale modeling of macromolecular systems
Marina Guenza
Seminar
ColloquiumDensity Functional Theory calculations of metal-water interactions and the role of water and surface defects in chemical reactions
Líney Árnadóttir, School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University
Colloquium
Seminar Zinc-Tin-Oxide Memristors / Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) and Asymmetric Metal-Insulator-Insulator-Metal (MIIM) Tunnel Diodes
Prof. John Conley, OSU EECS
Seminar
ColloquiumA geometric phase transition underlying jamming in 3d, and beyond
Eric Corwin, Department of Physics, University of Oregon
Colloquium
General EventPicnic
All
General Event
M.S. DefenseComparison of carbon nanotube and graphene FET biosensors
Grant Saltzgaber
M.S. Defense
General EventGraduate Student Orientation
OSU Faculty
General Event
Ph.D. DefenseUsing Multiple Theoretical Perspectives to Analyze Student Thinking in Upper-Division E&M
Leonard Cerny
Ph.D. Defense
M.S. DefenseLabel-Free Detection of Thrombin Protein Using a Graphene Field Effect Transistor
Peter Wojcik
M.S. Defense
Ph.D. DefenseThe Optical Properties of Multi-Scale Plasmonic Structures and Their Applications in Optical Characterization and Imaging
Nicholas Kuhta
Ph.D. Defense
M.S. DefenseDevelopment of a data acquisition system for thermal conductivity measurements
Matthew Oostman
M.S. Defense
General EventOSU Commencement
First Lady Michelle Obama
General Event
General EventSenior Graduation Dinner 2012
Several
General Event
Ph.D. DefenseDiscrete-time quantum walks with interchange framework
Zlatko Dimcovic
Ph.D. Defense
Senior ThesisSenior Thesis Presentations - Part II of II
PH seniors
Senior Thesis
Senior ThesisSenior Thesis Presentations - Part I of II
PH seniors
Senior Thesis
General EventSpring Picnic
All
General Event
ColloquiumAlgorithms for association between genotype and the resulting physical traits while considering evolutionary history
Dr. Farhat Habib
Colloquium
M.S. DefenseA Code Generator for Density-Functional Theory in Haskell
Zhiyuan Zhang
M.S. Defense
SeminarDevelop Scalable Nanomanufacturing using Microreactor-Assisted Nanomaterial Deposition(TM) Processes
Alex Chang (OSU Material Science)
Seminar
Senior ThesisX-ray Spectroscopy in Astrophysics and Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurements
Mason Keck
Senior Thesis
ColloquiumCooperation, cheating, and collapse in microbial populations
Prof. Jeff Gore, MIT
Colloquium