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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
Senior ThesisSenior thesis presentations
Seniors in PH403
Senior Thesis
SeminarTerahertz Spectroscopy of Ni-Ti Alloy Thin Films
Andy Jameson
Seminar
Senior ThesisMonte Carlo simulations of structure and melting transition in small Ag clusters
Lee Collins
Senior Thesis
Senior ThesisGravitational waves and the LISA detector
Jessica Gifford
Senior Thesis
SeminarOptoelectronic Properties of Organic Semiconductor Materials
Whitney Shepherd
Seminar
ColloquiumGraphene Optoelectronics and Plasmonics
Prof. Xiaodong Xu, Uni. Wash.
Colloquium
Ph.D. DefenseLabel-free biosensing with carbon nanotube transistors
Matthew Leyden
Ph.D. Defense
SeminarHigh resolution photoelectron microscopy
Rolf Koenenkamp, Portland State University
Seminar
SeminarCarbon nanotube optoelectronics
Ethan Minot
Seminar
ColloquiumCANCELLED: Highly efficient inorganic cathode and anode for organic light emitting diodes
Hiroshi Yanagi, Yamanashi University
Colloquium
SeminarDiaryl ether heptanoids: Molecular Mobius Strips… or Not?
Prof. Chris Beaudry, Department of Chemistry
Seminar
ColloquiumUpdate on introductory course reform and assessment in OSU Physics
Dedra Demaree
Colloquium
SeminarApplied crystallography with scanning probe and transmission electron microscopes supported by open-access structure data
Peter Moeck, PSU
Seminar
SeminarNeutron scattering in artificial lattices composed of graphite and certain heavy metals: a Monte Carlo study
Tom Giebultowicz
Seminar
ColloquiumTiny bubbles: The history of greenhouse gases and climate from polar ice cores
Prof. Edward Brook
Colloquium
SeminarOptical Properties of Amorphous Nanolayers
Nicholas Kuhta
Seminar
General Event2nd Annual Physics Open House
Several Faculty Members
General Event
ColloquiumOpen House, No Colloquium
Colloquium
SeminarComputation Physics and Magnetic Materials Research
Henri Jansen & Tom Giebultowicz
Seminar
General EventStudent lunch
Dr. Joshua Milstein
General Event
SeminarBiomechanical Gene Regulation: A single-molecule approach to exploring intracellular forces on DNA in living cells
Dr. Joshua Milstein, U. Michigan
Seminar
ColloquiumSwitching Genes On and Off by Bending and Stretching DNA
Dr. Joshua Milstein, U. Michigan
Colloquium
General EventStudent lunch
Dr. Martin Guthold
General Event
SeminarBiophysical Applications of a Combined Atomic Force/Fluorescence Microscope Part 2: Biomechanical Signaling
Dr. Martin Guthold, Wake Forest University
Seminar
ColloquiumBiophysical Applications of a Combined Atomic Force/Fluorescence Microscope Part 1: Blood clotting and NanoSelection® drug discovery
Dr. Martin Guthold, Wake Forest University
Colloquium
SeminarComputational Physics Research
David Roundy
Seminar
SeminarViral democracy: using live-cell imaging to learn how phages attack bacteria
Dr. Lanying Zeng, UIUC
Seminar
Open HouseOpen House for Prospective Graduate Students
Open House
ColloquiumViral democracy: using live-cell imaging to learn how phages attack bacteria
Dr. Lanying Zeng
Colloquium
General EventStudent lunch
Dr. Lanying Zeng
General Event
SeminarTheories and Simulations for Molecular Biophysics
Dr. Fangqiang Zhu
Seminar
General EventStudent lunch
Dr. Fangqiang Zhu
General Event
ColloquiumComputer Simulations of Membrane Water Channels and Ion Channels
Dr. Fangqiang Zhu
Colloquium
General EventStudent lunch
Dr. Qi Wen
General Event
SeminarNew materials for mechanics of tissue cells
Dr. Qi Wen, University of Pennsylvania
Seminar
ColloquiumNonaffine deformation and nonlinear elasticity in biological materials
Dr. Qi Wen, University of Pennsylvania
Colloquium
SeminarBiophysics Research
Chong Fang
Seminar
SeminarNew microscopy methods to elucidate fast biomolecular search processes
Dr. Sabrina R. Leslie, Harvard University
Seminar
ColloquiumConvex Lens-Induced Confinement: Enabling New Biophysical Measurements Under Previously Inaccessible Conditions
Dr. Sabrina R. Leslie, Harvard University
Colloquium
General EventStudent lunch
Dr. Sabrina Leslie
General Event
M.S. DefenseMeasurement of Optical Bandgap Energies of Semiconductors
Joshua Russell
M.S. Defense
SeminarHigh Performance Computation for Biosensing and Mechanobiology
Dr. Binquan Luan
Seminar
General EventStudent lunch
Dr. Bingquan Luan
General Event
ColloquiumBase-by-base ratcheting of single-stranded DNA through a solid-state nanopore: toward low-cost and high-throughput sequencing of the human Genome
Dr. Binquan Luan
Colloquium
SeminarProbing properties of complex materials using terahertz spectroscopy
Dr. Vinh Q. Nguyen, UC Santa Barbara
Seminar
ColloquiumProbing the dynamics of biomolecules in liquid water by terahertz spectroscopy
Dr. Vinh Q. Nguyen, UC Santa Barbara
Colloquium
SeminarExperimental Optics
David McIntyre & Bill Hetherington
Seminar
SeminarDeconstructing structural transitions
Dr. Michael Zwolak
Seminar
ColloquiumRapid DNA sequencing via transverse electronic transport
Dr. Michael Zwolak
Colloquium
General EventStudent lunch
Dr. Michael Zwolak
General Event