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 |
|---|---|---|
| Colloquium | Direct Detection of Classically Undetectable Dark Matter through Quantum Decoherence Dr. C. Jess Riedel, IBM Watson Research Center Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Nobel Prize 2013: Peter W. Higgs and François Englert Prof. Al Stetz, Department of Physics, OSU Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Graphene Micro-Femto Energetics Prof. Matt Graham, Department of Physics, OSU Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Harnessing Defects in Graphene: from Plasmonics to Chemical Functionalization Dr. Kirill A. Velizhanin, Los Alamos National Laboratory Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Super-resolution imaging of plasmonic nanoparticles Prof. Katherine Willets, Department of Chemistry, U of Texas at Austin Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Equipping students to connect multivariable calculus with the physical world Prof. David Roundy, Department of Physics. OSU Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Driving the self-organization of cellular system: mechano-chemical signaling Prof. Bo Sun, Department of Physics, OSU Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Understanding Molecules and Solids Bit by Bit Prof. Guenter Schneider, Department of Physics, OSU Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Shining Light on the Molecular Mechanism of Cytoskeleton-based Molecular Motors Prof. Weihong Qiu, Department of Physics, OSU Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Gamma-Ray Bursts: numerical tools to understand the biggest explosions in the Universe Prof. Davide Lazzati Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Coastal Physical Oceanography Kipp Shearman, College of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, OSU Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Graphene Mechanical Wonders Scott Bunch, University of Colorado, Boulder Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Pulsed Laser Irradiation of Doped Zinc Oxide Films Dr. Gregory Exarhos, PNNL Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Cavity optomechanics: Controlling mechanical motion with light Hailin Wang, Department of Physics, University of Oregon Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Memcomputing: a brain-inspired computing paradigm to store and process information on the same physical platform Prof. Massimiliano Di Ventra, University of California, San Diego Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Hybrid Polymer Photonic Materials and Devices for Optical Communications Prof. Robert Norwood, University of Arizona Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Rogue Atoms in Flatland: Imaging structural disorder in novel 2D materials with transmission electron microscopy Pinshane Huang, Cornell University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Single Molecule Bioelectronics Prof. Phil Collins, UC Irvine Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Using Electronic Spectroscopy to Study the Local Conformations and Kinetics of Biological Macromolecules Prof. Andrew H. Marcus, Department of Chemistry, Oregon Center for Optics, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Shining Light on the Mechanism of Nature’s Nanomachines Dr. Weihong Qiu, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cell Biology Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Optical Spectroscopy and Phonon Self-Energy Renormalizations in Carbon Materials Dr. Paulo T. Araujo, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Photonic metasurfaces, a modern approach to designing optical components Dr. Patrice Genevet, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | The role of fluctuations in biology at the molecular level Dr. Hajin Kim, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Counting molecules one at a time by Pointillism optical nanoscopy Dr. Sang-Hyuk Lee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and UC Berkeley Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Harnessing the atom-like properties of single spins in diamond Dr. Lee Bassett, University of California, Santa Barbara Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Electronic 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 | |
| Colloquium | The Higgs Boson and the Puzzle of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Prof. James Brau, University of Oregon Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | TBA Owen McCarty Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Inertial Pump: new way of moving fluids through micro-channels Dr. Pavel Kornilovich, Hewlett Packard, Corvallis OR Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Nobel Prize Lecture David McIntyre, Oregon State University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Speckle patterns and purity of quantum states Steven van Enk, University of Oregon Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | New Materials for a Clean Energy Future: From Basic Properties to Computational Materials Design Guenter Schneider, Oregon State University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Quantum phase transitions Bogdan Damski, Los Alamos National Laboratory Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | A tale of two E's: Energy and entropy in aqueous interfaces David Roundy, Oregon State University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Standards Based Grading with Voice Andy Rundquist, Department of Physics, Hamline University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Complementarity of information and the emergence of the classical world Michael Zwolak, Oregon State University Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Density 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 | |
| Colloquium | A geometric phase transition underlying jamming in 3d, and beyond Eric Corwin, Department of Physics, University of Oregon Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Algorithms for association between genotype and the resulting physical traits while considering evolutionary history Dr. Farhat Habib Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Cooperation, cheating, and collapse in microbial populations Prof. Jeff Gore, MIT Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Fractal vision: using retinal implants to restore vision to the blind Prof. Richard Taylor, UO Physics Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Nanofluidic landscapes and precision microscopy for studying molecular processes in living cells Prof. Jaan Mannik, Univ. Tennessee Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics: The accelerating expansion of the Universe Prof. Greg Bothun, UO Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Electron Beams with Angular Momentum and Their Application to Magnetic Imaging Prof. Ben McMorran, UO Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Measurement and simulation of water vapor transport in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer Prof. Chad Higgins, Dept. of Biological and Ecological Engineering Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Developing large-enrollment, conceptual physics courses: active-learning and scientific practices for non-majors Dr. Ed Price, Cal State San Marcos Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | No Colloquium: Open house for undergraduates Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | Student Sensemaking And Real-World Connections During Collaborative Group Problem Solving. Dr. Mathew Martinuk, University of British Columbia Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | How Do Physics Majors Become Physicists? Dr. Elizabeth Gire, University of Memphis Colloquium | |
| Colloquium | The Grammar of Physics Equations Dr. David Brookes, Florida International University Colloquium |