Events Archive | Department of Physics

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.

Date	Type	Event
2019-01-28	Colloquium	Dense Packing of Hard Particles Yang Jiao (Arizona State U) Colloquium
2019-01-24	Outreach	Franklin Family Science Night Student and Faculty Volunteers Outreach
2019-01-23	Seminar	Where in the world are Heidi and Maggie: adventures in detectors at CERN Heidi Schellman, Maggie Greenwood Seminar
2019-01-14	Colloquium	Nobel Prize in Physics 2018: Optical Tweezers And Generation Of High-Intensity, Ultra-Short Optical Pulses David McIntyre Colloquium
2018-12-06	Senior Thesis	Lahiru Fernando senior thesis presentation Lahiru Fernando Senior Thesis
2018-11-26	Colloquium	Imaging All the Sky All the Time in Search of Radio Exoplanets Gregg Hallinan (Caltech) Colloquium
2018-11-21	M.S. Defense	Jonathan Alfson, MS Defense Jonathan Alfson M.S. Defense
2018-11-19	Colloquium	Studying X-ray Binaries and Neutron Star Interiors through Globular Clusters Craig Heinke (Alberta, Edmonton) Colloquium
2018-11-14	Ph.D. Defense	Ali Mousavian, PhD Defense Ali Mousavian Ph.D. Defense
2018-11-07	General Event	Undergrad physics majors talk about transition to industry Chris May, Ally Mueller, Mattson Thieme General Event
2018-11-05	Colloquium	Electron videography . . . in the twinkling of an eye Matthew Graham Colloquium
2018-10-31	Outreach	Discovery Days Student and faculty volunteers Outreach
2018-10-30	Outreach	Discovery Days Student and faculty volunteers Outreach
2018-10-29	Colloquium	Kinesin-14s: Moving Into a New Paradigm Weihong Qiu Colloquium
2018-10-22	Colloquium	Teaching Physics Sensemaking Liz Gire Colloquium
2018-10-19	Special Lecture	The Wei Family Private Foundation lecture: “Atomic Sandwich: Photonics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional materials" Prof. Jie Shan, Cornell Applied Physics Special Lecture
2018-10-15	Colloquium	Quantitative Behavior: Understanding what animals do and how brains control them Joshua W. Shaevitz (Princeton University) Colloquium
2018-10-08	Colloquium	Revisiting the mechanical feedback between tumors and their microenvironment Bo Sun Colloquium
2018-10-01	Colloquium	Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites; Photovoltaics and Beyond Professor Z. Valy Vardeny, University of Utah Colloquium
2018-09-19	M.S. Defense	David Rivella, MS Final Oral Exam David Rivella M.S. Defense
2018-09-18	M.S. Defense	Greg Giesbers, MS Defense Greg Giesbers M.S. Defense
2018-09-18	Ph.D. Defense	Bethany Matthews, PhD Defense Bethany Matthews Ph.D. Defense
2018-06-29	Ph.D. Defense	Heterojunction Assisted Impact Ionization at the ZnS/Si Interface and Cu10Te4S13 Photodiodes Christopher Reidy Ph.D. Defense
2018-06-18	Ph.D. Defense	Mechanics Controls Collective Cancer Invasion Amani Alobadi Ph.D. Defense
2018-06-14	Ph.D. Defense	Amorphous TiO2: A thin film synthesis route to stabilization of metastable TiO2 brookite James Haggerty Ph.D. Defense
2018-06-12	Senior Thesis	Senior Thesis Presentations Part II Senior Class 2018 Senior Thesis
2018-06-06	M.S. Defense	Analogues in thermodynamics: the Partial Derivative Machine and Legendre transformations Michael Vignal M.S. Defense
2018-06-05	Senior Thesis	Senior Thesis Presentations Part I Senior class 2018 Senior Thesis
2018-06-04	Colloquium	The dynamics of students' engagement and persistence in science David Hammer (Tufts) Colloquium
2018-06-04	Senior Thesis	Broad Histogram Algorithm Comparison for the Square Well Fluid Tanner Simpson Senior Thesis
2018-05-31	Ph.D. Defense	Single-Molecule Characterization of the PAKRP@ Motility Mechanism Allison Gicking Ph.D. Defense
2018-05-24	Senior Thesis	Using Divertor Strike Point Splitting to Understand Plasma Response and its Sensitivity to Equilibrium Uncertainty Abraham Teklu Senior Thesis
2018-05-24	Senior Thesis	Radial Velocity Profiles and Magnetic Field Probes for Hypervelocity Plasma Deflagration Jets Jesse Rodriguez Senior Thesis
2018-05-22	Senior Thesis	Computing Wavefunctions of Silicon Donor Qubits with Density Functional Theory Yousif Almullah Senior Thesis
2018-05-21	Colloquium	Building Blocks of the Universe Tim Andeen, University of Texas at Austin Colloquium
2018-05-16	Seminar	Master Degree Defense : Decoding Cancer Cell Body Language with Deep Learning Chris Eddy Seminar
2018-05-16	Senior Thesis	Localized structures in a diffusive run and tumble model for M. xanthus Patrick Flynn Senior Thesis
2018-05-15	Senior Thesis	Analysis of Upper Ocean Surface Wave Structure in the Bay of Bengal using χSOLO Floats Matthew Ball Senior Thesis
2018-05-14	General Event	Sigma Pi Sigma Induction Ceremony General Event
2018-05-14	Colloquium	TBA Cancelled Colloquium
2018-05-11	Special Lecture	Distinguished Professor Lecture: With a little help from my friends: collaborative materials research and incorporating research into the undergraduate curriculum Prof. Janet Tate Special Lecture
2018-05-09	Seminar	Heterostructural Semiconductor Alloys Andriy Zakutayev, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Seminar
2018-05-08	Outreach	Family Science Night Student and faculty volunteers Outreach
2018-05-07	Colloquium	Phase transitions and the principle of detailed balance in living systems Fred Macintosh (Rice University) Colloquium
2018-05-03	Special Lecture	Of Predators and Prey Dr. Henri Berestycki Special Lecture
2018-05-02	Outreach	Discovery Days Faculty and student volunteers Outreach
2018-05-01	Outreach	Discovery Days Faculty and student volunteers Outreach
2018-04-20	Yunker Lecture	The Dark Energy of Quantum Materials Laura H. Greene, Francis Eppes Professor of Physics, Florida State University & Chief Scientist, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Yunker Lecture
2018-04-20	General Event	Reception and poster session for Yunker lecture Laura Greene General Event
2018-04-19	Seminar	The Topological Kondo Insulator SmB6: Surface States and Bulk Spin Excitons Laura Greene, Florida State University Seminar