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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
ColloquiumCancelled due to speaker unavailability
Eric Agol
Colloquium
Special LectureCatalyzing the transformation of science learning at OSU
Prof. Corinne Manogue
Special Lecture
OutreachFamily Science Night
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
ColloquiumDiscovery potential of pulsar timing arrays
Xavier Siemens (UW Milwaukee)
Colloquium
ColloquiumHigh-throughput materials discovery and development: breakthroughs and challenges in the mapping of the materials genome
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (North Texas)
Colloquium
SeminarMRS Practice Talks
Mitchell Senger, Carly Fengel
Seminar
OutreachPeriwinkle Family Science Night
Faculty and student volunteers
Outreach
OutreachAstronomy Open House
Astronomy Club
Outreach
Conference2018 Physics Prospective Graduate Student Poster Fair
Physics Graduate Student
Conference
Open HouseProspective Graduate Students Open House
Open House
OutreachDiscovering the Scientist Within
Faculty and student volunteers
Outreach
ColloquiumExcitons, biexcitons, and the role of dynamic disorder in two-dimensional lead-halide perovskitoids
Carlos Silva, Georgia Tech
Colloquium
SeminarExcitons, biexcitons, and the role of dynamic disorder in two-dimensional lead-halide perovskitoids
Carlos Silva, Georgia Tech University
Seminar
OutreachScience Night at Santiam Christian School
Faculty and student volunteers
Outreach
SeminarCoherent ultrafast hot electron generation at plasmonic heterojunctions
Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh
Seminar
ColloquiumCoherent ultrafast hot electron generation at plasmonic heterojunctions
Hrvoje Petek, U of Pittsburgh
Colloquium
SeminarThe fight between BCC and icosahedral clusters in the supercooled tantalum liquid through computer simulation and visualization
Donghua Xu, Materials Science, OSU
Seminar
SeminarHybrid-Halide Compounds for Thin-Film Electronics
Prof. John Labram, OSU EECS
Seminar
ColloquiumPropofol Inhibition of Processive Kinesins
Susan Gilbert (RPI)
Colloquium
General EventPizza dinner with Whitney Shepherd
Whitney Shepherd
General Event
Special LecturePhysicist Working In Industry
Dr. Whitney Shepherd
Special Lecture
ColloquiumNear-field Acousto Characterization of Confined Mesoscopic Fluids
Prof. Andres de la Rosa (PSU)
Colloquium
OutreachFamily Science Night
Faculty and student volunteers
Outreach
SeminarAn Introduction to NMR and its Application in Living Cells
Patrick Reardon, Director, OSU NMR Facililty
Seminar
ColloquiumThe first 166 days of gravitational wave astronomy
Ben Farr (UofO)
Colloquium
ColloquiumConnecting the first stars in the universe to the Milky Way
Brian O'Shea (MSU)
Colloquium
OutreachOutreach club meeting
Ethan Minot
Outreach
ColloquiumConfessions of a Former Lecturer: Evidenced-based Reform in the Introductory Physics Sequence
KC Walsh (OSU)
Colloquium
ColloquiumThe Structure of Matter: Jefferson Lab and its Physics
Hugh Montgomery-Jefferson Lab
Colloquium
SeminarOSU Physics Undergraduates Report on 2017 Summer Research
Mirek Brandt, Abraham Teklu, Hazel Betz
Seminar
ColloquiumUncovering and Addressing Implicit Bias
Stacey York, University of Oregon
Colloquium
SeminarIntermediate state in type-I superconductors: a new look at an old story
Vladimir Kozhevnikov
Seminar
General EventREGISTRATION SKILLS WORKSHOP
General Event
ColloquiumPhotophysics of organic materials: from single crystals to single molecules and from optoelectronics to entomology
Oksana Ostroverkhova (OSU)
Colloquium
Ph.D. DefenseLiangdong Zhu, Thesis Defense
Liangdong Zhu
Ph.D. Defense
ColloquiumThe Dawn of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves: the first joint detection of GWs and Light
Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern)
Colloquium
SeminarHigh-fraction brookite films from amorphous precursors
James Haggerty
Seminar
M.S. DefenseHigh-fraction brookite films from amorphous precursors
James Haggerty
M.S. Defense
ColloquiumThe 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
David Craig and Davide Lazzati
Colloquium
ColloquiumWhat Does Access Really Mean?
Mary James (Reed College)
Colloquium
General EventLIGO/Virgo/NSF press release live streaming
General Event
General EventPhIS Undergraduate Mixer
General Event
SeminarElectron-electron interaction driven phenomena in carbon nanotube devices
Ethan Minot
Seminar
ColloquiumPaul Emigh-Improving Quantum Mechanics Instruction with Tutorials
Paul Emigh (OSU)
Colloquium
General EventPhIS Meeting
General Event
ColloquiumAhmet Yildiz-The Mechanism of Dynein Motility
Ahmet Yildiz (Berkeley)
Colloquium
Ph.D. DefenseChris Mauney-PhD Defense
Chris Mauney
Ph.D. Defense
Special LectureComplex Systems Seminar :The Statistics and the Statistical Mechanisms of Sloppy Models
Kevin Brown
Special Lecture
Ph.D. DefenseMorgan Brown-PhD Defense
Morgan Brown
Ph.D. Defense
M.S. DefenseRobert Harrison-Thesis Defense
Robert Harrison
M.S. Defense