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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
ColloquiumHybrid Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites; Photovoltaics and Beyond
Professor Z. Valy Vardeny, University of Utah
Colloquium
M.S. DefenseDavid Rivella, MS Final Oral Exam
David Rivella
M.S. Defense
M.S. DefenseGreg Giesbers, MS Defense
Greg Giesbers
M.S. Defense
Ph.D. DefenseBethany Matthews, PhD Defense
Bethany Matthews
Ph.D. Defense
Ph.D. DefenseHeterojunction Assisted Impact Ionization at the ZnS/Si Interface and Cu10Te4S13 Photodiodes
Christopher Reidy
Ph.D. Defense
Ph.D. DefenseMechanics Controls Collective Cancer Invasion
Amani Alobadi
Ph.D. Defense
Ph.D. DefenseAmorphous TiO2: A thin film synthesis route to stabilization of metastable TiO2 brookite
James Haggerty
Ph.D. Defense
Senior ThesisSenior Thesis Presentations Part II
Senior Class 2018
Senior Thesis
M.S. DefenseAnalogues in thermodynamics: the Partial Derivative Machine and Legendre transformations
Michael Vignal
M.S. Defense
Senior ThesisSenior Thesis Presentations Part I
Senior class 2018
Senior Thesis
ColloquiumThe dynamics of students' engagement and persistence in science
David Hammer (Tufts)
Colloquium
Senior ThesisBroad Histogram Algorithm Comparison for the Square Well Fluid
Tanner Simpson
Senior Thesis
Ph.D. DefenseSingle-Molecule Characterization of the PAKRP@ Motility Mechanism
Allison Gicking
Ph.D. Defense
Senior ThesisUsing Divertor Strike Point Splitting to Understand Plasma Response and its Sensitivity to Equilibrium Uncertainty
Abraham Teklu
Senior Thesis
Senior ThesisRadial Velocity Profiles and Magnetic Field Probes for Hypervelocity Plasma Deflagration Jets
Jesse Rodriguez
Senior Thesis
Senior ThesisComputing Wavefunctions of Silicon Donor Qubits with Density Functional Theory
Yousif Almullah
Senior Thesis
ColloquiumBuilding Blocks of the Universe
Tim Andeen, University of Texas at Austin
Colloquium
SeminarMaster Degree Defense : Decoding Cancer Cell Body Language with Deep Learning
Chris Eddy
Seminar
Senior ThesisLocalized structures in a diffusive run and tumble model for M. xanthus
Patrick Flynn
Senior Thesis
Senior ThesisAnalysis of Upper Ocean Surface Wave Structure in the Bay of Bengal using χSOLO Floats
Matthew Ball
Senior Thesis
General EventSigma Pi Sigma Induction Ceremony
General Event
ColloquiumTBA
Cancelled
Colloquium
Special LectureDistinguished Professor Lecture: With a little help from my friends: collaborative materials research and incorporating research into the undergraduate curriculum
Prof. Janet Tate
Special Lecture
SeminarHeterostructural Semiconductor Alloys
Andriy Zakutayev, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Seminar
OutreachFamily Science Night
Student and faculty volunteers
Outreach
ColloquiumPhase transitions and the principle of detailed balance in living systems
Fred Macintosh (Rice University)
Colloquium
Special LectureOf Predators and Prey
Dr. Henri Berestycki
Special Lecture
OutreachDiscovery Days
Faculty and student volunteers
Outreach
OutreachDiscovery Days
Faculty and student volunteers
Outreach
Yunker LectureThe 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
General EventReception and poster session for Yunker lecture
Laura Greene
General Event
SeminarThe Topological Kondo Insulator SmB6: Surface States and Bulk Spin Excitons
Laura Greene, Florida State University
Seminar
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
SeminarExcitons, biexcitons, and the role of dynamic disorder in two-dimensional lead-halide perovskitoids
Carlos Silva, Georgia Tech University
Seminar
ColloquiumExcitons, biexcitons, and the role of dynamic disorder in two-dimensional lead-halide perovskitoids
Carlos Silva, Georgia Tech
Colloquium
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