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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
SeminarDesignable Matter: New Shape-Shifting Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
Alex Greaney, School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, OSU
Seminar
Seminarinternal event, no SSO seminar
Seminar
SeminarDetermining the rate limiting steps of hydrocarbon chain growth on Co catalyst, using Density Functional theory.
Liney Arnadottir
Seminar
SeminarRobotics and Geometry
Prof. Ross Hatton, OSU MIME
Seminar
SeminarUsing noisy light from atomic coherence to measure magnetic fields
Prof. Shannon O'Leary
Seminar
SeminarMarch Meeting practice talks
Patel, Potter, Jones, Sahu
Seminar
SeminarChanging Quantum-Dot Optical Properties with the Twist of a Knob
Prof. John Essick, Reed College
Seminar
SeminarPaper AND Plastic…and a mobile app
Professor Vince Remcho, OSU Chemistry
Seminar
SeminarAtomic-Resolution Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Materials
Prof. George Nazin, Dept. of Chemistry, U of Oregon
Seminar
SeminarMultimode Quantum State Tomography of Stored Light
Professor Andrew Dawes, Pacific University
Seminar
SeminarEnhanced photovoltaic efficiency through heterojunction-assisted impact ionization
Jet Meitzner, UO Chemistry
Seminar
SeminarMetals and jets in galaxy clusters
Brian Morsony
Seminar
SeminarGraphene transistors as biological sensors
Professor Michael Crosser, Linfield College Physics
Seminar
SeminarFrom OSU to the Comet Wild/2 and Mars: The story of the development of NASA’s Aerogel
Doug Buettner
Seminar
SeminarSculpted electron beams as a probe of magnetization and plasmons
Professor Ben McMorran, Univ. of Oregon Physics
Seminar
SeminarManipulating light-matter interaction in graphene and other 2D materials
Dr. Sufei Shi, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Seminar
SeminarHybrid Plasmonic/Photonic-Crystal Devices for Optical Communication and Sensing
Professor Alan Wang, EECS, OSU
Seminar
SeminarMethane Hydrates: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
Prof. Malgorzata Peszynska
Seminar
SeminarSeeing is Believing: Direct Observation of a General Quantum State
Jeff Lundeen, Physics Dept., University of Ottawa
Seminar
SeminarRegulation of the motor protein myosin in the cell
David Altman, Willamette University
Seminar
SeminarAPS March meeting practice talks
Tal Sharf, Lee Aspitarte, Daniel Gruss
Seminar
SeminarSi/ZnS interfaces and film celebrities: Stability, band alignment, 2D electron liquids, and why the formal polarization of Si is the set of odd integers
David Foster
Seminar
SeminarRelating Material Properties to the Atomic Solid State Energy Scale
Ram Ravichandran, OSU EECS
Seminar
SeminarImproving Spectrochemical Biosensing and Spectral Resolution Techniques for Two-Photon Applications
Sean Burrows, OSU Chemistry
Seminar
SeminarAmorphous Oxide Semiconductor Thin-Film Transistors
Bao-Sung Yeh, OSU EECS
Seminar
SeminarUnraveling Ultrafast Phonon Dynamics in Transparent Thin Medium with Time-Resolved Surface Third-Harmonic Generation
Chong Fang, OSU Chemistry
Seminar
Seminarno SSO seminar (1st week)
Seminar
SeminarResistance Switching Properties in the Partially Oxidized Platinum and Niobium-doped Strontium Titanate Schottky Junctions
Dr. Sakyo Hirose, Murata Manufacturing Co. Japan
Seminar
SeminarCatalysts and Interfaces in Oxygen Evolving Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting
Prof. Shannon Boettcher, University of Oregon
Seminar
SeminarSeeing light with electrons
Prof. Rolf Könenkamp, Portland State University
Seminar
SeminarFunctional Nanostructured Materials: Scalable Synthesis and Modification
David Xiulei Ji, OSU Chemistry
Seminar
SeminarApplications of Electrochemical Techniques to Study Biological Systems : From Cancer Cells to Biofilms
Dipankar Koley, OSU Chemistry
Seminar
SeminarOrder-Disorder Phase Transformation in Ni-Cr Alloys
Julie Tucker, OSU MIME
Seminar
SeminarGraphene and carbon nanotube based biosensors: an alternative to fluorescence detection
Ethan Minot
Seminar
SeminarThe formation of atomic clusters and nanoparticles from deposition in a saturated vapor
Prof. Davide Lazzati
Seminar
SeminarMagneto-Optic Analysis of Magnetic Microstructures
Prof. Rudolf Schaefer, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW), Dresden, Germany
Seminar
SeminarDoping and Defects in Complex Semiconductors
Prof. Guenter Schneider
Seminar
SeminarTBA
Tal Sharf, Tristan deBorde
Seminar
SeminarOptical and Electronic Properties of the p-type semiconductors BiCuOSe and SnS
Jason Francis, OSU Physics
Seminar
SeminarBreaking of angular momentum symmetry for light atoms; magnetic structures within the LDA.
Skye Dorsett
Seminar
SeminarResuscitating Large-N Theory for Atomic Gases: Mean-Field Theories from Path-Integral Formalisms
Dr. Chih-Chun Chien, Los Alamos National Lab
Seminar
SeminarAdvanced spintronic materials for generation and control of spin current
Prof. Koki Takanashi, Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University
Seminar
SeminarExpanding Chemical Biology with Broadly Permissive Synthetases
Prof. Ryan Mehl
Seminar
SeminarHigh Efficiency Solar Absorbers
Ram Ravichandran, EECS
Seminar
Seminar Imaging Microbial Biofilms in Porous Media: Technique and Applications
Prof. Dorthe Wildenschild
Seminar
SeminarMarch Meeting practice talks
Daniel Gruss, Jason Vielma, David Foster
Seminar
SeminarTBA
Dr. Weihong Qiu, Harvard Medical School
Seminar
SeminarFaculty candidate - holding open
TBA
Seminar
SeminarTBA
Dr. Paulo Araujo, MIT
Seminar
SeminarTBA
Dr. Patrice Genevet, Harvard University
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