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Events in the academic year 2009-2010

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2009-Oct-01 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Examination for Physics Graduate Students
2009-Oct-02 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Examination for Physics Graduate Students
2010-Mar-29 Written Comprehensive Exam Written Comprehensive Examination
2010-Mar-30 Written Comprehensive Exam Written Comprehensive Examination
2009-Nov-18 SSO Seminar Andriy Zakutayev, Dept. of Physics, OSU Photoelectron spectroscopy of BaCuChF (Ch = S, Se, Te) surfaces and interfaces
2009-Dec-02 SSO Seminar Masaaki Imamura, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan Magneto-optical properties of wider gap magnetic semiconductor ZnMnTe and ZnMnSe films
2009-Nov-11 SSO Seminar Vrushali Bokil, Dept. of Mathematics, OSU Absorbing Boundary Conditions and Perfectly Matched Layers for Wave Propagation Problems on Unbounded Domains
2009-Nov-04 SSO Seminar Brady Gibbons, Materials Science, OSU Multi-functional oxide thin film materials development
2009-Oct-21 SSO Seminar Yevgeniy Kovchegov, Dept. of Mathematics, OSU On Markov Chain Monte Carlo and mixing rates
2009-Oct-14 SSO Seminar Manish Gupta, Dept. of Chemistry, OSU Development & Application of Ultrasensitive Cavity-Enhanced Absorption Spectrometry
2009-Oct-28 SSO Seminar Lunmei Huang, Dept. of Physics, University of Oregon Materials simulation from solid-state physics
2009-Oct-08 SSO Seminar Scott A. Chambers, PNNL Epitaxial oxide films by pulsed laser deposition - growth subtleties and final properties (Note special location and time)
2010-Jan-06 SSO Seminar Zlatko Dimcovic Quantum Walks
2010-Jan-27 SSO Seminar Prof. David Cohen, University of Oregon Solar Cells: Is Being Thin Better? (It’s certainly more fun.)
2010-Feb-03 SSO Seminar Nicholas Kuhta, OSU Modeling the optical properties of semicontinuous metal films using scaling theory
2010-Feb-10 SSO Seminar Prof. Christoph Thomas, OSU Are Trees Black Bodies? Energy balance in natural ecosystems
2010-Feb-24 SSO Seminar Bill Cowell, OSU Electron Transport in Amorphous Metals
2010-Mar-08 SSO Seminar Graduate Students, OSU Physics APS March Meeting Practice Talks
2010-Mar-10 SSO Seminar Graduate Students, OSU Physics APS March Meeting Practice Talks
2010-Feb-17 SSO Seminar David Foster, OSU New Modes in Old Cavities: The Surprising Effects of Boundary Phase Shifts
2010-Jan-28 SSO Seminar Dr. Andrii Chumak, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany One-dimensional magnonic crystals
2010-Apr-06 SSO Seminar Eli Rothenberg, University of Illinois Optics and Nanotechnology Approaches to Biological Questions
2010-Apr-09 SSO Seminar Alan D. Bristow, JILA & NIST Application of Coherent Optical Techniques to Optoelectronic and Nanophotonic Materials
2010-Apr-13 SSO Seminar Chong Fang, University of California, Berkeley Structural Snapshots from Novel Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopies:Capturing the Mechanistic Insights of Functional Biomolecul
2010-Apr-16 SSO Seminar Hyunyong Choi, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Applications of Terahertz Spectroscopy: From Carrier Relaxation to Electronic Transport
2010-Apr-23 SSO Seminar Maria Kilfoil, McGill University Measuring stress transduction and the dynamics of cell division
2010-Apr-21 SSO Seminar Alipasha Vaziri, Janelia Farm Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Vaziri seminar TBA
2010-May-05 SSO Seminar Dr. Shogoo Ueno, University of Tokyo Biomagnetics: An interdisciplinary field where magnetics, biology and medicine overlap
2010-May-12 SSO Seminar Professor Azzdine Y. Ammi, Oregon Health & Science University Ultrasound Contrast Agent Microbubble Shell Rupture
2009-Nov-16 Special Lecture Steven Pollock, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder A research-based approach to transforming an upper-division electricity and magnetism course
2009-Dec-03 Special Lecture Dr. Kannan Krishnan Biomedical nanomagnetics : A spin through new possibilities
2010-Feb-18 Special Lecture Prof. Claudia Felser, Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz, Germany Heusler compounds: Multifunctional materials for spintronics
2010-Mar-15 Special Lecture A. N. Slavin, Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, MI Dynamics of a nonlinear spin-torque oscillator influenced by deterministic and stochastic signals
2010-Mar-16 Special Lecture Rod Ruoff Graphene Based Materials and their Potential for Applications
2010-May-06 Special Lecture Dr. E. Dan Dahlberg, University of Minnesota Bugs and stadia: magnetic reversal at the nanoscale
2010-May-07 Special Lecture Dr. E. Dan Dahlberg, University of Minnesota Exchange bias: a microscopic understanding of exchange anisotropy in Fe/MnF2 bilayers
2010-May-10 Special Lecture Dr. German Sciaini, University of Toronto, Canada Watching Atoms in Action
2010-Jun-09 Senior Thesis Presentation Senior Class Senior thesis presentations
2010-May-19 Senior Thesis Presentation Howard Hui Instrument design for measuring the polarization of the cosmic microwave background
2010-Jun-02 Senior Thesis Presentation Colin Shear Thin Film Bi-based Perovskites for High Energy Density Capacitor Applications
2010-Jun-02 Senior Thesis Presentation Daniel Gruss Applied Computing Techniques For Holographic Optical Tweezers
2010-Jan-08 Research Seminar Prof. Janet Tate Experimental Solid State
2010-Jan-15 Research Seminar Oksana Ostroverkhova Experimental Optical & Solid State
2010-Jan-22 Research Seminar Uta Hussong-Christian On-line information gathering
2010-Jan-29 Research Seminar Guenter Schneider Computational Solid State
2010-Feb-05 Research Seminar Dedra Demaree Physics Education Research
2010-Feb-12 Research Seminar Yun-Shik Lee Experimental Optical & Solid State
2010-Feb-19 Research Seminar David McIntyre Experimental Optical
2010-Feb-26 Research Seminar Ethan Minot Experimental Solid State
2010-Mar-05 Research Seminar David Roundy Computational Physics
2010-Mar-12 Research Seminar Henri Jansen & Bill Hetherington Computational Solid State (HJ) and Experimental Optical (BH)
2009-Sep-25 Picnic Fall Picnic
2010-Jun-05 Picnic Spring Picnic
2009-Dec-16 PhD Thesis Defense KC Walsh Hartree-Fock electronic structure calculations for free atoms and atoms immersed in an electron gas
2010-Apr-26 PhD Thesis Defense Andriy Zakutayev BaCuChF (Ch = S, Se, Te) p-type transparent conductors
2010-May-18 PhD Thesis Defense Pete Sprunger A Study of Actinide Deexcitation Through Neutron Emission from the Deuteron Induced Fission of 238U
2010-Jul-22 PhD Thesis Defense Sukosin Thongrattanasiri Hyperbolic Metamaterials: A Path Towards Nanooptics Applications
2010-Feb-22 Open House Various faculty and students from the physics department 1st annual physics open house
2009-Sep-22 General Event Graduate Student Orientation
2009-Nov-07 General Event "Discovering the Scientist Within": Science and engineering day for middle school girls
2010-Apr-06 General Event Eli Rothenberg, University of Illinois Student lunch with Dr. Eli Rothenberg
2010-Apr-09 General Event Alan Bristow, JILA Student lunch with Dr. Alan Bristow
2010-Apr-13 General Event Chong Fang, University of California, Berkeley Student lunch with Dr. Chong Fang
2010-Apr-16 General Event Hyunyong Choi, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Student lunch with Dr. Hyunyong Choi
2010-Apr-23 General Event Maria Kilfoil, McGill University Student lunch with Dr. Maria Kilfoil
2010-Apr-20 General Event Alipasha Vaziri, Janelia Farm Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student Lunch with Dr. Alipasha Vaziri
2010-May-07 General Event FEI Physics students' visit to FEI
2010-Jun-07 General Event PH575 class PH575 poster session - bandstructure and properties of materials
2010-Jun-11 General Event Several Senior Graduation Dinner 2010
2009-Oct-05 Colloquium Dr. Dirk Weiss, Washington Technology Center Nanoimprint lithography for thin-film solar photovoltaics
2009-Oct-12 Colloquium Prof. Rubin Landau, Department of Physics, OSU Enriching Physics Education with Computational Physics Research
2009-Oct-19 Colloquium Prof. Emily van Zee, SMED, OSU Integrating physics and literacy learning in a course for prospective elementary and middle school teachers
2009-Oct-26 Colloquium Prof. Milo Koretsky, School of Chem/Bio/Envr Engineering, OSU Instructional Design and Assessment of Student Learning in Cognitive Apprenticeship Virtual Laboratories
2009-Nov-30 Colloquium Prof. Tom Plant, EECS, OSU Nobel Prize in Physics: Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, and George E. Smith
2009-Nov-02 Colloquium Prof. Oksana Ostroverkhova, Department of Physics, OSU High-performance organic semiconductors: understanding charge carrier and exciton dynamics
2009-Nov-09 Colloquium Prof. Steven Pollock, University of Colorado, Boulder Understanding Educational Reforms: Impacts of Physics Education Research
2009-Nov-23 Colloquium Prof. Michael Bartl, University of Utah Photonic Band Gap Crystals from Biological Structures
2010-Feb-01 Colloquium Prof. Graham Kribs, Department of Physics, University of Oregon Dark Matters in Particle Physics
2010-May-24 Colloquium Stamatis Vokos Findings and Recommendations of the National Task Force on Teacher Education in Physics
2010-Apr-05 Colloquium Kenneth Singer, Case Western Reserve University Molecular Optoelectronics
2010-May-17 Colloquium Chandra Turpen Transforming Educational Practices in Introductory Physics
2010-Jan-11 Colloquium Prof. Ken Krane, OSU Physics Galileo: The First Physicist
2010-Feb-19 Colloquium Robin Robertson, University of New South Wales @ Australian Defence Force Academy Yo-Yo and the PIG
2010-Apr-05 Colloquium Eli Rothenberg, University of Illinois Unraveling Biological Interactions by Probing Single-Events
2010-Apr-08 Colloquium Alan D. Bristow, JILA & NIST Coherent Light-Matter Interactions: Shining New Light on Nanotechnology
2010-Apr-12 Colloquium Chong Fang, University of California, Berkeley Taking Snapshots with Novel Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopies:Bridging the Gap between Structure and Function of Biomolecules
2010-Apr-22 Colloquium Maria Kilfoil, McGill University Seeing how biology feels: Imaging the mechanisms of force transduction
2010-Apr-15 Colloquium Hyunyong Choi, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Ultrabroadband Terahertz Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures
2010-Apr-20 Colloquium Alipasha Vaziri, Janelia Farm Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Vaziri Colloq TBA