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Events in the academic year 2011-2012

Date-Time Type Speakersort icon Title
2012-05-24 08:00 General Event Graduate Program Review
2012-05-30 16:00 SSO Seminar Alex Chang (OSU Material Science) Develop Scalable Nanomanufacturing using Microreactor-Assisted Nanomaterial Deposition(TM) Processes
2012-03-21 14:00 MS Defense Ali Almaqwashi Optical Trapping and Acoustical Probing of Ultrasound Microbubbles Confined in Capillaries
2011-10-19 16:00 SSO Seminar Ali Almaqwashi, OSU Shell rupture threshold of single UCA microbubbles
2011-09-23 13:00 Picnic All Fall picnic
2012-06-09 13:00 General Event All Spring Picnic
2012-01-20 13:00 PhD Thesis Defense Andrew Jameson Terahertz Spectroscopy of Semiconductor and Metal Nanostructures
2012-05-23 16:00 SSO Seminar Bill Cowell (OSU EECS) Evaluation of Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling in Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) Diodes with Lower Amorphous Metal Electrodes
2012-03-02 13:00 Research Seminar Chong Fang Grad Research Opportunities in Biophysics
2012-05-16 16:00 SSO Seminar Chong Fang (OSU Chemistry) Conformational Dynamics of a Photoacid in Solution Revealed by Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy
2011-10-26 16:00 SSO Seminar Craig Hetherington, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley Measurement of twisting and torquing by a single biological molecular motor reveals details of motor mechanism
2011-11-30 16:00 SSO Seminar David Altman, Willamette University Studies of the regulated activity of the motor protein myosin
2012-02-10 13:00 Research Seminar David McIntyre & Yun-Shik Lee Graduate research opportunities in Optics
2012-03-09 13:00 Research Seminar David Roundy & Guenter Schneider Grad Research Opportunities in Computational Physics
2011-12-01 13:00 PhD Thesis Defense Denny Jackson Denny Jackson Defense
2012-02-07 12:00 General Event Dr. Ahmet Ali Yanik Lunch with students
2012-02-07 10:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Ahmet Ali Yanik Nanoplasmonics & Metamaterials
2012-02-06 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Ahmet Ali Yanik, Harvard Medical School Nanoplasmonics & Metamaterials: From Physical Fundamentals to Life Sciences & Point of Care Diagnostics
2012-04-18 16:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Alan Wang Photonic Bandgap Nano‐Devices for Optical Communication and Sensing
2012-02-13 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Bo Sun, Princeton University From individuals to populations - the emergent behavior in cellular systems
2012-02-14 10:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Bo Sun, Princeton University From individuals to populations - the emergent behavior in cellular systems
2012-02-14 12:00 General Event Dr. Bo Sun, Princeton University Lunch with students
2012-02-27 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Colin Wallace, Center for Astronomy Education (CAE), Steward Observatory, University of Arizona New Results from Physics and Astronomy Education Research
2012-02-28 09:00 Research Seminar Dr. Colin Wallace, Center for Astronomy Education (CAE), Steward Observatory, University of Arizona Future Avenues for Physics and Astronomy Education Research
2012-02-28 11:30 General Event Dr. Colin Wallace, Center for Astronomy Education (CAE), Steward Observatory, University of Arizona Graduate and Undergraduate Luncheon with Faculty Candidate, Dr. Colin Wallace
2012-03-01 11:30 General Event Dr. David Brookes, Florida International University Graduate and Undergraduate Luncheon with Faculty Candidate, Dr. David Brookes
2012-03-01 16:00 Colloquium Dr. David Brookes, Florida International University The Grammar of Physics Equations
2012-03-02 11:00 Research Seminar Dr. David Brookes, Florida International University Designing the Physics Classroom: A Complex Systems Approach
2012-04-16 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Ed Price, Cal State San Marcos Developing large-enrollment, conceptual physics courses: active-learning and scientific practices for non-majors
2012-03-05 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Elizabeth Gire, University of Memphis How Do Physics Majors Become Physicists?
2012-03-06 09:00 Research Seminar Dr. Elizabeth Gire, University of Memphis Studying How Students Learn to Think Like a Physicist
2012-03-06 11:30 General Event Dr. Elizabeth Gire, University of Memphis Graduate and Undergraduate Luncheon with Faculty Candidate, Dr. Elizabeth Gire
2012-06-04 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Farhat Habib Algorithms for association between genotype and the resulting physical traits while considering evolutionary history
2011-10-20 19:30 Special Lecture Dr. Mario Livio, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) The Greatest Scientific Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope
2012-03-08 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Mathew Martinuk, University of British Columbia Student Sensemaking And Real-World Connections During Collaborative Group Problem Solving.
2012-03-09 11:00 Research Seminar Dr. Mathew Martinuk, University of British Columbia Supporting Sensemaking – Encouraging Students To Integrate Conceptual, Mathematical, And Intuitive Knowledge
2012-03-09 12:15 General Event Dr. Mathew Martinuk,University of British Columbia Graduate and Undergraduate Luncheon with Faculty Candidate, Dr. Mathew Martinuk
2012-02-02 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Matthew Comstock, UIUC Seeing structure and function of biological molecular machines in real-time: angstrom-resolution optical trapping and single molecule fluorescence.
2012-02-03 12:00 General Event Dr. Matthew Comstock, UIUC Lunch with students
2012-02-03 11:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Matthew Comstock, UIUC Expanding the frontiers of single molecule biophysics: looking deeper and more broadly to further understanding and application.
2011-10-04 11:00 General Event Dr. Peter Sprunger, PNNL National Nuclear Security Administration: Nonproliferation Graduate Fellowship Program
2012-02-09 15:00 Colloquium Dr. Robert Walder, University of Colorado, Boulder Characterizing Biomolecular Dynamics at Interfaces using Single Molecule Tracking
2012-02-10 11:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Robert Walder, University of Colorado, Boulder Characterizing Biomolecular Dynamics at Interfaces using Single Molecule Tracking
2012-02-10 12:00 General Event Dr. Robert Walder, University of Colorado, Boulder Lunch with students
2012-01-30 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Robin Blume-Kohout, Los Alamos National Laboratory The power of small quantum information processors
2012-02-17 13:00 Research Seminar Ethan Minot & Corinne Manogue Grad research opportunities in nanoelectronics and PER
2012-06-17 15:30 General Event First Lady Michelle Obama OSU Commencement
2012-01-20 13:00 Research Seminar Guenter Schneider Computational Physics Research
2012-03-16 13:00 Research Seminar Henri Jansen (Bo) & Tom Giebultowicz (Andrew) Grad Research Opportunities in Magnetic Materials
2012-01-13 13:00 Research Seminar Janet Tate & Dedra Demaree Part I: Materials Physics Research, Part II Physics Education Research
2011-10-13 10:00 PhD Thesis Defense Landon Prisbrey Carbon nanotube devices engineered by atomic force microscopy
2011-10-21 08:15 General Event Many NW-APS meeting day 1
2011-10-22 08:15 General Event Many NW-APS meeting day 2
2011-10-20 16:00 General Event Many NW-APS meeting day 0
2011-11-02 16:00 SSO Seminar Marek Rams, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dynamics of an inhomogeneous quantum phase transition
2012-05-30 13:00 Senior Thesis Presentation Mason Keck X-ray Spectroscopy in Astrophysics and Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurements
2012-06-28 14:00 MS Defense Matthew Oostman Development of a data acquisition system for thermal conductivity measurements
2012-05-02 16:00 SSO Seminar Michael Paul (OSU Physics) CLEO Conference Practice Talks
2012-02-03 13:00 Research Seminar Michael Zwolak Big opportunities to research small things
2011-09-26 09:00 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Exam Fall 2011
2012-01-09 09:00 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Exam Winter 2012
2012-01-10 09:00 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Exam Winter 2012
2012-04-02 09:00 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Exam Spring 2012
2012-04-03 09:00 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Exam Spring 2012
2012-07-09 14:00 PhD Thesis Defense Nicholas Kuhta The Optical Properties of Multi-Scale Plasmonic Structures and Their Applications in Optical Characterization and Imaging
2012-02-24 13:00 Research Seminar Oksana Ostroverkhova (Bo) & Bill Hetherington (Lee) Grad Research Opportunities in Optics
2011-10-12 16:00 SSO Seminar OSU physics students APSNW practice talks
2011-11-09 16:00 SSO Seminar P. Alex Greaney, MIME, Oregon State University Exploiting Heat at the Nanoscale
2012-06-11 13:00 Senior Thesis Presentation PH seniors Senior Thesis Presentations - Part I of II
2012-06-12 09:30 Senior Thesis Presentation PH seniors Senior Thesis Presentations - Part II of II
2012-05-25 15:00 General Event PH575 class PH575 posters
2012-04-30 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Ben McMorran, UO Electron Beams with Angular Momentum and Their Application to Magnetic Imaging
2012-04-23 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Chad Higgins, Dept. of Biological and Ecological Engineering Measurement and simulation of water vapor transport in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer
2011-10-05 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Dietrich Belitz, University of Oregon Phases, Broken Symmetries, and Goldstone Modes in Helical Magnets
2011-11-14 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Eleanor Sayre, Kansas State University Learning and Forgetting in Large Introductory Courses
2011-11-07 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Ethan Minot Building electronics at the nanoscale to watch nature at the nanoscale
2012-05-08 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Greg Bothun, UO The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics: The accelerating expansion of the Universe
2012-05-14 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Jaan Mannik, Univ. Tennessee Nanofluidic landscapes and precision microscopy for studying molecular processes in living cells
2012-05-29 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Jeff Gore, MIT Cooperation, cheating, and collapse in microbial populations
2011-08-24 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Joo-Hiuk Son, Department of Physics, University of Seoul Terahertz molecular imaging and its applications
2011-11-21 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Mark Brongersma, Stanford University Nanophotonics: The Art of Managing Photons at the Nanoscale
2012-01-23 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Michael Zwolak, OSU No big deal: Various adventures to the nanoscale and back
2011-10-10 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Paul Cheong, Dept. of Chemistry, OSU Computational Chemistry: Applying Computational Techniques Towards the Advancement of Synthesis, Materials, and Biology
2011-11-11 16:00 Yunker Lecture Prof. Philip Kim, Columbia University Relativity, Quantum Physics, and Graphene
2011-11-10 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Philip Kim, Columbia University Electric Field Effect Control of Low-dimensional Transport Phenomena in Nanoscaled Materials
2012-05-21 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Richard Taylor, UO Physics Fractal vision: using retinal implants to restore vision to the blind
2011-10-03 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Rubin Landau, Oregon State University Developing A Model for Future eTextBooks
2012-01-25 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Shinji Yuasa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan Magnetoresistance and spin-transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions
2011-10-31 16:00 Colloquium Prof. YunShik Lee New Frontiers in Optical Science: Terahertz Spectroscopy of Two Dimensional Systems
2011-11-16 16:00 SSO Seminar Sebastian Saliba, Univ. of Melbourne, Portland State Univ. Cold Atom Electron Source
2011-09-20 09:00 General Event Several Orientation for new graduate students
2012-06-15 17:00 General Event Several Senior Graduation Dinner 2012
2012-04-09 16:00 General Event Several Faculty Members Third Annual Physics Open House
2011-10-17 16:00 Colloquium Stephanie Chasteen, U of Colorado Clickers in context: How is peer instruction used in the classroom (and what works?)
2012-05-22 16:30 Senior Thesis Presentation Teal Pershing Solar Granulation Imaging Techniques Using Optical Fourier Analysis
2012-01-27 13:00 Research Seminar Uta Hussong-Christian Library Resources for Research
2012-05-09 16:00 SSO Seminar Whitney Shepherd and Mark Kendrick (OSU Physics) Photophysical Properties of High Performance Organic Semiconductor Materials and Their Donor/Acceptor Composites
2012-06-14 10:00 PhD Thesis Defense Zlatko Dimcovic Discrete-time quantum walks with interchange framework