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Events in the academic year 2012-2013

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2013-01-07 09:00 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Exam Winter 2013
2013-01-08 09:00 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Exam Winter 2013
2013-04-05 09:00 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Exam Spring 2013
2013-04-04 09:00 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Exam Spring 2013
2012-09-24 09:00 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Exam Fall 2012
2012-09-25 09:00 Written Comprehensive Exam NA Written Comprehensive Exam Fall 2012
2012-08-21 09:00 PhD Thesis Defense Leonard Cerny Using Multiple Theoretical Perspectives to Analyze Student Thinking in Upper-Division E&M
2013-03-04 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Andrew H. Marcus, Department of Chemistry, Oregon Center for Optics, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon Using Electronic Spectroscopy to Study the Local Conformations and Kinetics of Biological Macromolecules
2012-10-19 17:00 Special Lecture Prof. Robin Hochstrasser, Uni. of Pennsylvania Tracking water molecules in proteins
2013-05-16 13:15 Senior Thesis Presentation River Wiedle Thermal conductivity of dielectric thin films by the 3-omega method
2013-02-13 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Hajin Kim, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The role of fluctuations in biology at the molecular level
2012-10-17 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Ted Brekken, OSU EECS The Promise of Wave Power
2013-01-28 16:00 Colloquium Prof. James Brau, University of Oregon The Higgs Boson and the Puzzle of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
2013-07-30 11:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Davide Lazzati The formation of atomic clusters and nanoparticles from deposition in a saturated vapor
2013-02-05 11:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Matthew Graham, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Cornell University TBA
2013-02-07 11:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Lee Bassett, UCSB TBA
2013-02-12 11:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Sanghyuk Lee, UC Berkeley TBA
2013-02-14 11:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Hajin Kim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign TBA
2013-02-19 11:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Patrice Genevet, Harvard University TBA
2013-02-21 11:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Paulo Araujo, MIT TBA
2013-02-26 11:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Weihong Qiu, Harvard Medical School TBA
2013-05-22 16:00 SSO Seminar Tal Sharf, Tristan deBorde TBA
2012-10-18 17:00 Special Lecture Prof. Robin Hochstrasse, Uni. of Pennsylvania Symmetry breaking of aqueous ions seen through the vibrations
2013-04-22 12:00 General Event Prof. Bob Norwood Student lunch with Prof. Bob Norwood
2013-05-13 12:00 General Event Dr. Greg Exarhos Student lunch with Dr. Greg Exarhos
2012-10-22 16:00 Colloquium Andy Rundquist, Department of Physics, Hamline University Standards Based Grading with Voice
2012-10-25 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Gerrit Bauer, Spin caloritronics – more than spin-dependent thermoelectrics
2012-11-19 16:00 Colloquium Steven van Enk, University of Oregon Speckle patterns and purity of quantum states
2012-10-10 16:00 SSO Seminar Marina Guenza Some challenges in coarse-graining and multiscale modeling of macromolecular systems
2013-01-15 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Kerstin Blank, Radboud University, Nijmegen Single Molecule Enzyme Catalysis: steps towards accurate kinetic schemes
2013-03-11 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Phil Collins, UC Irvine Single Molecule Bioelectronics
2013-02-25 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Weihong Qiu, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cell Biology Shining Light on the Mechanism of Nature’s Nanomachines
2013-06-10 15:00 Senior Thesis Presentation Seniors Senior Thesis Presentations Part II
2013-06-04 15:00 Senior Thesis Presentation Seniors Senior Thesis Presentations Part I
2013-06-14 17:00 General Event Several Senior Graduation Dinner 2013
2013-04-08 16:00 Colloquium Pinshane Huang, Cornell University Rogue Atoms in Flatland: Imaging structural disorder in novel 2D materials with transmission electron microscopy
2013-05-02 16:00 SSO Seminar Dr. Chih-Chun Chien, Los Alamos National Lab Resuscitating Large-N Theory for Atomic Gases: Mean-Field Theories from Path-Integral Formalisms
2012-11-05 16:00 Colloquium Bogdan Damski, Los Alamos National Laboratory Quantum phase transitions
2013-05-13 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Gregory Exarhos, PNNL Pulsed Laser Irradiation of Doped Zinc Oxide Films
2013-03-15 08:45 Open House Several Prospective Graduate Student Visit
2012-09-21 13:00 General Event All Picnic
2013-02-18 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Patrice Genevet, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Photonic metasurfaces, a modern approach to designing optical components
2012-12-06 13:00 PhD Thesis Defense Whitney Shepherd Optoelectronic Properties of Organic Semiconductors: From Bulk to Single Molecule
2013-02-20 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Paulo T. Araujo, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Optical Spectroscopy and Phonon Self-Energy Renormalizations in Carbon Materials
2013-05-15 16:00 SSO Seminar Jason Francis Optical and Electronic Properties of the p-type semiconductors BiCuOSe and SnS
2012-11-26 16:00 Colloquium David McIntyre, Oregon State University Nobel Prize Lecture
2012-11-28 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. David Ji, OSU Chemistry New Strategies for Electrochemical Energy Devices
2012-11-12 16:00 Colloquium Guenter Schneider, Oregon State University New Materials for a Clean Energy Future: From Basic Properties to Computational Materials Design
2012-10-31 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Sean Burrows, OSU Chemistry Multiphoton Spectroscopy for Biological Analysis
2013-04-29 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Massimiliano Di Ventra, University of California, San Diego Memcomputing: a brain-inspired computing paradigm to store and process information on the same physical platform
2013-01-23 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Raghu Parthasarathy, UO Physics Membranes, microbes, and microscopy
2013-03-15 07:45 MS Defense Jessica McCartney Masters Final Oral Examination: Design of a Data Storage System for the Start-Up Biological Sensor Company, Dahl Natural
2013-03-13 16:00 SSO Seminar Daniel Gruss, Jason Vielma, David Foster March Meeting practice talks
2013-06-05 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Rudolf Schaefer, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW), Dresden, Germany Magneto-Optic Analysis of Magnetic Microstructures
2012-08-16 10:00 MS Defense Peter Wojcik Label-Free Detection of Thrombin Protein Using a Graphene Field Effect Transistor
2013-01-14 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Pavel Kornilovich, Hewlett Packard, Corvallis OR Inertial Pump: new way of moving fluids through micro-channels
2013-04-22 16:00 Colloquium Prof. Robert Norwood, University of Arizona Hybrid Polymer Photonic Materials and Devices for Optical Communications
2013-04-17 16:00 SSO Seminar Ram Ravichandran, EECS High Efficiency Solar Absorbers
2013-02-06 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Lee Bassett, University of California, Santa Barbara Harnessing the atom-like properties of single spins in diamond
2013-05-30 09:00 PhD Thesis Defense Jason Francis Growth and Characterization of the p-type Semiconductors SnS and BiCuOSe
2013-05-20 16:00 Colloquium Scott Bunch, University of Colorado, Boulder Graphene Mechanical Wonders
2012-09-18 09:30 General Event OSU Faculty Graduate Student Orientation
2013-07-29 11:00 Colloquium Prof. Davide Lazzati Gamma-Ray Bursts: numerical tools to understand the biggest explosions in the Universe
2013-04-15 16:00 General Event Several Faculty Members Fourth Annual Physics Open House
2013-04-24 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Ryan Mehl Expanding Chemical Biology with Broadly Permissive Synthetases
2013-02-04 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Matt W. Graham, Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science and Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University Electronic carbon correlations in reduced dimensions; from light absorption to current production
2012-11-13 14:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Sumit Mazumdar, U of Arizona Physics Electron-Electron Interaction Effects on the Photophysics of Carbon Nanostructures.
2013-05-29 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Guenter Schneider Doping and Defects in Complex Semiconductors
2013-02-16 10:00 General Event Discovering the Scientist Within Discovering the Scientist Within
2012-10-08 16:00 Colloquium Líney Árnadóttir, School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University Density Functional Theory calculations of metal-water interactions and the role of water and surface defects in chemical reactions
2013-02-11 16:00 Colloquium Dr. Sang-Hyuk Lee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and UC Berkeley Counting molecules one at a time by Pointillism optical nanoscopy
2012-10-15 16:00 Colloquium Michael Zwolak, Oregon State University Complementarity of information and the emergence of the classical world
2012-09-19 10:00 MS Defense Grant Saltzgaber Comparison of carbon nanotube and graphene FET biosensors
2013-02-27 16:30 General Event College of Science Winter Awards Day
2013-05-06 16:00 Colloquium Hailin Wang, Department of Physics, University of Oregon Cavity optomechanics: Controlling mechanical motion with light
2013-05-21 13:30 Senior Thesis Presentation Bethany Matthews Building a basic computational model of impurity and surface states in a 1-dimensional solid
2013-05-08 16:00 SSO Seminar Skye Dorsett Breaking of angular momentum symmetry for light atoms; magnetic structures within the LDA.
2013-04-09 14:00 Special Lecture Prof. Chris O'Dea Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution
2012-11-07 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Brady Gibbons, OSU Materials Science Bi-based Piezoelectric Thin Films via Chemical Solution Deposition
2013-05-01 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Koki Takanashi, Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University Advanced spintronic materials for generation and control of spin current
2013-01-30 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Albrecht Jander, OSU EECS Acoustic Assisted Magnetic Recording: Making un-writeable hard disk media writeable using acoustic waves
2012-10-29 16:00 Colloquium David Roundy, Oregon State University A tale of two E's: Energy and entropy in aqueous interfaces
2012-10-01 16:00 Colloquium Eric Corwin, Department of Physics, University of Oregon A geometric phase transition underlying jamming in 3d, and beyond
2013-05-31 13:00 Senior Thesis Presentation Andy Svesko A Detailed Introduction to String Theory
2012-10-03 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. John Conley, OSU EECS Zinc-Tin-Oxide Memristors / Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) and Asymmetric Metal-Insulator-Insulator-Metal (MIIM) Tunnel Diodes
2013-04-10 16:00 SSO Seminar Prof. Dorthe Wildenschild Imaging Microbial Biofilms in Porous Media: Technique and Applications