Game Night: Week 1 Thursday January 11th 2024Posted on December 26, 2023December 26, 2023 by truehr Pictures from our last game night! Time: 5:00pm Location: Physics Reading Room Kickoff winter term with our first game night of 2024!
Mentorship Meet and Greet: Tuesday, April 6th 2021Posted on April 5, 2021 by hthum Time: 5:00 PM Tuesday, April 6th Location: Gather.Town If you are an undergraduate looking for a graduate mentor, UOWiP and UOSPS are hosting a mentorship meet and greet tomorrow! Check your email for a gather.town link in the PDF flyer.
Grad School Panel: Friday, November 20th 2020Posted on November 20, 2020 by hthum Time: 4:00 PM Friday, November 20 Location: Zoom Join us for an opportunity to learn from professors and UO graduate students about applying to and preparing for STEM graduate programs, and about the grad school experience! We will hear from Dr. Nima Dinyari on UO’s Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program, and Professor Eric Corwin from Physics will provide insight on how departments evaluate graduate applications. Current graduate students Layne Bradshaw, James Sartor, Madi Scott, and Amy Soudachanh will be on hand to share their paths to graduate school and their day-to-day experiences as researchers and teaching assistants. Panelists: Dr. Nima Dinyari, KCGIP Optics Track Director Professor Eric Corwin, Associate Professor and Chair of the Graduate Admissions Committee, UO Physics Department Layne Bradshaw, Graduate Student (UO Physics) James Sartor, Graduate Student (UO Physics) Madi Scott, Graduate Student (MIT Chemistry) and recent UO phys/chem major Amy Soudachanh, Graduate Student (UO Physics) The panel is open to all undergraduates. Whether you are curious about grad school and want to know more, or you’re in the process of applying and are looking for advice to put together the best possible application, our experienced panel has answers to any questions you may have. Check your Canvas email for the Zoom link! [embeddoc url=”https://physics-sps.uoregon.edu/files/2020/11/gskcgip.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google”]
Remote Observing: Friday, October 16th 2020Posted on October 12, 2020May 20, 2021 by hthum SPS Event: Remote Observing from Pine Mountain Observatory Friday, October 16 at 7pm via Zoom Join us for a remote observation night through UO’s very own Pine Mountain Observatory! All undergraduates and faculty are invited. Look out for an invite through Canvas/email. [embeddoc url=”https://physics-sps.uoregon.edu/files/2020/10/pmo_remote.pdf” download=”none” viewer=”google”]
Physics Career Seminar: Tuesday, March 10th 2020Posted on March 8, 2020March 8, 2020 by elsa Physics Career Seminar Series: Putting your Physics Degree to Work Host: Laura Jeanty Speaker: Dr. Viva Horowitz Tuesday, March 10 at 4pm, 240D Willamette Free pizza! Learn about life as a professor at a liberal arts college — and hear the inside scoop on how to get a job. Viva Horowitz is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Hamilton College, a small liberal arts college in upstate New York. She is currently spending a yearlong sabbatical in Eugene to conduct research on 2D materials, in collaboration with the Alemán Lab at the University of Oregon. Prof. Horowitz earned her B.A. from Swarthmore College in 2005 and her Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter studying diamond NV centers at UC Santa Barbara. She then held postdoctoral positions at Caltech and Harvard. Prof. Horowitz will discuss her career path as a scientist and educator, her job search in 2015 that resulted in a tenure-track faculty position, and the life of a professor at a small liberal arts college. [embeddoc url=”https://physics-sps.uoregon.edu/files/2020/03/VivaHorowitz-002.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]
