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Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Welcome to the Rutgers Department of Physics and Astronomy. Our research and education missions cover a vast extent. With our research we aim to advance knowledge about the physical world through measurement, observation, simulation, and theory. Our teaching mission is designed for the needs of non-science majors, engineering or medical students, majors planning on a career in research or indeed any student interested in how the world works!

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Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Presents 2026 Irons Lecture on Magic Angle Graphene

(April 28, 2026)

Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Professor of Physics at MIT, and the 2026 Irons Lecturer gave a masterful public talk on "Magic Angle Graphene: the Twist and Shout of Quantium Materials."

He got us to imagine taking the simplest ingredient—carbon—and thinning it down until it’s only one atom thick. This creates graphene, a "wonder material" that has spent the last 20 years revolutionizing everything from electronics to basic physics.

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