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Department of Physics and Astronomy

Spring 2020

Colloquia are usually held in Serin Physics room 330
at 3:30 – 4:30 pm on Wednesdays.

Tea, coffee, and cookies served at 3:20 pm.

Wine and cheese reception 4:30 - 5:00 pm.

All welcome!

 

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Jan. 29

Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics

Chris Jarzynski

University of Maryland

 Alex Morozov

Feb. 5

Quantum electrodynamics with a unity fine-structure constant and its applications to simulating the many-body physics of quantum impurity problems

Vladimir Manucharyan

University of Maryland

 Misha Gershenson
Feb. 12

New electronic and topological phases on geometrically engineered lattices

Jak Chakhalian

Rutgers University

 Frank Zimmermann
Feb. 19

Ways to be more active: The what, why, and how of implementing a few active learning strategies in physics courses

Alexis Knaub

Michigan State University

 Geraldine Cochran
Feb. 26 The quest for a quantum spin liquid

Collin Broholm

Johns Hopkins University

 Sang Cheong

March 4

 

Modeling instruction, student engagement, and neurobiological impacts

Eric Brewe

Drexel University

 Geraldine Cochran

March 11 - canceled

canceled - will try to reschedule

(Superconductivity: Where we are and where we are going)

(Robert Cava - canceled)

 Jak Chakhalian
March 18 Spring Recess (no colloquium)    
March 25 - canceled

canceled - will try to reschedule

(Tests of General Relativity with Black Hole Shadows)

(Dimitrios Psaltis - canceled)

 Blakesley Burkhart
April 1 - canceled canceled - will try to reschedule

(Risa Wechsler - canceled)

 Tad Pryor

April 4 - Irons Public Lecture - canceled

canceled - will try to reschedule

(Tony Mezzacappa - canceled)

 Jolie Cizewski
April 8 - canceled canceled - will try to reschedule

(Laura Rios - canceled)

  Geraldine Cochran
April 15 - canceled canceled - will try to reschedule

(Pedro Machado - canceled)

 John Paul Chou
April 22 - canceled canceled - will try to reschedule

(Tony Mezzacappa - canceled)

 Jolie Cizewski
April 29 - canceled canceled - will try to reschedule

(J. Xavier Prochaska - canceled)

 Eric Gawiser


Please contact our administrative assistant Lisa Rivera (lrivera at physics.rutgers.edu) with questions regarding travel arrangements and reimbursements. Questions about the colloquium schedule should be addressed to Prof. Frank Zimmermann (fmz at physics.rutgers.edu).

 

Featured News

Rutgers Condensed Matter Group study published in proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

(Sept 4, 2026)

A new study from the Rutgers Condensed Matter Theory group that was recently published in PNAS (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2535297123).

In addition to Daniel Kaplan (who recently took up a faculty position at the University of Central Floirda after several years here as a postdoc in the CMT group), the collaboration includes Prof. Premi Chandra, former Rutgers postdoc (currently faculty at UConn) Pavel Volkov and Max Planck-Hamburg director Andrea Cavalleri (experimentalist).

Daniel writes:
This collaboration enabled us to show that Faraday waves, a feature of nonlinear classical systems (like water, sand dunes or complex patterns in biological systems) can actually appear in strongly correlated quantum materials, and moreover, that the pattern formation which underlies this phenomenon can be induced and shaped by light. In effect, we have connected an observation previously only observed in classical fluids to quantum matter. We also demonstrated how it can be tuned for applications in the intricate world of electrons. It is a profound example of an interdisciplinary discovery in physics, bridging high and low energy physics and the classical and quantum realms.

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