Events

High Energy Experimental (HEX) Seminars

Fall 2024

The seminars are held every Tuesday at 1:00 PM unless otherwise noted -

via Zoom and/or 372E - except where noted.

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95075567101?pwd=ZmJVRnEzTlpoZkNiUFljRzJGdjk0dz09

All welcome!

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
October 15	Exclusive proton final-states and kinematic imbalance in differential neutrino cross sections with the MicroBooNE detector	Afroditi Papadopoulou, Argonne National Laboratory	Andrew Mastbaum
November 19	Pushing the frontiers in Higgs Physics using Artificial Intelligence	Loukas Gouskos, Brown University	Eva Halkiadakis
December 3	Probing New Interactions with Tau-Leptons at the CMS experiment	Yuta Takahashi	Amit Lath

Please contact our administrative assistant Kesha Jenkins (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Eva Halkiadakis (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with questions regarding the speaker's schedule and zoom settings.

Condensed Matter (CM) Seminar Schedule

Fall 2024

The seminars are held every Tuesday at 1:30 pm via Zoom and/or 330W - except where noted.

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98298456143?pwd=ZXR5bk4wWEJQZEpvQUUwT1Y3LzJjZz09

Meeting ID: 982 9845 6143

Password: 350499

Day	Location	Title	Speaker	Host	Recordings / Slides
September 3
September 10	330W / Zoom	Phases of Matter in Open Quantum Systems	Abhinav Prem IAS	Jed Pixley
September 17	330W / Zoom	Nonlocal photogalvanic spectroscopy as a probe of complex matter: topological light meets topological materials	Ritesh Agar wal UPenn	Sang-Wook Cheong
September 24	330W / Zoom	Quantum Many-Body Theory: Enhancing and Benefiting from Quantum Computing	Sangkook Choi KIAS	Gabi Kotliar	Recording
October 1	330W / Zoom	2-D Terahertz Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials	Albert Liu BNL	Valery Kiryukhin
October 8	330W / Zoom	In-line Holographic Video Microscopy for Characterization of Nanomaterials and Soft-Condensed Matter Research	Dr. Fook Chiong Cheong Spheryx, Inc.
October 15	330W / Zoom	1/4 is the new 1/2 when topology is intertwined with Mottness	Peizhi Mai UIUC	Natan Andrei
Thursday, October 17	330W / Zoom	Generating and stabilizing entanglement in distributed quantum devices	Wolfgang Pfaff, UIUC	Srivatsan Chakram
October 22	330W / Zoom	Electrical switching of an odd-parity ‘altermagnet’	Riccardo Comin MIT	Sang-Wook Cheong
Thursday, October 24	330/Zoom	Emergence of a Fermi-surface in the current-driven Hidden state of 1T-TaS2	Amit Kanigel, Technion	Girsh Blumberg
October 29	330W / Zoom	Magnetic orders, stripes, and superconductivity - closing in on the properties of the Hubbard model	Shiwei Zhang Flatiron	Jed Pixley
November 5	330W / Zoom	Uncovering hidden disorder lurking within materials	Rick Remsing Rutgers	Jed Pixley
Thursday, November 7	330W / Zoom	Molecular beam epitaxy of functional complex 4d and 5d transition metal oxides	Yoshiharu Krockenberger NTT Corporation	Sang Cheong
November 12	330W / Zoom	Topological Superconductivity, Majorana Zero Modes and Quantum Algorithms in Magnet-Superconductor Hybrid Systems	Dirk Morr UI Chicago	Jed Pixley
Thursday, November 14 (3:00 PM)	330W / Zoom	From Multifractal Wave Functions to Superconductivity: Understanding Anderson Transitions in Incommensurate Moiré Systems	Justin Wilson LSU	Jed Pixley
November 19	330W / Zoom	Ultrafast magnetism – terra incognita beyond the classical approximations	Aleksei Kimel Radboud U	Sang-Wook Cheong
November 26 (Thanksgiving week)
December 3
December 10	330W / Zoom	Multipolar Orders and Macroscopic Response in Altermagnets	Turan Birol U of Minnesota	David Vanderbilt	Recording
Thursday, December 12	330W / Zoom	Low Energy Effectiveness induced by Hund Correlation	Ji Hoon Shim Pohang University of Science and Technology	Kristjan Haule	Recording
Monday, December 16 (11:00 AM)	330W / Zoom	Anomalous ℤ_N Gauge Theory and Oblique Topological Insulators	Eduardo Fradkin University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign	Piers Coleman	Recording

Please contact our administrative assistant Kesha Jenkins (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with questions regarding travel arrangements and reimbursements. Questions about the CM seminar schedule should be addressed to the seminar organizer: Prof. Sang-Wook Cheong (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Spring 2024 Condensed Matter Seminars

Fall 2023 Condensed Matter Seminars

Spring 2023 Condensed Matter Seminars

Fall 2022 Condensed Matter Seminars

Spring 2022 Condensed Matter Seminars

Fall 2021 Condensed Matter Seminars

Spring 2021 Condensed Matter Seminars

Fall 2020 Condensed Matter Seminars

Astrophysics Seminars and Colloquia

Fall 2024

The Astrophysics seminars are held every Tuesday at 2:00 to 3:00 pm via Zoom and/or 401W- except where noted.

Departmental colloquia are at 3:30 to 4:30 pm on Wednesdays in room 330W (or online as indicated). Special dates and/or times are noted in bold in the table below.

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93190640031?pwd=T0NYSmxFdlF3NlNNZEczNHc5WGRMdz09

Day	Title	Speaker	Host	Recordings / Slides

Please contact our administrative assistant Kesha Jenkins (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with questions regarding travel arrangements and reimbursements.

Spring 2024 Seminars

Fall 2023 Seminars

Other Previous Seminars

Rutgers Nuclear Physics Seminar Schedule

Fall 2024

Seminars are held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in person (room 112W) and via Zoom (unless noted) for the Spring 2024 semester

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93190640031?pwd=T0NYSmxFdlF3NlNNZEczNHc5WGRMdz09

November 18	112W/Zoom	The Versatility of GRETINA: Lifetime Measurements and Neutron Transfer Reactions	Mara Grinder

Please contact our administrative assistant Kesha Jenkins (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with questions regarding travel arrangements and reimbursements. Seminar Organizer: Sevil Salur. Questions about the NP seminar schedule should be addressed to Prof. Sevil Salur (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Spring 2024 Seminars

Fall 2023 Seminars

Other Previous Seminars

Until further notice, colloquia will be held online from 3:30 – 4:30 pm on Wednesdays. For zoom information refer to the talk abstract.

All welcome!

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sep 9	Dark Matter Particle Physics from Astrophysics View video..	Matt Buckley (Rutgers)	David Shih
Sep 16	The Deep Learning Revolution and the LHC View video..	David Shih (Rutgers)	Scott Thomas
Sep 23	LHC and the Puzzle of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking View video..	Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers)	Sunil Somawar
Sep 30	The Proton Radius Puzzle	Ron Gilman (Rutgers)	Ron Ransome
Oct 7	Synchrotron based insights into correlated electron compounds, aerospace components and prototype batteries View video..	Mark Croft (Rutgers)	Sang-Wook Cheong
Oct 14	No Colloquium
Oct 21	Tests of General Relativity with Black Hole Shadows View video..	Dimitrios Psaltis (U. Arizona)	Alyson Brooks
Oct 28	Moiré Materials Magic View video..	Allan MacDonald (U. Texas, Austin)	Sang Cheong/Piers Coleman
Nov 4	Whirls in magnets: from skyrmions to magnetic monopoles View video..	Achim Rosch (Cologne U.)	Natan Andrei, Piers Coleman
Nov 11	New ideas and opportunities at future liquid argon neutrino experiments View video..	Pedro Machado (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)	Andrew Mastbaum
Nov 18	Linking climate science, economics and Big Data to estimate climate change impacts and endogenous adaptation. View video..	Bob Kopp (Rutgers Earth and Planetary Sciences)	Premi Chandra
Nov 25	Thanksgiving (no colloquium)
Dec 2	Leveraging the specific affordances of lab instruction: prehension, evaluation, and documentation View video..	Laura Rios (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)	Geraldine Cochran
Dec 9	Randomness, Complexity, and the Biological Frontier View video..	Pankaj Mehta (Boston University)	Gyan Bhanot

Please contact our administrative assistant Lisa Rivera (lrivera at physics.rutgers.edu) with questions regarding speakers schedule and zoom settings. Questions about the colloquium schedule should be addressed to Prof. Piers Coleman (pcoleman at physics.rutgers.edu).

Preliminary Spring 2021 Colloquium Schedule

Spring 2020 Colloquium

Spring 2018 Colloquium

Fall 2017 Colloquium

Spring 2017 Colloquium

Fall 2016 Colloquium

Spring 2016 Colloquium

Fall 2014 Colloquium

Rutgers Condensed Matter Seminar Schedule

Fall 2020

Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm via Zoom for the Fall 2020 semester

If you're interested in attending a seminar and need the Zoom link, please e-mail edipaola at physics.rutgers.edu.

Link to Spring 2021 Condensed Matter Seminar Schedule

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Tuesday, Sept 8, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Magnetic imaging of domain walls and surface magnetism in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4	Weida Wu Rutgers	Sang-Wook Cheong
Tuesday, Sept 15, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Controlling a quantum point junction on the surface of an antiferromagnetic topological insulator	Nicodemos Varnava Rutgers	David Vanderbilt
Tuesday, Sept 22, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Universal multipartite entanglement in quantum spin chains	Roger Mong University of Pittsburgh	Weida Wu
Tuesday, Sept 29, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Topological spin excitations in two-dimensional van der Waals ferromagnetic materials	Pengcheng Dai Rice University	Sang-Wook Cheong
Tuesday, Oct 6, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Magnetoelectric coupling in metal-organic complexes including spin crossovers	Vivien Zapf Los Alamos National Laboratory	Sang-Wook Cheong
Tuesday, Oct 13, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Probing Emergent Phenomena in Complex Oxides through Nonlinear Optics and Coherent X-rays	Venkatraman Gopalan Penn State University	Sang-Wook Cheong
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Spectral signatures of quasiparticle interactions in spin liquids and Heisenberg chains	Leon Balents UC Santa Barbara/KITP	Jak Chakhalian
Tuesday, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:30 pm	The orthogonal semi-metal: deconfined criticality and Fermi-surface reconstruction without translational symmetry breaking	Snir Gazit The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/The Racah Institute of Physics	Jed Pixley
Tuesday, Nov 3, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Neutral fermions and a new state of matter: experiments at fields of up to 75 T on YbB₁₂, a weird metal disguised as an electrical insulator	John Singleton Los Alamos National Laboratory	Piers Coleman
Tuesday, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Dynamic Orders in Quantum matter	Alexander Balatsky U of Connecticut	Sang-Wook Cheong
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2020 at 1:30 pm	A Theoretical Outlook on the Properties of Spin Ice and Other Magnetic Pyrochlore Thin Films	Michel Gingras U of Waterloo	Jak Chakhalian/Piers Coleman
Tuesday, Nov 24, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Thanksgiving Week (No Seminar)
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2020 at 1:30 pm	No Seminar
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Internal Seminar
Thursday, Dec 10, 2020 at 3:00 pm	Internal Seminar
Tuesday, Dec 15, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Internal Seminar
Thursday, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:30 pm	Internal Seminar

Please contact our administrative assistant Erica DiPaola (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with questions regarding travel arrangements and reimbursements. Seminar Organizer: Sang-Wook Cheong. Questions about the CM seminar schedule should be addressed to Prof. Sang-Wook Cheong (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Link to Spring 2021 Condensed Matter Seminar Schedule

HEX

Until further notice, HEX seminars will be held online at 4:00 pm on Fridays. Zoom information to follow shortly.

All welcome!

Day	Title	Speaker
Sep 25	Searching for Axion Dark Matter with the ADMX Haloscope	Chelsea Bartram (University of Washington)
Oct 2	Astrophysics with neutrinos and other cosmic messengers	Justin Vandenbroucke (University of Wisconsin)
Oct 9	Shedding ‘Nu’ Light on the Nature of Matter: The Search for Majorana Neutrinos	Julieta Gruszko (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Oct 16	Searching for muon to electron conversion: The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab	Richie Bonventre (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Nov 6	Leptogenesis and low-energy CP-violation	Jessica Turner (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Please contact our administrative assistant Lisa Rivera (lrivera at physics.rutgers.edu) with questions regarding speakers schedule and zoom settings.

Until further notice, colloquia will be held online from 3:30 – 4:30 pm on Wednesdays. For zoom information refer to the talk abstract.

All welcome!

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 27	SPARC and the High Magnetic Field Path to Fusion Energy View video..	Martin Greenwald (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)	Piers Coleman
Feb 3	Short Range Correlations in Nucleii (It takes two to dance). View video..	Eliezer Piasetzky (Tel Aviv University)	Larry Zamick
Feb 10	Progress and Prospects for the Second Quantum Revolution View video..	Steve Girvin (Yale U. )	SriVatsan Chakram Sundar
Feb 17	Chiral spintronics: non collinear spin textures with application to Racetrack Memory View video..	Stuart Parkin (Max Planck, Halle)	Sang Cheong
Feb 24	Hubbard model physics in moire materials View video..	Kin Fai Mak (Cornell U.)	Eva Andrei
Mar 3	Is new physics lurking inside living matter? View video..	Paul Davies (Arizona State U, Tempe)	Piers Coleman
Mar 10	The Emerging Field of Fast Radio Bursts View video..	J. Xavier Prochaska (U.C. Santa Cruz)	Eric Gawiser
March 17	Spring Recess (no colloquium)
Mar 24	Rare isotopes unveil a new era in nuclear science View video..	Rituparna Kanungo (St Mary's U.)	Jolie Cizewski
Mar 31	Exploring the stellar graveyard with gravitational waves. View video..	Laura Cadonati (Georgia Tech)	Andrew Mastbaum
Apr 7	Non-equilibrium matter through the prism of quantum entanglement. View video..	Dmitry Abanin (U. Geneva)	Natan Andrei
Apr 14	A galactic-scale gravitational-wave detector for the biggest black holes in the universe View video..	Sarah Burke-Spolaor (W. Virginia)	Chuck Keeton
Apr 21	Supporting Variation in Students’ Needs, Abilities and Interests in Postsecondary STEM Courses _{also PAER seminar} View video..*	Jackie Chini (U. Central Florida)	Geraldine Cochran
Apr 28	Dark matter constraints from small scale structure View video..	Risa Wechsler (Stanford U. )	Chuck Keeton

Please contact our administrative assistant Lisa Rivera (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with questions regarding travel arrangements and reimbursements. Questions about the colloquium schedule should be addressed to Prof. Piers Coleman.

Fall 2020 Colloquium

Spring 2020 Colloquium

Spring 2018 Colloquium

Fall 2017 Colloquium

Spring 2017 Colloquium

Fall 2016 Colloquium

Spring 2016 Colloquium

Fall 2014 Colloquium

Rutgers Condensed Matter Seminar Schedule

Spring 2021

Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm via Zoom for the Spring 2021 semester

If you're interested in attending a seminar and need the Zoom link, please e-mail edipaola at physics.rutgers.edu.

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Internal Seminar
Tuesday, Jan 26, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Flat-band superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene and other systems	Tero Heikkilä (University of Jyväskylä)	Eva Andrei
Tuesday, Feb 2, 2021 at 1:30 pm	New physics in flat Moire bands	Erez Berg (Weizmann Institute of Science)	Natan Andrei
Tuesday, Feb 9, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Magnetism at high pressures: search for quantum spin liquids in 5d oxides	Daniel Haskel (Argonne National Laboratory)	Sang-Wook Cheong
Tuesday, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:30 pm	No Seminar
Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Using Nonlinear Optics to Shed New Light on Topological Semimetals	Rohit Prasankumar (Los Alamos National Laboratory)	Sang-Wook Cheong
Tuesday, Mar 2, 2021 at 1:30 pm	From spin-orbital entanglement in Sr2RuO4 to spin-orbit controlled MIT in Sr2IrO4	Andrea Damascelli (University of British Columbia)	Girsh Blumberg
Tuesday, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Topological magnon bands and periodically driven magnetic systems	Greg Fiete (Northeastern University)	Jak Chakhalian
Tuesday, Mar 16, 2021 at 1:30 pm	No Seminar: Spring Break
Tuesday, Mar 23, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Interaction and Topological Effects in Atomically Thin One- and Two-dimensional Materials	Steve Louie (UC Berkeley)	David Vanderbilt
Tuesday, Mar 30, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Strong coupling theory of superconductivity and flavor ordering in twisted bi (& tri) layer graphene View Recording	Ashvin Vishwanath (Harvard University)	Piers Coleman
Tuesday, Apr 6, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Electrons, holes, and excitons in monolayer semiconductors: Insights from optical spectroscopy in (really) high magnetic fields	Scott Crooker (Los Alamos National Laboratory)	Sang-Wook Cheong
Tuesday, Apr 13, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Measurement-induced Phase Transitions in the Dynamics of Quantum Entanglement	Brian Skinner (Ohio State University)	Emil Yuzbashyan and Jed Pixley
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2021 at 1:30 pm	No Seminar
Tuesday, Apr 27, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Symmetry and optical properties of matter: terahertz spectroscopy of noncentrosymmetric systems in magnetic field	Diyar Talbayev (Tulane University)	Sang-Wook Cheong
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Mimicking the edge of 2d topological superconductors and insulators in 1d lattice models	Max Metlitski (MIT)	Jed Pixley
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Correlation-driven modifications to the low energy electronic states in iron-based superconductors	Ming Yi (Rice University)	Gabi Kotliar
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 1:30 pm	Boosting square tensile strain to promote planar ferroelectricity, switchable bias-field, and electro-dielectric memory effect	Yoon Seok Oh (UNIST)	Sang-Wook Cheong

Please contact our administrative assistant Erica DiPaola (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with questions regarding travel arrangements and reimbursements. Seminar Organizer: Sang-Wook Cheong. Questions about the CM seminar schedule should be addressed to Prof. Sang-Wook Cheong (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Fall 2020 Condensed Matter Seminars

HEX Spring 2021

Until further notice, HEX seminars will be held online at 4:00 pm on Fridays. Zoom information to follow shortly.

All welcome!

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Jan 22	Applied and Fundamental Physics With Reactor Neutrinos	Bryce Littlejohn (IIT)	Andrew Mastbaum
Feb 26	CMS Silicon Detectors Today and Tomorrow: The Current Pixel Detector and the Future High Granularity Calorimeter	Rachel Yohay (FSU)	Andrew Mastbaum
Mar 26	ANAIS-112 three years annual modulation results: testing the DAMA/LIBRA positive signal	María Martínez Pérez (Universidad de Zaragoza)	Andrew Mastbaum
Apr 9	Seeing the invisible: the search for low-mass axion dark matter	Chiara Salemi, (MIT)	Andrew Mastbaum
Apr 23	First Results from the Muon g-2 Experiment	Kevin Labe (Cornell University)	Andrew Mastbaum

Please contact our administrative assistant Lisa Rivera (lrivera at physics.rutgers.edu) with questions regarding speakers schedule and zoom settings.

High Energy Experimental (HEX) Seminars

Fall 2024

Condensed Matter Seminar Fall 2024

Condensed Matter (CM) Seminar Schedule

Fall 2024

Astrophysics Physics Seminar Fall 2024

Astrophysics Seminars and Colloquia

Fall 2024

Nuclear Physics Seminar Fall 2024

Rutgers Nuclear Physics Seminar Schedule

Fall 2024

Fall 2020

Condensed Matter Seminar

Rutgers Condensed Matter Seminar Schedule

Fall 2020

HEX Seminar Fall 2020

Spring 2021

Condensed Matter Seminar

Rutgers Condensed Matter Seminar Schedule

Spring 2021

HEX Seminar Spring 2021