Events

HEX Fall 2022

HEX seminars will be held in-person and online at 3:30 pm on Fridays. Zoom information to follow shortly.

All welcome!

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
10/21/2022	"Detecting Relic Neutrinos from the Big Bang in PTOLEMY"	Andi Tan, Princeton University	Mastbaum
11/11/2022 (Zoom Only)	"Model Compression for the Hardware Trigger"	Adrian Pol, Princeton University	Mastbaum
11/18/2022	"Expect the Unexpected: Planning Ahead for Unconventional Physics"	Tova Holmes,The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Mastbaum
12/02/2022	"Probing Heavy QCD Axions via Diphoton and Dimuon Final States"	Soubhik Kumar, Berkeley	Mastbaum
12/9/2022	"First results and future plans of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment"	Luiz de Viveiros, Penn State	Mastbaum
12/12/2022 Via Zoom 12:00 PM	"CMS pixel tracker preparation for Run 3 and search for H->aa->µµττ (boosted)"	Grace Haza, UC Davis	Halkiadakis
12/16/2022 Room E385 2:00 PM	"Observation of the Radiation Amplitude Zero Effect and the first measurement of longitudinal longitudinal diboson polarization fractions using ?±? events in high-?" phase space"	Prachi Arvind Atmasiddha University of Michigan	Halkiadakis

Please contact our administrative assistant Lisa Rivera (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Andrew Mastbaum (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with questions regarding speakers schedule and zoom settings.

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Rutgers LSM Seminar Schedule

Fall 2022

Seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:45 am - 1:15pm, Serin Physics 330W (use main Physics building entrance from Allison Rd., room 330W is located on the 3rd floor)

For remote seminars, noon - 1:30pm, Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94435281331?pwd=cXRXeWhySFJOb3ZnZGFnSFdRQkR2QT09

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
Sept 1	From Single molecule to molecular devices: Application to charge transfer study at the nanoscale.	Damien Riedel (Research Director at CNRS - National Scientific Research Center)	S. Rangan
Sept 15	Capabilities of Nanofabrication Core Facility, Rutgers and Advances in Silicon Photovoltaic Technologies.	Ngwe Zin (Rutgers University)	V. Podzorov
Oct 6	CO2 capture, utilization, and storage as a lever for the deployment of green hydrogen from bio resources.	Ange Nzihou (Chemical and Environmental Engineering at IMT Mines Albi, Fulbright visiting professor at Princeton University)	E. Garfunkel
Oct 27	Controlling Ions and Carriers in Semiconducting Polymers.	Michael Chabinyc (University of California Santa Barbara)	V. Podzorov
Nov 3	Observation of Room Temperature Superfluorescence and Its Implications for Quantum Materials	Kenan Gundogdu (NC State University)	V. Podzorov
Nov 10	Using the Virtual Photons Emitted by Positron Sticking as a Probe of Top-Layer Surface Electronic Structures	Alex H. Weiss (University of Texas at Arlington)	R. A. Bartynski
Dec 15	Plasma Challenges from Nanofabrication of Advanced Devices to Electrification of the Chemical Industry	David B. Graves (Princeton University)	V. Podzorov

Questions and suggestions about the LSM seminar schedule should be addressed to Prof. Sylvie Rangan and Vitaly Podzorov (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Colloquia will be in person and online from 3:30 – 4:30 pm on Wednesdays.

Zoom link information: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/97541848877?pwd=UktSTTBYWDk5TDZ5LzlUQ0FHYlhoQT09

All welcome!

Day	Location	Title	Speaker	Host	Recordings / Slides
1/18/2023	W330/Zoom	"Paving the Way for Future Space Telescopes with Theory and Simulations"	L. Y. Aaron Yung NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Andrew Baker	Recording
1/25/2023	W330/Zoom	Doug & Inyoung Boyd Colloquium "The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons (and how physicists can help reduce it)"	Laura Grego UCS/MIT	Andrew Baker
2/1/2023	W330/Zoom	"STEM Gender gap in Japan"	Mihoko Nojiri KEK Theory Center	David Shih	Recording
2/8/2023	W330/Zoom	"A discussion of the Hubble tension"	Jo Dunkley Princeton University Wendy Freedman University of Chicago	Jack Hughes
2/15/2023	W330/Zoom	"Dark Energy Science in the Era of Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time"	Humna Awan University of Michigan	Eric Gawiser
3/1/2023	W330/Zoom	"The Physics of Politics"	Andrew Zwicker, PPPL	Bob Bartynski	Recording
3/8/2023	W330/Zoom	"How to do particle physics in a climate emergency?"	Ken Bloom University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Yuri Gershtein	Recording
3/22/2023	W330/Zoom	"Challenges Facing Academics of Chinese Descent and Those Who Collaborate with Scientists in China"	Xiaoxing Xi Temple University	Len Feldman	Recording
4/1/2023	Physics Lecture Hall	Irons Lecture "The Cosmic Circle of Life"	Tony Mezzacappa The University of Tennessee Knoxville	Jolie Cizewski
4/5/2023	W330/Zoom	"In Search of the Core Collapse Supernova Explosion Mechanism"	Tony Mezzacappa The University of Tennessee Knoxville	Jolie Cizewski	Recording
4/26/23	W330/Zoom	"Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics with Superconducting Qubits"	Bharath Kannan Atlantic Quantum and MIT	Steve Schnetzer	Recording

Please contact our administrative assistant Erica DiPaola (edipaola at physics.rutgers.edu) with questions regarding speakers schedule and zoom settings. Questions about the colloquium schedule should be addressed to Prof. Yuri Gershtein (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

For meeting organizers, here are some tips for Hybrid meetings and 330W podium usage.

Fall 2022 Colloquium Schedule

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Rutgers Condensed Matter Seminar Schedule

Spring 2023

Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm in person and via Zoom (unless noted) for the Spring 2023 semester

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/96912678719?pwd=UGRCNXFCRDJBc3pxLytEZVVTbFRRZz09

Day	Title	Speaker	Host	Recordings / Slides
January 24	Altermagnetism: a third type of ordered collinear magnetism	Igor Mazin (George Mason University - College of Science)	Sang-Wook Cheong	Recording
January 31 Zoom	Imaging electronic structure in live devices with electron microscopy	Chris Regan (University of California, Los Angeles - UCLA)	Sang-Wook Cheong
February 7	New Physics in Driven Quantum Materials	Andrea Cavalleri (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)	Premi Chandra	Recording
February 14	Engineering Flat Bands in Multilayer Graphene using a Superlattice Potential	Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi (Stony Brook University)	Jedediah Pixley	Recording
February 21	Sub-Molecular Level Vibrational Characterization with Inelastic Electron Tunneling and Photon	Shaowie Li (University of California San Diego)	Sang-Wook Cheong
February 28	Nonlinear interrogation of quantum materials	Peter Orth (Iowa State University)	Premi Chandra	Recording
March 14	Local Plaquette Physics as Key Ingredient of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Cuprates	Alexabder Lichtenstein (University of Hamburg)	Kristjan Haule
March 21	Delocalization in disordered systems with local interactions	Dries Sels (NYU and CCQ)	Jedediah Pixley	Recording
March 28	Topology, Superconductivity and Unconventional Quantum Criticality in Monolayer WTe2	Sanfeng Wu (Princeton University)	Weida Wu	Recording
April 4	Effect of long-range interactions on topological ground state degeneracy	Michael Levin (The University of Chicago)	Ananda Roy	Recording
April 10 (Special Seminar Day, Time & Zoom Link)	Infinite-layer nickelates: A new platform for studying high-temperature superconductivity	Shannon Harvey (Stanford University)	Srivatsan Chakram Sundar
POSTPONED - April 11 Zoom	Machine Learning Quantum Emergence	Eun-Ah Kim (Cornell University)	Eva Andrei
April 18	Topological Superconductivity in Superconductor-Semiconductor Hybrids	Chetan Nayak (UC Santa Barbara)	Sean Oh
April 25	The Art and Science of Molecular Beam Epitaxy—From Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect to Interfacial Superconductivity	Cui-Zu Chang (Penn State)	Weida Wu
May 2	Hopfions in Condensed Matter: Anisotropic Heisenberg Magnets	Avadh Saxena (Los Alamos National Laboratory)	Sang-Wook Cheong	Recording

Please contact our administrative assistant Mickerline Vilus (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 2022 Condensed Matter Seminars

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HEX Spring 2023

HEX seminars will be held in-person and online at 1:00 pm on Fridays. Zoom information to follow shortly.

All welcome!

Day	Title	Speaker	Host
1/6/2023 Zoom Only	"Understanding neutrino interactions for T2K and beyond"	Jaafar Chakrani Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS École polytechnique	Mastbaum
1/11/2023	"Progress of a NOvA Near Detector fit with Markov Chain Monte Carlo"	Michael Dolce, Tufts University	Mastbaum
2/17/2023 Zoom Only	"A PhD story: where are you, New Physics?"	Andrea Piccinelli University of Perugia, Italy	Halkiadakis
2/24/2023 Zoom Only	"Constraints on anomalous Higgs boson couplings from the production and decay of Higgs bosons using the WW final state"	Tomas Kello University of Antwerp, Belgium	Halkiadakis
3/24/2023 (Room 330W)	"Probing Higgs physics with the CMS detector, and the HL-LHC inner tracker upgrade"	Divya Gadkari, Cornell University	Halkiadakis
3/31/2023 (Room 372E)	"A search for anomalous neutral triple gauge couplings and a measurement of the production cross-section of invisibly decaying Z boson in association with a photon in p-p collisions with CMS Run II data"	Mohammad Wadud University of Minnesota	Halkiadakis
4/21/2023 (Room 330W)-cancelled	Visit is cancelled (will reschedule for Fall 2023)	Matt Wetstein Iowa State University	Mastbaum
4/28/2023 (Room 330W)	"A long time ago in a pp collision far, far away: searching for displaced vertices at CMS"	Joseph Reichert Cornell University	Mastbaum

Please contact our administrative assistant Erica DiPaola (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Andrew Mastbaum (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with questions regarding speakers schedule and zoom settings.

Fall 2022 Seminar

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Fall 2024 Colloquium Schedules

Colloquia will be in person and online from 3:30 – 4:30 pm on Wednesdays.

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95124198614?pwd=dnBzWnhUTmVSRjJZaVR1QnpvazduZz09

All welcome!

Day	Location	Title	Speaker	Host	Recordings / Slides
September 4	W330/Zoom	Understanding Dwarf Galaxies to Understand Dark Matter	Alyson Brooks, Rutgers University	Andrew Baker	Recording
September 18	W330/Zoom	Excitable Networks	Eleni Katifori, University of Pennsylvania	Anirvan M. Sengupta
September 25	W330/Zoom	Keys to Planet Formation from the Structure of Planetary Systems	Ruth Murray-Clay, UC Santa Cruz	Blakesley Burkhart	Recording
October 2	W330/Zoom	Decoding the Universe with Even Better Maps from the Cosmic Microwave Background	Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University	Jack Hughes	Recording
October 9	W330/Zoom	Fast Radio Bursts - A Cosmic Detective Story	Duncan Lorimer, West Virginia University	Andrew Baker	Recording
October 16	W330/Zoom	Fundamental Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background	Abby Vieregg, University of Chicago	Yuri Gershtein
October 23	W330/Zoom
October 30	W330/Zoom	Ignition and the evolving landscape of fusion energy	Laura Berzak Hopkins, PPPL	Jolie CizewskI	Recording
November 6 SPECIAL TIME 4:30 to 5:30 PM	W330/Zoom	Doug & Inyoung Boyd Colloquium From Dust to Doctors: A Rutgers Scientist's Journey from Astrophysics to Healthcare	Bob Lindner, Veda Data Systems	Andrew Baker	Recording
November 13	W330/Zoom	Roles of quantum metric in topological flatlands in stabilizing fractional Chern insulators	Angkun Wu, LANL	Jed Pixley	Recording
November 20	W330/Zoom	Nonreciprocal Quantum Materials: from Berry phase to wireless rectification	Liang Fu, MIT	Sang-Wook Cheong	Recording
December 4	W330/Zoom	Let There be Light: next-generation neutrino detection at Theia	Gabriel Orebi-Gann, Berkeley	Yuri Gershtein	Recording
December 7 - 8	Physics Lecture Hall	25th Annual Rutgers Faraday Holiday Children's Lecture Saturday: 3 - 4:30 PM. Sunday: 1 - 2:30 PM.
December 11 RESCHEDULED	W330/Zoom	Were the Superheavy Elements Made in Nature?	Ani Aprahamian, University of Notre Dame	Jolie CizewskI

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 speakers schedule and zoom settings. Questions about the colloquium schedule should be addressed to Prof. Daniel Friedan - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For meeting organizers, here are some tips for Hybrid meetings and 330W podium usage.

Spring 2024 Colloquium Schedule

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High Energy Experimental (HEX) Seminars

Fall 2025

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
September 23	Colliding light to measure tau g–2	Jesse Liu, NYU	Yuri Gershtein
October 21	CP violation in in charm decays: new results from Belle II	Riccardo Manfredi, Brookhaven National Laboratory	Eva Halkiadakis
November 18	Any way you slice it: The Lund jet plane as a unique probe of QCD	Jennifer Roloff, Brown	Yuri Gershtein
December 2	Short baseline neutrino anomalies: Where we stand a where we're going	Mark Ross-Lonergan, Columbia	Yuri Gershtein

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.

Rutgers Nuclear Physics Seminar Schedule

Fall 2025

Seminars are held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in person (room 112W) and via Zoom (unless noted) for the Spring 2025 semester

Seminar Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93779976379?pwd=il0hcaJDPrjyaLl1qm2JmCZ85fjMEy.1

330W / Zoom

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.).

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Condensed Matter (CM) Seminar Schedule

Fall 2025

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 16	330W / Zoom	Exploring classical spin liquids in frustrated magnets	Kemp Plumb, Brown University	Valery Kiryukhin	Recording
September 23	330W / Zoom	Magnetic order and interactions in the Weyl material NdAlSi	Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University	Sang-Wook Cheong	Recording
Wednesday, September 24	330W / Zoom	Moiré Flat Bands and Correlated States in Stacked van der Waals Materials	Tobias Wolf, The University of Texas at Austin	Jed Pixley
September 30	330W / Zoom	New platforms for quantum sensing and quantum computing	Nathalie de Leon, Princeton	Shaowen Chen	Recording
October 7	330W / Zoom	Translation symmetry-enriched topological order in moiré materials	Nicolas Morales Duran, CCQ	Jed Pixley	Recording
Wednesday, October 8 3:30 pm	330W / Zoom	Interdisciplinary Special Lecture: All Welcome Simple Memristive Circuits for Brain-Inspired Computing	Marcelo Rozenberg, CNRS	Gabi Kotliar	Recording
October 14	330W / Zoom	Engineering Correlated States in Quantum Materials: From Design to Tunability	Asish Kundu, BNL	Sylvie Rangan
October 21	330W / Zoom	A Mind over Matter: The Life and Science of Philip W. Anderson	Andrew Zangwill, GA Tech	Robert Bartynski
Thursday, October 23	330W / Zoom	Path integrals and QFTs of monitored quantum systems	Victor Gurarie, UC Boulder	Emil Yuzbashyan
October 28	330W / Zoom	Cryogenic electron microscopy of polar order in a quantum paraelectric	Ismail El Baggari, Harvard	Sang-Wook Cheong
November 4 - CANCELLED			Claudio Mazzoli, BNL	Valery Kiryukhin
November 4	330W / Zoom	Entanglement as a Probe of Non-Hermitian Systems and Non-Unitary CFTs	Po-Yao Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan	Piers Coleman
Thursday, November 6	330W / Zoom	Theory of phonon magnetism in Dirac semimetals	Shi-Zeng Lin, LANL	Jed Pixley
Thursday, November 6 - Special Time: 4:00 PM	330W / Zoom	Correlated Insulators and Quantum Criticality in Semiconductor Moiré Materials	Sunghoon Kim, Cornell	Jed Pixley
November 11	330W / Zoom	Nonlocal Moments and Dirac Trions in the Concentrated Chern Bands of Twisted Bilayer Graphene	Patrick Ledwith, Harvard	Eva Andrei
Thursday, November 13 - Special Time: 2:30 PM	330W / Zoom	Intervalley-coherent states with nontrivial texture in moire materials	Ziwei Wang, Oxford	Jed Pixley
Friday, November 14 - Special Time: 4:00 PM	287E / Zoom	Enhanced and Extended Strange Metallicity due to Coulomb Repulsion and Disorder	Andrew Hardy, University of Toronto	Jed Pixley
November 18	330W / Zoom	Classical Models of Stochastic Quantum Control	Andrew Allocca, CCNY	Sang-Wook Cheong
November 20-21	330W	Rutgers CMT Symposium		Premi Chandra and Ananda Roy
November 25	No seminar this week
December 2	330W / Zoom	Surprises in the weak-noise limit	Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Princeton	Jed Pixley
Thursday, December 4	330W / Zoom	Correlated phases and quantum geometry in twisted WSe2	Daniel Munoz Segovia, Columbia University	Jed Pixley

Please contact our administrative assistant Marcela Crisetti (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 2025 Condensed Matter Seminars

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Astrophysics Seminars and Colloquia

Fall 2025

The Astrophysics seminars are held every Tuesday at 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon pm via Zoom and/or 330W - 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/97321678050?pwd=3B2w7dQbARYQCUBM79YlMcGvN9Aejs.1

Day	Location	Title	Speaker	Host
September 9	330W/Zoom	Understanding the Impact of Omega_m Constraints on Dark Energy at Either Early or Late Times	Joshua Kable	Saurabh Jha
September 23	330W/Zoom	Cosmic shear, or atmosphere? Point-spread function modeling for Rubin Observatory	Claire-Alice Herbert, Brookhaven National Lab
September 30	330W/Zoom	From the SAGA Survey to a Future Census of Nearby Low-mass Galaxies	Yao-Yuan Mao, University of Utah
October 1	330W/Zoom	Exploding White Dwarfs in a New Light with JWST	Lindsey Kwok, Northwestern University/CIERA
October 14	330W/Zoom	Dust enshrouded eruptions from planets to supermassive black holes	Kishalay De, Columbia
October 21	330W/Zoom	Learning from simulations using ML/AI tools	Viviana Acquaviva, CUNY
October 28	330W/Zoom	Cecilia Helene Payne-Gaposchkin: Reflections from two generations on	Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth
November 4	330W/Zoom	Clusters as Cosmic Laboratories: Using The Hot ICM as an Evolutionary Probe	Anthony Flores, Rutgers
November 18	330W/Zoom	The Beguiling Mystery of the Little Red Dots	Jenny Greene, Princeton

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.

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