Colloquium

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!

 

DayTitleSpeakerHost

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).