The Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Newsletter       Number S26-3    2026-Feb 2

          Editor: Daniel Friedan        Publisher: Christina Pettola
Contributions should be sent to newsletter@physics.rutgers.edu


SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIUM:
     Seminars and colloquia are being conducted either in-person, on the web, or hybrid. 
     See below the events listing for pages giving instructions for connecting to the web seminars.

AST  Tues Feb 3      	Roohi Dalal, American Astronomical Society
11:00   330W and Zoom  	"Policy for the astronomical sciences in 2025 and looking forward"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/g26yjt94

CMS  Tues Feb 3 	Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
1:30   330W and Zoom    "Dynamics and energy relaxation in strange metals"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

HET  Tues Feb 3 	Subhajit Ghosh, University of Texas - Austin
2:30   385E and Zoom    "CMB constraints on non-minimally coupled ultralight dark matter"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

MPS  Wed Feb 4  	David Pine, NYU
10:45   Zoom		"Self-assembly of colloidal diamond and related structures"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/92090332517?pwd=WpFskzJCrQWDT23etUj40n2pZ9lgZN.1

COL  Wed Feb 4       	Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
3:30   330W and Zoom   	"On Ising's model of ferromagnetism"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/26z9hrza

SPS  Wed Feb 4        	Sheldon Goldstein, Rutgers University
7:30   330W		"What is Quantum Mechanics?"

MPS  Thurs Feb 5	David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
12:10   Hill 705	"Theory of adiabatic phonon-magnon coupling in magnetic materials"


*********Partial List of Next Week's Seminars**************

NPS  Mon Feb 9      	Anders Knospe, Lehigh University
1:45    112W and Zoom  	"Hadronic Probes of Ion-Ion Collisions at RHIC and the LHC"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/y8crkdf3

AST  Tues Feb 10      	John Michael Brewer, San Francisco State University
11:00   330W and Zoom  	TBA
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/g26yjt94

CMS  Tues Feb 10 	Leslie Schoop, Princeton University
1:30   330W and Zoom    TBA
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

HET  Tues Feb 10 	Patrick Draper, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
2:30   Zoom             "Quantum Simulations of SU(3)"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

MPS  Wed Feb 11  	Daniel Stein, NYU
10:45   Zoom		"Ground State Excitations and the Nature of the Spin Glass Phase"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/92090332517?pwd=WpFskzJCrQWDT23etUj40n2pZ9lgZN.1

IQB  Wed Feb 11        	Joel Freundlich, Rutgers University
12:00   Zoom            "Platforms in Computation, Chemistry, and Biology for Pursuits in Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery"
                        link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98522736773

SIP  Wed Feb 11  	Jak Chakhalian, Rutgers University
12:10   330W		"Magnetic monopoles, Dirac strings and Weyl fermions with a 'Table-Top Collider'"

MPS  Thurs Feb 12	Facundo Memoli, Rutgers University
12:10   Hill 705	"Distance distributions and inverse problems for metric measure spaces"


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The departmental calendar of colloquia and seminars is
        https://physics.rutgers.edu/events/events-calendar/

For instructions for connecting to the web seminars, see

     AST        Astrophysics Seminar                         https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/astro/seminars
     CCB        Chemistry & Chemical Biology                 https://chem.rutgers.edu/
     CMS        Condensed Matter Seminar                     https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/seminars/condensedmatter
     COL        Colloquium                                   https://physics.rutgers.edu/events/colloquium
     CQB        Center for Quantitative Biology              https://cqb.rutgers.edu/
     DELTA-P    Developing Educators and Leaders 
                       Among TAs in Physics                  https://rutgers.instructure.com/courses/321686/
     GAP        Geometry & Physics Seminar
     HET        High Energy Theory Seminar                   https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/het/seminars
     HEX        High Energy Experimental                     http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/hex/seminars
     HON        Honors Seminar
     I2I        Invitations to Industry
     IQB        Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine       https://iqb.rutgers.edu/seminars
     JPAS       Junior Physics & Astronomy Seminar
     LSM        Lab for Surface Modification                 https://lsm.rutgers.edu/events/
     MiPA/EIJC  RU Minorities in P & A /                     https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/rumipa/eijc.html
                       Equity & Inclusion Journal Club                                      
     ML         Machine Learning Group Meeting
     MPS        Mathematical Physics Seminar                 https://cmsr.rutgers.edu/news-events-cmsr/mathematical-physics-webinar/range.listevents/-
                                                             https://cmsr.rutgers.edu/news-events-cmsr/mathematical-physics-in-person-seminar/range.listevents/-
     MSE        Materials Science & Engineering              https://mse.rutgers.edu/
     NPS        Nuclear Physics Seminar                      https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/np/seminars
     PAER       Physics and Astronomy Education Research
     PCS        Physical Chemistry Seminar                   https://remsinglab.com/pchemseminars
     PhyLT      Physics of Learning Theory                   https://nilavam.github.io/phyML/index.html
     SIP        Seminar in Physics                           http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/grad/634/
     SPS        Society of Physics Students Talk Series      http://sps.physics.rutgers.edu/
     SSPAR      Student Seminars in P & A at Rutgers         http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/gso/SSPAR/