The Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Newsletter       Number F25-7    2025-Oct 13

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


ANNOUNCEMENTS: 
Congratulations to our newest PhD: 
- Dr. Pradip Kattel successfully defended his dissertation "Quantum Impurities and Boundary-Driven Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Systems" written under the direction of Prof. Natan Andrei, on October 6, 2025.


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 Oct 14      	Kishalay De, Columbia University
11:00   330W and Zoom  	"Dust enshrouded eruptions from planets to supermassive black holes"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/g26yjt94

CMS  Tues Oct 14 	Asish Kundu, BNL
1:30   330W and Zoom    "Engineering Correlated States in Quantum Materials: From Design to Tunability"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

HET  Tues Oct 14 	Aurelien Dersy, Harvard University
2:30   385E and Zoom    "Learning the Language of Scattering Amplitudes"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

SIP  Tues Oct 14	Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University
5:40   330W		TBA

MPS  Wed Oct 15  	Christian Maes, KU Leuven
10:45   Zoom		"Kinetics of nonequilibrium response: negative heat capacity and negative drag"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93897533481?pwd=bS36DJAfIDWmAwlFkW4CDHXw3pNXZv.1

IQB  Wed Oct 15        	Keith Mickolajczyk, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
12:00   Zoom            "Single-molecule Biophysical Approaches to Studying the Mechanisms of Motor Proteins"
                        link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98522736773

SPS  Wed Oct 15        	Katherine R. Bermingham, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
7:30   330W		"Planetary Genetics and the Origin of Earth"

MPS  Thurs Oct 16	Bhargav Narayanan, Rutgers University
12:10   Hill 705	"Elementary symmetric polynomials under the fixed point measure"


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

AST  Tues Oct 21      	Viviana Acquaviva, CUNY
11:00   330W and Zoom  	"Learning from simulations using ML/AI tools"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/g26yjt94

HEX  Tues Oct 21	Riccardo Manfredi, Brookhaven National Laboratory
1:00   372E and Zoom   	"CP violation in in charm decays: new results from Belle II"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/mowjw2j0

CMS  Tues Oct 21 	Andrew Zangwill, GA Tech
1:30   330W and Zoom    "A Mind over Matter: The Life and Science of Philip W. Anderson"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

HET  Tues Oct 21 	Vladimir Rosenhaus, CUNY
2:30   385E and Zoom    "Renormalization Group in far-from-equilibrium states"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

SIP  Tues Oct 21	Weida Wu, Rutgers University
5:40   330W		"Magnetic imaging of quantum materials"

MPS  Wed Oct 22 	Abel Klein, University of California, Irvine
10:45   Zoom		"Localization phenomena in the infinite random XXZ spin chain"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93897533481?pwd=bS36DJAfIDWmAwlFkW4CDHXw3pNXZv.1

IQB  Wed Oct 22        	Jiekun (Jackie) Yang, Rutgers University
12:00   Zoom            "Decoding Dendritic Cell in Cancer: Integrating single-cell multiomics, spatial transcriptomics, and AI-driven models"
                        link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98522736773

COL  Wed Oct 22       	Andrew Zangwill, GA Tech
3:30   330W and Zoom   	"That's Not Physics"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/26z9hrza

MPS  Thurs Oct 23	Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers University
12:10   Hill 705	"Recent Trends In Analytic Number Theory"

CMS  Thurs Oct 23 	Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado at Boulder
1:30   330W and Zoom    "Path integrals and QFTs of monitored quantum systems"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1


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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/633/
     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/