The Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Newsletter       Number S26-14    2026-Apr 20

          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 Apr 21      	Vera Gluscevic, University of Southern California
11:00   330W and Zoom  	"Probing dark matter and neutrinos across cosmic scales"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/g26yjt94

CMS  Tues Apr 21 	Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
1:30   330W and Zoom    "SU(2) gauge theory for intertwined orders and hole pockets in the cuprates"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

HET  Tues Apr 21 	Matthias Gaberdiel, ETH Zurich
2:30   385E and Zoom    "Strings on AdS3 x S3 x S3 x S1 and their CFT duals"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

MPS  Wed Apr 22  	John Paul Barton, University of Pittsburgh
10:45   Zoom		"Statistical models to interpret and predict pathogen evolution"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95717453827?pwd=JvMf5O5UQSpXKuMXF9yxk3jvNyyeXw.1

SIP  Wed Apr 22  	Alan Gan, Minyoung Jung, Hancheng Li, Naga Jaswanth Varma Uppalapati, Rutgers University
12:10   330W		"Student Talks"

COL  Wed Apr 22       	Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
3:30   330W and Zoom   	"Many-fermion quantum entanglement in the high temperature superconductors and in black holes"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/26z9hrza

SPS  Wed Apr 22        	Ananda Roy, Rutgers University
7:30   330W		"The Next Quantum Revolution: entanglement is not spooky, it is a resource"

MPS  Thurs Apr 23	Alex Kontorovich, Rutgers University
12:10   Hill 705	"Arithmetic Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds"


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

AST  Tues Apr 28      	Hannah Bish, Space Telescope Science Institute
11:00   330W and Zoom  	"A 3D view of the local ISM: the UV radiation field and gas accretion at the disk-halo interface"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/g26yjt94

HEX  Tues Apr 28 	Stefan Knirck, Harvard University
1:00   372E and Zoom   	TBA
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/mowjw2j0

CMS  Tues Apr 28 	Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT
1:30   330W and Zoom    "Next Generation Moire Quantum Matter"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

HET  Tues Apr 28 	Sarunas Verner, The University of Chicago
2:30   385E and Zoom    "Spectator Scalar Fields in the Early Universe"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

COL  Tues Apr 28        Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT
8:00pm  SERC 111        Irons Lecture: "Magic Angle Graphene: the Twist and Shout of Quantum Materials"
                        http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/irons/

MPS  Wed Apr 29  	Steven Girvin, Yale University
10:45   Zoom		"Quantum Signal Processing: Making Schrodinger Cats and Other Exotic States of Microwave Photons"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95717453827?pwd=JvMf5O5UQSpXKuMXF9yxk3jvNyyeXw.1

IQB  Wed Apr 29        	Fanwang Meng, Queen's University
12:00   Zoom            "Computational Drug Discovery with Imperfect Data: Strategies and Lessons"
                        link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98522736773

SIP  Wed Apr 29  	Nishan Amgain, Anastasia Bozhko, Garima Prabhakar, Connor Stroth, Rutgers University
12:10   330W		"Student Talks"

COL  Wed Apr 29       	Marina Artuso, Syracuse University
3:30   330W and Zoom   	"LHCb at the frontier of flavor physics: the three movements of the flavor sonata"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/26z9hrza

MPS  Thurs Apr 30	Luc Rey-Bellet, UMASS
12:10   Hill 705	"Proximal optimal transport divergences for generative modeling and sampling"

HET  Fri May 1  	Harikrishnan Ramani, University of Delaware
1:30   385E and Zoom    TBA
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f


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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/