The Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Newsletter       Number F25-14    2025-Dec 1

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


ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Sigma Pi Sigma Induction will be December 3, 2025 from 5:30 to 7PM in 
room 330W.  All are invited to celebrate the induction of outstanding Junior and 
Senior Physics and Astrophysics majors into Sigma Pi Sigma, the Physics Honorary 
Society.  Light refreshments will be served.


This week there will be a special event Wednesday Dec 3 at the usual colloquium 
time 3:30-5pm. Members of the Technology Transfer & New Ventures teams from the 
Rutgers Office of Research will be visiting the department to strengthen 
connections with us.   The team will give a brief presentation outlining how 
they collaborate with faculty and the resources they provide to support research 
and innovation endeavors. Then they would like to learn more about the exciting 
research taking place within the department and engage with the faculty. 
Visitors include Deb Perez (Executive Director) and Lisa Lyu (Associate 
Director, Licensing, Physical Sciences & Engineering) from Technology Transfer 
and Dan Benderly (Associate Director) of New Ventures plus a few others. This 
came out of the Rutgers Innovation Awards ceremony held in early October, where 
Eva Andrei, Guohong Li,  Angela Coe, Jed Pixley, and David Vanderbilt were 
honored for receiving patents on their inventions! I met a number of people 
from the Technology Transfer & New Ventures teams at the ceremony and they were 
very interested in visiting the department and meeting more faculty.


You're cordially invited to attend the final research presentations of our Phys 
155 students, which is happening a week from today (Monday, Dec 8) in Serin 330 
from 10:20-11:40. As a reminder, Phys155 is designed for students who are just 
beginning their Physics & Astronomy major.  The class is designed to introduce 
the students to basic skills useful in research, preparing them to take part in 
small research projects during the second half of the course.  This year we have 
15 students, participating in seven research projects ranging from astrophysics 
to biophysics to condensed matter.  Please join us to meet the next generation 
of majors.



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.

HEX  Tues Dec 2 	Mark Ross-Lonergan, Columbia University
1:00   372E and Zoom   	"Short baseline neutrino anomalies: Where we stand a where we're going"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/mowjw2j0

CMS  Tues Dec 2 	Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Princeton University
1:30   330W and Zoom    "Surprises in the weak-noise limit"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

HET  Tues Dec 2 	Jeffrey Harvey, University of Chicago
2:30   Zoom             "Level-Rank Duality, Anyon Condensation, and Holomorphic CFT"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

SIP  Wed Dec 3  	Joey Reichert, Rutgers University
10:20   330W		"Unconventional searches for BSM physics with the CMS detector"

MPS  Wed Dec 3  	Massimo Vergassola, University of California, San Diego
10:45   Zoom		"Defects, Parcellation, and Renormalized Negative Diffusivities in Nonhomogeneous Oscillatory Media"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/91699722071?pwd=RkJMfRE0DUDfStlC6CwPQWPWPkYwCg.1

COL  Wed Dec 3       	Technology Transfer & New Ventures Team - Rutgers Office of Research
3:30   330W and Zoom   	"Technology Transfer/New Ventures - Physics & Astronomy"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/26z9hrza

MPS  Thurs Dec 4	Roger Nussbaum, Rutgers University
12:10   Hill 705	"The Hausdorff Dimension Spectrum of Continued Fractions and Their Generalizations"

CMS  Thurs Dec 4 	Daniel Munoz Segovia, Columbia University
1:30   330W and Zoom    "Correlated phases and quantum geometry in twisted WSe2"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1


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

HET  Tues Dec 9 	Nima Laal, Vanderbilt University
2:30   385E and Zoom    "Exploring the Capabilities of Pulsar Timing Arrays as a Viable Probe of Supermassive Black Hole Binary Population using Machine Learning"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

SIP  Wed Dec 10  	Sean Oh, Rutgers University
10:20   330W		"Topological Quantum Matter Engineering"

MPS  Wed Dec 10  	Cedric Villani, ENS de Lyon
10:45   Zoom		"Fisher information and Boltzmann collisions"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/91699722071?pwd=RkJMfRE0DUDfStlC6CwPQWPWPkYwCg.1

IQB  Wed Dec 10        	Yevgeniy (Jay) Serebrenik, RWJ Medical School
12:00   Zoom            "Programming the proteome with pooled tagging"
                        link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98522736773

COL  Wed Dec 10       	Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
3:30   330W and Zoom   	"The Mathematics of Human Population Growth and CO2 Emissions"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/26z9hrza

MPS  Thurs Dec 11	Christian Maes, KU Leuven
12:10   Hill 705	"Response-fluctuation relations for driven systems"


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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/