The Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Newsletter       Number S26-6    2026-Feb 23

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


ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The 2026 Rutgers Student Success Conference Committee has selected Prof Jed 
Pixley as a faculty recipient of the Student Success Champion Award. This award 
recognizes exceptional contributions to student success at Rutgers–New 
Brunswick.


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 24      	Ben Forrest, University of California, Davis
11:00   Zoom		"Probing the dynamics of ultramassive galaxies in the first 2 Gyr"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/g26yjt94

CMS  Tues Feb 24 	Thomas Iadecola, The Pennsylvania State University
1:30   330W and Zoom    "How much information can be stored in a quantum many-body system?"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

MPS  Wed Feb 25  	Martin Zirnbauer, Institute for Theoretical Physics Cologne
10:45   Zoom		"Is conformal symmetry violated at Anderson transitions?"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/92090332517?pwd=WpFskzJCrQWDT23etUj40n2pZ9lgZN.1

IQB  Wed Feb 25        	Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health
12:00   Zoom            "Targeting Cancer Driver Mutations with Synthetic Binding Proteins"
                        link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98522736773

SIP  Wed Feb 25  	Teresa M. Delcorso-Ellmann, Rutgers University
12:10   330W		"Gradfund"

COL  Wed Feb 25       	Stefano Munaretto, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
3:30   330W and Zoom   	BOYD LECTURE: "The National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade - Advancing the Physics of Fusion Energy"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/26z9hrza

MPS  Thurs Feb 26	Matt Young, Rutgers University
12:10   Hill 705	"Eisenstein series and equidistribution"


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

AST  Tues Mar 3      	Simon Birrer, Stony Brook University
11:00   330W and Zoom  	TBA
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/g26yjt94

HEX  Tues Mar 3 	Jingyu Luo, Brown University
1:00   372E and Zoom   	TBA
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/mowjw2j0

CMS  Tues Mar 3 	Ilya Vilkoviskiy, Princeton University
1:30   330W and Zoom    "Influence Matrix Approach to Integrable Dynamical Systems"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

HET  Tues Mar 3 	Hong Liu, MIT
2:30   385E and Zoom    "'Filtering' CFTs at large N: Euclidean Wormholes, Closed Universes, and Black Hole Interiors
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

MPS  Wed Mar 4  	Robert Ziff, University of Michigan
10:45   Zoom		"Exact results and universality in anisotropic percolation"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95717453827?pwd=JvMf5O5UQSpXKuMXF9yxk3jvNyyeXw.1

SPS  Wed Mar 4        	Shaunna Morrison, Rutgers University
7:30   330W		"Martian Mineralogy: Characterizing the geologic and habitability history of Mars"

MPS  Thurs Mar 5	Federico Bonetto, Georgia Institute of Technology
12:10   Hill 705	"Approach to equilibrium for a particle interacting with a harmonic thermal bath"


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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/