
The Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Newsletter Number S23-11 2023-Mar 27 Editor: Daniel Friedan Publisher: Christina Pettola Contributions should be sent to newsletter@physics.rutgers.edu ANNOUNCEMENTS: Conference on mesoscopic physics and superconducting quantum circuits Conference Location: Physics & Astronomy 330W, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 Conference Dates: March 31 – April 1, 2023 (both days starting at 9am) https://sites.rutgers.edu/chakram-lab/mesescopic-physics-and-superconducting-quantum-circuits/ Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/92957962382?pwd=UUN5d1hYREJaYVNXSk82TWdKR1FWUT09 The annual Department Banquet and Awards Ceremony, co-hosted by Society of Physics Students and Rutgers Astronomical Society, will be on Tuesday, April 18 starting at 6pm in the Busch Dining Rooms A&B. The costs of the banquet are generously supported by the Department Chair's Fund – thank you to those who help contribute to this Fund. To attend the banquet, rsvp at your earliest opportunity but not later than April 11 to https://cgisvr.physics.rutgers.edu/user-html/jdoroshen/banquet2023/ Congratulations to our newest PhD's: - Dr. Chad C. Ummel successfully defended his dissertation "Single-Neutron Excitations in A=135 Nuclei" written under the direction of Prof. Jolie A. Cizewski, on Monday, March 20, 2023 - Dr. Anna Hallin successfully defended her dissertation "Anomalous Adventures -- Searching for anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider and in outer space" written under the direction of Prof. David Shih, on Thursday, March 23, 2023 SENIOR HONORS THESIS PRESENTATIONS: March 29 - April 5, 2023 All presentations will be in person (12 minutes for talk + 3 minutes for questions). A link to a Zoom connection has been provided for each session below (note that the Session 1 connection is different from the others), but it is at the discretion of each individual speaker whether to present in hybrid mode or not. More information can be found: https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~ajbaker/honors2023.html Session 1: Wednesday, March 29 at 3:30pm (Serin W330, with Zoom at the discretion of each speaker) - https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/97541848877?pwd=UktSTTBYWDk5TDZ5LzlUQ0FHYlhoQT09 3:30pm Alan Gan Pseudo-Magnetic Field in Periodic Buckled Graphene on Engineered Substrates 3:45pm Jack Juechter Hybrid Neutrino Detector in a Charged Particle Test Beam 4:00pm Andrew Schwartz Searching for Millicharged Particles at the Short Baseline Neutrino Detector Session 2: Friday, March 31 at 12pm (Serin W401, with Zoom at the discretion of each speaker) - https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/91243891552?pwd=QklPVDZkL3lEOGVXL3ZBQ29oU010dz09 12:00pm Grace Finlayson Simulating Particle Decay and Scintillator Noise Backgrounds at the MATHUSLA Detector 12:15pm Eesh Gupta Cross-talk Resilient Control of Multimode Cavities with Conditional Displacements 12:30pm Nidish Narsipur Mitigation of Noise in Quantum Computation to Solve the Fermi-Hubbard Model Session 3: Monday, April 3 at 2pm (Serin E385, with Zoom at the discretion of each speaker) - https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/91243891552?pwd=QklPVDZkL3lEOGVXL3ZBQ29oU010dz09 2:00pm Arya Lakshmanan Testing Starburst-Driven Core Formation with Nearby Dwarf Galaxies 2:15pm Michele Lau How Do We Describe Expert Proportional Reasoning? Case Studies Using Carlson et al.'s (2002) Framework 2:30pm Henry Zhu Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Evaluate Terrarium Designs Session 4: Tuesday, April 4 at 12pm (Serin W112, with Zoom at the discretion of each speaker) - https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/91243891552?pwd=QklPVDZkL3lEOGVXL3ZBQ29oU010dz09 12:00pm Daniel Bernstein Neural Networks on Riemannian Manifolds: Extending the Ring Attractor Network 12:15pm Tess Boland TBD 12:30pm Sridhar Kumar Uncertainties in the Dynamical Modeling of Galaxy Disks Due to Inhomogeneous Gas Distributions Session 5: Wednesday, April 5 at 12pm (Serin W401, with Zoom at the discretion of each speaker) - https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/91243891552?pwd=QklPVDZkL3lEOGVXL3ZBQ29oU010dz09 12:00pm Mohamed Boubendir Quantum Computing and Studies of Excited State Energies of the Fermi-Hubbard Model 12:15pm Bahgat Hassan K-Long Backgrounds and Filtering in the MATHUSLA Detector 12:30pm Khovesh Ramdin Determination of the Relative Fraction of Quark and Gluon Like Jets in pp Collisions at 200 GeV Using Jet Charge 12:45pm Brianna Romasky Experimental Evaluation of Emittance for Electron Beam at ATF 1:00pm Sameer Erramilli Making a Recipe for Robust Quantum Computation: Numerical Simulation of Quantum Error Correction Codes 1:15pm Terry Kim Prospects for Reactor Anti-Neutrino Measurement with a WbLS Detector 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. NPS Mon Mar 27 Henry Klest, Stony Brook University 1:00 Zoom "Jets in e+p Collisions and Novel Techniques for Studying Them" link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93190640031?pwd=T0NYSmxFdlF3NlNNZEczNHc5WGRMdz09 CMS Tues Mar 28 Sanfeng Wu, Princeton University 1:30 330W and Zoom "Topology, Superconductivity and Unconventional Quantum Criticality in Monolayer WTe2" link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/96912678719?pwd=UGRCNXFCRDJBc3pxLytEZVVTbFRRZz09 HET Tues Mar 28 Stefano Negro, NYU 2:30 385E and Zoom "The relevance of being irrelevant" link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94699297301?pwd=SVJieHRUYUtmZmRCbGZKQlBTMTRPdz09 SIP Tues Mar 28 Steven Clark, Rutgers University 5:30 330W "NSF GRF" MPS Wed Mar 29 Yuval Peres, BIMSA 10:45 Zoom "How does high-dimensional Euclidean space look when travelling on a cloud of uniformly random points?" For Zoom link, please contact August (akrueger@math.rutgers.edu) IQB Wed Mar 29 Mohammed AlQuraishi, Columbia University 12:00 Zoom "OpenFold: Lesson Learned and Insights Gained from Rebuilding and Retraining AlphaFold2" link: https://go.rutgers.edu/xln6anh MPS Thurs Mar 30 Konstantin Matveev, Rutgers University 12:00 Hill 705 "Stochastic six-vertex model and Hall-Littlewood positivity" HET Thurs Mar 30 Tom Banks, Rutgers University 2:30 385E and Zoom "The Density Matrix of a Causal Diamond" link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94699297301?pwd=SVJieHRUYUtmZmRCbGZKQlBTMTRPdz09 HEX Fri Mar 31 Mohammad Wadud, University of Minnesota 1:00 372E and Zoom "A search for anomalous neutral triple gauge couplings and a measurement of the production cross-section of invisibly decaying Z boson in association with a photon in p-p collisions with CMS Run II data" link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95075567101?pwd=ZmJVRnEzTlpoZkNiUFljRzJGdjk0dz09 COL Sat Apr 1 Anthony Mezzacappa, The University of Tennessee Knoxville 2:00 PLH Irons Lecture http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/irons/ "The Cosmic Circle of Life" *********Partial List of Next Week's Seminars************** CMS Tues Apr 4 Michael Levin, The University of Chicago 1:30 330W and Zoom TBA link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/96912678719?pwd=UGRCNXFCRDJBc3pxLytEZVVTbFRRZz09 HET Tues Apr 4 Annika Peter, Ohio State University 2:30 385E and Zoom "Return of dark-matter self-interactions?" link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94699297301?pwd=SVJieHRUYUtmZmRCbGZKQlBTMTRPdz09 MPS Wed Apr 5 Cedric Villani, IHES 10:45 Zoom "Equilibration for kinetic equations" For Zoom link, please contact August (akrueger@math.rutgers.edu) COL Wed Apr 5 Anthony Mezzacappa, The University of Tennessee Knoxville 3:30 330W and Zoom "In Search of the Core Collapse Supernova Explosion Mechanism" link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/97541848877?pwd=UktSTTBYWDk5TDZ5LzlUQ0FHYlhoQT09 HET Thurs Apr 6 Tom Banks, Rutgers University 2:30 385E and Zoom "The Density Matrix of a Causal Diamond" link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94699297301?pwd=SVJieHRUYUtmZmRCbGZKQlBTMTRPdz09 PCS Fri Apr 7 Erik Hoy, Rowan University 12:00 CCB 1203 and Zoom "Capturing Multiconfigurational Effects in Nanoscale Charge Transport" link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/97123142304?pwd=eHJmTjFaWk9mZjArNXErNHlCejRWQT09 HEX Fri Apr 7 Joseph Reichert, Cornell University 1:00 330W and Zoom "A long time ago in a pp collision far, far away: searching for displaced vertices at CMS" link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95075567101?pwd=ZmJVRnEzTlpoZkNiUFljRzJGdjk0dz09 *************************** 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 http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/astro/seminar/ CCB Chemistry & Chemical Biology https://chem.rutgers.edu/ CMS Condensed Matter Seminar http://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://www.physics.rutgers.edu/deltap/ GAP Geometry & Physics Seminar HET High Energy Theory Seminar http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/het/het-seminars.html HEX High Energy Experimental http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/hex/seminars/ HON Honors Seminar IQB Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine https://iqb.rutgers.edu/seminars LSM Lab for Surface Modification http://lsm.rutgers.edu/seminars MiPA/EIJC RU Minorities in Physics & Astronomy/Equity & Inclusion Journal Club https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/rumipa/eijc.html ML Machine Learning Group Meeting MPS Mathematical Physics Seminar http://math.rutgers.edu/news-events/list-all-events/list.events/- MSE Materials Science & Engineering https://mse.rutgers.edu/ NPS Nuclear Physics Seminar https://physics.rutgers.edu/events/seminars?view=article&id=2563 PAER Physics and Astronomy Education Research PCS Physical Chemistry Seminar https://remsinglab.com/pchemseminars 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 Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/gso/SSPAR/
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