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


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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                         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/