Colloquium Schedule

Spring 2018

Colloquia are held in the Physics and Astronomy Lecture Hall
at 4:45 P.M. on Wednesday afternoons.

Tea served 4.30pm-4.45pm. 

All welcome!  

Colloquia will begin on Jan 31st. Please contact our administrative assistant Stefanie Miller (stefanie.miller@rutgers.edu) with questions regarding travel arrangements and reimbursements. Questions about the colloquium schedule should be addressed to Prof. John Paul Chou (johnpaul@physics.rutgers.edu). Fall 2017 Colloquia

Day	Title	Speaker	Speaker's Host.
Jan 31	A Distortion Symmetry-based Approach to Minimum Energy Pathways	Venkatraman Gopalan (Penn State)	Jak Chakhalian
Feb 7	New Mathematics for New Biophysics: A foray into Bayesian nonparametrics	Steve Presse (Arizona State University)	Alex Morozov
Feb 14	Real-Time 3D Single-Particle Tracking: Spectroscopy, Imaging, and Control	Haw Yang (Princeton University)	Sang-Hyuk Lee
Feb 21	Matyroshka dolls and tinkertoys: Calabi-Yau geometry and supersymmetry	Charles Doran (University of Alberta)	Emanuel Diaconescu
Feb 28	Down-to-earth searches for cosmological dark matter with LUX and LZ	Carter Hall (University of Maryland)	John Paul Chou
Mar 7	No Colloquium
Mar 14	No Colloquium: Spring Break
Mar 21	Forging the heaviest elements	Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame)	Jolie Cizewski
Mar 28	The unbearable burden of being light: Exploring the emergence of ordinary matter from quarks and gluons	Berndt Mueller (Brookhaven, Duke)	Sevil Salur
Apr 4	Exploring the hydrodynamic limit of many-body quantum systems	Andy Lucas (Stanford University)	Tom Banks
Apr 11	Exploring quantum thermalization with a magnetic quantum Newton's cradle	Ben Lev (Stanford University)	Jed Pixley
Saturday, Apr 14	2018 Henry R. and Gladys V. Irons Lecture We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe	Daniel Whiteson (UC Irvine) Jorge Cham (PhD Comics)	Yuri Gershtein
Apr 18	Facilitating and Assessing the Development of Scientific Habits of Mind: Course Transformation using Assessable Learning Objectives and Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE)	Eugenia Etkina Charles Ruggieri (Rutgers University)	John Paul Chou
Apr 25	The Terrestrial Planets of Other Stars	David Charbonneau (Harvard University)	Saurabh Jha