The Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Newsletter       Number F25-15    2025-Dec 8

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


ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Congratulations to our newest PhD: 
- Dr. Panagiotis Englezos successfully defended his dissertation "Measurement of 
charged-current muon neutrino–argon interactions without final-state pions using 
the MicroBooNE detector" written under the direction of Prof. Andy Mastbaum, on 
December 5, 2025.


Congratulations to the physics and astrophysics majors who were inducted into 
the Sigma Pi Sigma honorary society on December 3, 2025:
- Noel Andrews
- Abhilash Bodala
- Hailey Doyle
- Sonam Kataria
- Sidh Katariya
- Adrianna Latka
- Aidan Lawlor
- Kelsey Luckenbaugh
- Noah Munoz Casati
- Anthony Nesbitt
- Nikhil Rangaswami
- Gabriel Rodriguez
- Nistha Sheth
- Kushal Somayaji
- Yat Wang


You're cordially invited to attend the final research presentations of our Phys 
155 students, which is happening today, Dec 8 in Serin 330 from 10:20-11:40. As 
a reminder, Phys 155 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.


129th Statistical Mechanics Conference
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, BUSCH CAMPUS, HILL CENTER, ROOM 114
SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14-16, 2025
Please visit our website both for registration and for presenting a short talk 
at https://cmsr.rutgers.edu/news-events-cmsr/statistical-mechanics-conference/eventdetail/2388/-/129th-statistical-mechanics-conference
You will find options to either pay online or pay at the door by cash or check. 
You may also register and mail your payment by check in advance. All details of 
the meeting (i.e. lodging, transportation, abstracts, etc.) are also posted on 
the website.



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.

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       	Anirvan Sengupta, Rutgers University
3:30   330W and Zoom   	"Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition: A Physics viewpoint"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/26z9hrza

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


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

MPS  Wed Dec 17  	Giorgio Parisi, University La Sapienza
10:45   Zoom		"On the lower Critical Dimension in spin glasses"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/91699722071?pwd=RkJMfRE0DUDfStlC6CwPQWPWPkYwCg.1


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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/