The Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Newsletter       Number S25-16    2025-Apr 21

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


ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Alyson Brooks has won the 2024-2025 Presidential Outstanding Faculty Scholar 
Award in recognition of her outstanding teaching and scholarly accomplishments 
in her years at Rutgers.  Prof. Brooks has established herself as an 
international leader in her field, publishing high-impact and significant 
scholarship, while compiling an outstanding record as a dedicated and innovative 
classroom teacher and as an effective mentor to PhD and undergraduate students.

Shumaila F. Chishti has won the 2024-2025 Presidential Award for Excellence in 
Teaching by a Lecturer.  Dr. Chishti teaches in the General and Extended General 
Physics courses where she makes invaluable contributions to realizing highly 
effective education of 1000s of students every year. Dr. Chishti has been a 
driving force in shaping the learning experiences of her students through her 
expertise, dedication, and forward-thinking approach to physics education. 

Rutgers Day Faraday Program - Saturday, April 26 from noon-4 pm
- Pheel the Physics! Sidewalk demos: noon-2 pm
- Phenomenal Faraday Physics Show: 2:30-4 pm
See link https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~croft/FARADAY.HTML
Location: Physics Lecture Hall: 136 Frelinghuysen Road (Busch Campus)

The annual Department Banquet and Awards Ceremony, co-hosted by the Society of 
Physics Students and the Rutgers Astronomical Society, will be on Monday, April 
28 starting at 6:00 pm in Multipurpose Room B in the Busch Student Center. 
Professor Weida Wu will be the speaker. Recipients of Departmental Awards, 
Scholarships and Fellowships will be recognized. The banquet is supported by the 
Department Chair’s Fund – thank you to those who generously contribute to this 
Fund. If you have yet to rsvp, we regret we will not be able to accommodate you; 
seating is limited.



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.

CMS  Tues Apr 22 	Myung-Geun Han, Brookhaven National Laboratory
1:30   330W and Zoom    "Electric Field-Effects on Topological Spin Textures: In Situ Cryogenic TEM Study"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

SIP  Tues Apr 22 	Lianys Feliciano, Jingzhe Guo, Ravi Koka, Rutgers University
5:40   330W		"Student Talks"

MPS  Wed Apr 23		Raissa D'Souza, UC Davis
10:45   Zoom		"Self-organized criticality on networks: from black swans to dragon kings"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/91598082677?pwd=7zw14OBsQX0Pt5UokoIeH1H1XI5QNW.1

CMS  Wed Apr 23 	Tomohiro Soejima, Harvard University
1:30   330W and Zoom    "Untangling the magic of twisted materials"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

MPS  Thurs Apr 24	Herbert Spohn, Technical University Munich
12:10   Hill 705	"Universality classes for coupled Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equations"


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

CMS  Tues Apr 29 	Kai Sun, University of Michigan
1:30   330W and Zoom    "Flat bands, topology, and fractionalization - a new pathway towards fractional topological states"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

AST  Tues Apr 29	Matthew Grayling, University of Cambridge
2:00   401W and Zoom	"Unveiling the Intrinsic Mass Step of Type Ia Supernovae"
			link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/g26yjt94

HET  Tues Apr 29 	Aishik Ghosh, UCI
2:30   385E and Zoom    TBA
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

SIP  Tues Apr 29 	Zhiqi Duan, Agni Purani, Rutgers University
5:40   330W		"Student Talks"

MPS  Wed Apr 30		Pablo Sartori, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine
10:45   Zoom		"Accurate self-assembly in a complex energy landscape"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/91598082677?pwd=7zw14OBsQX0Pt5UokoIeH1H1XI5QNW.1

COL  Wed Apr 30        	Ani Aprahamian, University of Notre Dame
3:30   330W and Zoom   	"Were the Superheavy Elements Made in Nature?"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/26z9hrza


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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/