The Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Newsletter       Number S26-8    2026-Mar 9

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


ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Departmental Senior Honors thesis presentations will take place after the Spring 
break in multiple sessions from Wednesday March 25 to Wednesday April 1st.  
Detailed session-by-session agenda to follow.


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.

AST  Tues Mar 10      	Genaro Suarez, American Museum of Natural History
11:00   330W and Zoom  	"Explaining the appearance of extrasolar worlds"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/g26yjt94

HEX  Tues Mar 10 	Christopher Palmer, University of Maryland
1:00   372E and Zoom   	"Making NLO Monte Carlo Behave: A Practical Reweighting Method for V+Jets Motivated by VHbb"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/mowjw2j0

CMS  Tues Mar 10 	Liang Wu, University of Pennsylvania
1:30   330W and Zoom    "Deterministic domain switching and magnetically switchable quantum geometric photocurrents in a Van der Waals antiferromagnet"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/a4i4dof1

HET  Tues Mar 10 	Inaki Garcia Etxebarria, Durham University
2:30   Zoom		"Symmetry TFTs for Continuous Spacetime Symmetries"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

MPS  Wed Mar 11  	Remi Monasson, LPENS
10:45   Zoom		"How can neural networks compute with few resources? Some insights from neuroscience"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95717453827?pwd=JvMf5O5UQSpXKuMXF9yxk3jvNyyeXw.1

IQB  Wed Mar 11        	Wen Jiang, Pennsylvania State University
12:00   Zoom            "Structural Diversity of Protein Amyloids in Neurodegenerative Diseases Visualized by cryo-EM"
                        link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98522736773

COL  Wed Mar 11       	Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
3:30   330W and Zoom   	"The Mathematics of Human Population Growth and CO2 Emissions"
                       	link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/26z9hrza

MPS  Thurs Mar 12	Valerio Lucarini, University of Leicester
12:10   Hill 705	"Linear Response and Optimal Fingerprinting for Nonautonomous Systems"

HET  Thurs Mar 12 	Yuan-Sen Ting, The Ohio State University
2:30   Zoom		"Expediting Astronomical Discovery with AI Agents"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f


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

HET  Tues Mar 17 	Daniel Harlow, MIT
2:30   Zoom		"Observers, alpha parameters, and the Hartle-Hawking state"
                        link:  https://go.rutgers.edu/pjrxfl2f

MPS  Wed Mar 18  	Edward Witten, IAS
10:45   Zoom		"Wormholes"
			link:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95717453827?pwd=JvMf5O5UQSpXKuMXF9yxk3jvNyyeXw.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/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/