Physics Department Seminar Schedule
Please
contact Ken Ahn (email: kenahn@njit.edu)
for any questions or suggestions related to the seminars.
Course website
for students
registered in Phys 791 Doctoral Seminar.
Next
talk:
9/18/25 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept.–Inst. for Space
Weather Sci. Colloquium:
Inferring Reconnection Dynamics from the Fine
Structure of Flare Ribbons
Dr. Joel Dahlin, U. of Maryland and GSFC
(Solar
Physics, Host: Haimin Wang)
***UPDATED ROOM: 463
Tiernan (Old Physics Dept Office)
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm with 12:45 pm teatime (**SPECIAL
TIME**)
***CORRECTED Zoom ID for those who cannot attend in-person: 955 9399 6954
(APPROVAL by Prof Ahn REQUIRED for APPH/MTSE PhD students to attend
online)
*Password:
check email or request from kenahn@njit.edu
Future
talks:
Week of 11/17/25 (Possibly 11/17/25 Monday)
Title: TBA
Speaker: TBA
(Terrestrial Physics, Host: Goodwin)
Room: TBA
Time: TBA
Past
talks:
9/15/25 Monday
Beyond
growth rates: Explaining the energy cascade during ionospheric instabilities
Dr. William Longley, CSTR, NJIT
(Terrestrial Physics, Host: Goodwin)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2025 Summer
6/17/25 Thursday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Dr. Paul Bernhardt, Univ. of Alaska - Fairbanks
(Space Physics & Remote Sensing, Host: Goodwin)
Room: ECE
202
Time:
1 pm - 2 pm with 12:45 pm teatime (**SPECIAL TIME**)
6/4/25 Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Solar Eclipses & Coincidental Substorms
Dr. Shane Coyle, Virginia Tech
(Space Physics, Host: Hyomin Kim)
Room: ECE
202
Time:
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm with 2 pm teatime (**SPECIAL TIME**)
2025 Spring
5/5/25 Monday
Dr. Kamal Choudhary, National Institute of Standards and Technology
(Materials Physics, Host: Tyson)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
4/30/25 Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept.–Inst. for Space
Weather Sci. Colloquium:
Sun-as-a-Star Flare Observations with
High-Resolution Telescopes
Dr. Alexander Pietrow, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam,
Germany
(Solar
Physics, Host: Haimin Wang)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
*ZOOM
Meeting ID for those who cannot attend in-person: 917 2169 7568
(APPROVAL by Prof Ahn REQUIRED for APPH/MTSE PhD Students to attend online)
*Password:
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4/17/25 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Functional
Nanoscale Structures for Advanced Precision Nanomedicine
Prof. Youwen “Warren” Zhang, Rutgers Univ.- Camden
(Biological and Materials Physics, Host: Dias)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
4/10/25 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept.–Inst. for Space
Weather Sci. Colloquium:
Dr. Viggo Hansteen, SETI Institute
(Solar Physics, Host: Jeongwoo Lee)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
*ZOOM
Meeting ID for those who cannot attend in-person: 917 2169 7568
(APPROVAL by Prof Ahn REQUIRED for APPH/MTSE PhD Students to attend online)
*Password:
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3/31/25 Monday
Dr. Devojyoti Kansabanik,
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
(Solar Physics, Host: Gary)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
3/24/25 Monday
Tuning into
the Sun: A Breakthrough Era in Solar Radio Observations
Dr. Sijie Yu, Dept of Physics, NJIT
(Solar Physics, Host: Bo Shen)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
3/12/25 Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Decoding
Solar Eruptions and Coronal Structure with Radio Imaging Spectroscopy and
Modeling
Dr. Peijin Zhang, Dept of Physics, NJIT
(Solar Physics, Host: Sirenko)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
3/10/25 Monday
Dr. Giulia Murtas, University of Hawai'i – Mānoa
(Solar Physics, Host: Perry)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
3/6/25 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Prof. Tao Zhou, Dept of Physics, NJIT
(Quantum Mechanics and Gravity)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
3/3/25 Monday
THz
Non-Destructive Evaluation of Biofluids for Cancer Detection using Chiral
Reconfigurable Sensors
Dr. Samaneh Pakniyat, UC-Davis
(Optics, Host: Federici)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2/24/25 Monday
Advancing
Real-time Monitoring with Terahertz Technology
Dr. Nha Uyen Huynh, Sandia National Laboratory
(Optics, Host: Federici)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2/19/25 Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
From Biomolecules to Porous Materials:
Terahertz Spectroscopy for Molecular Innovation
Dr. Johanna Koelbel, Brown Univ.
(Optics, Host: Federici)
*Room: FMH 408 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2/17/25 Monday
Prof. Tino Hofmann, Univ. of North Carolina -
Charlotte
(Optics, Host: Federici)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2/11/25 Tuesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Ionospheric
Studies with LOFAR
Dr. Maaijke Mevius, Netherlands Institute for
Radio Astronomy
(Terrestrial Physics, Host: Perry)
*Room: FMH 408 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2024 Fall
12/16/24, Monday
Prof. Andy Gerrard, Dept of Physics, NJIT
(Terrestrial Physics)
**TALK**: Tiernan 407, 11am - Noon
(** SPECIAL ROOM/TIME and NO TEA TIME**)
**HOLIDAY LUNCH**: Tiernan 406, from
Noon
11/21/24 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept.–Inst. for Space
Weather Sci. Colloquium:
Dr. Louis J. Lanzerotti, Dept of Physics, NJIT
(Solar
Physics, Host: Haimin Wang)
Room: ECE
202
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm with 12:45 pm teatime (**SPECIAL
TIME**)
*Zoom ID for those who cannot attend in-person: 917 2169 7568
(APPROVAL by Prof Ahn REQUIRED for APPH/MTSE PhD students to attend
online)
*Password:
check email or request from kenahn@njit.edu
11/8/24 Friday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Correlated
Dynamics and Non-Arrhenius Behaviors of Solid Ionic Diffusion
Prof. Hong Fang, Rutgers Univ.- Camden
(Materials Physics, Host: Ken Ahn)
*Room: 407 Tiernan (** SPECIAL ROOM **)
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
11/4/24 Monday (ROOM
CHANGED)
Understand the
Spatial Regulation of Cell Signaling by Multiscale Simulations
Prof. Yinghao Wu, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine
(Biophysics, Host: Dias)
**ROOM: Marjorie Perry Theatre,
Wellness & Events Center (1st Floor)
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
10/14/24 Monday
Materials with
Broken Mirror Symmetries
Prof. Junjie Yang, Dept of Physics, NJIT
(Materials Physics, Host: Tyson)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
9/23/24 Monday
All
Microflares that Accelerate Electrons to High-Energies are Rooted in Sunspots
Dr. Andrea Francesco Battaglia
Istituto ricerche solari Aldo e Cele Daccň
(IRSOL), Switzerland
(Solar Physics, Host: Nita)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
**Zoom
link for those who cannot attend in-person: Check email announcement or request
from Ken Ahn (kenahn@njit.edu).
(APPROVAL by Prof Ahn REQUIRED for APPH/MTSE PhD students to attend
online)
2024 Spring
4/12/24 *Friday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Recent
Progress Made in Ionospheric E-Region Turbulence Research
Dr. Jean-Pierre St.-Maurice, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada
(Terrestrial
Physics, Host: Perry)
*Room: FMH 408 (** SPECIAL ROOM **)
*Time:
10:15 am - 11:15 am with 10 am teatime (**SPECIAL TIME**)
*Webex
site for those who cannot attend in-person: https://njit.webex.com/meet/gperry
(APPROVAL
by Prof Ahn REQUIRED for APPH/MTSE PhD students to attend online)
4/1/24 Monday
Designing
Functional Material Interfaces from Computational Approach
Prof. Kesong Yang,
U.C. San Diego
(Materials
Physics, Host: Junjie Yang)
*Room:
Marjorie A. Perry Theatre, Joel & Diane Bloom Wellness & Events Center
(1st Floor) (** SPECIAL ROOM**)
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
3/7/24 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept.–Inst. for Space
Weather Sci. Colloquium:
Prediction of Solar Energetic Events
Directly from Solar Sources: Progress, Challenges, Expectations
Dr. Manolis Georgoulis, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
(Solar
Physics, Host: Haimin Wang)
Room: ECE
202
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm with 12:45 pm teatime (**SPECIAL
TIME**)
2/22/24 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Investigations
of Solar Activities of Various Scales in Both Theory and Observation
Dr. Jun Lin, Yunnan Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences
(Solar
Physics: Host: Bin Chen)
Room: ECE
202
**CORRECTED TIME: 10:15 am - 11:15 am with 10 am teatime
2/5/24 Monday
Laser-Induced
Plasma for Strong Field THz Sources
Dr. Yiwen E, Univ. of Rochester
(Optics,
Host: Benjamin Thomas)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2/1/24 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept.–Inst. for Space
Weather Sci. Colloquium:
History of the Solar Physics Division
Prof. Dale Gary, Dept. of Physics, NJIT
(Solar
Physics)
Room: ECE
202
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm with 12:45 pm teatime (**SPECIAL
TIME**)
*Webex Meeting ID for those who cannot attend in-person: 2621 447 3191
(APPROVAL by Prof Ahn REQUIRED for APPH/MTSE PhD students to attend
online)
*Password:
check email or request from kenahn@njit.edu
2/1/24 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Meta-Structures for Terahertz
Technologies
Dr. Subhajit Karmakar, Princeton Univ.
(Optics,
Host: Benjamin Thomas)
Room: 407 Tiernan (** SPECIAL
ROOM **)
Time:
10:15 am - 11:15 am with 10:00 am teatime (**SPECIAL
TIME**)
1/25/24 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Terahertz Technology: Heading Towards
Ubiquitous Applications
Dr. Junliang Dong, National Institute of
Scientific Research (INRS), Canada
(Optics,
Host: Benjamin Thomas)
Room: ECE
202
Time:
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm with 1:00 pm teatime (**SPECIAL
TIME**)
2023 Fall
11/20/23 Monday
Joint Physics-Chemistry & Env.
Sci. Depts. Seminar:
Thermomechanical
Properties of Molecular Crystals from Machine Learning Potentials
Dr. Ivor Lončarić, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia
(Materials
Physics and Chemistry, Host: Belfield)
*Room:
Marjorie A. Perry Theatre, Joel & Diane Bloom Wellness & Events Center
(1st Floor) (** SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 1:15
pm - 2:15 pm with 1 pm teatime (**SPECIAL TIME**)
11/6/23 Monday
Pleated
and Rippled beta-Sheet Motifs in Supramolecular Peptide Materials
Prof. Bradley Nilsson, Univ.
of Rochester, NY
(Bio/Materials
Physics, Host: Dias)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
10/30/23 Monday
Measuring Gravity by Dropping Atoms
Prof. Xuejian Wu, Rutgers University - Newark
(Atomic/Optical
Physics, Host: Ken Ahn)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
10/6/23, Friday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint NJIT Physics and Rutgers
Physics Seminar:
Theoretical
Design of Light Element Superconductors and Other (Quantum) Materials
Prof. Eva
Zurek, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo
(Materials
Phys., Host: Rutgers-Newark Physics Dept.)
*Room: Smith 245 (Coffee: Smith 206) in Rutgers Newark campus (map) (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 11:30am - 12:30 pm
(Coffee: 11-11:30 am) (** SPECIAL TIME**)
2023 Spring
4/17/23 Monday
Entropy-Driven Mechanics of Biological
and Crystalline Membranes
Prof. Fatemeh Ahmadpoor, Dept. of Mechanical Engr., NJIT
(Materials/Biological
Physics, Host: Prodan)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
4/14/23, Friday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint NJIT Physics and Rutgers
Physics-Chemistry Seminar:
Dr. David
Garcia, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid & Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,
Spain
(Materials
Physics/Optics, Host: Rugters-Newark Physics/Chemistry Dept.)
*Room: Smith 246 (Coffee: Smith 206) in Rutgers Newark campus (map) (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 1:30 - 2:30 pm (Coffee: 2:30-3:30 pm) (** SPECIAL TIME**)
4/10/23 Monday
Modelling to Support High Latitude Radio
Propagation Studies: How Far Can Empirical Methods Take Us?
Dr. David Themens, University of Birmingham, U.K.
(Terrestrial
Physics, Host: Perry)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
3/28/23 Tuesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Dr. Denny Oliveira, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
(Terrestrial
Physics, Host: Hyomin Kim)
Room: ECE
202
Time:
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm teatime (**SPECIAL
TIME**)
3/20/23 Monday
Near-Infrared Optical Sensors to Monitor
Flying Insects
Prof. Benjamin Thomas, Dept of Physics, NJIT
(Optics)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
Joint Physics Dept.–Inst. for Space
Weather Science Colloquium:
3/9/23 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Coronal Jets, Their Impact on the
Heliosphere, and How to Catch Them with Citizen Science
Dr. Sophie Musset, European Space Agency
(Solar
Physics, Host: Haimin Wang)
Room: ECE
202
Time:
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm with 1 pm teatime (**SPECIAL
TIME**)
2/21/23 Tuesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Metastable materials discovery through
navigating energy landscapes
Prof. Li Zhu, Rutgers Univ. Newark
(Materials
Physics, Host: Tyson)
Room: FMH 408 (** SPECIAL
ROOM **)
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
1/30/23 Monday
Ionospheric flow channels from different
perspectives
Joaquín Díaz Peńa, Boston University
(Terrestrial
Physics, Host: Goodwin)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2022 Fall
12/5/22 Monday
Pattern formation in biological systems via
mechanical instabilities and phase separation
Prof. Andrej Kosmrlj, Princeton Univ.
(Biological/Materials
Physics, Host: Prodan)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
11/14/22 Monday
Micro-swimmers Moving in Complex Confinement
Prof. Enkeleida Lushi, Dept. of Math, NJIT
(Biological/Materials
Physics, Host: Prodan)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
11/11/22 Friday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Predicting robust emergent function in active
networks
Prof. Evelyn Tang, Rice Univ.
(Biological/Materials
Physics, Host: Prodan)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
10/4/22 Tuesday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Fantastic auroral forms & where
to find them
Dr. Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
(Terrestrial
Physics, Host: Perry)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
9/26/22 Monday
Deep solar convection, properties of
turbulent motions, large scale flows & convective conundrum
Prof. Gustavo Guerrero, Universidade Federal de
Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
(Solar
Physics, Host: Gerrard)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
9/19/22 Monday
Amyloid beta-protein folding and oligomer
formation: Molecular dynamics perspective
Prof. Brigita Urbanc, Drexel Univ.
(Biological
Physics, Host: Dias)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2022 Summer
7/6/22 Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Monolayer Adsorption Versus Bulk
Micellization: Insight from Molecular Simulations
Dr. Matej Kanduc, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
(Bio/Materials
Phys., Host: Dias)
Time: 11 am – noon
(**SPECIAL TIME**)
Room: Tiernan 112 (** SPECIAL ROOM **)
2022 Spring
4/25/22 Monday
Critical Mechanical Structures and
Transformable Topological Metamaterials
Prof. Xiaoming Mao, Univ. of Michigan Ann Arbor
(Condensed
Matter/Materials Physics, Host: Prodan)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am
teatime
4/19/22 Tuesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere
Coupling via Electron Precipitation
Dr. Xiao-Jia Zhang, Univ. of California Los Angeles
(Solar
& Terrestrial Physics, Host: Gerrard)
Room: ECE
202
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm teatime (** SPECIAL TIME**)
4/7/22 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
The
Role of Sun to Earth Coupling in Ionospheric Electric Field and Plasma Density
Structures
Dr. Lindsay Goodwin, NJIT
(Solar
& Terrestrial Physics, Host: Gerrard)
Room: ECE
202
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm teatime (** SPECIAL TIME**)
4/5/22 Tuesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Topological
Materials: Opportunities and Challenges in Near-term Quantum Computations
Dr. Xiao Xiao, North Carolina State University
(Condensed
Matter/Materials Physics, Host: Gerrard)
Room: ECE
202
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm teatime (** SPECIAL TIME**)
4/4/22
Monday
Dr. Fan Guo, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(Solar
& Terrestrial Physics, Host: Bin Chen)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:40 am - 12:40 pm with door opening at 11:30 am (**SPECIAL
TIME**)
2021 Fall
11/29/21 Monday
Physics-Based Machine Learning of Protein
Structure and Function
Prof. Guillaume Lamoureux, Rutgers University Camden
(Biophysics,
Host: Dias)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:40 am - 12:40 pm with door opening at 11:30am (** SPECIAL
TIME **)
Joint Physics Dept.–Inst. for Space
Weather Sci. Colloquium:
9/16/21 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Turbulence and the Heating of the Solar Corona
Prof. Gary Zank, Univ. of Alabama
(Solar & Terrestrial Physics, Host: Wang)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 1 pm – 2pm with
door opening at 12:45 pm (**SPECIAL TIME**)
2021 Spring
3/10/21 Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
A Non-relativistic Theory of Quantum Mechanics
and Gravity with Local Modulus Symmetry
Prof. Tao Zhou, NJIT
(Quantum
Mechanics and General Relativity, Host: Sirenko)
*Webex Meeting
ID: 120 620 5353
*Password: check email or request from kenahn@njit.edu
*Time: 2pm - 3pm with 1:50 pm virtual teatime (**SPECIAL TIME**)
1/21/21 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Support for Research and Education in Solar
and Space Physics at NSF in 2021
Dr. Ilia
I. Roussev
Program Director, National Science Foundation
(Solar & Terrestrial Physics, Host: Wang)
*Webex Meeting
ID: 120 263 2079
*Password: check email or request from kenahn@njit.edu
*Time: 1pm - 2pm (**SPECIAL TIME**)
2020 Fall
11/9/20 Monday
Competition between orbital and spin angular
momenta of light at the antiferromagnetic resonances
Prof. Andrei Sirenko, NJIT
(Condensed
Matter/Materials Physics, Host: Tao Zhou)
*Webex Meeting ID: 120 942 1705
*Password:
check email/poster or request from kenahn@njit.edu
*Time: 11:10 am - 12:10 pm with 11 am
virtual teatime (**NEW TIME**)
9/18/20 Friday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept.–Inst. for Space
Weather Sci. –Solar Physics Webinar of
Global Reach SolFER Colloquium:
High Resolution Observations of Solar
Flares
Prof. Haimin Wang, NJIT
(Solar
& Terrestrial Physics, Host: Fleishman)
*Webex Meeting ID: 924 797 400
*Password:
check email/poster or request from kenahn@njit.edu
*Time: 1pm - 2pm (** SPECIAL TIME**)
9/10/20 Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept.–Inst. for Space
Weather Sci. Colloquium:
Space Weather: What It Is, Why
It's Important
Dr. Louis J. Lanzerotti, NJIT
(Solar
& Terrestrial Physics, Host: Wang)
*Webex Meeting ID and Password: check email/poster or request from
kenahn@njit.edu
*Time: 1pm - 2pm with 12:50pm attendance check for Phys791 students
(** SPECIAL
TIME**)
2020 Spring
3/9/20 Monday
Field-Aligned Modelling of Solar Flares:
Testing Theories and Interpreting Observations
Dr. Graham Kerr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
(Theoretical
Solar Physics, Host: Cao)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
3/4/20 Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Modeling Solar Eruptions at High Resolution
Dr. Joel Dahlin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
(Theoretical
Solar Physics, Host: Cao)
*Room: FMH 408 (** SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm teatime (** SPECIAL TIME**)
3/2/20 Monday
Solar Energetic Particles and Their Forecast
Dr. Lulu Zhao, Florida Institute of Technology
(Theoretical
Solar Physics, Host: Cao)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2/26/20 Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
On the Radial Evolution of
Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Solar Atmosphere and Solar Wind
Prof. Jean C. Perez, Florida Institute of Technology
(Theoretical
Solar Physics, Host: Cao)
*Room: FMH 408 (** SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm teatime (** SPECIAL TIME**)
2/24/20 Monday
Heliophysics in
the Solar System and Beyond
Dr. Sofia P. Moschou, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(Theoretical
Solar Physics, Host: Cao)
*Room: FMH 408 (** ROOM CHANGED TO SPECIAL ROOM**)
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2/11/20, Tuesday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
How machine learning helps to analyze
solar disk images
Prof. Egor Illarionov, Moscow Univ.
(Solar
Physics, Host: Nita)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am teatime
2019 Fall
12/12/19, Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Machine
Learning with Schrödinger equation
Dr. Guangqi Li, Columbia Univ.
(Materials
Physics, Host: Ken Ahn)
**TALK**: Room: Tiernan 409, 11:30am
- 12:30pm (** SPECIAL ROOM/TIME and NO TEA TIME**)
**LUNCH**: Room: Tiernan 406, 12:30pm
– 4pm
11/11/19, Monday
Joint Physics Dept.–Inst. of Space
Weather Sci. (Distinguished Speaker of ISWS) Seminar:
Dr. Nicole Fox, NASA Headquarters
(Solar Physics, Host: Wang)
*Room: 112 Eberhardt Hall
(** SPECIAL ROOM**)
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
11/4/19, Monday
Soft Materials Approaches to Carbon Nanotubes:
Gels and Composites
Prof.
Mohammad F. Islam, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
(Materials
Physics, Host: Prodan)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
10/25/19, Friday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Rutgers Physics-NJIT Physics-MtSE Seminar:
High-throughput discovery of semiconductor
photocatalysts for water splitting
Prof. Ismaila Dabo, Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State
Univ.
(Materials Physics, Host: Rugters-Newark Physics Dept.)
*Room: Tea: Smith 206,
Seminar: Smith 206 or 241 at Rutgers Newark campus (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm with 1 pm tea time (** SPECIAL TIME**)
9/16/19, Monday
Prof. Jean
Perez, Florida Institute of Technology
(Solar Physics, Host: Bin Chen)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2019 Spring
4/22/19, Monday
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
Ablation of liquids with X-ray lasers: From
enabling MHz-rate measurements to uncovering new physics
Prof.
Claudiu Stan, Rutgers Univ.-Newark
(Condensed Matter/Materials Physics, Host: Tyson)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
4/8/19, Monday
INMS: A tiny time of flight mass spectrometer
for CubeSats
Dr. Sarah Jones, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
(Terrestrial Physics, Host: Hyomin Kim)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
3/14/19, Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
Atomic Resolution through Simulations?
Rethinking Biomolecular Model Development
Dr. Markus Miettinen, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
(Biophysics, Host: Dias)
*Room: Tiernan 408 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 11:15 am - 12:15 pm with 11 am tea time (** SPECIAL TIME**)
3/11/19, Monday
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
X-ray Vision of Quantum Materials: From
Fundamental Insights to Technological Perspectives
Dr. Ignace Jarrige, Brookhaven National Laboratory
(Experimental
Condensed Matter/Materials Physics,
Host: Ahn)
Room: ECE
202
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time (** SPECIAL TIME**)
3/11/19, Monday
Alfven Wave Damping and Heating in Coronal
Holes
Dr. Michael
Hahn, Columbia Univ.
(Solar Physics, Host: Wang)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2/27/19, Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
Strong Quantum Fluctuations in a New Quantum
Spin Liquid Candidate
Dr. Ruidan Zhong, Dept. of Chemistry, Princeton
Univ.
(Experimental
Condensed Matter/Materials Physics,
Host: Tyson)
*Room: Tiernan 408 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time (** SPECIAL TIME**)
2/25/19, Monday
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
When Electrons Meet Light: Attosecond
Coherent Control of Matter Waves for Low-Dimensional Photonics
Dr. Giovanni Vanacore, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne,
Switzerland
(Experimental
Condensed Matter/Materials Physics,
Host: Federici)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2/20/19, THURSDAY
(**NEW SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
Tuning Quantum Phase Transitions in Chiral
Materials
Prof. Junjie Yang
Dept. of Physics, Central Michigan Univ.
(Experimental
Condensed Matter/Materials Physics,
Host: Federici)
*Room: ECE 202 (**NEW ROOM**)
*Time: 11:45 am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time (** NEW TIME**)
2/18/19, Monday
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
Atomic and
Molecular Manipulation for Nanoscience and Quantum Information Science
Dr. Yuan Zhang
Center for
Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
(Experimental
Condensed Matter/Materials Physics,
Host: Tyson)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2/13/19, Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
Advanced Manufacturing of 3D Biomedical
Devices
Dr. Daeha Joung
Dept. of Mechanical Eng., U. of Minnesota
(Experimental Condensed Matter/Materials Physics, Host: Federici)
*Room: Tiernan 408 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time (** SPECIAL TIME**)
1/16/19, Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Some Unresolved Problems of Physics of
Ultra-Low-Frequency Waves in Space Plasma
Dr. Vyacheslav (Slava) A. Pilipenko, Inst. of Physics of Earth &
Space Research Inst., Russia
(Terrestrial
Physics, Host: Hyomin Kim)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2018 Fall
12/14/18, Friday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Physics Dept-MtSE
Joint Seminar:
Engineering Topological Quantum Physics at Atomic
Scale
Prof. Seongshik Oh
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,
New Brunswick, NJ
(Condensed Matter/Materials Physics, Host: Ahn)
**TALK**: Tiernan 409, 11:30am -
12:30pm (** SPECIAL ROOM/TIME and NO TEA TIME**)
**LUNCH**: Tiernan 406, 12:30pm – 4pm
11/16/18, Friday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
The Strange Case of Vigorous Thermospheric Vertical Winds in Aurora
Dr. John
Meriwether, Clemson Univ. & NJIT
(Terrestrial Physics, Host: Gerrard)
Room: ECE
202
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time (** SPECIAL TIME**)
10/29/18, Monday
Magnetohydrodynamic Seismology of the
Solar Coronal Plasma with Kink Waves
Prof.
Valery M. Nakariakov, University of Warwick, U. K.
(Solar Physics, Host: Fleishman)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
10/19/18, Friday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Physics Dept - MtSE
Joint Seminar:
Hunting
for Topological Phases amidst Hofstadter Butterflies and Disordered Landscapes
Prof.
Smitha Vishveshwara, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(Condensed
Matter/Materials Physics, Host: Prodan)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
10/1/18, Monday
You Are What You Eat: The Biophysical
Consequences of Fat
Prof. Ed Lyman, Univ. of Delaware
(Biophysics, Host: Dias)
Room: ECE
202
*Time: 1:15pm - 2:15pm with 1pm tea time (**SPECIAL TIME**)
9/26/18, Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Observations and Modeling of Flare-productive
Active Regions on the Sun
Dr. Shin Toriumi, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
(Solar
Physics - MHD Modeling, Host: Wang)
*Room: FMH 408 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 3:45pm-4:45pm with 3:30pm teatime (**SPECIAL TIME**)
9/24/18, Monday
Physics Dept - MtSE
Joint Seminar:
Bright Lights, Big Opportunities for
Quantum Materials Research at NSLS-II
Drs. Ignace Jarrige and Claudio Mazzoli, Brookhaven National Laboratory
(Condensed
Matter Physics/Materials Physics, Host:
Sirenko)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2018 Spring
4/2/18, Monday
Physics Dept - MtSE
Joint Seminar:
The Birth of New Particles from Structure and
Disorder at a Topological Insulator Surface
Prof. L. Andrew Wray, Dept. of
Physics, NYU
(Condensed
Matter/Materials Physics, Host: Ken Ahn)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
3/26/18, Monday
Large-Scale Multi-Point Observations of the
Sun-Earth Connection
Dr. Hyomin Kim, NJIT
(Terrestrial
Physics, Host: Gary)
*Room: Tiernan 409 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time (**SPECIAL TIME**)
3/19/18, Monday
ElectroMagnetic Ion
Cyclotron Waves in the Geospace
Dr. Jichun Zhang, Univ. of New Hampshire
(Terrestrial
Physics, Host: Gerrard)
*Room: FMH 408 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time
(**SPECIAL TIME**)
3/5/18, Monday
The Impact of Space Weather on the Earth’s
High-Latitude Ionosphere
Dr. Gareth
Perry, U. of Calgary
(Terrestrial
Physics, Host: Gerrard)
*Room: FMH 408 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time
(**SPECIAL TIME**)
2/28/18, Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Dr. Jacob
Bortnik, UCLA
(Terrestrial
Physics, Host: Gerrard)
*Room: Tiernan 406 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time
(**SPECIAL TIME**)
2/26/18, Monday
Solar Flares and Energetic Particles
Prof. Eduard Kontar, University of Glasgow, U. K.
(Solar
Physics, Host: Fleishman)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2017 Fall
12/18/17, Monday
Physics Dept-MtSE
Joint Seminar:
Synthesis of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
beyond Graphene
Prof. Eui-Hyeok Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
(Device
Physics/Materials Science, Host:
Federici)
**TALK**: Tiernan 409, 11:30am -
12:30pm (** SPECIAL ROOM/TIME and NO TEA TIME**)
**LUNCH**: Tiernan 406, 12:30pm – 4pm
12/4/17, Monday
Physics Dept-MtSE
Joint Seminar:
Magnesium Regulates the Circadian Oscillator
in Cyanobacteria
Prof. Yong Ick Kim, Dept. of Chemistry and Environmental Science, NJIT
(Biophysics//Materials
Science, Host: Dias)
*Room: FMH 408 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
10/12/17, Thursday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Physics Dept-MtSE
Joint Seminar:
V 3d – O 2p Hybridization Anomaly at Crossover
Temperature in V2O3
Dr. Chang-Yong Kim, Canadian Light Source Inc., Canada
(Condensed
Matter/Materials Physics, Host: Tyson)
Room: ECE
202
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time
(**SPECIAL TIME**)
10/2/17, Monday
Prof. C. Z. Cheng, Lehigh University
(Solar
Physics, Host: Gary)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
9/27/17, Wednesday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
NJIT-Rutgers Physics Depts Joint
Seminar:
Light Emission from Particle Beam Excited
Gases
Prof. Dr.
Andreas Ulrich, Technical University of Munich, Germany
(Experimental
Astro-Particle Physics, Host: Murnick)
*Room: FMH 408, NJIT (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time
(**SPECIAL TIME**)
9/11/17, Monday
Physics Dept-MtSE
Joint Seminar:
Polarization Induced Conduction and
Screening
Prof. Yukio Watanabe, Kyushu University, Japan
(Condensed
Matter/Materials Physics, Host: Gordon
Thomas)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2017 Spring
*5/23/17, Tuesday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
Prof. Emil V. Prodan, Yeshiva University
(Theoretical
Condensed Matter Physics, Host: Tyson)
Room: ECE
202
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time
(**SPECIAL TIME**)
*5/11/17, Thursday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
First Principles Calculations of Strongly
Correlated Materials: A Variational
Perspective
Dr. Nicola Lanatŕ, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State
Univ.
(Theoretical
Condensed Matter Physics, Host: Ken Ahn)
Room: ECE
202
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time
(**SPECIAL TIME**)
*5/9/17, Tuesday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
Domains and Domain Switching in a
Structurally Complex Ferroelectric Oxide
Dr. Elizabeth Nowadnick
School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
(Theoretical
Condensed Matter Physics, Host: Tyson)
*Room: Campus Center Room 215 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time
(**SPECIAL TIME**)
*5/4/17, Thursday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
Challenges and Advances in Ab Initio Materials Simulation
Dr. Linda Hung, Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standard and Technology
(Theoretical
Condensed Matter Physics, Host: Tao
Zhou)
Room: ECE
202
*Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm with 2:30 pm tea time
(**SPECIAL TIME**)
*3/29/17, Wednesday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint Physics Dept -Math Dept
Seminar:
Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University
of Maryland College Park
(Particle
Physics, Host: Physics Dept, Math Dept & CAMS of CSLA)
*Room: Central King Building G8 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 11am-12:15pm with 10:45am tea time (**SPECIAL TIME**)
2/27/17, Monday
Dr. Corina T. Bot
Nanion
Technologies Inc., Livingston, NJ
(Biophysics, Host: Prodan)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2/6/17, Monday
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland,
Switzerland
(Solar physics, Host: Bin Chen)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
1/30/17, Monday
Magnetic
Reconnection in Space and Laboratory Plasmas
Prof. C. Z.
“Frank” Cheng
Institute
of Space and Plasma Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
(Solar physics, Host: Gary)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2016 Fall
*12/15/16, Thursday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Topological Materials: The Story behind the
2016 Physics Nobel Prize
Prof. Emil V. Prodan, Physics Dept., Yeshiva Univ.
(Condensed
Matter & Biophysics, Host: Gordon Thomas)
**TALK**: Tiernan 409, 11:30am -
12:30pm (** SPECIAL ROOM/TIME and NO TEA TIME**)
**LUNCH**: Tiernan 406, 12:30pm – 4pm
*12/8/16, Thursday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Prof. Kwangsun Ryu, Satellite Research Center, KAIST, South Korea
(Terrestrial
Physics, Host: Hyomin Kim)
*Room: Tiernan 373 (**SPECIAL
ROOM**)
*Time: 10:15am-11:15am with 10am tea time (**SPECIAL TIME**)
12/5/16, Monday
HamSCI and the
2017 Total Solar Eclipse
Dr. Nathaniel A. Frissell, Dept. of Physics, NJIT
(Terrestrial
Physics)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
10/3/16, Monday
Joint Physics Dept-MtSE Seminar:
First Principles Study and Design of Functional
Materials for Energy Applications
Prof. Su-Huai Wei, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China
(Condensed
Matter/Materials Physics, Host: Chin)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
9/30/16, Friday
(**SPECIAL DAY**)
Joint MtSE-Physics
Dept Seminar:
Ultrafast Optical Characterization of Novel
Mid-Infrared Nanoscale Structures
Prof. Anthony M. Johnson, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
(Optics
& Materials Physics, Host: Ravindra)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
9/12/16, Monday
Electric Currents in Solar Atmosphere
Prof. Gregory D. Fleishman, Dept. of Physics, NJIT
(Solar physics)
Room: ECE
202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2016 Spring
5/2/16, Monday
Explosions on the Sun: New Insights from
Recent Radio Observations
Prof. Bin Chen, Dept. of Physics, NJIT
(Solar physics)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
4/25/16, Monday
All the Sky, All the Time: The Owens
Valley Long Wavelength Array
Prof. Gregg Hallinan, Astronomy Dept., Caltech
(Radio
Astronomy, Host: Gary)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
*4/19/16, Tuesday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Nanoparticle Synthesis by Laser Ablation in
Liquids
Prof. Sean M. O’Malley, Dept. of Physics, Rutgers University-Camden
(Materials
Physics, Host: Sirenko)
*Room: FMH 408 (**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm with 1 pm tea time (**SPECIAL TIME**)
3/28/16, Monday
Peptide
Self-Assembly: From Dysfunction to Function
Prof. Bradley Nilsson, Univ.
of Rochester, NY
(Biophysics, Host: Dias)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
*2/18/16, Thursday (**SPECIAL DAY**)
Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Land Surfaces
for Ecological Research
Dr. Youngwook Kim
Dept. of
Ecosystem & Conservation Sciences
The University of Montana
(Optics
& Remote Sensing, Host: Federici)
*Room: FMH 408
(**SPECIAL ROOM**)
*Time: 2:45pm - 3:45pm with 2:30 pm tea time
(**SPECIAL TIME**)
*2/10/16, Wednesday (**NOTE SPECIAL DAY**)
Remote Sensing and Optical Spectroscopy as
Sensors for Environmental Monitoring
Dr. Benjamin Thomas, NOAA-CREST, CCNY
(Optics
& Remote Sensing, Host: Federici)
Room: ECE
202
*Time: 2:35 pm - 3:35 pm with 2:30 pm tea time
(**NOTE SPECIAL TIME**)
2/8/16, Monday
Confronting Complexity in Out-of-equilibrium
and Biological Systems with Table-top Instrumentation
Dr. Hunter King, Harvard University
(Optics
& Remote Sensing, Host: Federici)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2015 Fall
12/14/15, Monday
Long-range Interactions from Atoms to Neutrons
Dr. James F. Babb, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
MA
(Atomic/Nuclear
Physics, Host: Schaden)
**TALK**: Tiernan 406, 11:30am -
12:30pm (** SPECIAL ROOM/TIME and NO TEA TIME**)
**LUNCH**: Tiernan 409, 12:30pm – 4pm
12/7/15, Monday
Mechanism and Function of Chromatin
Positional Dynamics in Interphase
Prof. Alexandra Zidovska, Dept. of Physics, NYU
(Biophysics, Host: Prodan)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
11/30/15, Monday
Fast Magnetic Reconnection in
Astrophysical & Laboratory Plasmas
Prof.
Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University
(Solar Physics, Host: Kosovichev)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
11/16/15, Monday
Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Basic
Building Blocks for Advanced Energy Conversion Devices
Prof. Dong
Kyun Ko, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NJIT
(Materials/Device
Physics, Host: Ahn)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
10/19/15, Monday
The Underlying Mechanism of Vision Therapy
revealed using Functional Imaging
Prof. Tara Alvarez, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering, NJIT
(Biophysics, Host: Thomas/Dias)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
9/28/15, Monday
Big Bear Solar Observatory -- Cool Toys for
Observing Our Warm Star
Prof. Wenda
Cao, Dept. of Physics, NJIT
(Solar
Physics)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2015 Spring
4/27/15, Monday
Ion Channel Engineering: New Molecules
use Physics to Keep your Heart Beating
Prof. Henry M. Colecraft, Department of
Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University
(Biophysics, Host: Thomas)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
3/30/15, Monday
How an NJIT Physics PhD Made the Transition to
a High Tech Company
Dr. Sheng Liu, Polarization Solutions, Somerset, NJ
(Device Physics & Physics Career, Host: Thomas)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
3/9/15, Monday
Why is the Solar Corona So Hot?
Dr. James A. Klimchuk, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
(Solar Physics, Host: Gary)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2/13/15, Friday (** NOTE SPECIAL DAY **)
Detecting Interplanetary Dust Particles
with Radars to Study the Dynamics at the Edge of Space
Dr. Diego Janches, NASA/GSFC, Space Weather Lab
(Terrestrial Physics, Host: Gerrard)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2/2/15, Monday
Photonic Signal Processing using Integrated
Optical Circuits
Dr. Inuk Kang, LGS Innovations, Florham Park, NJ
(Optics, Host: Ahn)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
1/26/15, Monday
Dr. Markus Miettinen,
Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
(Biophysics, Host: Dias)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
2014 Fall
12/8/14, Monday
Infrared and THz from Relativistic Electrons:
NSLS-II and Beyond
Dr. G.
Larry Carr, Brookhaven National Laboratory
(Condensed
Matter Physics, Host: Sirenko)
**TALK**: ECE 202, 11:15am - 12:30pm
(** NOTE SPECIAL TIME and NO TEA TIME**)
**LUNCH**: Tiernan 407, 12:30pm - 4pm
12/1/14, Monday
Adaptive Spatial RFI Mitigation for Radio
Astronomy
Dr. Gregory Hellbourg, CSIRO Astronomy and Space
Science, Sydney, Australia
(Astronomy
& Instrumentation Physics, Host: Nita)
Room: ECE202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
11/17/14, Monday
Research in the Space Weather Research
Laboratory (SWRL) of NJIT
Prof. Haimin Wang, NJIT
(Solar
Physics)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
11/14/14, Friday (** NOTE SPECIAL DAY **)
Enabling Blue LEDs using Metalorganic Chemical
vapor Deposition (MOCVD)
Dr. Chris Ebert, Veeco, Somerset, NJ
(Device
Physics, Host: Sirenko)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
10/20/14, Monday
Terahertz Wireless Communication: The Next
Generation Wireless System
Prof. John
F. Federici, NJIT
(Optics)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
10/13/14, Monday (** NOTE SPECIAL MONDAY **)
Modeling Protein-Membrane Interactions and
Pore Formation
Prof. Themis Lazaridis, The City College of New
York
(Biophysics, Host: Dias)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
10/6/14, Monday
Domain Topology and Color Theorems
Prof.
Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University New Brunswick
(Condensed
Matter Physics, Host: Sirenko)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
9/8/14, Monday
Prof.
Andrew J. Gerrard, NJIT
(Terrestrial
Physics)
Room: ECE 202
Time: 11:45
am - 12:45 pm with 11:30 am tea time
Talks
before 2011:
4/26/10,
Monday
Improved Performance Sugar-Based Mateirals
Prof.
Michael Jaffe, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, NJIT
(Materials
Physics, Host: Ravindra)
4/19/10,
Monday
Seeing the Color of Breast Cancer:Raman Spectroscopy for Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Dr. Abigail
Haka,Weill Cornell Medical
College
(Optics/Biophysics,
Host: Thomas)
4/12/10,
Monday
Scientific Instrumentation for the 1.6-m New Solar
Telescope in Big Bear
Prof. Wenda
Cao, NJIT
(Solar
& Terrestrial Physics)
3/29/10,
Monday
Proposal Evaluation Criteria for NSF Grants: An
open discussion (**NOTE SPECIAL TOPIC AND DISCUSSION)
Prof. Louis
J. Lanzerotti, NJIT
(Science
Policy)
3/8/10, Monday
Cell
Communications at the Nanoscale
Prof.
Reginald C. Farrow, NJIT
(Biophysics)
3/1/10, Monday
Structural Vortex in Multiferroic Hexagonal Manganites
Prof. Weida
Wu, Rutgers University New Brunswick
(Condensed
Matter Physics, Host: Ahn)
2/8/10, Monday
Profs. John
Federici and
Gordon Thomas, NJIT (** TWO SPEAKERS**)
(Device
Physics)
1/25/10, Monday
Laser-Based
Sensing for Health and the Environment
Dr. Anna P.
M. Michel, Princeton University
(Biophysics,
Host: Thomas)
12/7/09, Monday
The New Solar Telescope in Big Bear
Prof.
Philip R. Goode, NJIT
(Solar
& Terrestrial Physics)
* 11/6/09, Friday (*NOTE SPECIAL DATE*)
Nonlinear
Optical Tissue Imaging
Prof. Feruz
Ganikhanov, West Virginia University
(Optics /
Biophysics, Host: Thomas)
5/5/08, Monday
Biophysics
using Raman Spectroscopy
Dr. Aysegul Ergin, Boston University
(Biophysics,
Host: Thomas)
*4/28/08, Monday
Electropolymeric Display and Window Technology
Dr. Elliott
Schlam, New Visual Media Group, LLC, New Jersey
(Materials
/ Device Physics, Host: Levy)
3/31/08, Monday
Solar
Coronal Magnetic Fields: Source of Space Weather
Dr. Thomas
Wiegelmann, Max Planck Institute, Germany
(Solar &
Terrestrial Physics, Host: Wang)
*2/19/08, Tuesday (* NOTE SPECIAL DATE and
TIME)
Concentrator
Photovoltiacs for Electricity Production
Dr. Daniel
Friedman, US DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(Materials
/ Device Physics, Host: Tyson)
11/19/07, Monday
Electrophysiology
in Drug Discovery
Dr. Kevin
Carlin, Purdue Pharma
(Biophysics,
Host: Prodan)
*11/12/07, Monday
The Frequency
Agile Solar Radiotelescope: On the Cusp of the Future
Prof. Dale
Gary, NJIT
(Solar &
Terrestrial Physics)
11/5/07, Monday
Amorphous
Insulator: Unnecessary Evil in Superconducting Quantum Bits
Prof. Seongshik
(Sean) Oh, Rutgers University New Brunswick
(Condensed
Matter Physics, Host: Ahn)
10/22/07, Monday
Prof. John
Federici, NJIT
(Optics)
9/24/07, Monday
Direct imaging
of nano-scale electronic phase separation in La1-xCaxMnO3
Dr. Jing
Tao, Brookhaven National Laboratory
(Condensed
Matter Physics, Host: Tyson)
*9/17/07, Monday
Active
Optical Sensing: a Gallimaufry of Applications
Prof. Tim
Kane, The Pennsylvania State University
(Solar & Terrestrial Physics, Host: Gerrard)