Physics
Department Seminar Schedule
Please contact Ken Ahn (email: kenahn@njit.edu) for any questions or suggestions related to the seminars.
Information for students registered
for Phys 791 Doctoral Seminar for Spring 2024.
Next talk:
TBA
Future talks:
TBA
Past talks:
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 Peña,
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 Lanatà, 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)