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Physics and Astronomy
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Past Seminars

Fall 2022

Spring 2022

Fall 2021

Spring 2021

  • 10 February 2021 (Wednesday), 8:00pm (on Zoom), NJAG/Astronomy Club monthly lecture
  • 17 February 2021 (Wednesday), 1:35pm (on Zoom, non-public), Physics Club event
    Physics Club beginning of semester welcome event
  • 10 March 2021 (Wednesday), 8:00pm (on Zoom), NJAG/Astronomy Club monthly lecture
  • 17 March 2021 (Wednesday), 12:30pm (on Zoom, non-public), Physics Club event
    Physics Bridge Programs, Lita de la Cruz (Princeton University)
  • 31 March 2021 (Wednesday), 11:30pm (on Zoom, non-public), Physics Club event
    Fermi Problems and the Fermi Paradox
  • 14 April 2021 (Wednesday), 8:00pm (on Zoom), NJAG/Astronomy Club monthly lecture
  • 28 April 2021 (Wednesday), 11:30am (on Zoom, public, email Marc Favata for link), Department Colloquium
    Advanced gravitational-wave detectors and beyond: Improving sensitivity with Faraday isolators
    Prof. Rodica Martin (ÌÇÐÄvlog)
  • 12 May 2021 (Wednesday), 11:30am (Zoom, non-public), Physics Club & Department Event
    Physics Club End-of-Year Gathering, Scholarship Awards, and Graduating Senior Recognition Event
  • 12 May 2021 (Wednesday), 8:00pm (on Zoom), NJAG/Astronomy Club monthly lecture
    MSU student research projects

Fall 2020

  • 16 September 2020 (Wednesday), 2:00pm (on Zoom, non-public), Physics Club & Department event
    Physics Club start-of-semester virtual gathering
  • 7 October 2020 (Wednesday), 3:00pm (on Zoom, non-public), Physics club event
    Physics club get-together
  • 21 October 2020 (Wednesday), 2:00pm (on Zoom, non-public), Physics Club & Department event
    Career Advice, Prof. Marc Favata
  • 4 November 2020 (Wednesday), 5:00pm (on Zoom, non-public), CSAM Career Services & Physics Club event
    CSAM Physics Careers Night
  • 11 November 2020 (Wednesday), 2:00pm (on Zoom, public), MSU Library, Physics Club, & Department event
    Prof. Alfredo Carnevali, ÌÇÐÄvlog
    Nuclear Weapons in Space: From “Star Wars” to “Space Force”Ìý
  • 2 December 2020 (Wednesday), 2:00pm (on Zoom, non-public), Physics Club & Department event
    Overview of the Green Teams Program (by Dr. Amy Tuininga) and end-of-semester gathering

Spring 2020

Fall 2019

2018-2019

  • 13 February 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pm in CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
    Prof. Hyumin Kim, NJIT
    Doing Solar Physics While Living in Antarctica
  • (TO BE RESCHEDULED) 20 February 2019, 3:00 pm – 4:30pm in CELS 120,ÌýDepartment Colloquium
    Prof. Catalin Martin, Ramapo College
    Superconductivity: Why it keeps fascinating scientists 100 years after its discovery
  • 13 March 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pm in CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
    Ken Udani, NJAG
    The Arecibo Radio Telescope
  • 26 March 2019, 2:30pm – 4:00pm in CELS Atrium, CSAM/University College Event
    Major Madness
    Come learn about Physics and other CSAM majors!
  • 27 March 2019, 3:00pm – 4:30pm in TBD, Department Colloquium
    Dr. Kevin Miller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    NASA’s Work in Exoplanet Hunting Satellites and Robotic Servicing of Satellites
  • 10 April 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pm in CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
    Adam Broussard, Rutgers
    Starburst! Looking at Galaxies as Stellar Factories
  • 17 April 2019, 11:00am – 3:00pm, Student Center and Annex/Quad, Department/Physics Club Event
    Physics Day!
    Come learn and experience why Physics is awesome!
  • 24 April 2019, 3:00pm – 5:00pm in RI-114, Department/Physics Club Event
    End of the Year Party
    Celebrate the end of the academic year and our scholarship awardees!
  • 1 May 2019, 3:00pm – 4:00pm in CELS 120, CSAM/Physics Event
    , University of Arizona
    Open Discussion/Q&A on “Challenges for Women in Science”
  • 1 May 2019, 4:00pm – 5:00pm in CELS 120, Department Colloquium
    , University of Arizona
    The Ups and Downs of Scientific Ballooning
  • 8 May 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pm in CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
    various student speakers
    Montclair State physics student research updates
  • 12 June 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pm in CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
    Mary Ducca, Amateur Astronomers Inc (AAI) and NJAG
    My Northern Lights Adventure
  • 10 July 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pmÌýin CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
    Chris Mauro, NJAG
    The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Program
  • 3 December 2018 at 11:15am in CCIS 212, Department Colloquium/Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
    Dr. Chiara Mingarelli, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
    Pulsar Timing Arrays: The Next Window to Open on the Gravitational-Wave Universe
  • 12 December 2018 at 4:00 pm in CCIS 133, Department Colloquium/Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
    Dr. Sarah Vigeland, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Detecting Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays
  • 13 December 2018 at 4:00 pm in CELS 225, Department Colloquium/Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
    Dr. Shaon Ghosh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    From the Ashes of a Pair of Neutron Stars: The Tale of a Kilonova
  • 17 December 2018 at 3:00 pm in RI 117, Department Colloquium/Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
    Dr. Timothy Pennucci, Eotvos Lorand University
    Pulsar Potpourri: A Sampling of What We Can Learn from Neutron Stars
  • 20 December 2018 at 4:00 pm in CELS 110, Department Colloquium/Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
    Dr. Michael Lam, West Virginia University
    Gravitational Wave Astronomy with a Next-Generation Pulsar Timing Array Detector

[Listings prior to July 2018 include physics and math seminars as part of the Mathematical Sciences Department.]

2017

  • May 1 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Keith Weber, Rutgers University
  • April 24 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Daniel Abrams, Northwestern University
  • April 17 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Jorge Trueba, ÌÇÐÄvlog
  • April 10 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Andrada Ivanescu, ÌÇÐÄvlog
  • March 27 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Gary Gordon, Lafayette University
  • March 13 2017 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Diane Henderson, Penn State University
  • February 27 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Deming Zhuang, Citigroup Model Risk Management
  • February 23 2017 at 10:15 a.m. in CELS room 110
    Virgil Pierce, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  • February 22 2017 at 10:20 a.m. in Richardson Hall room 261, Department Seminar
    Collin Capano, Albert Einstein Institute
  • February 21 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in CELS room 110
    Ben Herbst, Stellenbosch University
  • February 10 2017 at 11:00 a.m. in Richardson Hall room 231, Department Seminar
    Rodica Martin, ÌÇÐÄvlog
  • February 7 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in CELS room 110, Department Seminar
    Weimin Han, University of Iowa
  • February 3 2017 at 11:00 a.m. in Richardson Hall room 231, Department Seminar
    Brian Anderson, University of Maryland and National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • January 31 2017 at 10:30 a.m. in CELS room 110, Department Seminar
    Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
  • January 30 2017 at 4:15 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 222, Department Seminar
    Sanghyun Lee, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences University of Texas at Austin
  • January 27 2017 at 11:30 a.m., in Richardson Hall room 222, Department Seminar
    Longhua Zhao, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University

2016

  • December 12 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    David Trubatch, ÌÇÐÄvlog
  • December 5 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Nicholas Wasserman, Teachers College – Columbia University
  • November 14 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Soutir Bandyopadhyay, Lehigh University
  • November 7 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102, the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Amir Sajjadi, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
  • October 24 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    David Shirokoff, NJIT
  • October 10 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Erika Hamden, California Institute of Technology
  • September 26 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Janet Striuli, Fairfield University
  • September 12 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
    Erin Krupa, ÌÇÐÄvlog
  • July 13 2016 at 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 110, Astronomy Club Seminar
    Jay Gowers
  • June 8 2016 at 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 110, Astronomy Club Seminar
    Tolga Gumusayak
  • May 11 2016 at 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 110, Astronomy Club Seminar
    Students presenting their projects in astronomy and physics
  • May 2 2016 at 3:45 PM in CELS room 110, Mathematics Education Seminar
    Dr. Luis A. Leyva, Recent PhD graduate from Rutgers Graduate School of Education.
  • April 27 2016 at 4:15 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 222, Department Colloquium
    Mathematical Science Students present their research.
  • April 20 2016 at 4:15 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 222
  • April 13 2016 at 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 110
    Dr. Marc Favata, mathematical sciences department, will be discussing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
  • April 13 2016 at 4:00 p.m. in CELS room 120
    Dr. Marc Favata, mathematical sciences department, will be discussing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
  • February 10 2016 at 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 207
    Jana Grcevich, American Museum of Natural History
  • February 10 2016 at 3:45 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 223
    Dr. Steven Greenstein, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, CSAM.
  • February 4 2016, All Day in Richardson Hall room 224
    Pulsars: precision tools for understanding the Universe

2015

  • December 9 2015 at 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 207
  • December 9 2015 at 3:45 p.m. in CELS room 225
    Teo Paoletti, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
  • November 18 2015 at 3:00 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 222
    Enjoy Thanksgiving, avoid the weight gain
  • November 11 2015 at 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 207
    Astronomy Club Seminar with Kevin Urban
  • November 4 2015 at 3:45 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 223
    Karmen Yu and Justin Seventko
  • October 28 2015 at 3:30 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 261
    Physics Club Seminar featuring Lynn Schneemeyer, Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics
  • October 21 2015 at 3:30 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 261
    Eric Forgoston, Mathematical Sciences professor here at Montclair State
  • October 14 2015 at 8:15 p.m. in CELS room 207
    Astronomy Club Seminar
  • October 14 2015 at 3:45 p.m. in CELS room 225
    Exploring Connections Between Content Knowledge, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, and Mathematics Topics Studied in Teacher Preparation Programs
  • October 14 2015 at 2:45 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 222
    Dr. Stanley R. Huddy, Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University gives a seminar delving into chaos theory
  • September 23 in Richardson 222 at 3 p.m.
    Dr. Jamie Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • September 9, Astronomy Club lecture,
    Dr. Deborah Freile of New Jersey City University
    The Demise of the Dinosaurs: Bolide Impact or Flood Basalts
  • April 29
    Dr. Ren Zhang, VP American Express
  • April 22
    Dr. Eugen Fiorini, Associate Director of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Rutgers
  • March 24, 2015
    Fuzhen Zhang, Nova Southeastern University
    An Inequality for Tensor Product of Positive Operators and its Applications
  • Feb. 18, 2015
    Deepak Bal, Miami University
    Rainbow Structures in Random Graphs
  • Feb. 17, 2015
    Mary Radcliffe, University of Washington
    Eigenvalues, Connectivity, and Clusters
  • February 13, 2015
    Natasha Komarov, Carnegie Mellon University
    Cycles in Tournaments
  • February 10, 2015
    Brian Nakamura, Rutgers University
    Enumerating permutations with exactly r copies of a pattern

2014

  • December 19
    Julie Nurnberger-Haag, Michigan State University
    Moving on a Path versus Collecting Objects: New Perspectives to Analyze Student Learning with Integer Models
  • December 17
    Teo Paoletti, University of Georgia
    Bidirectional Reasoning
  • December 15
    Michael Tallman, Arizona State University
    Examining the Pedagogical Implications of a Secondary Teacher’s Understanding of Angle Measure
  • October 23
    Rob Baello and Donald Coleman, ÌÇÐÄvlog
    Design of Knapsack Cryptosystems Using Certain t-Superincreasing Sequences
  • October 23
    Jasmine Rivers and Jose Torres, ÌÇÐÄvlog
    A New Approach to Understanding Evolutionary Relationships Among Chagas Disease Vectors in Latin American Countries
  • April 30 at 3:00pm RI-222
    Dr. Roy Goodman, NJIT
    Recent Projects in the NJIT Applied Math Capstone Lab
    Abstract: Undergraduate applied math majors at NJIT take a two-semester “Capstone” course as the culmination of their studies. This course aims to integrate laboratory experiments with the major tools of applied mathematics: modeling, numerics, and analysis. I will give an overview of the course, and describe some of the experiments that my colleagues and I have run there. I will focus on several mechanics experiments that I have run: dynamical bias in the coin toss, an analog model of chaotic scattering of solitary waves, and the formation of NLS kink solitons on a damped and parametrically forced chain of pendulums. The lab has support from an NSF grant, and the experiments are run using a variety of high tech and low: high-speed digital video, MATLAB, lasers, tin cans, Christmas ornaments, and superballs.
  • April 17 at 11:00am in RI 224
    Dr. Rachel Welder, Hunter College
    Task Design for Preparing Elementary Teachers: An Illustrative Example in the Context of Fractions
  • April 16
    Dr. S. Mukhopadhyay, Postdoc, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Yale University
  • March 19
    Dr. Vidya Atal, Asst. Professor, Dept. Economics and Finance, ÌÇÐÄvlog
    Search, Project Adoption and the Fear of Commitment
  • February 6
    Dr. Michael Dorff, Director of Center for Undergraduate Research, Brigham Young University
    How Mathematics is Changing the World?
  • January 31
    Andrada Ivanescu, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, East Carolina University
    Computational Methods for Function-on-Function Regression
  • January 30
    Haileab Hilafu, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Statistics, The University of Georgia
    Sufficient Dimension Reduction for High Dimension Low Sample Size Data

2013

  • December 20
    Jess Ellis
    Preparing Future College Instructors: The Role of Graduate Student Teaching Assistants (GTAs) in Successful College Calculus Programs
  • December 19
    Mathew Campbell, Oregon State University
    Designing Responsive Enactment Opportunities for Prospective Mathematics Teachers
  • December 16
    Spencer Bagley, UCSD & SDSU
  • December 13
    Eileen Murray, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • December 6
    Sandy Spitzer, Towson University
    Using Online Collaboration to Improve Prospective Teachers’ Analysis of Teaching
  • November 20
    Dr. Joga Rao, NJIT
    Mechanics of Shape Memory Polymers
  • November 13
    William P. Burke and Rob R. A. Baello, ÌÇÐÄvlog
    Graph Connectivity Indices of Octagonal Systems
  • November 13
    Pamela Guerron, ÌÇÐÄvlogÌýand Zeyad Boodoo, Rutgers-Newark
    Applications of Graph Connectivity Indices in DNA Data Analysis
  • October 30
    Dr. Mahdi Mohebbi, University of Pittsburgh
    The Mathematical Theory of Navier-Stokes Equations
  • October 23
    Dr. Frank Kozusko, Hampton University
  • April 24
    Nick Moore, Applied Math Lab at NYU
    Reduced-order modeling of fluid-structure interactions
  • March 27
    Jennifer Krumins, Department of Biology, Montclair State Univ.
  • March 18
    Adam Ciarleglio, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
    Wavelet-Based Scarlar-on-Function finite mixture regression
  • February 22
    Lei Jin, Department of Mathematics, Mcneese State University
    A new nonparametric stationarity test of time series in time domain
  • February 21
    Yang Li, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri at Columbia
    Regression analysis of panel count data with dependent observation process and terminal event
  • February 20
    Ming Wang, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, School of Public Health, Emory University
    A conditional likelihood approach for regression analysis using biomarkers measured with batch-specific error
  • February 20
    Brittany Shelton, Math department, Lehigh University (and ÌÇÐÄvlog math alumni)
    On God’s Number(s) for Rubik’s Slide

2012

  • November 14
    Dr. Shane R. Keating, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science
    Models and measures of turbulent mixing in the ocean
  • October 17
    Leif Ristroph, Applied Math Lab, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    Fluid-structure interactions in biological and geophysical flows
  • October 11
    Dr. Richard McLaughlin, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    Falling bodies in sharply stratified fluids: Theory and Experiments
  • October 10
    Dr. Steven Greenstein, Department of Mathematical Sciences, ÌÇÐÄvlog
    Developing a Qualitative Geometry from the Conceptions of Young Children
  • September 26
    Daisuke Takagi, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Applied Math Lab, NYU
    How Synthetic Microswimmers Move, Turn, Flip, and Spread
  • April 26
    Neil Johannsen, Ph.D. Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA
  • March 18
    Professor Larry D’Antonio, School of Theoretical and Applied Science, Ramopo College
  • March 11
    Professor Ani Hsieh, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, Drexel University
  • March 7
    Amy Davidow, Ph.D., UMDNJ
  • February 16
    Timothy Fukawa-Connelly, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Hampshire
    Analyzing the teaching of advanced mathematics courses via the enacted example space
  • February 15
    Professor Lou Kondic, Department of Mathematics, NJIT
  • February 9
    Anja Bosy-Westphal, M.D., Ph.D. Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
    Relationship between resting energy expenditure and energy balance: results from clinical trials and controlled feeding experiments
  • February 8
    Lider Leon, Nicholas Kass, Kristina Torbratt, Undergraduate students
    Three Vignettes of Mathematical Modeling: Predicting and Treating Epidemics, Growth of Cancerous Tumors, and Complex Patterns in a Simple System
  • January 25
    Dr. Rosenblum and Dr. Weiss, UMDNJ