Seminars and Events
Seminar and Meeting Times
Department Colloquium or Physics Club Events
Department Colloquia/Seminars are usually scheduled on selected Wednesdays in Richardson Hall 201 or 256. These typically coincide with the PHYS 198 or PHYS 300 seminar courses and Physics Club events.
Astronomy Club Public Lectures
See the astronomy club homepage for more information. Lectures of general interest are listed below.
Public Telescope Nights
Scheduled on selected Thursdays during the academic year. Begins around 8 p.m. in front of CELS. See the Astronomy Club’s Facebook page to find out the status of telescope night.
Past Seminars
- 29 October 2025 (Wednesday), 1:30pm, Richardson Hall 256 (TBC; in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
Real-time analysis of gravitational wave signals in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data, Dr. Deep Chatterjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - 15 September 2025 (Monday), 5:20pm, CELS 130 (in-person only), Physics Dept. special seminar
10 Years of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, Profs. Marc Favata, Shaon Ghosh, and Rodica Martin (Montclair State University) - 29 January 2025 (Wednesday), 12:00pm, University Hall 1050 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
The Mechanical Engineering Program at Stevens, Prof. Robert Chang (Stevens Institute of Technology) - 4 December 2024 (Wednesday), 12:15pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with nEXO, Prof. David Moore (Yale University) - 6 November 2024 (Wednesday), 12:15pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
From Hot Quarks to the Glue that Binds Us: The sPHENIX experiment at RHIC to the Electron-Ion Collider at BNL, Dr. Mickey Chiu (Brookhaven National Lab) - 23 October 2024 (Wednesday), 12:15pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
Understanding the beta-decay (and other strange disappearances) of the neutron, Dr. Leah Broussard (Oak Ridge National Lab) - 20 March 2024 (Wednesday), 2:00pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
Measuring Gravity by Dropping Atoms, Prof. Xuejian (Andy) Wu (Rutgers-Newark) - 6 March 2024 (Wednesday), 2:00pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
Health Physics Careers, Joseph Power, NJ Department of Environmental Protection - 21 February 2024 (Wednesday), 4:00pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. special guest
State Senator Andrew Zwicker, discussion with physics majors - 29 November 2023 (Wednesday), 4:00pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
The Search for the Invisible Axion, by Prof. David Tanner (University of Florida) - 15 November 2023 (Wednesday), 4:00pm, Richardson Hall 201 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
More Than a Theory of Everything: String Theory and the Real World, by Prof. Sophia Domokos (New York Institute of Technology) - 27 September 2023 (Wednesday), 4:00pm, Richardson Hall 201 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
Cosmology, Lensing, and Modified Gravity with Gravitational Waves, by Dr. Ignazio Magana Hernandez (Carnegie Melon University) - 10 May 2023 (Wednesday), 1:15pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. and Physics Club event
Annual scholarship awards and final physics club meeting - 9 May 2023 (Tuesday), 8:30pm, CELS 110 (in-person only), Physics Dept. and Astronomy Club/NJAG event
NJAG (North Jersey Astronomical Group) Meeting, Student Research Talks - 28 April 2023 (Friday), 1:00pm, CELS Atrium and CELS 120 (in-person only), Department event
New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Spring Meeting, Student Poster Session (1pm) and seminar on Understanding neutron star structure with gravitational waves and x-rays by Prof. Shaon Ghosh (Montclair State, 2pm, CELS 120). - 5 April 2023 (Wednesday), 11:50am, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Prof. K. G. Arun (Chennai Mathematical Institute and Penn State University) - 15 March 2023 (Wednesday), 11:50am, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
The search for the neutron’s permanent electric dipole moment at the Spallation Neutron Source, Dr. Alina Aleksandrova (Caltech) - 15 February 2023 (Wednesday), 11:50am, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
The Space Elevator, Mr. Larry Bartoszek (Bartoszek Engineering) - 19 October 2022 (Wednesday), 12:00pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
Infrared and far-infrared lasers: lessons and reflections, Dr. Mike Jackson (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) - 9 November 2022 (Wednesday), 12:00pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
Cosmology using gravitational-waves, Dr. Shaon Ghosh (Montclair State University) - 7 December 2022 (Wednesday), 12:00pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), CSAM Career Services/Physics Club event
Careers in Physics Panel Discussion - 16 March 2022 (Wednesday), 10:45am, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
Polarizability of the Neutron: What is it and how do we measure it?, Dr. Gerald Feldman (George Washington University) - 16 March 2022 (Wednesday), 2:00pm, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept. seminar
Establishing a Collaborative Student-Centered Learning Environment using the SCALE-UP Pedagogy, Dr. Gerald Feldman (George Washington University) - 29 September 2021 (Wednesday), 4:00pm, Richardson Hall 201 (in-person and on Zoom), Physics Dept./Physics Club/SIAM lecture
Observing the Universe with Gravitational Waves, Dr. Marc Favata (Montclair State University) - 20 October 2021 (Wednesday), 11:30am (on Zoom with live-streamed viewing in Richardson 201), Physics Dept./Physics Club lecture, MSU Library event
Nuclear New Jersey: Princeton and the Atomic Bomb, 1939-45, Dr. Michael Gordin (Princeton University) - 20 October 2021 (Wednesday), 4:00pm (on Zoom), SIAM/Physics dept/Physics Club lecture
An introduction to the basic concepts of quantum computing, Dr. Stephen Schnetzer (Rutgers University) - 21 October 2021 (Thursday), 7:00pm, Schmitt Hall 327 (in-person + Zoom live-stream), Physics Dept./CSAM evening lecture, MSU Library event
The Tuballoy Project: Bloomfield’s Westinghouse plant and uranium production for the Atomic Bomb, Dr. Alex Wellerstein (Stevens Institute of Technology) - 10 November 2021 (Wednesday), 11:30am, Richardson Hall 201 (in-person + Zoom live-stream), Physics Dept./Physics Club lecture, MSU Library event
Einstein’s Letter: The campaign to build “the Bomb” before the Germans, Dr. Steve Gimbel (Gettysburg College) - 17 November 2021 (Wednesday), 11:30am, Richardson Hall 256 (in-person only), Physics Dept./Physics Club lecture
Many-body physics with spin states of trapped Rydberg atoms, Dr. Svetlana Malinovskaya (Stevens Institute of Technology) - 10 February 2021 (Wednesday), 8:00pm (on Zoom), NJAG/Astronomy Club monthly lecture
The Wacky World of Quantum Mechanics, Dr. Jeremy Carlo (Villanova University) - 10 March 2021 (Wednesday), 8:00pm (on Zoom), NJAG/Astronomy Club monthly lecture
What Tilts Planets’ Orbits?, Dr. Eric Jensen (Swarthmore College) - 14 April 2021 (Wednesday), 8:00pm (on Zoom), NJAG/Astronomy Club monthly lecture
Perseverance on Mars, Dr. Michael Lewis (NASA JPL) - 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 (Montclair State University) - 11 November 2020 (Wednesday), 2:00pm (on Zoom, public), MSU Library, Physics Club, & Department event
Prof. Alfredo Carnevali, Montclair State University
Nuclear Weapons in Space: From “Star Wars” to “Space Force”