Seminars and Events

Regular Seminar or 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.

See also the University Events Calendar for a list of current events university-wide.

Fall 2025

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)