Physics and Astronomy
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Past Seminars

Fall 2022

Spring 2022

Fall 2021

Spring 2021

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, Montclair State University
    Nuclear Weapons in Space: From “Star Wars” to “Space Force” 
  • 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, Department 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
    Prof. Erika Hamden, 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
    Prof. Erika Hamden, 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 – 9:00pm in 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

2016

2015

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, Montclair State University
    Design of Knapsack Cryptosystems Using Certain t-Superincreasing Sequences
  • October 23
    Jasmine Rivers and Jose Torres, Montclair State University
    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, Montclair State University
    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, Montclair State University
    Graph Connectivity Indices of Octagonal Systems
  • November 13
    Pamela Guerron, Montclair State University and 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 Montclair State University 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, Montclair State University
    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