Rutgers Physics & Astronomy

04/20/2026

The 2026 Henry R. and Gladys V. Irons Public Lecture in Physics will take place on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 8PM. Location will be Rm 111, Science & Engineering Resource Center (SERC) on Busch Campus in Piscataway. The Irons Lectures are free talks intended for the general public... High School Students, college students, teachers, neighbors, anyone interested in science. This talk will be given by MIT Physics Prof Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, entitled: Magic Angle Graphene: the Twist and Shout of Quantum Materials. For more info please see

07/02/2025

Astrophysicists from Rutgers are teaming up with colleagues from two other research universities to make discoveries on a new, radically powerful telescope (Vera C. Rubin Observatory) that may reveal the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and other cosmological enigmas. Read more at Rutgers Today:

Astrophysicists from Rutgers are teaming up with colleagues from two other research universities to make discoveries on a new, radically powerful telescope that may reveal the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and other cosmological enigmas.

04/30/2025

Open House for Quantum Science Master's Program

Description: The Master’s Program of Physics/Quantum, a two-year (36-credit) curriculum, immerses students in innovative topics ranging from theoretical issues – such as quantum error correction and strongly correlated quantum matter – giving you experience working on quantum circuits and simulators on a variety of quantum computing platforms, thereby immersing students in both theoretical concepts and experimental techniques.

Time: May 2, 2025 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

To join the open house, please see Zoom info at https://physics.rutgers.edu/quantum-science-masters-program

Current Program for Virtual Open House (subject to change):
11am-11:30am Ronald Gilman : Presentation of the department and Master's program

11:30am-12:00pm Ananda Roy : Presentation on opportunities for Master's students on research within department and outside.

12:00pm-12:15pm Srivatsan Chakram Sundar: Experimental aspects of Quantum Information Science

12:15pm-12:30pm Jed Pixley : Quantum Information Master's program internship opportunities.

12:30pm-1pm : Piers Coleman : Presentation of the CMT group and opportunities within the group at Rutgers.

1pm-1:30pm : Q&A from students

The quarks confined within protons, the gluons that hold them together, the nuclei created in stars, the materials that make life convenient, the cosmos in its

04/29/2025

An international team of scientists led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart has discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected.
More in articles at New York Times, Rutgers Today, and Nature Astronomy:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/science/molecular-cloud-eos-stars-milky-way.html
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/vast-molecular-cloud-long-invisible-discovered-near-solar-system
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02541-7

Eos is a newly discovered molecular cloud sitting just 94 pc from the Sun. It was detected through the far-UV emission of its molecular hydrogen, having been missed in conventional molecular gas surveys due to a low abundance of common gas tracers.

04/23/2025

Come join us on RUTGERS DAY for a Physics Faraday Demo Show. All are welcome. Saturday April 26, 2025 show from 2:30-4:00PM. Saturday April 26, 2025 "Pheel the Physics" 12PM-2PM Sidewalk Demos. Location: Physics Lecture Hall, Busch Campus in Piscataway, NJ. Please see

12/03/2024

25th Rutgers Faraday Children's Holiday Lecture will be Saturday and Sunday, the 7th and 8th of December, 2024 at the Rutgers physics lecture hall in Piscataway NJ. For times and other info please see https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~croft/FARADAY.HTML

09/06/2024

Dear Friends, tomorrow we will have a memorial to remember our dear son, Bryn Chandra Coleman. This is a picture taken with him about ten years ago, in Rome. So many wonderful memories.
In Person
Address: M.J. Funeral Home, 616 Ridge Road at New Road, Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852

Date: Saturday September 7, 2024

Time: 11 am - 1 pm

The memorial will be followed by a reception lunch at 2pm, Sahara Restaurant, 165 Easton Ave, New Brunswick. Please RSVP to [email protected] if you can come to the lunch. (We will also hold a second memorial in England in December. )

Zoom: Bryns Memorial
Time: Sep 7, 2024 11:25 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
(4:25 PM UK, 8:55 PM India)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81291815004?pwd=DolEL040MhcWunHwXjX9zQo7ZcS0k2.1

Meeting ID: 812 9181 5004
Passcode: 088010

04/24/2024

There will be a free Faraday Physics Demo Show this Saturday from 2:30-4pm at the Rutgers Physics & Astronomy lecture hall on Busch campus in Piscataway, NJ, during Rutgers Day2024. Sidewalk demos from noon to 2pm. For more information see https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~croft/FARADAY.HTML

03/19/2024

The 2024 Henry R. and Gladys V. Irons Lecture in Physics & Astronomy will take place on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 2PM at the Physics Lecture Hall on Busch Campus in Piscataway, NJ. The Irons lectures are free talks intended for the general public. This year's talk is "Looking Backwards with the Cosmic Microwave Background", given by Professor Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University).
Please see https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/irons for more info.

02/08/2024

Announcing the Rutgers Summer Program on Fundamental Physics for High School Students. Applications now open. For more information see

The Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Department will be holding a two-week, intensive program for high school students this summer.