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Seminar Series

The Department of Physics Seminar Series at Stevens Institute of Technology is a vibrant platform where discovery sparks dialogue. Featuring leading scientists, pioneering researchers and thought leaders from across the fields of physics and quantum science, these seminars ignite curiosity, foster collaboration and inspire the next generation of innovators.

Schedule of Upcoming Seminars

Explore this semester's lineup. Click on a seminar title to view details and register.

Fall 2025

September 12

Konstantin Beyer, Postdoc | PHY department, Stevens Institute of Technology

Quantum memory effects as a signature of the quantumness of gravity

September 19

Yashashree Jadhav, Lecturer | Stevens Institute of Technology

Monster on the move: A search for Gravitationally Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes

September 26

Dr. Christopher Sugino, Assistant Professor | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology

Writing Dispersion Curves and Breaking Reciprocity with Nonlocal Acoustic Metamaterials

October 10

Asma Fallah, Postdoctoral Associate | University of Rochester

Structured Light and Complex Media: Tailoring Light-Matter Interactions

October 17

Vinod Menon, Professor of Physics | City College of New York

Why care about half-light half-matter quasiparticles?

October 24

Dr. Simon Mahler, Assistant Professor | Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology

Laser Speckle: from rapid speckle suppression to non-Invasive monitoring of blood flow

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Past Seminar Series Speakers

View speakers and seminar topics for the previous semesters.

Summer 2025 Seminar Series

Zhe Yu Jeff Ou, City University of Hong Kong
Unbalanced Interferometers Beyond Coherence Length


Dr. Chuanwei Zhang, Washington University, St. Louis
Quantum Technologies with Atom-Light Interaction

Spring 2025 Seminar Series

Dawei Luo, Stevens Institute of Technology
Learning Non-Markovian Noise Parameters Dynamically with Ensemble Optimal Control


Yury Levin, Columbia University
Giant Magnetic Waves and Quantum Fluids Inside a Neutron Star


Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
Quantum Technologies for New-Physics Searches in the Laboratory and in Space


Jason Rabinovitch, Stevens Institute of Technology
High-Speed Compressible Flows and Space Exploration


David Pine, New York University
Non-Convex Colloids and the Self-Assembly of Colloidal Diamond


Nanfang Yu, Columbia University
Flat Optics


Michal Lipson, Columbia University
Next Generation of Silicon Photonics


Rod Kim, Stevens Institute of Technology
Versatile RF Interconnects and Electronics for Extreme Environmental Sensing and Communications


Jonathan Pelliciari, NSLA-II
Using Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering to Study Quantum Materials


Emil Have, Niels Bohr Institute
What Non-Lorentzian Geometry Can Do For You


Nicolas Loizeau, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
Locality and Subsystems from the Spectrum


Chris Overstreet, Johns Hopkins University
Precision Measurement with Atom Interferometry


Santosh Kumar, Stevens Institute of Technology
Exploring Quantum Enhanced Systems and Technologies

Fall 2024 Seminar Series

Youka Kaku, Nagoya University
Quantum Effect Unique to Gravity Based on the Weak Equivalence Principle in Atomic Interferometry


Benjamin Leinwand, Stevens Institute of Technology
ACRONYM: Augmented Degree Corrected, Community Reticulated Organized Network Yielding Model


Wei Ting Chen, SNOCHIP Inc.
Metasurface Optics: From Lab Innovations to Commercial Realization


Qiushi Guo, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)
Integrated Lithium Niobate Ultrafast and Nonlinear Photonics: New Devices and Systems on an Old Material


Adnane Noual, University Mohamed First, Oujda, Morocco
Acoutso-Plasmonic Coupling in Metallic Nanoparticles and Quantum Emitters Coupled to Plasmonic Devices Modelling Using Near-to-Far-Field Transformations Approaches


Ulrik Lund Andersen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Unlocking New Possibilities with Continuous Variable Quantum Sensing


Kaleem Ullah, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stevens Institute of Technology
Characterization of Nanoscale Systems: From Far-Field Imaging to Optoelectronics in 2D Materials


Alexander Gaeta, Fellow of the Optica, APS, and IEEE, and a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
Synchronization Dynamics of Nonlinear Photonic Oscillators


Xufeng Zhang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Slow-Wave Hybrid Magnonics


Michael Hahn, Columbia University
Understanding Alfven Wave Heating of the Solar Corona through Observations and Experiments


Giovanni Milione, Senior Researcher & Business Incubation Lead, NEC Laboratories America, Inc, Princeton, NJ
Structured Light: Fundamentals, Communications, and Sensing


Michela Biasutti, Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
The Upcoming Climate: What We Know and What We Wish to Know


Jack Harris, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University
Testing Quantum Mechanics by Measuring the High-Amplitude Motion of a Massive Oscillator

Spring 2024 Seminar Series

Emanuele Galiffi, PhD, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY
Manipulating Waves with Spatiotemporal Symmetry Breaking


Cynthia Osuala, PhD, and Abdelali Sajia, PhD, Stevens Institute of Technology
Quantum Transport in a Graphene Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer \ Realizing Credible Optical Superresolution


Xuefeng Jiang, PhD, Seton Hall University
Chaotic Photonics in Microresonators


Simon Yves, PhD, CUNY ASRC
Phonomic Hyperbolic Metamaterials with a Twist


Ana Asenjo-Garcia, PhD, Columbia University
Universal Scaling Laws for Correlated Decay of Many-Body Quantum Systems


David Haviland, PhD, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Multipartite Entanglement in Microwave Frequency Combs


Blakesley Burkhart, PhD, Rutgers University and the Flatiron Institute
How Supermassive Black Holes Ignite the Intergalactic Medium: Tales from the Low Redshift Lyman-Alpha Forest


Nikita Nefedkin, PhD, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
Collective Effects in Atomic Arrays and Time Interfaces for Quantum States of Light


Andrew Cupo, PhD, Dartmouth College
Ultrafast Control of Quantum Materials: Floquet Band Engineering and Beyond


Victor V. Albert, PhD, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Topology and Entanglement of Molecular Phase Space

Fall 2023 Seminar Series

Adam Overvig, Stevens Institute of Technology
Controlling Light with Geometric Symmetries


Konstantin Beyer, Stevens Institute of Technology
Local Verification of Quantum Memory in Non-Markovian Dynamics


Xiaofeng Qian, Stevens Institute of Technology
Speaking Wave Optics in The Language of Mechanics-When Two 350-year-old Theories of Huygens Meet


Matthew Coleman, Stevens Institute of Technology
Accretion Through the Boundary Layer


Jiamin Quan, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
Cavity Control of Excitons In Two-Dimensional Semiconductors


Alireza Seif, IBM Quantum
Measurements, Conditional Operations and Entanglement Dynamics in Open Quantum System


Michael Tobar, University of Western Australia
Recent Tests on Fundamental Physics using Photons and phonons at UWA

Fall 2022 Seminar Series

Sultan Abdul Wadood, Princeton University
Explorations in Optical Spatial Coherence: Superresolution and Graded-Index Fibers


Tiancheng Song, Princeton University
Controlling Quantum Materials in 2D Flatland

Spring 2022 Seminar Series

Mayukh Lahiri, Oklahoma State University
Quantum Imaging with Undetected Photons: Experiment, Theory, and Implications


Luis L. Sánchez-Soto, Complutense University of Madrid
Achieving the Ultimate Resolution


Cheng Gong, University of Maryland
2D Magnets and 2D Magnetism


Alessandro Zenesini, University of Trento, Italy
Coherently Rabi-Coupled Ultracold Sodium Mixture: From Magnetic Interfaces to Pair Production


Marc Favatra, Montclair State University
Listening to the Universe: Observing Gravitational-Waves with LIGO


Miguel Alonso, Institut Fresnel, Centrale Marseille, France
The Structure of Light: Tailoring and Measuring Intensity, Phase and Polarization


Justin Dressel, Chapman University
Continuous Quantum Measurements and Machine Learning on Superconducting Qubits


Can-Ming Hu, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Cavity Magnonics