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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

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Fall 2026

September 11

Nick Parziale, George Meade Bond Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology

Hypersonic Turbulence and Drop Aerobreakup/Impact

September 18

Vasileios Fragkos, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology

Active and Passive Gravitational Mass in Classical and Quantum Physics

September 25

Maria G. Barsukova, EKA Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Physics, Columbia University

Gauge Fields and Disorder Engineering in Nanophotonics

October 2

Juergen W Czarske, Director of Center Biomedical Computational Laser Systems (BIOLAS), and Institute for Circuits and Systems, based at TU Dresden

Paradigm shifts with quantum holography and communication

October 9

Dr. Valentin Link, TU Berlin, Postdoctoral researcher at TU Berlin

Quantum processes with memory: from open systems to many-body dynamics

October 16

Gabriele Grosso, Associate Professor, Advanced Science Research Center and Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)

Tailoring quantum optical states in atomically patterned 2D materials

October 21

Jacob Covey, University of Chicago

Modular and Streaming Architectures for Atomic Quantum Computing

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Past Seminar Series Speakers

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Fall 2025 Seminar Series

Konstantin Beyer, Postdoc, PHY department, Stevens Institute of Technology
Quantum memory effects as a signature of the quantumness of gravity

Yashashree Jadhav, Lecturer, Stevens Institute of Technology
Monster on the move: A search for Gravitationally Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes

Dr. Christopher Sugino, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
Writing Dispersion Curves and Breaking Reciprocity with Nonlocal Acoustic Metamaterials

Asma Fallah, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Rochester
Structured Light and Complex Media: Tailoring Light-Matter Interactions

Vinod Menon, Professor of Physics, City College of New York
Why care about half-light half-matter quasiparticles?

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

Henry Yuen, Srivani Family Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
Quantum position verification: from quantum cryptography to quantum gravity

Azriel Genack, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Queens College
Disorder-induced coherence enables control of wave transport

John Horgan, Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of the Stevens Center for Science writings, Stevens Institute of Technology
The End of Physics?

Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Columbia University
T centers in silicon: an emerging platform as a spin-photon interface

Dr. Emil Prodan, Professor of Physics, Yeshiva University
Topological Dynamics of Self-Coupling Resonators

Miles Blencowe, Dartmouth College
Gravitationally Induced Decoherence

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