Events Calendar
Events for April 2014
Tuesday April 1, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Rare event searches with MALBEK |
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| Presenter: | Graham Giovanetti (University of North Carolina) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Thursday April 3, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Product-state approximations to ground states |
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| Presenter: | Aram Harrow, MIT | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: | Hydrodynamics and polymer diffusion in lipid membranes |
| Presenter: |
Ashok Prasad
Chemical & Biological Engineering Colorado State University |
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| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Room 1131, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday April 4, 2014
| 4:00 pm | Title: | Complexity and Modularity in Biology |
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| Presenter: |
Ashok Prasad
Chemical and Biological Engineering Colorado State University |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Tuesday April 8, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Evidence for B-mode Polarization of the CMB and Implications for Inflation |
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| Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Thursday April 10, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Finding the First Cosmic Explosions |
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| Presenter: | Joseph Smidt (LANL) | |
| Series: | Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | A simple method for optimal hamiltonian simulation |
| Presenter: | Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: | The Science of Speed: Safer, Stronger, Faster |
| Presenter: |
Diandra Leslie-Pelecky,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
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| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
| Location: | Room G, UNM Conference Center | |
Friday April 11, 2014
| 1:30 pm | Title: | Neutron star models: masses and radii |
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| Presenter: | Lei Ma | |
| Series: | Physics Seminars | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Room 1131, Physics & Astronomy | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: | No Colloquium - postponed |
| Presenter: | - | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | John McGraw | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Thursday April 17, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Using Ammonia to Trace Methanol Masers near SNRs |
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| Presenter: | Bridget McEwen | |
| Series: | Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday April 18, 2014
| 11:00 am | Title: | Atomic physics in a semiconductor vacuum: Quantum optics and nanoscale sensing in diamond |
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| Presenter: | Victor Acosta, Researcher, Google. Acosta is a research scientist at Google [x]. Previously he was a postdoc in Charles Santori and Ray Beausoleil's group at HP Labs, where he led efforts to integrate NV centers into photonic circuits for quantum computing and sensing. Victor did his PhD work in Dmitry Budker's AMO group in the UC Berkeley Physics dept, graduating in 2011. There he studied the basic physics underlying optical sensors based on alkali vapor cells as well as diamond NV centers. Victor has co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, including 7 in Physical Review Letters, and has delivered more than 20 invited talks at international conferences and academic seminars. | |
| Series: | Prospective Faculty Candidate | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 1:30 pm | Title: | Cooling of neutron stars |
| Presenter: | Matthew Chase | |
| Series: | Physics Seminars | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Room 1131, Physics & Astronomy | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: | Discovery to Precision to Discovery: Quark-Gluon Plasma Physics |
| Presenter: |
James Nagle
Department of Physics University of Colorado |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / www.bnl.gov/ world/ http:/ / science.energy.gov/ | |
| Host: | Douglas Fields | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Thursday April 24, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Quantum metrology with matterwave interferometers |
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| Presenter: | Grant Biedermann, SNL | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday April 25, 2014
| 1:30 pm | Title: | Cooling of neutron stars |
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| Presenter: | Matthew Chase | |
| Series: | Physics Seminars | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Room 1131, Physics & Astronomy | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: | New Physics from the Sky: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays and the Hunt for Dark Matter |
| Presenter: |
Stefano Profumo
Department of Physics UC Santa Cruz |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
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