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Events for the Fall 2013 semester

Thursday June 27, 2013
11:30 am  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Measurements of Railgun Generated Supersonic Plasma Jet Propagation and Two Jet Oblique Merging
 Presenter:  Elizabeth C. Merritt
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Monday July 15, 2013
2:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Observations and Kinematic Modeling of Neutral Hydrogen in Spiral Galaxies: Implications for Disk-Halo Flows and Accretion
 Presenter:  Laura K. Zschaechner
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Host:  Richard Rand
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Thursday July 25, 2013
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Maximally entangled states
 Presenter:  Michael Revzen, Technion Israel
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Amir Kalev
 Location:  PAIS-1140, PAIS

 

Wednesday July 31, 2013
4:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Optical continuous-variable cluster states: theory and experiment
 Presenter:  Nicolas Menicucci, University of Sydney
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday August 9, 2013
3:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Landauer's principle, fluctuations and the second law
 Presenter:  Ben Schumacher, Kenyon College
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Akimasa Miyake
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday August 20, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Show and Tell
 Presenter:  NUPAC Group
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday August 22, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Steps Toward the Long Wavelength Array
 Presenter:  Greg Taylor (UNM)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Quantum optics with interacting Rydberg atoms
 Presenter:  Brian Kennedy, Georgia Tech
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday August 27, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 What are the highest energy cosmic rays telling us?
 Presenter:  John Matthews (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Huaiyu (Mike) Duan
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday August 29, 2013
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Experimental quantum annealing.
 Presenter:  Sergio Boixo, Google
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Alexandre Tacla
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday September 3, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Neutrino Quantum Kinetics
 Presenter:  Alexey Vlasenko (UC San Diego)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Huaiyu (Mike) Duan
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 5, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Large Scale Pulsar Surveys and Recent Discoveries
 Presenter:  Kevin Stovall (UNM)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday September 10, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Nucleosynthesis, Neff , and Neutrino Mass implications from Dark Radiation
 Presenter:  Evan Grohs (UC San Diego)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Huaiyu (Mike) Duan
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 12, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Plasma Bubbles in the Interstellar Medium
 Presenter:  Steve Spangler (Iowa)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Quantum synchronization and the no-photon laser
 Presenter:  Murray Holland, University of Colorado (JILA)
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Alexandre Tacla
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday September 17, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 WIMP Miracle: in Principle and in Practice
 Presenter:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 19, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Observational Constraints on the Process of Grain Growth and Evolution
 Presenter:  Laura Perez (NRAO)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Conditional quantum logic with single photons: several approaches that won't work, and one that might
 Presenter:  Julio Gea-Banacloche, University of Arkansas
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Amir Kalev
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 The origins and early evolution of modern humans in southern Tanzania
 Presenter:  Pamela R. Willoughby , Professor
University of Alberta, Canada.
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Tuesday September 24, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Flavor oscillation modes in dense neutrino media
 Presenter:  Huaiyu Duan (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 26, 2013
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Mixed state entanglement: bounds, computation and optimal ensembles
 Presenter:  Peter Love, Haverford College
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Chris Ferrie
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday October 1, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Bottom Baryon Resonances with CDF Detector
 Presenter:  Igor Gorelov (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Sally Seidel
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday October 3, 2013
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Composite pulse sequences for Ion Trap quantum computation
 Presenter:  Kenneth Brown, Georgia Tech
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Robert Cook
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday October 8, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Light Dark Matter: The Moment of Truth Has Arrived (Almost)
 Presenter:  Chris Kelso (University of Utah)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday October 15, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Renormalizable means singular
 Presenter:  Kevin Cahill (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday October 17, 2013
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Quantum information with an array of Rydberg Atoms
 Presenter:  Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin - Madison
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Robert Cook
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Quantum information with an array of Rydberg Atoms
 Presenter:  Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin - Madison
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Robert Cook
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 EXTRACTING PAVEMENT DISTRESS CONDITION DATA FOR INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT
 Presenter:  SUSAN BOGUS HALTER, UNM,
Civil Engineering Dept
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Tuesday October 22, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 How does nuclear structure affect the interpretation of direct Dark Matter searches?
 Presenter:  Gerard Stephenson (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday October 24, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Under the Radar, the First Woman in Radio Astronomy, Ruby Payne-Scott
 Presenter:  Miller Goss (NRAO)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Realizing spin lattice models with polar molecules
 Presenter:  Ana Maria Rey, University of Colorado (JILA)
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Amir Kalev
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Monday October 28, 2013
11:00 am  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor
 Presenter:  Robert A. Mesler
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday October 29, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 The LBNE and CAPTAIN Programs
 Presenter:  Christopher Mauger (LANL)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  John Matthews
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Finding the Spin of the Proton
 Presenter:  Dr. Douglas E. Fields
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday October 31, 2013
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Quantum technology of light as a harmonic oscillator
 Presenter:  Alexander Lvovsky, University of Calgary
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Amir Kalev
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday November 5, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Multicomponent Dark Matter; Correlating Scattering Rates with Dark Sector Instability
 Presenter:  David Yaylali (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday November 6, 2013
4:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Robust characterization of quantum processes
 Presenter:  Shelby Kimmel, MIT
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Carlton Caves
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday November 7, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 The Institute for Geophysics, Planetary Physics and Signatures – a snapshot of sponsored research
 Presenter:  Harald Dogliani (LANL)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Web Site:    http:/ / institute.lanl.gov/ igpp/
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Quantum measurement limits in the gravitational-wave detectors
 Presenter:  Rana Adhikari, Caltech
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Joshua Combes
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday November 14, 2013
10:00 am  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 The Effect of Dynamical Image Forces on the Transport Properties of Charge Carriers and Excitons in Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures
 Presenter:  Charles Cherqui
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2210, PAIS
10:00 am  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 The Effect of Dynamical Image Forces on the Transport Properties of Charge Carriers and Excitons in Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures
 Presenter:  Charles Cherqui
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2210, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Herschel Spectroscopy of Far-Infrared Lines in Normal Dwarf Galaxies: The View with LITTLE THINGS
 Presenter:  Phil Cigan (NMT)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 QBism
 Presenter:  Ruediger Schack, Royal Holloway, University of London
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Amir Kalev
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday November 19, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Recent results from the CDMS/SuperCDMS experiment and the neutrino background
 Presenter:  Julien Billard (MIT)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday November 21, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Cosmic-ray Questions: Where do the ultra-high energy particles come from?
 Presenter:  Patrick Younk (LANL)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Quantum computers, simulators, and agents
 Presenter:  Hans Briegel, University of Innsbruck
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Amir Kalev
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday November 26, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Neutrino Oscillations in Dense Neutrino Media
 Presenter:  Sajad Abbar (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Huaiyu (Mike) Duan
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Monday December 2, 2013
1:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 A Study of Charge Transport: Correlated Energetic Disorder in Organic Semiconductors, and the Fragment Hamiltonian
 Presenter:  Jonathan R. Allen
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Tuesday December 3, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Alpha Decay Half-Lives of Exotic Nuclei Around Shell Closures
 Presenter:  Qufei Gu (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday December 5, 2013
2:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Diagnostics of Leptonic vs. Hadronic Emission Models for Blazars
 Presenter:  Markus Böttcher (CSR)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 The Bose-Hubbard model is QMA-complete
 Presenter:  David Gosset, IQC
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Chris Ferrie
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday December 12, 2013
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Quantum computing with black-box quantum subroutines
 Presenter:  Kavan Modi, University of Oxford
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Amir Kalev
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday December 19, 2013
3:30 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)		 Toolbox for resonator-based quantum control
 Presenter:  Fred Strauch, Williams College
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Chris Ferrie
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

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