Events Calendar
Events for the Fall 2014 semester
Wednesday June 18, 2014
| 3:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Particle Correlations in Bose-Einstein Condensates |
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| Presenter: | Zhang Jiang | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday July 9, 2014
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Open Systems Dynamics for Propagating Quantum Fields |
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| Presenter: | Ben Q. Baragiola | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday July 11, 2014
| 9:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Accessing Gluon Polarization Through the J / ψ Longitudinal Double Spin Asymmetry in Polarized pp Collisions at PHENIX |
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| Presenter: | James Aaron Key | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Monday July 14, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Internal Spin Control, Squeezing and Decoherence in Ensembles of Alkali Atomic Spins |
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| Presenter: | Leigh M. Norris | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday July 23, 2014
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A cavity-enhanced narrow-band multiphoton source for applications in quantum information. |
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| Presenter: | Reihaneh Shahrokhshahi, University of Virginia | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday August 19, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Show and Tell |
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| Presenter: | NUPAC Group | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday August 21, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Methanol Masers Near Supernova Remnants |
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| Presenter: | Bridget McEwen (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum information and quantum computation for chemistry. |
| Presenter: | Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday August 26, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Light/Multi-component Dark Matter: a Minimal Model and Detection Prospects |
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| Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday August 28, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Enigma of Unassociated Gamma-ray Sources |
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| Presenter: | Frank Schinzel (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) |
Mapping the optimal route between two quantum states |
| Presenter: | Irfan Siddiqi, University of California, Berkeley | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday September 2, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
On the interplay between Higgs physics, weak interactions, and gravitation |
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| Presenter: | Roberto Onofrio (University of Padova and ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday September 3, 2014
| 3:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Rydberg Excitation of Single Atoms for Applications in Quantum Information and Metrology |
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| Presenter: | Aaron M. Hankin (UNM) | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday September 4, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Physical Conditions in Nearby Star Forming Galaxies |
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| Presenter: | Mark Gorski (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) |
Robust quantum control for quantum information systems |
| Presenter: | Robert Kosut, SC Solutions | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday September 9, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Current status of the direct search for WIMP Dark Matter |
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| Presenter: | Franco Giuliani (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday September 11, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Implementation of Ionospheric Corrections in CASA |
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| Presenter: | Jason Kool (Iowa) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Model realization and model reduction for quantum systems |
| Presenter: | Mohan Sarovar, SNL | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Amir Kalev | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday September 16, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
An Update on the Long Wavelength Array |
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| Presenter: | Gregory Taylor (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday September 18, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
High quality image transport through optical fibers mediated by Anderson localization |
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| Presenter: | Arash Mafi, UNM | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Colour, Music, and Emotion in Synesthetes and Non-Synesthetes |
| Presenter: |
Stephen E. Palmer,
Institute of Cognitive Studies, UC Berkeley |
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| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday September 23, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
An informal introduction to lattice gauge theory |
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| Presenter: | Kevin Cahill (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday September 24, 2014
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Simulating quantum chemistry on a quantum computer |
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| Presenter: | David Poulin, Universite de Sherbrooke | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday September 25, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Random Walks |
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| Presenter: | Katie Richardson (MH) | |
| 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) |
Error models in quantum computation: an application of model selection |
| Presenter: | Steven J van Enk, University of Oregon | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Chris Ferrie | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Lattice calculations of beyond-standard-model candidate theories (Special Seminar) |
| Presenter: | Thomas DeGrand (University of Colorado) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS-1140, PAIS | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Lattice Calculations of Beyond-Standard-Model Candidate Theories |
| Presenter: | Professor Thomas DeGrand, Department of Physics, University of Colorado | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS-1140, PAIS | |
Tuesday September 30, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The case for sterile neutrinos |
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| Presenter: | Shashank Shalgar (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday October 2, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Multi-Wavelength Observations of Mixed-Morphology Galactic Supernova Remnants |
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| Presenter: | Thomas Pannuti (MSU) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 7, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Jerry Va'vra (SLAC) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 14, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Overview of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics: 2014 Long-range plan Joint Town Meetings on QCD |
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| Presenter: | Douglas Fields (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday October 16, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Angular momentum, image rotation, and 3D source super-localization - a Bayesian perspective |
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| Presenter: | Sudhakar Prasad, UNM | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 5:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
How Old is The Grand Canyon: Resolution of a 140-Year-Long Debate |
| Presenter: |
Karl E. Karlstrom,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico |
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| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Thursday October 23, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
How Stars Get Their Spots |
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| Presenter: | Nick Nelson (LANL) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday October 31, 2014
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Third-Harmonic Generation for Efficient Frequency Conversion and Microscopic Imaging |
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| Presenter: | Cristina Rodriguez | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday November 4, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Another way to look at the Dark Matter |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Jerry Va'vra (SLAC) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
| Presenter: | Dr. Jerry Va'vra (SLAC) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday November 5, 2014
| 10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Maximum likelihood decoding in the surface code |
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| Presenter: | Sergey Bravyi, IBM | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday November 6, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A High Resolution Study of the Magnetic Fields in the Centaurus Cluster |
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| Presenter: | Caleb K. Grimes | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A High Resolution Study of the Magnetic Fields in the Centaurus Cluster |
| Presenter: | Caleb Grimes (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) |
Searches for natural SUSY with the CMS experiment at the LHC (Special Seminar) |
| Presenter: | Jeffrey Richman (UC Santa Barbara) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | PAIS-1140, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
On complexity of the quantum Ising model |
| Presenter: | Sergey Bravyi, IBM | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday November 11, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
First results from surveying the TeV universe with HAWC |
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| Presenter: | Robert Lauer (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | John Matthews | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday November 14, 2014
| 3:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Undergraduate Seismology Internship Info Session |
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| Presenter: | Sandra Saldaña, Physics major and Geophysicist, Noble Energy | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / www.iris.edu/ hq/ internship/ minority | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/saldana.pdf | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday November 18, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Dark Matter in the Sun Annihilating Directly into Neutrinos |
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| Presenter: | Bradley Knockel (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday November 20, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Arecibo L-Band Feed Array Zone of Avoidance Survey |
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| Presenter: | Travis McIntyre | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Patricia Henning | |
| File/Video Recording: | mcintyre.pdf | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Arecibo L-Band Feed Array Zone of Avoidance Survey |
| Presenter: | Travis P. McIntyre | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Host: | Patricia Henning | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Some Current Topics in Semiconductor Tracking Detectors |
| Presenter: |
Carl Haber, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / www.macfound.org/ fellows/ 892/ | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | PAIS-1140, PAIS | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Whose innovations are helping? Comparing climate change solutions from engineers, architects, planners, chemists, biologists, and others |
| Presenter: | Clinton J. Andrews, Professor of Urban Planning and Policy Development, Associate Dean for Planning and New Initiatives, and Director of the Center for Green Building, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday November 25, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulations |
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| Presenter: | David Amdahl (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday December 2, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Neutrino Oscillations in Dense Neutrino Media |
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| Presenter: | Sajad Abbar (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday December 4, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The half-megaton airburst over Chelyabinsk, Russia |
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| Presenter: | Mark Boslough (SNL) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday December 11, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Toward atomic-precision devices from multiscale fabrication including scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) |
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| Presenter: | Stephen Carr, SNL | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday December 18, 2014
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Former PA Shop Supervisor Memorial Service |
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| Presenter: | Jim Hontas Family | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / www.danielsfuneral.com/ obituaries/ James-Hontas-2/ #!/ Obituary | |
| File/Video Recording: | Full page photo.pdf | |
| Location: | Strong-Thorne Mortuary | |
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