Events Calendar
Events for the Spring 2014 semester
Tuesday January 21, 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 | |
Wednesday January 22, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Bill Wootters, Williams College | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday January 23, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
News from the 223rd American Astronomical Society Meeting in DC |
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| Presenter: | John McGraw (UNM), Ken Obenberger (UNM), Frank Schinzel( UNM), Kevin Stovall (UNM), Greg Taylor (UNM), Pete Zimmer (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Magnetism from the Bottom Up |
| Presenter: | Chris Monroe, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday January 28, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Effect of Sun's Gravitational Focusing on Dark Matter Annual Modulation |
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| Presenter: | Franco Giuliani (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday January 29, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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| Presenter: | ||
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday January 31, 2014
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Star deaths and the formation of compact objects |
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| Presenter: | Huaiyu Duan | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 4, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A field theory whose energy density is finite while classically unbounded below |
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| Presenter: | Kevin Cahill (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 6, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Lightning Research at New Mexico Tech |
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| Presenter: | Jeff Lapierre (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) |
Atomic Physics for Broadband, Small Active Volume Atomic Magnetometer |
| Presenter: | Yuan-Yu Jau, Sandia National Labs | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Atomic Physics for Broadband, Small Active Volume Atomic Magnetometer |
| Presenter: | Yuan-Yu Jau, Sandia National Labs | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Robert Cook | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday February 7, 2014
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cold equation of state below neutron drip |
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| Presenter: | Sajad Abbar | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 11, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Probing Dark Matter Annihilation to Primary Neutrinos with IceCube |
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| Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday February 12, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Matthew Grace, SNL | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 13, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Towards Understanding of Shock Acceleration |
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| Presenter: | Andrey Beresnyak (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) |
Monte carlo simulation of stoquastic hamiltonians |
| Presenter: | Sergey Bravyi, IBM | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Atoms of Mind: The "Ghost in the machine" materializes |
| Presenter: |
W. R. (Bill) Klemm,
Senior Professor of Neuroscience Texas A & M University |
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| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday February 18, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Drell-Yan at PHENIX |
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| Presenter: | Katherine DeBlasio (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Douglas Fields | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 20, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Extreme (and not so extreme!) gas properties in the center of our Galaxy |
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| Presenter: | Betsy Mills (NRAO) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday February 21, 2014
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
White dwarfs |
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| Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 25, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Effective Masses in a Dense Background of Neutral Fermions-----applied to neutrinos, dark matter and dark energy |
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| Presenter: | Gerard Stephenson (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday February 26, 2014
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Characterizing and verifying 100-qubit scale quantum computers |
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| Presenter: | Chris Granade (IQC) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Chris Ferrie | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 27, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamical Simulations of Jets |
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| Presenter: | Xiaoyue Guan (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 metrology for dynamical systems |
| Presenter: | Mankei Tsang, National University of Singapore | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Robert Cook | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 4, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Looking for a Light Nonthermal Dark Matter at the LHC |
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| Presenter: | Yu Gao (Texas A&M University) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 6, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Role of "Wimpy" AGNs in Shaping the Evolution of their Host Galaxies |
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| Presenter: | Kristina Nyland (NMT/NRAO) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
What Makes Medical Technology Work? |
| Presenter: |
Kenneth R. Foster, Professor of Bioengineering,
University of Pennsylvania |
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| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Friday March 7, 2014
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cooling of white dwarfs |
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| Presenter: | Matthew Chase | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Monday March 10, 2014
| 3:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Single photon interference experiments providing new insights into wave-particle relationship |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Ralf Menzel, University of Potsdam, Germany | |
| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Host: | James Thomas | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 13, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum computing (and other stuff) with neutral atoms in optical lattices |
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| Presenter: | David S Weiss, Penn State University | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Amir Kalev | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday March 14, 2014
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cold equation of state above neutron drip |
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| Presenter: | Jacek Osinski | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 25, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The geometry underlying electromagnetism |
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| Presenter: | Mario Serna (Department of Physics, United States Air Force Academy) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday March 26, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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| Presenter: | ||
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 27, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The nature of faint polarized radio sources and their utility as cosmic probes |
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| Presenter: | Chris Hales (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) |
Implications of analog simulation for computation and complexity |
| Presenter: | Robin Blume-Kohout, Sandia National Labs | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 1, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 3, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Product-state approximations to ground states |
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| Presenter: | Aram Harrow, MIT | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Hydrodynamics and polymer diffusion in lipid membranes |
| Presenter: |
Ashok Prasad
Chemical & Biological Engineering Colorado State University |
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| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 8, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 10, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Finding the First Cosmic Explosions |
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| Presenter: | Joseph Smidt (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) |
A simple method for optimal hamiltonian simulation |
| Presenter: | Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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 C, UNM Conference Center | |
Friday April 11, 2014
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Neutron star models: masses and radii |
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| Presenter: | Lei Ma | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Thursday April 17, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Using Ammonia to Trace Methanol Masers near SNRs |
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| Presenter: | Bridget McEwen | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday April 18, 2014
| 10:30 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cooling of neutron stars |
| Presenter: | Matthew Chase | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 22, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Collective Neutrino Oscillations: Challenges and future directions (Part I) |
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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 April 24, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum metrology with matterwave interferometers |
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| Presenter: | Grant Biedermann, SNL | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday April 25, 2014
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Stellar collapse and supernova explosions |
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| Presenter: | Shashank Shalgar | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 29, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Classical Gravitational Back-Reaction |
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| Presenter: | Nick Tsamis (University of Crete, Greece) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday May 1, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Monitoring the Sky Below the FM Band with the LWA1 |
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| Presenter: | Ken Obenberger (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) |
Benchmarking with confidence and testing non-markovianity |
| Presenter: | Joel Wallman, University of Waterloo | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Chris Ferrie | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday May 2, 2014
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Stellar collapse and supernova explosions |
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| Presenter: | Shashank Shalgar | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday May 6, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Collective Neutrino Oscillations: Challenges and future directions (Part II) |
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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 May 8, 2014
| 10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Limitations in quantum extension ("joinability") problems: quantum states vs. channels |
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| Presenter: | Peter Johnson, Dartmouth College | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Rise of the titans, the biggest black holes in the Universe |
| Presenter: | Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (Stanford) | |
| 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) |
Steady-state entanglement engineering with quasi-local dissipation |
| Presenter: | Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday May 16, 2014
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The link between cosmology and dark matter experiments (Special Colloquium) |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Saturday May 17, 2014
| 12:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Convocation Ceremony">Convocation Ceremony |
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| Presenter: | Physics and Astronomy Department | |
| Location: | Regener Hall | |
Thursday May 22, 2014
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Extracting quantum fisher information from parallel and antiparallel spins |
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| Presenter: | Nan Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday May 28, 2014
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Classical fields and quantum measurement for Bose-Einstein condensate |
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| Presenter: | Kazimierz Rzazewski, Polish Academy of Sciences | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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