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Events for the Fall 2015 semester

Thursday June 4, 2015
1:00 pm  Title: 
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Statistics of Epidemics in Networks by Passing Messages
 Presenter:  Munik Shrestha
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday June 26, 2015
3:00 pm  Title: 
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Modeling Conductivity Gaps and Closures at the Atomistic Scale
 Presenter:  Steve Valone, Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
 Series:  Computational Physics Seminar
 Host:  David Dunlap
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday July 8, 2015
10:00 am  Title: 
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Loading an Equidistant Ion Chain in a Ring Shaped Surface Trap and Anomalous Heating Studies with a High Optical Access Trap
 Presenter:  Boyan P. Tabakov
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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LOFAR Census of Non-Millisecond Pulsars
 Presenter:  Anya Bilous (Astron)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Thursday July 9, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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High Data-Rate Atom Interferometry for Measuring Dynamic Inertial Conditions
 Presenter:  Akash V. Rakholia
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday August 18, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Show and Tell
 Presenter:  NUPAC Group
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday August 20, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Improving Space Weather Forecasts Using the Air Force Data Assimilative Photospheric Flux Transport (ADAPT) Model
 Presenter:  Nick Arge, AFRL
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum metrology gets real
 Presenter:  Konrad Banaszek, University of Warsaw
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday August 25, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Surveying the TeV sky with HAWC
 Presenter:  Robert Lauer, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  John Matthews
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday September 1, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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(Ultra)-High Energy Cosmic Rays Rapporteur Talk from ICRC 2015
 Presenter:  John Matthews, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 3, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Polarization-dependent emission modeling of the blazar emission
 Presenter:  Haocheng Zhang, LANL
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Is spacetime a quantum error-correcting code?
 Presenter:  John Preskill, California Institute of Technology
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Web Site:    http:/ / arxiv.org/ abs/ 1503.06237
 Host:  Carlton Caves
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday September 8, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Transport of Flavored Neutrinos in Astrophysical Environments
 Presenter:  Alexey Vlasenko, North Carolina State University
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Huaiyu (Mike) Duan
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 10, 2015
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum control of superconducting circuits
 Presenter:  Liang Jiang, Yale University
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday September 15, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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On the production of dark matter and baryon relic abundances
 Presenter:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 17, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Monitoring the Long Wavelength Transient Sky with the LWA1 Telescope
 Presenter:  Ken Obenberger, UNM
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Monitoring the Long Wavelength Transient Sky with the LWA1 Telescope
 Presenter:  Kenneth S. Obenberger
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Singlet-triplet qubit in a hybrid silicon quantum dot and donor system
 Presenter:  Malcolm Carroll, Sandia National Laboratories
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday September 18, 2015
5:30 pm  Title: 
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The Evolution of goodness
 Presenter:  Lee Alan Dugatkin, Professor & Distinguished University Scholar, Department of Biology, University of Louisville
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Thursday September 24, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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The use of methanol masers in understanding star formation
 Presenter:  Huib van Langevelde, Astron
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday September 29, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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The baryon-dark matter coincidence puzzle
 Presenter:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday October 1, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Molecular Gas and the Nuclear Starburst in NGC 253
 Presenter:  Mark Gorski, UNM/NRAO
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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2D Superexchange-mediated magnetization dynamics in an optical lattice
 Presenter:  Trey Porto, NIST/JQI
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday October 7, 2015
4:00 pm  Title: 
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Nanofibers and atoms: A new platform for quantum optics
 Presenter:  Luis Orozco, UMD
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday October 14, 2015
7:00 pm  Title: 
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Department of Physics and Astronomy Fall Lecture Demo Show
 Presenter:  Students and Faculty of the Physics and Astronomy Department, University of New Mexico
 Series:  Outreach
 File/Video Recording:  http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/Fall_2015_Demo_Show.pdf
 Location:  Regener Hall Room 103

 

Thursday October 15, 2015
11:00 am  Title: 
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 Presenter: 
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials
5:00 pm  Title: 
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The scientific quest to understand the origin of life
 Presenter:  Nicholas Hud, Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Thursday October 22, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Raising the bar: The Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamic Evolution Survey
 Presenter:  Ylva Pihlstrom, UNM
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Monday October 26, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Women of the Mercury 13
 Presenter:  Wally Funk
 Series:  Outreach
 Web Site:    http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ pandaweb/ events/ flyers/ Wally%20Funk.pdf
 Location:  Student Health Center, lower plaza

 

Tuesday October 27, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics: Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
 Presenter:  Keith Rielage, LANL
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Michael Gold
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday October 29, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Measuring Gravitational Redshifts of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae
 Presenter:  Daniel Zirzow, UNM
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum work fluctuations: Notions and exact results
 Presenter:  Sebastian Deffner, LANL
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Akimasa Miyake
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday October 30, 2015
12:00 pm  Title: 
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Progress toward a supernova neutrino event generator for simulations of liquid-argon-based detectors
 Presenter:  Steven Gardiner, UC Davis
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Michael Gold
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday November 3, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Measuring Gravitational Redshifts of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae
 Presenter:  Daniel Zirzow, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  John McGraw
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday November 4, 2015
6:00 pm  Title: 
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 Presenter: 
 File/Video Recording:  http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/open_house_2015.pdf
 Location:  Multiple rooms, PAIS

 

Thursday November 5, 2015
11:00 am  Title: 
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From Materials Engineering to Device Applications: Testing Our Understanding of Nature
 Presenter:  Professor Sang Han, Departments of Chemical & Nuclear Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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The Crab Pulsar: Radio Emission Mechanism Enigmas
 Presenter:  Tim Hankins, NMT
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Measuring Entanglement Entropy in a Many-Body System
 Presenter:  Markus Greiner, Harvard University
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday November 10, 2015
12:00 pm  Title: 
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Engineerable Phased-Array Sources Based on Nonlinear Metamaterial Nanocavities
 Presenter:  Dr. Salvatore Campione, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Sandia National Laboratories
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Probing neutrino mass hierarchy via dark matter annihilation signals at neutrino telescopes
 Presenter:  Bradley Knockel, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday November 12, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Gas Outside Galaxies in the Local Group
 Presenter:  Jay Lockman, NRAO
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Patricia Henning
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday November 13, 2015
10:00 am  Title: 
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Simulating Nonlinear Neutrino Oscillations on Next-Generation Many-Core Architectures
 Presenter:  Vahid Noormofidi B.S., Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), 2006 M.S., Computer Science, University of Tehran, 2008 Ph.D., Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, 2015
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 File/Video Recording:  http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/2015/flyers/noormofidi_abstract.pdf
 Location:  ECE 237

 

Tuesday November 17, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Summary of SURF 2015: Low Background Physics
 Presenter:  Greg Ottino, UNM and Montie Avery, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday November 18, 2015
12:30 pm  Title: 
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Women Radio Astronomers: Ruby Payne-Scott, the first Woman Radio Astronomer and Nan Dieter Conklin- First US Women Radio Astronomer
 Presenter:  Dr. Miller Goss, NRAO
 Series:  Outreach
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday November 19, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Southern Hemisphere Multi-wavelength Monitoring of Energetic and Peculiar Gamma-Ray Bursts
 Presenter:  Aquib Moin, SA
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Uniform Additivity in Classical and Quantum Information
 Presenter:  Graeme Smith, IBM
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:00 pm  Title: 
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And then there was mass, from Higgs boson to the unknown
 Presenter:  Joe Incandela, Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Friday November 20, 2015
11:15 am  Title: 
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A search for scalar partners of the top quark by the CMS experiment and plans for a new silicon endcap calorimeter for the High Luminosity LHC
 Presenter:  Joseph Incandela, Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara and CERN
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Web Site:    https:/ / en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Joseph_Incandela
 Host:  Sally Seidel
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Monday November 30, 2015
10:00 am  Title: 
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Fundamentals of laser interaction with water droplets
 Presenter:  Dr. Martin Richardson, CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Tuesday December 1, 2015
2:00 pm  Title: 
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SF6 Gas in Negative Ion Time Projection Chambers for Directional Dark Matter Detection
 Presenter:  Randy Lafler, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday December 3, 2015
11:00 am  Title: 
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Preliminary Plans for the Death Star: An Overview of Kilowatt-Class Narrow-Linewidth Fiber Amplifiers
 Presenter:  Dr. Jacon Grose, AFRL Directed Energy Directorate
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Some thoughts about the Quantum Van Trees inequality
 Presenter:  Pablo Barberis Blostein, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

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