Events Calendar
Events for the Spring 2015 semester
Friday January 9, 2015
| 6:15 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The 2013 Chelyabinsk (Russian) Meteorite and Other Stories of Destructive Impacts and Airbursts on Earth |
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| Presenter: | Mark Boslough, Ph.D., Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / www.nmnaturalhistory.org | |
| Location: | New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, 1801 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104 | |
Tuesday January 13, 2015
| 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 14, 2015
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Schrodinger cat states in separable Hilbert space: optimal branch distinguishability and algebras for metrological usefulness |
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| Presenter: | Tyler Volkoff, University of California at Berkeley | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday January 15, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
News from the AAS |
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| Presenter: | Taylor et al., 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 reservoir engineering in circuit QED |
| Presenter: | Steve Girvin, Yale University | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday January 16, 2015
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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| Presenter: | ||
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday January 20, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Higgs Boson in the Standard Model and Beyond - Part I |
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| Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday January 21, 2015
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Miniaturization effects of solar cell: Microsystems Enabled Photovoltaics |
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| Presenter: | Jose Luis Cruz-Campa, Optoelectronic devices researcher, Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Thursday January 22, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Wide-band Wide-field Deep Continuum Radio Imaging |
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| Presenter: | Preshanth Jagannathan, 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) |
The ubit model in real-amplitude quantum theory |
| Presenter: | Bill Wootters, Williams College | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday January 27, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Higgs Boson in the Standard Model and Beyond - Part II |
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| Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday January 29, 2015
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Enabling technologies for single electron spin resonance in silicon |
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| Presenter: | Stephen Carr, SNL | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 3, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Higgs Boson in the Standard Model and Beyond - Part III |
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| Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 10, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Higgs Boson in the Standard Model and Beyond - Part IV |
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| Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 12, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Microquasars and Relations |
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| Presenter: | Vivek Dhawan, 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) |
TBA |
| Presenter: | Matthew Grace, SNL | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 17, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Path integrals for nontrivial actions |
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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 19, 2015
| 8:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
17th Annual SQuInT Workshop |
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| Presenter: |
Berkeley, California
February 19-21, 2015 |
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| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ SQuInT/ | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | DoubleTree Hotel in Berkeley California | |
| 5:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Search for Habitable Planets |
| Presenter: | ||
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday February 24, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Stimulated neutrino transformation through turbulence on a changing density profile and application to supernovae |
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| Presenter: | Kelly Patton, Arizona State University | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 26, 2015
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum optics and nanoscale sensing in diamond |
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| Presenter: | Victor Acosta, Google Inc. | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 3, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Extracting BSM Physics from Fermion Masses and Mixings |
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| Presenter: | Terry Goldman (LANL) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Kerr Frequency Comb Oscillators |
| Presenter: | Andrey Matsko, Principal Engineer, OEwaves Inc, Pasadena | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 5, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Estimating the Global Solar Photospheric Magnetic Field Distribution Using the ADAPT Model |
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| Presenter: | Nick Arge, AFRL | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday March 11, 2015
| 7:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Lecture Demonstration Show |
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| Presenter: |
David Dunlap, Professor, UNM Physics and Astronomy
Paul Schwoebel, Research Professor, UNM Physics and Astronomy Arash Mafi, Associate Professor, UNM Physics Astronomy Department |
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| Location: | Regener Hall Room 103 | |
Tuesday March 17, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Current Status of Particle Theory Models |
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| Presenter: | Bhaskar Dutta, Texas A&M; University | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A theorist's introduction to attosecond physics |
| Presenter: | Dr. Vladislav S. Yakovlev, Center for Nano-Optics (CeNO), Georgia State University | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 19, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Giant Pulses and Heliospheric Faraday Rotation from the Crab Pulsar |
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| Presenter: | Tarraneh Eftekhari, UNM | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Stimulating Science: Caffeinated Drinks in the Prehispanic American Southwest |
| Presenter: |
Patricia L. Crown,
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, UNM Member National Academy of Sciences |
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| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS-1140, PAIS | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Stimulating Science: Caffeinated Drinks in the Prehispanic American Southwest |
| Presenter: |
Patricia L. Crown,
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, UNM Member National Academy of Sciences |
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| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday March 24, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cross-Section Measurements of Proton-Induced Delayed Neutrons at 800 MeV |
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| Presenter: | Randy Spaulding, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Structured matter for exotic light control |
| Presenter: | Stavroula Foteinopoulou, ECE Dept., Univ. of New Mexico | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Arash Mafi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 26, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Exploring Pulsar Emission and the Interstellar Medium Using Low Frequencies |
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| Presenter: | Kevin Stovall, 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) |
The care and feeding of single photons (and how to train them for some very useful tricks) |
| Presenter: | Alan Migdall, NIST - JQI | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 31, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Observation of an Excited Bc± Meson State with the ATLAS detector |
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| Presenter: | Neil McFadden (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 2, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
GPU-based Optical Space Surveillance with Small Telescopes |
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| Presenter: | Pete Zimmer, JTMA | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 7, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
In Situ Optical Calibration of MiniCLEAN |
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| Presenter: | Jui-Jen Wang, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Michael Gold | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 9, 2015
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Walks |
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| Presenter: | Mark Hillery, Hunter College of CUNY | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Amir Kalev | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday April 10, 2015
| 12:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (Special Seminar) |
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| Presenter: | Ian Shipsey, Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Oxford | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 14, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Mitigating Backgrounds with a Novel Thin-Film Cathode in the DRIFT-IId Dark Matter Detector |
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| Presenter: | Eric Miller, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Mitigating Backgrounds with a Novel Thin-Film Cathode in the DRIFT-IId Dark Matter Detector |
| Presenter: | Eric H. Miller | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 16, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The seasonality of radio wave attenuation through the ionosphere |
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| Presenter: | Paul Greninger, UNM | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 21, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Exploring the particle dark matter parameter space with direct and indirect detection |
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| Presenter: | Louis Strigari, Texas A&M University | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 23, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Millisecond radio transients: a hot topic |
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| Presenter: | Sarah Burke Spolaor, 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) |
Ultracold molecules in crystals of light: A highly tunable system for exploring novel materials and quantum physics |
| Presenter: | Lindon D. Carr, Colorado School of Mines | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 28, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Directional Dark Matter Detection Challenges and Results from an R&D Detector |
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| Presenter: | Nguyen Phan, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday April 29, 2015
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
On multi-parameter quantum metrology |
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| Presenter: | Nan Li, CQuIC Visiting Faculty | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 30, 2015
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Radio Emission from Meteors |
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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) |
Measures of Nonclassical Correlations and Quantum-Enhanced Interferometry |
| Presenter: | Matthias D. Lang | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday May 1, 2015
| 3:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Physics Undergraduate Research Colloquium |
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| Presenter: | Alexandria Doerfler, Joshua Martin, Michael McCracken | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/undergrad_colloquium_2015.pdf | |
| Location: | Regener Hall Room 103 | |
Tuesday May 5, 2015
| 1:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Galactic Cosmic Ray Transport in the Heliosphere: 1963-2013 |
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| Presenter: | Roger C. Ygbuhay | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Friday May 8, 2015
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Sexism in science today: myth or reality? |
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| Presenter: | Shohini Ghose Associate Professor, Physics and Computer Science Director, Centre for Women in Science Wilfrid Laurier University | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Saturday May 9, 2015
| 12:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Physics Department Graduation |
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| Presenter: | ||
| Series: | Outreach | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/2015_Convocation_Program.pdf | |
| Location: | Regener Hall Room 103 | |
Wednesday May 13, 2015
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Encoding many qubits in the orbital angular momentum of light |
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| Presenter: | Phillippe Raynal, National University of Singapore | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday May 14, 2015
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Estimating outcome probabilities of quantum circuits using quasiprobabilities |
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| Presenter: | Stephen Bartlett, University of Sydney | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / arxiv.org/ abs/ 1503.07525 | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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