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Events for the Fall 2016 semester

Thursday June 16, 2016
10:00 am  Title: 
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Characterizing Supernova Remnant and Molecular Cloud Interaction Environments Using Class I Methanol Masers
 Presenter:  Bridget C. McEwen, UNM Physics PhD student
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday June 22, 2016
3:00 pm  Title: 
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Scalable Techniques for Quantum Network Engineering
 Presenter:  Nikolas Anton Tezak, Stanford University
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Friday June 24, 2016
1:00 pm  Title: 
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Seasonality of VLF Attenuation Through the Ionosphere
 Presenter:  Paul T. Greninger
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Web Site:    http:/ / repository.unm.edu/ handle/ 1928/ 33025
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Monday June 27, 2016
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Flexible quantum computation and measurement-based linear optics with scalable CV cluster states
 Presenter:  Nicolas Menicucci, RMIT University, Australia
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday August 3, 2016
4:00 pm  Title: 
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Efficient and Robust Methods for Quantum Tomography
 Presenter:  Charles H. Baldwin
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday August 23, 2016
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 25, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Topologically Protected Edge States on Quasicrystals
 Presenter:  Professor Terry A. Loring, The Department of Mathematics & Statistics, UNM
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Cross-Correlating Radiation Belt Electron Flux and Substorm Activity
 Presenter:  Veronica Dike, UNM
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday August 30, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Extending the Reach of Directional Dark Matter Experiments Through Novel Detector Technologies
 Presenter:  Nguyen Phan, UNM
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Extending the Reach of Directional Dark Matter Experiments Through Novel Detector Technologies
 Presenter:  Nguyen Phan, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday August 31, 2016
11:30 am  Title: 
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Memory Effects in Brownian Motion, Random Walks under Confining Potentials, and Relaxation of Quantum Systems
 Presenter:  Matthew N. Chase
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Thursday September 1, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Optics
 Presenter:  Professor Arash Mafi, Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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An Experimental Investigation of Plasma Dynamics in Jets
 Presenter:  Yue Zhang, UNM
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday September 6, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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The LIGO Gravitational-Wave Detections - Part I
 Presenter:  Carl Caves, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 8, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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The convergence of nanoptics and chemistry: plasmons enabling surface chemistry and in situ detections
 Presenter:  Professor Terefe Habteyes, UNM Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Estimating Outcome Probabilities of Quantum Circuits Using Quasiprobabilities
 Presenter:  Hakop Pashayan, University of Sydney
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Web Site:    http:/ / arxiv.org/ abs/ 1503.07525
 Host:  Carlton Caves
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday September 13, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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The LIGO Gravitational-Wave Detections - Part II
 Presenter:  Carl Caves, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 15, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Spacecraft Component Technologies at the Space Vehicles Directorate, AFRL
 Presenter:  Dr. David Cardimona, The Spacecraft Electronic Technologies Branch, AFRL
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials
3:30 pm  Title: 
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TBA
 Presenter:  Andrew Landahl, Sandia National Labs
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday September 20, 2016
3:00 pm  Title: 
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Discussion of Recent Results from Sterile Neutrino Searches with IceCube
 Presenter:  Robert Lauer, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  John Matthews
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday September 21, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Disruptive 3D imaging with Geiger-mode sensing technology
 Presenter:  Dr. Brian Piccone, Princeton Lightwave, Cranbury, New Jersey
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Thursday September 22, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Photochromic Ruthenium Compounds: Photophysics, Photorefraction, and Photonastism
 Presenter:  Dr. Jeffrey Rack, UNM Chemistry and Chemical Biology
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Insights into galaxy assembly from star formation in luminous quasars at z>1
 Presenter:  Duncan Farrah, VT
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday September 23, 2016
4:00 pm  Title: 
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Squeezing Light into Small Spaces
 Presenter:  Teri Odom, Northwestern University
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Host:  Terefe Habteyes
 File/Video Recording:  http://panda3.phys.unm.edu:/videos/Colloquium-160923-Odom.mp4
 Location:  Room 101, Clark Hall

 

Thursday September 29, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Solar Flares in the Extreme Ultraviolet
 Presenter:  Rachel Hock-Mysliwiec, AFRL
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum simulation experiments with 2D arrays of hundreds of trapped ions (1)
 Presenter:  John Bollinger, NIST
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday September 30, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Introduction to SIOM and high power laser coatings
 Presenter:  Dr. J. Shao, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM)
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Fundamental Physics with Muons (Special Seminar)
 Presenter:  André; de Gouvêa, Northwestern University
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-1160, PAIS

 

Thursday October 6, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Optical-to-Electrical Energy Conversion
 Presenter:  Professor Matthew Sheldon, Departments of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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The Sedate Supermassive Binary Black Hole System 0402+379
 Presenter:  Karishma Bansal, UNM
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday October 11, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Probing Dark Matter Annihilation to Right-handed Neutrinos
 Presenter:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday October 12, 2016
3:00 pm  Title: 
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The Quantum Maximum Likelihood Estimator is Inadmissible
 Presenter:  Chris Ferrie, University of Sydney
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Carlton Caves
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
4:00 pm  Title: 
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Practical Bayesian Tomography
 Presenter:  Josh Combes, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Web Site:    http:/ / arxiv.org/ abs/ 1509.03770
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Monday October 17, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Single Particle Tracking: Analysis Techniques for Live Cell Nanoscopy
 Presenter:  Peter K. Relich
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday October 19, 2016
4:00 pm  Title: 
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A Circuit-based Quantum Search Algorithm Driving by Transverse Fields
 Presenter:  Zhang Jiang, QuAIL, NASA Ames Research Center; and Stinger GhaffarianTechnologies, Inc.
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday October 20, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Structure-function relationships of polymer solar cells: A molecular perspective
 Presenter:  Professor John Grey, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Nanoscience and Microsystems program, UNM
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Zooming in where the jets are born - RadioAstron space-VLBI observations of nearby radio galaxies
 Presenter:  Tuomas Savolainen, Aalto Univ
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday October 21, 2016
9:00 am  Title: 
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Probing Dark Matter-Neutrino Connection via Indirect Detection Experiments
 Presenter:  Bradley Knockel, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS
9:00 am  Title: 
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Probing Dark Matter-Neutrino Connection via Indirect Detection Experiments
 Presenter:  Bradley Knockel, UNM
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Tuesday October 25, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Supersymmetry as a Fundamental Symmetry of Nature
 Presenter:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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New optical sources for physics and spectroscopy based on an old trick of atomic physics
 Presenter:  Dr. Jeffrey Moses, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 146, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Thursday October 27, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Sub-10-nm Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Probes and sensors
 Presenter:  Dr. Stefano Cabrini, Nanofabrication Facility Director, Molecular Foundry Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Laboratory
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Kinetic- vs Magnetic-driven Blazar Jet Models
 Presenter:  Haocheng Zhang, UNM
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Integrated Photonics for Quantum Networks
 Presenter:  Ryan Camacho, Sandia National Laboratories
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday November 1, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Long-term observations at TeV Energies
 Presenter:  Daniela Dorner, University of Würzburg
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday November 2, 2016
7:00 pm  Title: 
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Demo night
 Presenter:  Society of Physics Students and UNM Physics and Astronomy faculty
 Host:  David Dunlap
 File/Video Recording:  http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/demo_show_110216.pdf
 Location:  Regener Hall Auditorium

 

Thursday November 3, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Frustration by Design in Artificial Spin Ice
 Presenter:  Dr. Cristiano Nisoli, Los Alamos National Lab
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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The Next Generation Very Large Array
 Presenter:  Mark McKinnon, NRAO
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum Pulse Shaping and Characterization Using Spectral and Temporal Phase
 Presenter:  Brian Smith, University of Oregon1
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday November 4, 2016
10:00 am  Title: 
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Search for New Physics Processes with Heavy Quark Signatures in the ATLAS Experiment
 Presenter:  Aaron C. Taylor
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2210, PAIS

 

Tuesday November 8, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Path integrals for awkward actions
 Presenter:  Kevin Cahill, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday November 10, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy on a nanostructured diamond chip
 Presenter:  Professor Victor Acosta, UNM Physics and Astronomy Department
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Radio emission from radio-"quiet" QSOs: star formation or AGN?
 Presenter:  Amy Kimball, NRAO
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Extending Landauer's Bound from Bit Erasure to Arbitrary Computation
 Presenter:  David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute, MIT, ASU
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Carlton Caves
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Monday November 14, 2016
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Fluctuation Theorem for Many-body Pure Quantum States
 Presenter:  Takahiro Sagawa, University of Tokyo
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Applied Math Seminar: Computational and mathematical challenges in industrial scale seismic imaging
 Presenter:  Dr. Russ Hewett, Research Scientist, Computational Science and Engineering Department, Total S.A.'s Houston research center
 Web Site:    http:/ / math.unm.edu/ news-events/ events/ applied-math-seminar-computational-and-mathematical-challenges-industrial-scale
 Location:  SMLC 356

 

Thursday November 17, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Optical Pulse Propagation in Multimode Fibers
 Presenter:  Professor Frank Wise, Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Early Science with the GMRT 150 MHz Survey
 Presenter:  Dale Frail, NRAO
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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A Supersonically Expanding Bose-Einstein Condensate: Analogies to the Expanding Universe?
 Presenter:  Gretchen Campbell, University of Maryland
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:30 pm  Title: 
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Near Earth Object Research using the Magdalena Ridge Observatory 2.4-meter Telescope
 Presenter:  Eileen Ryan, New Mexico Tech
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Web Site:    http:/ / news.unm.edu/ news/ sigma-xi-ieee-present-near-earth-object-research-using-the-magdalena-ridge-observatory-telescope
 Location:  UNM Conference Center Auditorium

 

Tuesday November 22, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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X-ray Radiography at the NNSS
 Presenter:  Kristina Brown, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday November 29, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Low-temperature detectors for nuclear physics and radioactive materials analysis
 Presenter:  Michael Rabin, LANL
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday December 1, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Plasmonic Nanoparticles: From Fundamental Optical Properties to Applications
 Presenter:  Dr. Stephan Link Associate Professor, Rice University
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials
1:00 pm  Title: 
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Multi-filed trajectories in sneutrino and axion inflation
 Presenter:  Marco Peloso, University of Minnesota
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Predictions of the statistical robustness of the measurements of the Neutral Hydrogen Mass Function and cosmic HI density
 Presenter:  Monica Sanchez, UNM
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum Computing for and from Quantum Field Theory
 Presenter:  Keith Lee, University of Toronto
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday December 2, 2016
1:00 pm  Title: 
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Seeing life in a new light
 Presenter:  Professor Vladislav Yakovlev, Texas A&M University
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday December 6, 2016
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Non-thermal Dark Matter
 Presenter:  Jacek Osinski, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Designer Optical Fibers: It's not just about the waveguide anymore
 Presenter:  Dr. Peter D. Dragic, Univ. of Illnois Urbana-Champaign
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Wednesday December 7, 2016
3:00 pm  Title: 
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Steering, Adiabatic Theorem and Perspectives
 Presenter:  Marcio Mendes Taddei, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday December 8, 2016
11:00 am  Title: 
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Infrared Chameleon: Graphene, Surrounding Materials, & the Primacy of their Interaction on Photodetection
 Presenter:  Dr. Thomas Beechem, Sandia Natl. Labs
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Perfectly Capturing Traveling Single Photons of Arbitrary Temporal Wavepackets with a Single Tuneable Device
 Presenter:  Hendra Nurdin, University of New South Wales
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday December 9, 2016
1:00 pm  Title: 
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Tailoring core/shell heterostructure of colloidal quantum dots for high performance electroluminescent devices
 Presenter:  Dr. Jaehoon Lim, Chemistry Division, LANL
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Thursday December 15, 2016
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Collective Behavior in Long-Range Interacting Dissipative Systems
 Presenter:  Bihui Zhu, University of Colorado, Boulder and University of California, Santa Barbara
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

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