Events Calendar
Events for the Spring 2016 semester
Tuesday January 19, 2016
| 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 20, 2016
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Thermal baths: more friends than foes |
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| Presenter: | Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday January 21, 2016
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Optomechanical Oscillators and their Applications |
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| Presenter: | Professor Mani Hossein Zadeh, Assoc. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and CHTM | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Exploring the transient sky: from surveys to simulations |
| Presenter: | Dario Carbone, UA | |
| 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) |
Tsunami |
| Presenter: | Harvey Segur, Professor, Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder | |
| Series: | Outreach | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / math.unm.edu/ news-events/ events/ colloquium-harvey-segur-tsunami | |
| Host: | Wolfgang Rudolph | |
| Location: | Science and Mathematics Learning Center, Room 356 | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Music and the Making of Modern Science |
| Presenter: | Prof. Peter Pesic, St. John's College | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday January 26, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Neutrino energy transport and precision primordial nucleosynthesis |
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| Presenter: | Mark Paris, LANL | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday January 28, 2016
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Chip-scale Quantum Communications |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Ryan Camacho, Staff Scientist, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT),Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
News from AAS and URSI |
| Presenter: | Pihlstrom, Schinzel, et al. | |
| 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) |
High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos in IceCube |
| Presenter: | Claudio Kopper, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS-1140, PAIS | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos in IceCube (special seminar) |
| Presenter: | Claudio Kopper, University of Alberta | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS-1140, PAIS | |
Friday January 29, 2016
| 3:45 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Attosecond Dynamics: From Molecules to Semiconductor Solids |
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| Presenter: | Stephen Leone, John R. Thomas Endowed Chair in Physical Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley | |
| Series: | Outreach | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/15-16 Kahn Lectureship.pdf | |
| Location: | Science and Mathematics Learning Center, Room 102 | |
Tuesday February 2, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Light Dark Matter search at accelerators |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Marco Battaglieri, INFN | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday February 3, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Electrical and Optical Characteristics of Quantum Cascade Lasers |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Petr G. Eliseev, Research Professor Emeritus at CHTM | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Thursday February 4, 2016
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Locally Covariant Approach to Relativistic Quantum Metrology |
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| Presenter: | James Van Meter | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Monday February 8, 2016
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Smoluchowski Equation in Population Dynamics and the Spread of Infection |
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| Presenter: | Satomi Sugaya | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Thursday February 11, 2016
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Implementations of CV and DV protocols |
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| Presenter: | Dr.Junji Urayama, Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Tuesday February 16, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Observation of Gravitational Waves by LIGO |
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| Presenter: | Group Discussion | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 18, 2016
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Laser-induced damage in dielectric materials |
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| Presenter: | Luke Emmert, UNM Physics and Astronomy | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The New Arctic |
| Presenter: | Mark Serreze, Director of the University of Colorado National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and Professor in the Department of Geography | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Friday February 19, 2016
| 10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Defects in semiconductors: atomic-like systems in a solid-state host |
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| Presenter: | Kai-Mei Fu, University of Washington Physics and Electrical Engineering Departments | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Tuesday February 23, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The vacuum spontaneously breaks parity |
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| Presenter: | Kevin Cahill, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Thursday February 25, 2016
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Fascinating Toolbox of Subcycle Photonics |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Denis Seletskiy, Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, at the University of Konstanz | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 1, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves |
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| Presenter: | Emil Mottola, LANL | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 3, 2016
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Leveraging Advances in Computational Electrodynamics to Enable New Kinds of Nanophotonic Devices |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Ardavan Oskooi, Founder and CEO of Simpetus | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Surveying the TeV Sky with HAWC |
| Presenter: | Rob Lauer, 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 electrons in classical devices: Magnetic Mirrors and X-ray FELs |
| Presenter: | Petr Mikhaylovich Anisimov, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 8, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
An Accelerator-Produced, Sub-GeV Dark Matter Search with the MiniBooNE Neutrino Detector |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Robert Cooper, NM State | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 10, 2016
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Inverse MRI for Brain Magnetic Susceptibility Tomography |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Zikuan Chen, Research Scientist with the Mind Research Network, (MRN) | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Comparing Different Methods of Estimating Total Open Heliospheric Magnetic Flux |
| Presenter: | Samantha Wallace, UNM | |
| 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) |
The Mathematics of Crime |
| Presenter: | Andrea Bertozzi, Mathematics Department, University of California, Los Angele | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Wednesday March 16, 2016
| 7:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Spring Lecture Demo Show |
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| 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/Spring_2016_Demo_Show.pdf | |
| Location: | Regener Hall Room 103 | |
Monday March 21, 2016
| 3:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Opening New Frontiers in the Study of Star Formation |
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| Presenter: | Amanda Kepley, NRAO | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Richard Rand | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 24, 2016
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Adiabatic Quantum Computing vs. Diffusion Monte Carlo |
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| Presenter: | Stephen Jordan, NIST | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday March 25, 2016
| 1:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Muon Physics |
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| Presenter: | Robert Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / home.fnal.gov/ ~rhbob/ About_Me.html | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 31, 2016
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Evolution of Photonic Integration Based Products and Related Technologies |
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| Presenter: | Alfredo Viglienzoni, SVP of Business Development and Emerging Markets BU at Skorpios Technologies | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Magnon Dynamics and Thermodynamics |
| Presenter: | Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday April 1, 2016
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Evolution of Photonic Integration Based Products and Related Technologies |
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| Presenter: |
Dr. Chee Hing Tan, Director of Research &Innovations and leads the Advanced
Detector Centre at The University of Sheffield, UK |
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| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Sub-nanosecond UV filaments and their applications for remote spect= roscopy and high-voltage discharges |
| Presenter: | Mr. Chengyong Feng, OSE Ph.D. Candidate | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 5, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Topics in the Physics of Supernovae and Neutron Stars |
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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 April 7, 2016
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Measuring 2.4 x 10^26Hz photons and why we do it! |
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| Presenter: | Dr. John A.J. Matthews, UNM | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Measuring 2.4 x 10^26Hz photons and why we do it! |
| Presenter: | John Matthews, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Use of Massively Parallel Platforms for Wide-field Wide-band Interferometric Imaging |
| Presenter: | Sanjay Bhatnagar, NRAO | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Entanglement of 3000 atoms by one photon |
| Presenter: | Vladan Vuletic, MIT | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 14, 2016
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Geometric "charge" pumping with a Bose-Einstein condensate |
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| Presenter: | Ian Spielman, NIST - JQI | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 19, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Neutrino oscillations in matter |
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| Presenter: | Lei Ma, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 21, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The upgraded VLA looks for waves and dynamics beneath Jupiter's clouds |
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| Presenter: | Rick Cosentino, Department of Physics, New Mexico Tech | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Self-Interacting Dark Matter from a Non-Abelian Hidden Sector |
| Presenter: | Tim Tait, UCI | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / hep.ps.uci.edu/ ~tait/ | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 6:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Nuclear Batteries for Long Life Low Power Applications |
| Presenter: | Michael G. Spencer, Electrical engineer, computer scientist and Professor of Electrical Engineering,Cornell University | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday April 26, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Next Generation Silicon Tracking for sPHENIX and the Electron-Ion Collider |
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| Presenter: | Michael McCumber, LANL | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 28, 2016
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Filtering and feedback control theory: from classical to quantum "Televised seminar" |
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| Presenter: | Hendra Nurdin, U of New South Wales | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday May 3, 2016
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
MiniCLEAN Experiment |
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| Presenter: | Jui-Jen Wang (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday May 5, 2016
| 12:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Photoluminescence Studies of InAs/InAsSb Type-II Infrared Superlattices |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Elizabeth Stenbergen, AFRL | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Sky |
| Presenter: | Jayce Dowell, UNM | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Inefficiency of classically simulating linear optical interferometers |
| Presenter: | Jonathan Dowling, LSU | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday May 6, 2016
| 10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Intracavity Nonlinear Spectroscopy, technical issues, and scientific opportunities |
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| Presenter: | Professor John L. Hall, Nobel Laureate | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 3:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Undergraduate Honors Research Presentations |
| Presenter: | ||
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/undergrad_colloquium_2016.pdf | |
| Location: | Regener Hall Room 103 | |
Wednesday May 11, 2016
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Universal steering criteria |
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| Presenter: | Huangjun Zhu, University of Cologne | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday May 12, 2016
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Engineered Interband Cascade Structures for Optoelectronic Devices |
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| Presenter: | Professor Rui Q. Yang, University of Oklahoma School of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Saturday May 14, 2016
| 12:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Convocation |
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| Presenter: | Mark McKinnon, PhD | |
| Location: | Regener Hall Room 103 | |
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