Events Calendar
Events for the Fall 2017 semester
Wednesday July 5, 2017
3:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Fundamental limit for cooling of driven quantum systems |
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Presenter: | Juan Pablo Paz, University of Buenos Aires | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Carlton Caves | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday August 1, 2017
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Characterizing and visualizing quantum dynamics of Rydberg atoms |
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Presenter: | Rick Mukherjee, Rice University | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday August 3, 2017
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The role of complexity, chaos and non-Markovianity in controlled quantum dynamics |
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Presenter: | Pablo Poggi, University of Buenos Aires | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Monday August 14, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum optomechanics with levitated nanoscale oscillators |
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Presenter: | Professor Peter F. Barker, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, UK | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday August 18, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Designing Spaces for Light |
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Presenter: | Alexander V. Kildishev Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Tuesday August 22, 2017
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 | |
Thursday August 24, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Tales of the Eclipse |
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Presenter: | Greg Taylor, Ylva Pihlstrom, Jess Dowell, Jayce Dowell and others | |
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) |
Optimal Quantum Sensing |
Presenter: | Alexey Gorshkov, NIST | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Carlton Caves | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday August 29, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A Neutrino Floor for Dark Matter Indirect Searches |
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Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday August 31, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Strongly Injection-Locked Semiconductor Ring Lasers for a New Generation of Ultrafast Transmitters |
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Presenter: | Dr. Marek Osiński, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Physics and Astronomy | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Tuesday September 5, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TeV Gamma Rays from the Sun |
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Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday September 6, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Thermophotovoltaic power generation from solar and waste heat |
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Presenter: | Dr. Peter Bermel, Purdue University | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Thursday September 7, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Game of Light and Heat |
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Presenter: | Dr. Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, OSE General Chair and Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UNM | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Imaging Subsurface Rock using Gravity Measurements |
Presenter: | Megan Lewis (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 Error Correction Beyond the Depolarizing Channel |
Presenter: | Steven Flammia, University of Sydney | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Carlton Caves | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Addressing Lithium-ion Battery Resilience |
Presenter: |
Heather Barkholtz,
Sandia National Laboratory |
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Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
Location: | Auditorium UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday September 12, 2017
10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment |
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Presenter: | Jui-Jen Wang | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Results from COHERENT |
Presenter: | Group Discussion | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday September 14, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Diving Deep into a Quantum-Information-Processing Problem: Quantum Limits on the Performance of Linear Amplifiers |
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Presenter: | Dr. Carlton Caves Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UNM and the Director of the Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
File/Video Recording: | http://panda3.phys.unm.edu/videos/OSE-170914-Caves.mp4 | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Molecular Tracers of Star Formation Feedback in Nearby Galaxies |
Presenter: | Mark Gorski (UNM/NRAO) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Richard Rand | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Limits of Reliable and Secure Optical Communications |
Presenter: | Saikat Guha, University of Arizona | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
From black holes in the early universe to future CMB experiments (Special Seminar) |
Presenter: | Raphael Flauger (UCSD) | |
Series: | Outreach | |
Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
File/Video Recording: | http://panda3.phys.unm.edu/videos/AstroParticle-170914-Flauger.mp4 | |
Location: | PAIS-1140, PAIS | |
Thursday September 21, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Measurements and Models of Ionospheric Faraday Rotation |
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Presenter: | Joe Malins (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) |
Toward Efficient Entanglement Generation with Defects in Solid-state |
Presenter: | Kai-Mei Fu, University of Washington | |
Series: | Special Talk | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday September 26, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Results form two years of gamma-ray observations with HAWC |
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Presenter: | Robert Lauer (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | John Matthews | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday September 28, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
From Plasmonics to DNA Sequencing Nanoscale Technologies Enabled by Interferometric Lithography |
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Presenter: | Dr. Steven R.J. Brueck, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, UNM Physics and Astronomy, Electrical and Computer Engineering and CHTM | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Results from the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA Survey |
Presenter: |
Luke Hindson (University of Hertfordshire)
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Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday October 5, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Optical Techniques for Dynamic Imaging of Neural Activity |
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Presenter: | Dr. John George, Deputy Group Leader, Applied Modern Physics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The BAaDE project and the relative strengths of 43 GHz and 86 GHz SiO maser lines |
Presenter: | Michael Stroh (UNM) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 10, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Implications of Higgs Universality for Sterile Neutrino Masses |
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Presenter: | Terry Goldman (LANL) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Gerard Stephenson | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 17, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Non-Hermitian Dirac Equation and its Solutions |
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Presenter: | Dr. Kate Brown (Physics Department, Hamilton College) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in Multimode Optical Fibers |
Presenter: | Dr. Arash Mafi, UNM | |
Series: | Outreach | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday October 18, 2017
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Machine Learning the Many-Body Problem |
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Presenter: | Roger Melko, University of Waterloo | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday October 19, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Supermassive black hole binaries and Pulsars as a tool to detect them |
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Presenter: | Karishma Bansal (UNM) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Nonpolar and Semipolar III-Nitride Optoelectronics |
Presenter: | Dr. Daniel Feezell, UNM ECE Dept and CHTM | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes -- Understanding Them and Staying Safe |
Presenter: |
Gregory S. Forbes
The Weather Channel Atlanta GA. |
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Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Friday October 20, 2017
1:15 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Remarks about string theory that are somewhat too technical for the colloquium |
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Presenter: | Professor John Schwarz, Caltech | |
Series: | Outreach | |
Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
File/Video Recording: | http://panda3.phys.unm.edu/videos/ParticlePhysics-171020-Schwarz.mp4 | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 24, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Neutron Star Binary Merger GW170817 |
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Presenter: | Huaiyu Duan (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) |
Quantum computation: Foundation, many-body physics, and physical realization |
Presenter: | Professor Akimasa Miyake, UNM | |
Series: | Outreach | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday October 26, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Characterization of an Imaging Spectrometer |
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Presenter: | Dr. Stephanie Schieffer Principal Investigator for the Optical Calibration Laboratory, AFRL | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules (frEGGS) |
Presenter: |
Raghvendra Sahai, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 31, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Symmetry and Emergence |
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Presenter: | Group Discussion | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday November 1, 2017
7:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Demo night |
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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_110117.pdf | |
Location: | Regener Hall Auditorium | |
Thursday November 2, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
High-Mass Star and Cluster Formation in the Galaxy |
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Presenter: | Adam Ginsburg (NRAO) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday November 3, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Thermodynamics of Radiation Pressure and Photon Momentum |
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Presenter: | Professor Masud Mansuripur, University of Arizona | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Monday November 6, 2017
1:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Proposed Method for Measuring the LET of Radiotherapeutic Particle Beams |
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Presenter: | Stephen D. Bello | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Wednesday November 8, 2017
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
From strong passivity to extended second law of thermodynamics |
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Presenter: | Raam Uzdin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday November 9, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
What Astronomers Might Want to Know about Global Warming |
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Presenter: | Donald Neidig (AFRL/NSO ret) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday November 10, 2017
1:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Optical Multilayer Coatings for Ultrafast Lasers |
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Presenter: | Dr. Michael Trubetskov, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Host: | Wolfgang Rudolph | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday November 16, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Optics in minuscule and MAJUSCULE |
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Presenter: | Professor Jean Claude Diels, UNM Physics and Astronomy and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Solar Wind Acceleration in the Open Field Corona |
Presenter: | Samantha Wallace (UNM) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Fantastic errors and where to find them |
Presenter: | Robin Blume-Kohout, Sandia National Laboratories | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
5:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Why Are We Here? The Mystery of Matter |
Presenter: |
Wick Haxton,
University of California Berkley |
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Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday November 21, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Non-Hermitian Variations on the Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator, including Hofstadter's 'Cocoon' |
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Presenter: | Dr. Kate Brown (Physics Department, Hamilton College) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday November 22, 2017
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Anomalies and entanglement renormalization |
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Presenter: |
Jacob Bridgeman, Dominic J. Williamson, University of Sydney
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Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday November 28, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Non-Thermal Dark Matter Production Mechanisms in the Early Universe |
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Presenter: | Jacek Osinski (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday November 30, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Topological Band Structures Probed by NMR |
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Presenter: |
Dr. Louis Bouchard,
Associate Professor, UCLA Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Bioengineering |
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Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
New Results on the Galactic Bulge: A Complex Stellar Population |
Presenter: | Michael Rich, UCLA | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday December 1, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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Presenter: |
Dr. John Perrault,
Senior Optical Physicist, Google, Inc |
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Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A chink in the armor: Dynamic structural defects in fibrillar collagen enable collagenase degradation |
Presenter: |
Keir C. Neuman,
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health |
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Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
Host: | Keith Lidke | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Monday December 4, 2017
10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Energy and photon transport in thermophotonic devices |
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Presenter: |
Dr. Jani Oksanen,
Aalto University, Finland |
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Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday December 5, 2017
10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Materials Research and Education for a Better Future |
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Presenter: |
Dr. Boris Kiefer,
Professor, NMSU Physics Department. |
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Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Neutrino Oscillations: Fundamentals and Numerics |
Presenter: | Joshua Martin (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday December 7, 2017
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Fighting fire with fire - squeezing quantum measurement uncertainty with quantum measurement backaction |
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Presenter: | Dr. Ivan Deutsch of the UNM Physics and Astronomy and CQuIC | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum adiabatic like algorithms for linear systems of equations |
Presenter: | Yigit Subasi, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Vibrational Relaxation Theory for Systems Embedded in Microscopically Specified Reservoirs |
Presenter: | Anastasia A. Ierides | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Monday December 11, 2017
10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Gamma-Ray Metallic Magnetic Calorimeters with NbTa Passive Persistence Switches and Electroformed Au Absorbers |
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Presenter: | Ruslan Hummatov | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday December 12, 2017
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
An extension of the standard model in which parity is spontaneously broken |
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Presenter: | Kevin Cahill (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday December 14, 2017
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cloud quantum computing without giving up your secrets |
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Presenter: | Nick Menicucci, RMIT University | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Carlton Caves | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |