Events Calendar
Events for the Spring 2017 semester
Sunday January 1, 2017
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | TBA | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday January 10, 2017
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Flexible quantum computation with scalable continuous-variable cluster states |
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| Presenter: | Rafael Alexander, University of Sydney | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday January 11, 2017
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum mechanics in the negative mass reference frame |
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| Presenter: | Eugene Polzik, University of Copenhagen | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday January 17, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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| Presenter: | ||
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday January 19, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Extending Single-Molecule Microscopy Using Optical Processing Techniques |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Adam Backer, Sandia National Labs | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
News from conferences (SLF and AAS |
| Presenter: | Various | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Non-holonomic tomography and detecting state-preparation and measurement correlated errors |
| Presenter: | Christopher Jackson, University of Oregon | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday January 24, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Stimulated Neutrino Flavor Conversions and Rabi Oscillations |
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| Presenter: | Lei Ma, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday January 26, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Roundtable Discussion on Correlators |
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| Presenter: | Keith Vanderlinde (Toronto/DRAO) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
What is actually needed to quantum-compute with harmonic oscillators? |
| Presenter: | Hoi Kwan (Kero) Lau, Ulm University | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 2, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Synthesis and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles: From Transformers to Cancer Detection |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Dale Huber, Sandia National Labs | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Revelations From The Balmer-dominated Supernova Remnants in the LMC |
| Presenter: | Luke Hovey, LANL | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Practical applications of compressed sensing in quantum state tomography |
| Presenter: | Carlos Riofrio, Freie Universität Berlin | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Monday February 6, 2017
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
New frontiers for Plasmonics: From UV to Ultrafast Spectroscopy |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Italian Institute of Technology | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Tuesday February 7, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Richard Van De Water (LANL) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 9, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Ex Vacuo Atom Chips: High Rate BEC and High Gradient Traps |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Spencer E. Olson, Air Force Research Laboratory | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 14, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Detection of high energy gamma rays with the HAWC observatory |
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| Presenter: | Zhixiang Ren, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday February 15, 2017
| 12:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Shortcuts to adiabaticity in trapped ions |
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| Presenter: | Mikel Palmero, Universidad del Pais Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 16, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Single Atom Device Fabrication using Focused Ion Implantation |
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| Presenter: | Dr. E. Bielejec, Sandia National Laboratory | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Enhanced Plasmonic Sensors |
| Presenter: | Alberto Marino Valle, University of Oklahoma | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Whole Organism Metrology in Support of Nanotoxicology Research |
| Presenter: | Bryant Nelson, NIST | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Friday February 17, 2017
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Searching for Simple! From Ultrafast Photoelectron Emission Studies of Plasmonic Nanstructures to Thermodynamics/Kinetics of RNA Folding at the Single Molecule Level |
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| Presenter: | David J. Nesbitt | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Terefe Habteyes | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://panda3.phys.unm.edu:/videos/Colloquium-170217-Nesbitt.mp4 | |
| Location: | Room 101, Clark Hall | |
Thursday February 23, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Early in vivo cancer detection by superparamagnetic relaxometry |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Todor Karaulanov of Imagion Biosystems, Inc. | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 2, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Imaging Cellular Components and Dynamics with Sub-Diffraction Resolution |
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| Presenter: | Professor Keith Lidke, UNM Physics and Astronomy | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Tuesday March 7, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Effect of collisions on collective neutrino oscillations |
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| Presenter: | Shashank Shalgar, LANL | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Microresonators for quantum optics |
| Presenter: | Zachary Vernon, University of Toronto | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 9, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Development of an Optically Pumped Magnetometer Array for Magnetoencephalography |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Peter Schwindt, Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Here be Spiral DRAGNs |
| Presenter: | Minnie Mao, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at University of Manchester | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 23, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Paleomagnetism Studies with Nitrogen-Vacancy Defect Centers in Diamond |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Pauli Kehayias, postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Ronald Walsworth, Harvard University | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Ammonia Thermometry, Water and Methanol Masers in Star Forming Galaxies |
| Presenter: | Mark Gorski, UNM | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Bayesian measurement of qubits: recent results |
| Presenter: | Alexander (Sasha) Korotkov, University of California, Riverside | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Antibiotics Resistance Problem and Some Potential Solutions |
| Presenter: | Herman Sintim, Purdue University | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Friday March 24, 2017
| 9:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Toledo Tables: hidden meaning in a table of latitudes and longitudes from the Middle Ages |
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| Presenter: | John Huth, Harvard University | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Toledan_Tables | |
| Host: | Michael Gold | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://panda3.phys.unm.edu:/videos/Talk-170324-Huth.mp4 | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 28, 2017
| 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-3300, PAIS | |
Thursday March 30, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
High-resolution magnetic imaging with an array of flux guides |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Igor Savukov, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Breaking Bad: Quantum Verification in Correlated Noise Environments |
| Presenter: | Michael J. Biercuk, University of Sydney | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday March 31, 2017
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Update on SUSY Searches and the Fast Timing Project at CMS |
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| Presenter: | Professor Maria Spiropulu, Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 4, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Monte Carlo Simulations of Awkward Actions |
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| Presenter: | David Amdahl, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 6, 2017
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Optical communication in the low-power limit |
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| Presenter: | Konrad Banaszek, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quark masses and the strong CP problem |
| Presenter: | Michael Creutz, Cofounder of lattice gauge theory, Brookhaven National Lab | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://panda3.phys.unm.edu:/videos/NUPAC-170406-Creutz.mp4 | |
| Location: | PAIS-1140, PAIS | |
Friday April 7, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
All-optical computational circuits in silicon photonics: how to make non-linear optics scalable? |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Hewlett Packard labs | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Saturday April 8, 2017
| 8:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
UNM Physics Day 2017 |
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| Presenter: | ||
| Series: | Outreach | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ pandaweb/ undergraduate/ day2017/ index.php | |
| Location: | Multiple rooms, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 11, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Neutrinoless double beta decay and TeV* scale physics |
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| Presenter: | Michael Graesser, LANL | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 13, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A Study of Dislocation Networks in GaSb on GaAs Using Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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| Presenter: | Darryl Shima, Ph.D. Candidate from Nanoscience and Microsystems and Engineering, UNM | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Using Pulsars to Measure Density Profiles in the Upper Ionosphere |
| Presenter: | Joe Malins, UNM | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
"Selective radiance" of atomic arrays coupled to a nanofiber: the recipe to exponentially improve photon storage fidelities |
| Presenter: | Ana Asenjo-Garcia, California Institute of Technology | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 18, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Randy Lafler, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 20, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The nitrogen vacancy center in diamond: from exploring the dynamics of trapped charge to imaging individual magnetic nanoparticles |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Abdelghani Laraoui, CHTM-UNM | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
High Energy Density Plasma: Experimental Astrophysics and Supernova Mixing |
| Presenter: | Kevin Meaney, UNM | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Discovering New Particles: What Patterns in Nature Might Tell Us About the Structure of the Universe |
| Presenter: | Sally Seidel, University of New Mexico | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Friday April 21, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 25, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Surface Tension and Negative Pressure Interior of a Non-Singular 'Black Hole' |
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| Presenter: | Emil Mottola, LANL | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 27, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Diamond sensor for neutron EDM experiments |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Chris Hovde, Southwest Sciences | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Detection of magnetized quark-nugget candidate for dark matter |
| Presenter: | Pace VanDevender, SNL | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Monday May 1, 2017
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Nanoscale electron spin resonance spectroscopy using NV centers in diamond |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Susumu Takahashi, Departments of Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy, University of Southern California | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 102, Science and Math Learning Center | |
Tuesday May 2, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Detector Physics for 0νΒΒ |
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| Presenter: | Neil McFadden, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday May 3, 2017
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday May 4, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Spectroradiometric Monitoring for Real-Time Biomass Assessment and Early Detection of Pond Crash Conditions |
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| Presenter: | Dr. J. Timlin, Bioenergy & Defense Technologies group, Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The BAaDE Project and Flux Biases between 43 and 86 GHz SiO Masers |
| Presenter: | Michael Stroh, UNM | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Coherent Matter Wave Circuits for Atomtronics |
| Presenter: | Malcolm Boshier, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday May 9, 2017
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
First results from the Heavy Photon Search Experiment |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Matt Graham, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday May 11, 2017
| 11:30 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Luncheon & Question and Answer Time |
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| Presenter: | Dr W.E. Moerner, 2014 Nobel Laureate, Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
What Can You Learn from Watching Single Molecules? From Super-Resolution Imaging to Nanoscale Probes of 3D Dynamics in Cells |
| Presenter: | Dr W.E. Moerner, 2014 Nobel Laureate, Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / news.unm.edu/ news/ 2014-nobel-laureate-to-speak-thursday-at-unm | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://panda3.phys.unm.edu:/videos/Colloquium-170511-Moerner.mp4 | |
| Location: | Room 103, Regener Hall | |
Saturday May 13, 2017
| 9:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
UNM Spring 2017 Commencement |
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| Presenter: | ||
| Series: | Outreach | |
| Location: | WisePies Arena aka the Pit | |
| 12:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Kevin Gant Receives Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching |
| Presenter: | Del Norte HS AlumKnights | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / www.alumknights.info/ knights/ kevin-gant-receives-presidential-award-excellence-mathematics-science-teaching/ | |
| Location: | Regener Hall 103 | |
Monday May 22, 2017
| 7:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Perspectives on the Solar System |
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| Presenter: |
Dr. Mousumi Roy, UNM
Dr. Bryan Butler, NRAO Dr. Robert Q. Fugate, AFRL |
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| Series: | Outreach | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/Astronomy_on_Tap_052217.pdf | |
| Location: | 2381 Aztec Rd NE Albuquerque, New Mexico, NM 87107 | |
Thursday May 25, 2017
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Toward All-Dielectric Topological Photonics -- Exploring the Geometry Effect of Honeycomb Lattice -- |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Xiao Hu, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan | |
| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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