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Events for the Fall 2018 semester

Friday June 1, 2018
9:00 am  Title: 
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Radon Emanation Measurement for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
 Presenter:  Xavier C. Quintana
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday June 7, 2018
3:30 pm  Title: 
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The question of quantum supremacy
 Presenter:  Sergio Boixo
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Akimasa Miyake
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Monday June 11, 2018
10:00 am  Title: 
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Beryllium and Indium Activation Measurements of Total Neutron Yield from a Pulsed Photo-Neutron Source
 Presenter:  Kristina Brown
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Tuesday June 19, 2018
7:30 pm  Title: 
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Realm of the Universe: A View through the UNM Campus Observatory
 Presenter:  Peter Sinclair, Research Assistant and President of Department of Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Association
 Series:  Outreach
 Web Site:    https:/ / stemuniversity.unm.edu/ courselist/ register/ 173
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  UNM Observatory

 

Friday July 13, 2018
8:00 pm  Title: 
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Capturing Phenomena in the Cosmos: Tour the Very Large Array
 Presenter:  Dr. Patricia A. Henning, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy
 Series:  Outreach
 Web Site:    https:/ / stemuniversity.unm.edu/ courselist/ register/ 172
 Host:  Patricia Henning
 Location:  Very Large Array

 

Friday July 20, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Weak Measurements for Quantum Characterization and Control
 Presenter:  Jonathan Gross
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday July 25, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Localization and Scrambling of Quantum Information with Applications to Quantum Computation and Thermodynamics
 Presenter:  Adrian K. Chapman
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday August 3, 2018
12:00 pm  Title: 
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REU Poster Session
 Presenter:  Research Experience for Undergraduate program participants
 Series:  Outreach
 Web Site:    http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ pandaweb/ undergraduate/ reu.php
 Host:  Richard Rand
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Monday August 20, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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Engineering the Light along its Axis of Propagation
 Presenter:  Professor Mo Mojahedi, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Tuesday August 21, 2018
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

 

Tuesday August 28, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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A Study of Mass Matrices with Permutational Symmetry for Quark and Lepton Families
 Presenter:  Dr. Richard Holmes (Boeing)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday August 29, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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Resolving multi-excitonic interactions in single conjugated polymer chains
 Presenter:  Dr. John Grey, UNM Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Thursday August 30, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Introducing Fast Direct Imaging in Radio Astronomy: EPIC
 Presenter:  James Kent (Cambridge)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum engineering using magnetic fields. Introducing Quantum Magnetomechanics..
 Presenter:  Jason Twamley, Macquarie University
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday September 5, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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Diamond quantum sensing
 Presenter:  Victor Acosta, UNM CHTM
 Series:  Special Talk
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Thursday September 6, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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ALMA BAaDE survey data analysis: detection rates and possible biases
 Presenter:  Michael Stroh (UNM)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Playing quantum noise on a nanomechanical string
 Presenter:  Dalziel Wilson, University of Arizona
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday September 11, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Cosmological Implications of the String Swampland
 Presenter:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday September 12, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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Synthesizing Light
 Presenter:  Scott Diddams, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder
 Series:  Special Talk
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 13, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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BAaDE's perspective on populations of evolved stars in the Galaxy
 Presenter:  Megan Lewis (UNM)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Encoding a qubit into a harmonic oscillator: the many ways to slice up Hilbert space
 Presenter:  Ben Baragiola
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday September 19, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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Tailoring the Quantum Vacuum
 Presenter:  Diego Dalvit, Los Alamos National Laboratories
 Series:  Special Talk
 Host:  Alejandro Manjavacas
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 20, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Using the LWA Radio Telescope to Observe the Ionosphere
 Presenter:  Ken Obenberger (AFRL)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:30 pm  Title: 
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Energy Storage and Modernization of the Electric Grid
 Presenter:  Babu Chalamala
Manager of Grid Energy Storage
Sandia National Laboratories
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Tuesday September 25, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Improve the Low Energy Sensitivity of the HAWC Observatory
 Presenter:  Zhixiang Ren (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  John Matthews
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday September 26, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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Non-reciprocity and Broken Symmetry: From Photonics to Materials
 Presenter:  Dr. Avadh Saxena, Los Alamos National Lab
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:00 pm  Title: 
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Towards Scalable Characterization of Noisy, Intermediate-Scale Quantum Information Processors
 Presenter:  Travis L. Scholten
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday September 27, 2018
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum steganography over noisy channels
 Presenter:  Todd Brun, University of Southern California
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Carlton Caves
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday September 28, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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Non-Perturbative Modeling of High-Intensity Interaction of Long-Wavelength Ultrashort Laser Pulses with Wide-Band-Gap Solids
 Presenter:  Professor Vitaly Gruzdev,
Department of Physics & Astronomy, UNM
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Wednesday October 3, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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Epsilon-near-zero materials: Optical properties and applications
 Presenter:  Salvatore Campione, Sandia National Laboratories
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Thursday October 4, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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A Study of Scattering in Pulsars below 100 MHz
 Presenter:  Karishma Bansal (UNM)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday October 9, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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A viable QCD axion in the MeV mass range
 Presenter:  Daniele Alves (LANL)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday October 10, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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Quantum-Enhanced Sensing
 Presenter:  Alberto Marino is an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on experimental quantum optics, with particular emphasis on its applications to quantum information science and quantum metrology. Before arriving to the University of Oklahoma, he
held a postdoctoral position and then an Assistant Research Scientist position at the Joint Quantum Institute (NIST/ University of Maryland). He obtained an M.S. and a Ph.D. in optics from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester.
 Series:  Special Talk
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday October 16, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Flavor Development of a Two Dimensional Dense Neutrino Gas
 Presenter:  Joshua Martin (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Huaiyu (Mike) Duan
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Experimental Quantum Optics: Measurements and Communications
 Presenter:  Elohim Becerra Chavez
 Series:  Outreach
 Host:  Keith Lidke
 File/Video Recording:  http://panda3.phys.unm.edu:/videos/Promotion-181016-Becerra.mp4
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday October 17, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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High Speed and High Capacity Optical Transport Network
 Presenter:  Dr. TJ Xia, Verizon Corporation
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Thursday October 18, 2018
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Gentle Measurement of Quantum States and Differential Privacy
 Presenter:  Scott Aaronson, University of Texas, Austin
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Elizabeth Crosson
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:00 pm  Title: 
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75 Years in 75 Minutes A Brief History of Los Alamos National Laboratory
 Presenter:  Alan B. Carr,
Senior Historian,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Wednesday October 24, 2018
4:00 pm  Title: 
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Statistical mechanical models for quantum codes with correlated noise
 Presenter:  Christopher Chubb, the University of Sydney
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Rafael Alexander
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
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_241018.pdf
 Location:  Regener Hall Auditorium

 

Thursday October 25, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Atomic Gas as a Cosmological Probe in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
 Presenter:  Kristine Spekkens (RMC)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Entanglement-Enhanced Quantum Sensing and Communication
 Presenter:  Zheshen Zhang, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and College of Optical Sciences,
The University of Arizona
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Rafael Alexander
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday October 30, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Nonthermal Dark Matter from Early Matter Domination
 Presenter:  Jacek Osinski (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday November 1, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Starless Clumps and the Earliest Phases of High-mass Star Formation in the Milky Way
 Presenter:  Brian Svoboda, NRAO
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Casimir Forces and Torques on Nanostructures
 Presenter:  Alejandro Manjavacas
 Series:  Special Talk
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday November 8, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Using Radio Continuum Observations to Study Why Gaseous Halos Lag
 Presenter:  Tim Braun (UNM)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Richard Rand
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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​Useful Quantum Simulation: How classical and quantum computers can team up to tackle matters of substance
 Presenter:  Andrew Baczewski, Sandia National Laboratories
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:00 pm  Title: 
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Quantum Algorithms, Architecture, and Error Correction
 Presenter:  Ciaran Ryan-Anderson
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday November 15, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Studying the Ionosphere using Lightning as a Signal of Opportunity
 Presenter:  Joe Malins (UNM)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum sources, memories, and applications: Better living through time-multiplexing
 Presenter:  Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:30 pm  Title: 
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Shots of Knowledge: The Science of Whiskey
 Presenter:  Eric Simantek, Director
Texas Christian University,
Idea Factory. 
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Tuesday November 27, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Monte Carlo Simulations of Awkward Actions
 Presenter:  David Amdahl (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Kevin Cahill
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday November 28, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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Atom-based solid-state photonics, plasmonics and many-body physics: Nanotechnology goes atomic scale
 Presenter:  Garnett Bryan
 Series:  Special Talk
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday November 29, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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New Demographic Insights into Massive Star and Cluster Formation
 Presenter:  Peter Barnes (UFL)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Maxwell's demon at work: protection of quantum information in superconducting circuits
 Presenter:  Michel Devoret, Yale
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Web Site:    srayatunm@unm.edu
 Host:  Carlton Caves
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday December 5, 2018
11:00 am  Title: 
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TBA
 Presenter:  Boubacar Kante, University of San Diego
 Series:  Special Talk
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Thursday December 6, 2018
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Error estimation and removal in superconducting qubits
 Presenter:  Jay Gambetta, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday December 13, 2018
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum Communication with Coherent States of Light
 Presenter:  Norbert Lutkenhaus, Institute for Quantum Computing
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Akimasa Miyake
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday December 20, 2018
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Studies of the Generation and Detection of Orbital Angular Momentum Based on Beam-Shaping Techniques
 Presenter:  Xijie Luo
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

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