Events Calendar
Events for the Fall 2018 semester
Friday June 1, 2018
| 9:00 am | Title: | Radon Emanation Measurement for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay |
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| Presenter: | Xavier C. Quintana | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Thursday June 7, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The question of quantum supremacy |
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| Presenter: | Sergio Boixo | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Monday June 11, 2018
| 10:00 am | Title: | Beryllium and Indium Activation Measurements of Total Neutron Yield from a Pulsed Photo-Neutron Source |
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| Presenter: | Kristina Brown | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | Room 1131, Physics & Astronomy | |
Tuesday June 19, 2018
| 7:30 pm | Title: | Realm of the Universe: A View through the UNM Campus Observatory |
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| Presenter: | Peter Sinclair, Research Assistant and President of Department of Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Association | |
| Series: | STEM University | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / stemuniversity.unm.edu/ courselist/ register/ 173 | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
| Location: | UNM Observatory | |
Thursday June 21, 2018
| 12:30 pm | Title: | Light & Colors: Simulating the Optical Properties of Nanoparticles |
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| Presenter: | Theoretical Nanophotonics Group, UNM | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / stemuniversity.unm.edu/ courselist/ register/ 168 | |
| Host: | Alejandro Manjavacas | |
| Location: | TBD | |
Friday July 13, 2018
| 8:00 pm | Title: | Capturing Phenomena in the Cosmos: Tour the Very Large Array |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Patricia A. Henning, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy | |
| Series: | STEM University | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / stemuniversity.unm.edu/ courselist/ register/ 172 | |
| Host: | Patricia Henning | |
| Location: | Very Large Array | |
Friday July 20, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Weak Measurements for Quantum Characterization and Control |
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| Presenter: | Jonathan Gross | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Wednesday July 25, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Localization and Scrambling of Quantum Information with Applications to Quantum Computation and Thermodynamics |
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| Presenter: | Adrian K. Chapman | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday August 3, 2018
| 12:00 pm | Title: | REU Poster Session |
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| Presenter: | Research Experience for Undergraduate program participants | |
| Series: | REU Program | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ pandaweb/ undergraduate/ reu.php | |
| Host: | Richard Rand | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Monday August 20, 2018
| 11:00 am | Title: | Engineering the Light along its Axis of Propagation |
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| 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: | Show and Tell |
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| Presenter: | NUPAC Group | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday August 24, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Physics from the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Waves of a Neutron Star Merger |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Daniel Kasen, UC Berkley and LBNL | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Tuesday August 28, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | A Study of Mass Matrices with Permutational Symmetry for Quark and Lepton Families |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Richard Holmes (Boeing) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Wednesday August 29, 2018
| 11:00 am | Title: | Resolving multi-excitonic interactions in single conjugated polymer chains |
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| Presenter: |
Dr. John Grey, UNM Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department |
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| Series: | OSE Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Thursday August 30, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Introducing Fast Direct Imaging in Radio Astronomy: EPIC |
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| Presenter: | James Kent (Cambridge) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Quantum engineering using magnetic fields. Introducing Quantum Magnetomechanics.. |
| Presenter: | Jason Twamley, Macquarie University | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Wednesday September 5, 2018
| 11:00 am | Title: | Diamond quantum sensing |
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| Presenter: | Victor Acosta, UNM CHTM | |
| Series: | OSE - CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Thursday September 6, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | ALMA BAaDE survey data analysis: detection rates and possible biases |
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| Presenter: | Michael Stroh (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Playing quantum noise on a nanomechanical string |
| Presenter: | Dalziel Wilson, University of Arizona | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Tuesday September 11, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Cosmological Implications of the String Swampland |
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| Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Wednesday September 12, 2018
| 11:00 am | Title: | Synthesizing Light |
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| Presenter: | Scott Diddams, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder | |
| Series: | OSE - CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra-Chavez | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Thursday September 13, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | BAaDE's perspective on populations of evolved stars in the Galaxy |
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| Presenter: | Megan Lewis (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | 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: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday September 14, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The Structure and Evolution of Prestellar Cores |
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| Presenter: | Yancy Shirley, University of Arizona | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Wednesday September 19, 2018
| 11:00 am | Title: | Tailoring the Quantum Vacuum |
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| Presenter: | Diego Dalvit, Los Alamos National Laboratories | |
| Series: | OSE - CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Alejandro Manjavacas | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Thursday September 20, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Using the LWA Radio Telescope to Observe the Ionosphere |
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| Presenter: | Ken Obenberger (AFRL) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
| 5:30 pm | Title: | Energy Storage and Modernization of the Electric Grid |
| Presenter: |
Babu Chalamala
Manager of Grid Energy Storage Sandia National Laboratories |
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| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Friday September 21, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Geoneutrinos and heat production in the Earth |
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| Presenter: | Prof. W. F. McDonough, Department of Geology, University of Maryland | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Tuesday September 25, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Improve the Low Energy Sensitivity of the HAWC Observatory |
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| Presenter: | Zhixiang Ren (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | John Matthews | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Wednesday September 26, 2018
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Towards Scalable Characterization of Noisy, Intermediate-Scale Quantum Information Processors |
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| Presenter: | Travis L. Scholten | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Thursday September 27, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Quantum steganography over noisy channels |
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| Presenter: | Todd Brun, University of Southern California | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday September 28, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | |
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| Presenter: | John Matthews, Physics and Astronomy, UNM | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Friday October 5, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Moire Prescott, NMSU | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Tuesday October 9, 2018
| 12:00 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Daniele Alves (LANL) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Wednesday October 10, 2018
| 11:00 am | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Alberto Marino, University of Oklahoma | |
| Series: | OSE - CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra-Chavez | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Tuesday October 16, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Joshua Martin (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Thursday October 18, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Gentle Measurement of Quantum States and Differential Privacy |
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| Presenter: | Scott Aaronson, University of Texas, Austin | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Elizabeth Crosson | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday October 19, 2018
| 4:00 pm | Title: | Quantum Supremacy and Its Applications |
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| Presenter: | Scott Aaronson, University of Texas | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Elizabeth Crosson | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Thursday October 25, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Zheshen Zhang, University of Arizona | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra-Chavez | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Tuesday October 30, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Jacek Osinski (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday November 2, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Ylva Pihlstrom, UNM, Physics and Astronomy | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Thursday November 8, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Andrew Baczewski, Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday November 9, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Rouzbeh Allahverdi, UNM, Physics and Astronomy | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Michael Gold | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Thursday November 15, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra-Chavez | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday November 16, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBD |
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| Presenter: | Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra-Chavez | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Wednesday November 28, 2018
| 11:00 am | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Garnett Bryan | |
| Series: | OSE - CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra-Chavez | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Thursday November 29, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Michel Devoret, Yale | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday November 30, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Michel Devoret, Yale University | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Wednesday December 5, 2018
| 11:00 am | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Boubacar Kante, University of San Diego | |
| Series: | OSE - CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra-Chavez | |
| Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Thursday December 6, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Jay Gambetta, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
Friday December 7, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Jay Gambetta, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Thursday December 13, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Norbert Lutkenhaus, Institute for Quantum Computing | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | Room 190, Physics & Astronomy | |
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