Events Calendar
Events for the Fall 2018 semester
Friday June 1, 2018
9:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Radon Emanation Measurement for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay |
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Presenter: | Xavier C. Quintana | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday June 7, 2018
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The question of quantum supremacy |
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Presenter: | Sergio Boixo | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Monday June 11, 2018
10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday June 19, 2018
7:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | Outreach | |
Web Site: | https:/ / stemuniversity.unm.edu/ courselist/ register/ 173 | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | UNM Observatory | |
Friday July 13, 2018
8:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | 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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Weak Measurements for Quantum Characterization and Control |
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Presenter: | Jonathan Gross | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday July 25, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday August 3, 2018
12:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
REU Poster Session |
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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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: (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 | |
Tuesday August 28, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday August 29, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Diamond quantum sensing |
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Presenter: | Victor Acosta, UNM CHTM | |
Series: | Special Talk | |
Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Thursday September 6, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday September 12, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Synthesizing Light |
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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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Tailoring the Quantum Vacuum |
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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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
5:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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 | |
Tuesday September 25, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday September 26, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Non-reciprocity and Broken Symmetry: From Photonics to Materials |
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Presenter: | Dr. Avadh Saxena, Los Alamos National Lab | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum steganography over noisy channels |
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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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Non-Perturbative Modeling of High-Intensity Interaction of Long-Wavelength Ultrashort Laser Pulses with Wide-Band-Gap Solids |
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Presenter: |
Professor Vitaly Gruzdev,
Department of Physics & Astronomy, UNM |
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Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 103, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Wednesday October 3, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Epsilon-near-zero materials: Optical properties and applications |
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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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A Study of Scattering in Pulsars below 100 MHz |
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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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A viable QCD axion in the MeV mass range |
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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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum-Enhanced Sensing |
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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. |
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Series: | Special Talk | |
Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 16, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Flavor Development of a Two Dimensional Dense Neutrino Gas |
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Presenter: | Joshua Martin (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
High Speed and High Capacity Optical Transport Network |
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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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
75 Years in 75 Minutes A Brief History of Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Presenter: |
Alan B. Carr,
Senior Historian, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Wednesday October 24, 2018
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Statistical mechanical models for quantum codes with correlated noise |
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Presenter: | Christopher Chubb, the University of Sydney | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Rafael Alexander | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
7:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Atomic Gas as a Cosmological Probe in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies |
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Presenter: | Kristine Spekkens (RMC) | |
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) |
Entanglement-Enhanced Quantum Sensing and Communication |
Presenter: |
Zheshen Zhang, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and College of Optical Sciences,
The University of Arizona |
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Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Rafael Alexander | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 30, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Nonthermal Dark Matter from Early Matter Domination |
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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 1, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Starless Clumps and the Earliest Phases of High-mass Star Formation in the Milky Way |
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Presenter: | Brian Svoboda, NRAO | |
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) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Using Radio Continuum Observations to Study Why Gaseous Halos Lag |
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Presenter: | Tim Braun (UNM) | |
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) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Studying the Ionosphere using Lightning as a Signal of Opportunity |
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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) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Shots of Knowledge: The Science of Whiskey |
Presenter: |
Eric Simantek, Director
Texas Christian University, Idea Factory. |
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Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday November 27, 2018
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 | |
Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday November 28, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Atom-based solid-state photonics, plasmonics and many-body physics: Nanotechnology goes atomic scale |
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Presenter: | Garnett Bryan | |
Series: | Special Talk | |
Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday November 29, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
New Demographic Insights into Massive Star and Cluster Formation |
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Presenter: | Peter Barnes (UFL) | |
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) |
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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Error estimation and removal in superconducting qubits |
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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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Communication with Coherent States of Light |
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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: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Studies of the Generation and Detection of Orbital Angular Momentum Based on Beam-Shaping Techniques |
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Presenter: | Xijie Luo | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |