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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Quantum engineering using magnetic fields. Introducing Quantum Magnetomechanics.. |
| Presenter: | Jason Twamley, Macquarie University | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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 Pihlstrom | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | 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: | 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 | |
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 Pihlstrom | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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 Pihlstrom | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://youtu.be/cDoDD8J_BlM | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 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: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday September 26, 2018
| 11:00 am | Title: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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 | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TeV Gamma-ray Astrophysics |
| Presenter: | John Matthews, Physics and Astronomy, UNM | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Wolfgang Rudolph | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://youtu.be/hShHaGxQUt4 | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Wednesday October 3, 2018
| 11:00 am | Title: | 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: | 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 | |
Friday October 5, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Lighting Up the Gas Reservoir Outside Galaxies |
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| Presenter: | Moire Prescott, NMSU | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlstrom | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Tuesday October 9, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | 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 | |
Tuesday October 16, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | 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 | |
Wednesday October 17, 2018
| 11:00 am | Title: | 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: | 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: | 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 | |
Friday October 19, 2018
| 3:30 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 | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://youtu.be/SaL-JxOeva8 | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Wednesday October 24, 2018
| 4:00 pm | Title: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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 Pihlstrom | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday November 2, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | A Masing BAaDE's Window |
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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
| 2:00 pm | Title: | 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: | 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: | Quantum Algorithms, Architecture, and Error Correction |
| Presenter: | Ciaran Ryan-Anderson | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday November 9, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Dark Matter as a Probe of the Very Early Universe |
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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
| 2:00 pm | Title: | 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: | 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: | 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 | |
Friday November 16, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Advanced Quantum Communication -- Where do we go from here? |
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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 | |
Tuesday November 27, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | 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 | |
Thursday November 29, 2018
| 2:00 pm | Title: | 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: | 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 | |
Friday November 30, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | To catch and reverse a quantum jump mid-flight |
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| Presenter: | Michel Devoret, Yale University | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Thursday December 6, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | 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 | |
Friday December 7, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Benchmarking NISQ-era quantum processors |
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| Presenter: | Jay Gambetta, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Benchmarking NISQ-era quantum processors |
| Presenter: | Jay Gambetta, IBM | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Room 125, Dane Smith Hall | |
Thursday December 13, 2018
| 3:30 pm | Title: | 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: | 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-3205, PAIS | |
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