Events Calendar
Events for the Spring 2018 semester
Tuesday January 16, 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 | |
Thursday January 18, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
News from URSI and the AAS |
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Presenter: | Greg Taylor et al. (UNM) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Cosmic Spiderweb |
Presenter: | Mark Neyrinck (Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
Location: | PAIS-1160, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Scrambling Quantum Information in Cold Atoms with Light |
Presenter: | Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday January 24, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Dielectric Resonator Metasurfaces: Optical Magnetism, Wavefront Control and Optical Nonlinearities |
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Presenter: |
Dr. Igal Brener
Sandia, National Laboratories and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies |
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Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday January 25, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Astrophysical probes of dark matter: The road ahead |
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Presenter: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
Series: | Outreach | |
Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Automation in quantum information |
Presenter: | Patrick Coles, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
5:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
How to tame a fox and build a dog? |
Presenter: |
Lee Alan Dugatkin,
Biology Department, University of Louisville, Kentucky, KY |
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Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday January 30, 2018
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Nonlinear quantum optics: theory, engineering, and applications |
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Presenter: | Joshua Combes, University of Queensland | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday January 31, 2018
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Studies of Light Generation with Four-Wave Mixing in a Cold Atomic Ensemble |
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Presenter: | Andrew R. Ferdinand | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 1, 2018
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Annealing: Challenges and Prospects |
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Presenter: | Tameem Albash, University of Southern California | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday February 2, 2018
1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Non-Abelian Vortex Strings and their Applications |
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Presenter: | Professor Mikhail Shifman (Fine Theoretical Physics Institute) of the University of Minnesota | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / www.physics.umn.edu/ people/ shifman.html | |
Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
File/Video Recording: | /pandaweb/events/video/NUPAC-180202-Shifman.mp4 | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Monday February 5, 2018
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Phase Space Representations and Their Negativities |
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Presenter: | Tom Dangniam | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 6, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Some aspects of confinement |
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Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum annealing: a quantum algorithm for optimization |
Presenter: | Elizabeth Crosson, California Institute of Technology | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 8, 2018
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Composite quantum systems under time dilation |
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Presenter: | Magdalena Zych, University of Queensland | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday February 14, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Extreme infrared photonics with phonon-polaritons |
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Presenter: |
Stavroula Foteinopoulou, Ph.D.,
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Dept., UNM |
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Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 15, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cosmology and fundamental physics with cosmic microwave background polarization measurements |
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Presenter: | Dr. Darcy Barron, UC Berkeley | |
Series: | Outreach | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Magnetically Activated and Guided Isotope Separation |
Presenter: | Mark Raizen, University of Texas | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Carlton Caves | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
5:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Manufacturing of Silicon Materials for Microelectronics and PV |
Presenter: |
Babu Chalamala,
Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque |
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Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday February 20, 2018
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Circuit quantum electrodynamics: State of the art, challenges and possibilities for the future |
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Presenter: | Arne Grimsmo, University of Sydney | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday February 22, 2018
7:30 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
20th Annual SQuInT Workshop |
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Presenter: | Issac Chuang (MIT), Philippe Faist (California Institute of Technology), Kai-Mei Fu (Washington), David Meyer (Univ. California San Diego, Seth Merkel (HRL), Alberto Marino (Oklahoma), Kenneth Brown (Duke), Rafael Alexander (New Mexico), Travis Scholten (New Mexico), Christopher Jackson (New Mexico), Michael Nielsen (Y Combinator Research), Emily Pritchett (HRL), Andrew Landahl (Sandia), Poul Jessen (Arizona), Carlton Caves (New Mexico) | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Web Site: | http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ SQuInT/ 2018/ index.php | |
Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
Location: | La Fonda on the Plaza | |
Monday February 26, 2018
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum-classical correspondence in a chaotic system |
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Presenter: | Meenu Kumari, University of Waterloo | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday February 28, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Surpassing the Conventional Limit of Response to Heat Radiation by Nanophotonic Structures |
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Presenter: | Sang Eon Han, PhD, UNM Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Friday March 2, 2018
5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantized superfluid vortex dynamics on curved surfaces: cylinders and cones* |
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Presenter: | Alexander L. Fetter, Stanford University | |
Series: | Outreach | |
Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
File/Video Recording: | https://youtu.be/lp2a7XLYcoI | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday March 7, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBD |
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Presenter: | TBD | |
Series: | Special Talk | |
Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Noisy propagation of coherent states in a lossy Kerr medium |
Presenter: | Ludwig Kunz, University of Warsaw | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 8, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP): Telescope and Surveys |
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Presenter: | Josh Marvil (NRAO) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 20, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
21-cm Cosmology |
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Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday March 21, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Metasurface-enhanced light emission |
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Presenter: | Dr. Roberto Paiella, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Photonics Center, Boston University | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials | |
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_032118.pdf | |
Location: | Regener Hall Auditorium | |
Thursday March 22, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cosmic Dawn |
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Presenter: | Greg Taylor and Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Fieldable Optical Frequency Combs for Ultra-Precise Timing |
Presenter: | Nathan Lemke, Air Force Research Laboratory | |
Series: | Special Talk | |
Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Behind-the-Meter Rooftop Solar Energy: Impacts to the Electric Power Grid |
Presenter: |
Matthew Reno.Senior Engineer
Electric Power Systems Research Department Sandia National Laboratories |
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Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday March 27, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
An Electrostatic Analogy for Chameleon and Symmetron Gravity |
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Presenter: | Dr. Kate Brown (Hamilton College) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday March 28, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Non-Hermitian Photonics, Optics at an Exceptional Point |
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Presenter: |
Mercedeh Khajavikhan, PhD,
College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), University of Central Florida (UCF) |
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Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Complex Networks on Quantum States: From Quantum Phase Transitions to Emergent Dynamics of Quantum Cellular Automata |
Presenter: | Lincoln D. Carr, Colorado School of Mines | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday March 29, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Demonstration and deployment of a fast, all-sky imaging architecture for large interferometer arrays in radio astronomy |
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Presenter: | Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (NRAO) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 3, 2018
1:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
10 PW Laser system: challenges and achievements |
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Presenter: | Dr. Olivier Chalus, Thales Optronique SAS, France | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | Room 146, Center for High Tech Materials | |
Thursday April 5, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Evolution of Neutral Hydrogen Content in Galaxies as a Function of Redshift and Environment |
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Presenter: | Monica Sanchez (UNM) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Patricia Henning | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Saturday April 7, 2018
9:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
UNM Physics Day 2018 |
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Presenter: | Dr. Kate Brown, (UNM BS 2002) Assistant Professor Physics Department, Hamilton College | |
Series: | Outreach | |
Web Site: | http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ pandaweb/ undergraduate/ day2018/ index.php | |
Location: | Multiple rooms, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 10, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
NGC 1052 DF2 - A Galaxy without Dark Matter? |
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Presenter: | Rich Rand (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 12, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Infrared Properties of Stars in the Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamical Evolution Survey |
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Presenter: | Eddie Hilburn, III | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Infrared Properties of Stars in the BAaDE Survey |
Presenter: | Eddie Hilburn (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) |
Hanbury Brown-Twiss, Hong-Ou-Mandel, and other landmarks in quantum optics: from photons to atoms |
Presenter: | Alain Aspect, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique Graduate School | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
File/Video Recording: | https://youtu.be/SLz6c4utrSc | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday April 18, 2018
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Dispersive Quantum Interfaces with Atoms and Nanophotonic Waveguides |
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Presenter: | Xiaodong Qi | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 19, 2018
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Learning the quantum algorithm for state overlap |
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Presenter: | Lukasz Cincio, Los Alamos National Lab | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
5:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Energy |
Presenter: |
M. V. Ramana,
University of British Columbia, Canada |
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Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
Tuesday April 24, 2018
1:50 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Neutrino Flavor Conversions in Dense Medium: Matter Stimulation, Dispersion Relation, and Neutrino Halo |
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Presenter: | Lei Ma (UNM) | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday April 25, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Optical manipulation of neutral atoms for quantum information science |
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Presenter: | Mike Martin, Sandia National Laboratories | |
Series: | Special Talk | |
Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
How to build a quantum vacuum |
Presenter: | Gavin Brennen, Macquarie University | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 26, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Probing the Cause of Lagging Gaseous Halos with Radio Continuum Observations |
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Presenter: | Tim Braun (UNM) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday May 1, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Neutrinoless double beta decay, the LEGEND collaboration, and liquid argon research with BACon |
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Presenter: | Neil McFadden (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Honors Thesis Presentation |
Presenter: | UNM Physics and Astronomy Students | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday May 2, 2018
12:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Development of Metallic Magnetic Calorimeters and Paramagnetic Alloys of Ag and Er for Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy |
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Presenter: | Linh Le | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday May 3, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Probing White Dwarf Winds with Binary Pulsar Systems |
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Presenter: | Chris DiLullo (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) |
The Integration of Ultracold Atoms and Nanophotonics |
Presenter: | Jeff Kimble, CalTech | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Host: | Carlton Caves | |
File/Video Recording: | https://youtu.be/FOwS3slxjbw | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Saturday May 5, 2018
9:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
UNM QuarkNet hosts VLA tour for teachers |
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Presenter: | Sally Seidel | |
Web Site: | http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ QuarkNet@UNM/ | |
Host: | Sally Seidel | |
Location: | Very Large Array and Long Wavelength Array | |
Thursday May 10, 2018
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Testing the Nature of Meteor Radio Afterglows |
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Presenter: | Savin Varghese | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday May 11, 2018
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Past and Future of Physics Education Reform |
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Presenter: | Dr. Valerie K. Otero, University of Colorado Boulder | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Host: | Leandra Goldflam | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Saturday May 12, 2018
9:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Spring 2018 Commencement and Presidential Installation |
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Presenter: | Commencement this year will include the Installation of the 23rd President Garnett S. Stokes. | |
Series: | Outreach | |
Web Site: | https:/ / gradapp.unm.edu/ events/ event-ad7o/ | |
Location: | Dreamstyle Arena | |
1:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
2018 Physics and Astronomy Department Convocation |
Presenter: | Valerie K. Otero, Professor and Executive Director/Founder, Learning Assistant Program and International Learning Assistant Alliance Co-Director, Center for STEM Learning University of Colorado, Boulder | |
Web Site: | https:/ / gradapp.unm.edu/ events/ convocation-r32ppa/ | |
Host: | Wolfgang Rudolph | |
Location: | Regener Hall Auditorium (Room 103) | |
Monday May 14, 2018
8:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A Voyage to the Moon on Saturn's Wings |
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Presenter: |
Harrison H. Schmitt
NASA Scientist-Astronaut |
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Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
Host: | Harjit Ahluwalia | |
Location: | Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown Hotel | |
Wednesday May 23, 2018
11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Laser-driven electronic processes in condensed matter: from controlled modification of a single biomolecule to controlled enhancement of laser ablation |
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Presenter: | Dr. Vitaly Gruzdev, University of Missouri | |
Series: | OSE Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |