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Events for the Spring 2019 semester

Thursday January 17, 2019
11:00 am  Title: 
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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy for Semiconductor Analysis
 Presenter:  Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Holger Eisele, Technische Universität Berlin
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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News from AAS and URSI
 Presenter:  Greg Taylor (UNM) et al.
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday January 24, 2019
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Coherent control of rotating ion strings: towards observing spin statistics in a new regime
 Presenter:  Hartmut Haeffner, UC Berkeley
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday January 29, 2019
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Differential Cross Section of the J/psi Meson at Forward and Backward Rapidity at sqrt{s}=510 GeV p+p Collisions as Measured at PHENIX
 Presenter:  Katherine Deblasio (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Douglas Fields
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday January 30, 2019
2:00 pm  Title: 
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The Future of Optics and Photonics Employment
 Presenter:  Dr. John Joseph, Founder, COO and President, optiPulse Company
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

 

Thursday January 31, 2019
11:00 am  Title: 
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Plasmonic coupling in sub-nanometer separation distances How important is quantum mechanical effect?
 Presenter:  Dr. Terefe Habteyes,
UNM Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Trading resources in quantum Shannon theory
 Presenter:  Mark Wilde, Louisiana State University
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Akimasa Miyake
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday February 5, 2019
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Nebular Atmosphere to Magma Ocean: A Model for Volatile Ingassing During Terrestrial Planet Accretion
 Presenter:  Peter Olson (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Mousumi Roy
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday February 7, 2019
11:00 am  Title: 
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Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in Multimode Optical Fibers
 Presenter:  Dr. Arash Mafi, Director CHTM, UNM
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Error suppression for quantum annealing and gate model NISQ devices
 Presenter:  Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Elizabeth Crosson
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday February 14, 2019
11:00 am  Title: 
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Space Vehicles Directorate at Air Force Research Laboratories
 Presenter:  Dr. Andrew J. Metcalf, Space Vehicles Directorate at Air Force Research Laboratories
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in One Dimension
 Presenter:  Johannes Bausch, University of Cambridge
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Elizabeth Crosson
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday February 21, 2019
11:00 am  Title: 
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Carrier dynamics in III-nitride light-emitting diodes: An RF approach to understand efficiency issues
 Presenter:  Dr. Arman Rashidi, OSE Alumni and Postdoctoral Fellow at CHTM
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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An X-ray Chimney Extending Hundreds of Parsecs Above and Below the Galactic Center
 Presenter:  Mark Morris, UCLA
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Scrambling and Complexity in Phase Space
 Presenter:  Quntao Zhuang, MIT
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Christopher Jackson
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:00 pm  Title: 
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Electromagnetic Sensing and Treatment of Living Things: Using Microwaves to Detect and Treat Disease in Humans and Trees
 Presenter:  Carey M. Rappaport,
Distinguished professorf
Electrical and computer engineering Northeastern University
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Thursday February 28, 2019
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Ge/SiGe quantum electronic devices
 Presenter:  Tzu-Ming Lu, Sandia National Labs
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday March 5, 2019
2:00 pm  Title: 
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The Neutrino Puzzle: Anomalies, Interactions, and Cosmological Tensions
 Presenter:  Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (Harvard University & UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday March 7, 2019
11:00 am  Title: 
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Not your typical mirror: Toward the development of a frequency tripling mirrror
 Presenter:  Dr. Wolfgang Rudolph, Regents' Professor, UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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First Results and the Bright Future of the TESS Mission
 Presenter:  Diana Dragomir (MIT/UNM)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday March 13, 2019
4:00 pm  Title: 
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Topological error correction codes from a condensed matter perspective
 Presenter:  Markus Kesselring, Free University of Berlin
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Andrew Landahl
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday March 20, 2019
4:00 pm  Title: 
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Compact Optical Frequency Standards for Future Applications Beyond the Laboratory
 Presenter:  Kyle Martin
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
7:00 pm  Title: 
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Spring Lecture Demo Show
 Presenter:  Students and Faculty of the Physics and Astronomy Department, University of New Mexico
 Series:  Outreach
 File/Video Recording:  http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/Spring_2019_Demo_Show.pdf
 Location:  Regener Hall Room 103

 

Thursday March 21, 2019
11:00 am  Title: 
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Large index modulation effects using epsilon-near-zero materials
 Presenter:  Dr. Ting Shan (Willie) Luk of Sandia National Laboratories
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Mapping the Solar Wind from Source to Spacecraft
 Presenter:  Samantha Wallace (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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Quantum optics with rare-earth atoms in solids
 Presenter:  Elizabeth Goldschmidt, JQI
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:00 pm  Title: 
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Using Marine Sedimentary Deposits and Geochemistry to Unravel Changes in Past Climates, Ocean Oxygen Levels, and Biologic Diversity
 Presenter:  Maya Elrick
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences  University of New Mexico
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Thursday March 28, 2019
11:00 am  Title: 
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High Power All-Fiber Lasers at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
 Presenter:  Dr. Angel Flores, the AFRL Laser Division
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Application of radioastronomy for space geodesy
 Presenter:  Leonid Petrov (NASA)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Beyond Toy Models: Distilling Tensor Networks in Full AdS/CFT
 Presenter:  Ning Bao, UC Berkeley
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Elizabeth Crosson
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday April 4, 2019
11:00 am  Title: 
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Spin waves: from magnon spintronics to coupling spin qubits in diamond
 Presenter:  Dr. Abdelghani Laraoui, The Center for High Technology and Materials, (CHTM)
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Using Radio Observations to Explore the Unknown Gamma-Ray Sky
 Presenter:  Seth Bruzewski (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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Continuous Quantum Error Correction for Quantum Annealing
 Presenter:  K. Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Carlton Caves
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday April 11, 2019
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Ionospheric Variability due to Solar Influences: Solar Storms, Eclipses, Flares, and the 11-year Solar Cycle
 Presenter:  Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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How to count one photon and get a result of 1000 -- and other experiments on quantum measurement
 Presenter:  Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Saturday April 13, 2019
9:00 am  Title: 
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UNM Physics Day 2019
 Presenter:  Plenary talk by Professor Greg Taylor
 Series:  Outreach
 Web Site:    http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ pandaweb/ undergraduate/ day2019/ index.php
 Location:  Multiple rooms, PAIS

 

Thursday April 18, 2019
1:00 pm  Title: 
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Topics in Three-Dimensional Imaging
 Presenter:  Zhixian Yu
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  PAIS-2210, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Monitoring the Long Wavelength Radio Transient Sky using two LWA Stations
 Presenter:  Savin Varghese (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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Microscopic control and detection of ultracold strontium in optical arrays: new tools in quantum information science and metrology
 Presenter:  Adam Kauffman, JILA
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:00 pm  Title: 
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Planning the Survival of Civil Society in a Rapidly Warming World
 Presenter:  Alan Emery, 
President of Kivu Nature Inc.,
Canada 
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Tuesday April 23, 2019
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Studies to improve the liquid Argon veto in LEGEND
 Presenter:  Neil McFadden (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday April 25, 2019
2:00 pm  Title: 
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The neighbourhoods and lifecycles of radio galaxies
 Presenter:  Anna Kapinska (NRAO)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Enhanced-Range Entanglement of Spin Qubits
 Presenter:  Vanita Srinivasa, Sandia National Laboratories
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Sayonee Ray
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday April 26, 2019
3:00 pm  Title: 
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Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentations
 Presenter:  Undergraduate Students, UNM Physics and Astronomy
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  Room 103, Regener Hall

 

Tuesday April 30, 2019
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Searching for Dark Matter Beyond the Neutrino Floor
 Presenter:  Alex Mills (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Wednesday May 1, 2019
4:00 pm  Title: 
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Gaussian and non-Gaussian continuous-variable quantum information over the quantum optical frequency comb
 Presenter:  Olivier Pfister, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Virginia
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Rafael Alexander
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday May 2, 2019
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Searching for the 21-cm Cosmic Dawn Absorption Signal with the LWA
 Presenter:  Chris DiLullo (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 simulation of 2D spin models in a linear chain of trapped ions
 Presenter:  K. Rajibul Islam, IQC
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Sayonee Ray
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Tuesday May 7, 2019
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Using Qubit Technologies for Dark Matter Axion Detection
 Presenter:  Dr. Aaron S. Chou (Fermilab)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday May 9, 2019
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Performance of quantum error correction with coherent errors
 Presenter:  Andrew Doherty, University of Sydney
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Carlton Caves
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Saturday May 11, 2019
1:00 pm  Title: 
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2019 Physics and Astronomy Department Convocation
 Presenter:  Convocation Speaker: Carlos Gutierrez, Ph.D.

Manager, Nanoscale Sciences Dept., Sandia National Laboratories

Fellow, American Physical Society
 Web Site:    https:/ / gradapp.unm.edu/ events/ event-hbxv/
 Host:  Richard Rand
 Location:  Regener Hall Auditorium (Room 103)

 

Monday May 13, 2019
5:30 pm  Title: 
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Annual Sigma Xi/IEEE Awards Banquet
 Presenter:  Achievements for Excellence in Sciences & Engineering by members will be recognized followed by Remarks by UNM President Stokes
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Sheraton ABQ Uptown Hotel
8:00 pm  Title: 
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Grand Challenges and Grand Partnerships
 Presenter:  Garnett Stokes,
President:  University of New Mexico
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Sheraton ABQ Uptown Hotel

 

Thursday May 30, 2019
3:30 pm  Title: 
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There and back again (and again and again): bosonic modular subsystem codes
 Presenter:  Ben Baragiola, RMIT University
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Sayonee Ray
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

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