Events Calendar
Events for the Spring 2021 semester
Wednesday January 20, 2021
| 10:15 am | Title: | Optimization and characterization of the doped optical fibers for radiation balanced fiber laser and amplifier |
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| Presenter: | Mostafa Peysokhan | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Host: | Arash Mafi | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/peysokhan_210120.pdf | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday January 21, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Deployable cold atom interferometry sensor platforms based on diffractive optics and integrated photonics |
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| Presenter: | Jongmin Lee, Sandia National Labs | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday January 22, 2021
| 9:30 am | Title: | Computation for Physicists: Introduction to Python (1) |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Huaiyu Duan | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 98489450278 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The String Landscape and the Swampland |
| Presenter: | Cumrun Vafa is Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University. His primary area of research is string theory, which promises to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics. | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | ||
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| File/Video Recording: | ||
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Thursday January 28, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Lagging a Gaseous Halo with Nonthermal Radial Pressure Gradients |
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| Presenter: | Tim Braun (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Scrambling and Black Holes |
| Presenter: | Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday January 29, 2021
| 9:30 am | Title: | Computation for Physicists: Introduction to Python (2) |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Huaiyu Duan | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 98489450278 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 10:30 am | Title: | Next generation localization microscopy - or - how and why to ruin a perfectly good microscope. |
| Presenter: | Yoav Shechtman, Tecnion | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Thursday February 4, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Quantum information science with laser-dressed atoms |
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| Presenter: | Michael Martin, Los Alamos National Lab | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday February 5, 2021
| 9:30 am | Title: | Computation for Physicists: Introduction to Python (3) |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Huaiyu Duan | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 98489450278 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | A simple model of many-particle quantum entanglement: how it describes black holes and superconductors |
| Presenter: | Subir Sachdev | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Wednesday February 10, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Particle-in-Cell Simulations of the Neutrino Fast Flavor Instability |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Sherwood Richers (UC Berkeley) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 98102444842 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday February 12, 2021
| 9:30 am | Title: | Computation for Physicists: Numbers and Errors |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Huaiyu Duan | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 98489450278 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 10:00 am | Title: | A Search for New Physics in B(s)-->mu+mu- Decays Using Multivariate Data Analysis, and Development of Particle Detection Technology with Silicon Pixel Detectors |
| Presenter: | Aidan K. Grummer | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The Planet We Could Not Imagine |
| Presenter: | Stephen Kane, UC Riverside | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Tuesday February 16, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Neutrinos are smart: blind ranging of nuclear reactors and other peculiar properties |
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| Presenter: | Dr. John G. Learned (Univ. of Hawaii) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday February 18, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Hamiltonian simulation in the low energy subspace |
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| Presenter: | Burak Sahinoglu, Los Alamos National Lab | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Elizabeth Crosson | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday February 19, 2021
| 9:30 am | Title: | Computation for Physicists: Solving Linear Equations |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Huaiyu Duan | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 98489450278 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | High-Capacity Optical and Millimeter-Wave Communications using Multiple Orbital-Angular-Momentum Beams |
| Presenter: | Alan Willner, USC | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Mansoor Sheik-Bahae | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Tuesday February 23, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | The Dynamic Local Universe |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Louis Strigari (Texas A&M) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday February 25, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Building Quantum Codes with Tensor Networks |
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| Presenter: | Charles Cao, QuICS - University of Maryland | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Elizabeth Crosson | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday February 26, 2021
| 9:30 am | Title: | Computation for Physicists: Linear Least Squares |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Huaiyu Duan | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 98489450278 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The Future of Cosmology |
| Presenter: | Joseph Silk, IAP/JHU | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Tuesday March 2, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Modifying the geometry of the Universe |
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| Presenter: | Dr. David Wiltshire (University of Canterbury, NZ) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday March 4, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The power of random quantum circuits |
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| Presenter: | Bill Fefferman, University of Chicago | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Elizabeth Crosson | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday March 5, 2021
| 9:30 am | Title: | Computation for Physicists: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Huaiyu Duan | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 98489450278 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Determining the Universe's Initial Conditions |
| Presenter: | David Spergel, Simons Foundation | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Tuesday March 9, 2021
| 1:00 pm | Title: | Astro Coffee |
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| Presenter: | Seth Bruzewski, UNM | |
| Series: | Astro Coffee | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/ daily_arXiv | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Toward a field theory of blobs |
| Presenter: | Dr. Kevin Cahill (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday March 11, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Harnessing Piezoelectricity in Novel Microsystems for Classical and Quantum Information Processing |
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| Presenter: | Matt Eichenfield, Sandia National Labs | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday March 12, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Direct detection of Dark Matter – theoretical perspective |
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| Presenter: | Maxim Pospelov, Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Thursday March 25, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Xie Chen, Caltech | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday March 26, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Jerry X. Mitrovica is the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. He did important early work showing that tectonic plates heave, tilt, and fall in addition to drifting across the surface of the planet. | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Thursday April 1, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Ramis Movassagh, IBM Research | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Elizabeth Crosson | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday April 2, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Holger Mueller, UC Bekeley | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Thursday April 8, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Shruti Puri, Yale | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday April 9, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? |
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| Presenter: | Alan Guth, MIT | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday April 16, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Dr. Alfred Leitenstorfer, Head, Konstanz Center for Applied Photonics (CAP) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Thursday April 22, 2021
| 9:00 am | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Justin Dressel, Chapman University | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Pablo Poggi | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday April 23, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: |
William D. Oliver is jointly appointed a Lincoln Laboratory Fellow in the Advanced Technology Division and a Professor of the Practice in the MIT Physics Department. He also serves as the Associate Director of the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics.
Dr. Oliver works with the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group at Lincoln Laboratory and the Engineering Quantum Systems Group at MIT, where he provides programmatic and technical leadership for programs related to the development of quantum and classical high-performance computing technologies for quantum information science applications. His interests include the materials growth, fabrication, design, and measurement of superconducting qubits, as well as the development of cryogenic packaging and control electronics involving cryogenic CMOS and single-flux quantum digital logic. |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday April 30, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | |
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| Presenter: |
Jesse Thaler. Associate Professor of Physics
Director, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Friday May 7, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | |
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| Presenter: |
Sarah Burke-Spolaor
Assistant Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy West Virginia University |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Contact the department for password | |
Individuals with disabilities who need an auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in P&A events should contact Sandra Ortiz (phone: 505-277-5900, email: