Events Calendar
Events for the Fall 2023 semester
Sunday June 18, 2023
8:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC) 2023 |
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Presenter: |
Mohammad Amin (D-Wave)
Jemma Bennett (University of Innsbruck) Lucas Brady (NASA QuAIL) Arthur Braida (ATOS) Madelyn Cain (Harvard University) Carleton Coffrin (LANL) Lucas Kocia (SNL) Trevor Lanting (D-Wave) Glen Mbeng (University of Innsbruck) Humberto Munoz (University of Southern California) Giacomo Nannicini (University of Southern California) Shruti Puri (Yale University) Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (NEC) |
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Series: | Special Talk | |
Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ 2023/ 06/ aqc.html | |
Host: | Tameem Albash | |
Location: | Multiple rooms, PAIS | |
Wednesday July 5, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Application of Quantum Mechanical Techniques to Optical Waveguide Structures |
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Presenter: | Stuart Ward | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday August 22, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Measurement of the Partial Branching Fraction for the Decay B0->Ks mumu with the ATLAS Experiment, New Techniques for Selecting Electrons for Precision Measurements at the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, and Development of 3D Silicon Sensors for Fu |
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Presenter: | Andrew Gentry (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
Host: | Sally Seidel | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday August 24, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Magnetic fields and radio-gamma connection in 3C345 |
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Presenter: | Jan Roeder, MPIfR Bonn | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday August 25, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Understanding Stellar Explosions: A Problem for the World’s Most Powerful Computers |
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Presenter: | Bronson Messer (ORNL) | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ a7nlt | |
Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday August 29, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Flavor Instabilities and Collective Neutrino Oscillations |
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Presenter: | Huaiyu Duan (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday August 30, 2023
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
One Hundred Years After Heisenberg: Discovering the World of Simultaneous Measurements of Noncommuting Observables (part 1 of 2) |
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Presenter: | Carlton M. Caves (UNM) | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday August 31, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
One Hundred Years After Heisenberg: Discovering the World of Simultaneous Measurements of Noncommuting Observables (part 2 of 2) |
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Presenter: | Carlton M. Caves (UNM) | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday September 5, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Theory and experiment for precise neutrino physics |
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Presenter: | Oleksandr Tomalak (LANL) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday September 7, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
New Limits on Short GRBs from Radio Observations |
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Presenter: | Sarah Chastain, UNM | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum computation for materials in extreme conditions |
Presenter: | Andrew D. Baczewski (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday September 14, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Binary Stellar Mass Black Holes in AGN Disks as Possible LIGO Sources |
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Presenter: | Hui Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Principle-based formulations of quantum theory |
Presenter: | Howard N. Barnum | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday September 15, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The NANOGrav 15-year Data Release: Evidence for Gravitational Waves from Radio Pulsar Timing |
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Presenter: | Prof. Timothy Dolch (Hillsdale College/Eureka Scientific) | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ q2zk7 | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday September 19, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The SPLENDOR experiment - Search for Particles of Light Dark Matter with Narrow-Gap Semiconductors |
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Presenter: | Aparajita Mazumdar (LANL) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
Host: | David Camarena | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday September 22, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
First-Passage Processes in Physics, Biology, and Beyond |
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Presenter: | Prof. Sid Redner (Santa Fe Institute) | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ ceo73 | |
Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday September 26, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Interesting Isomers - From classic nuclear physics to dark matter - |
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Presenter: | Ralph Massarczyk (LANL) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
Host: | David Camarena | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday September 27, 2023
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Matchgate shadows for fermionic quantum simulation |
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Presenter: | Kianna Wan (Stanford, Google AI) | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday September 28, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Character Phase Estimation |
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Presenter: | Kevin Young (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday September 29, 2023
10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Understanding the Nature of Pulsars and Characterizing Propagation Effects using Pulsar Timing |
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Presenter: | Pratik Kumar | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Understanding the Nature of Pulsars and Characterizing Propagation Effects using Pulsar Timing |
Presenter: | Pratik Kumar, UNM | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Nonequilibrium statistical physics in living systems: The role of energy dissipation for biological functions |
Presenter: | Dr. Yuhai Tu (IBM Watson Research Center) | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ j369g | |
Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Saturday September 30, 2023
2:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Distinguished Professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae Memorial |
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Presenter: | Department Faculty, Staff, and students | |
Series: | Special Talk | |
Web Site: | http:/ / news.unm.edu/ news/ unm-department-of-physics-and-astronomy-mourns-the-loss-of-distinguished-professor-mansoor-sheik-bahae | |
Host: | Richard Rand | |
File/Video Recording: | https://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/Sep-30-MSB.pdf | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 3, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Probing Hadrophilic GeV Scale Particles with Neutron Stars |
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Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
Host: | David Camarena | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday October 5, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A Brief History of Observing Solar Magnetic Fields |
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Presenter: | Carl Henney (AFRL) | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum paradoxical knowledge |
Presenter: | Benjamin Schumacher (Kenyon) | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 10, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The Equation of State of Neutron Stars: Understanding the Densest Objects in the Universe |
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Presenter: | Rahul Somasundaram (LANL) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
Host: | David Camarena | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday October 12, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The quantum "grue-bleen" problem |
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Presenter: | Benjamin Schumacher (Kenyon) | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Saturday October 14, 2023
9:15 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Annular Eclipse |
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Presenter: | The Sun and the Moon | |
Web Site: | https:/ / eclipse.unm.edu/ | |
Location: | Albuquerque | |
Tuesday October 17, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
First Light from the MIGDAL experiment: preliminary results and a look to the future. |
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Presenter: | Elizabeth Tilly (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Host: | David Camarena | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday October 19, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Radio Insights Into Gamma-Ray Mysteries |
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Presenter: | Seth Bruzewski, UNM | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday October 20, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
From Nuclei to Neutron Stars with Theory, Experiment, and Multimessenger Observations |
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Presenter: | Ingo Tews (LANL) | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ qid62 | |
Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 24, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Collisional Flavor Instabilities in Neutrino-Dense Anisotropic Environments |
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Presenter: | Nishant Raina (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
Host: | David Camarena | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday October 26, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Dancing Stars, Hidden Worlds: The Search for Circumbinary Planets with TESS |
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Presenter: | Dominic Oddo, UNM | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
25th Annual SQuInT Workshop |
Presenter: | Coming soon | |
Web Site: | https:/ / squint.unm.edu/ | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday October 27, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Simplicity, symmetry and physics |
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Presenter: | Prof. Kevin Cahill (UNM) | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ 458fj | |
Host: | Richard Rand | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 31, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Measurement of the B meson Lifetime with ATLAS and Development of Silicon Detectors for Future Colliders |
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Presenter: | Easwar Anand Narayanan (UNM) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
Host: | David Camarena | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday November 1, 2023
1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Modeling lithographic quantum dots and donors for quantum computation and simulation |
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Presenter: | Mitchell Brickson | |
Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
Host: | Susan Atlas | |
Location: | PAIS-1160, PAIS | |
Thursday November 2, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Uncovering the Progenitors of the Universe’s Most Extreme Explosions |
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Presenter: | Roseanne Cheng, LANL | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday November 3, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Radioactive atoms and molecules for precision measurements |
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Presenter: | Prof. Andrew Jayich (UC Santa Barbara) | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ kqs5i | |
Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday November 7, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The thermodynamics of oscillating neutrinos |
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Presenter: | Luke Johns (LANL) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
Host: | David Camarena | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday November 8, 2023
4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
UNM Faculty Lightning Lounge |
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Presenter: |
Tonmoy Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, UNM Physics and Astronomy
David Camarena, Postdoc Fellow, UNM Physics and Astronomy |
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Series: | Special Talk | |
Web Site: | https:/ / advance.unm.edu/ tag/ lightning-lounge/ #event=76857371;instance=20231108160000?popup=1 | |
Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
Location: | McKinnon Center for Management room 2120 | |
Thursday November 9, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
From Fiery to Frozen: Detecting and Characterizing Short- and Long- Period Exoplanets |
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Presenter: | Zahra Essack, UNM | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The path towards medium-scale all-optical quantum networks |
Presenter: | Krister Shalm (NIST) | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday November 10, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Taming God's dice |
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Presenter: | Dr. Krister Shalm (NIST) | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ ki6-r | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday November 14, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Ultralight bosonic dark matter in galaxies |
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Presenter: | Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown University) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
Host: | David Camarena | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday November 16, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Exploring the Properties and Demographics of Warm Jupiter Systems |
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Presenter: | Ismael Mireles, UNM | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
5:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Towards Solar System Planet Analogues |
Presenter: | Diana Dragomir is an Assistant Professor in the UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science. She obtained her PhD in Astronomy from the University of British Columbia in 2013. She then was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of Chicago, and a NASA Hubble postdoctoral fellow at MIT. Dr. Dragomir does research focusing on the demographics and atmospheres of exo-planets smaller than Neptune and orbiting bright, nearby stars, measuring their sizes with the HUBBLE, TESS and JWST space telescopes and their masses with a variety of ground-based observatories. In addition to planet hunting, she enjoys reading, cooking, hiking, climbing and skiing and also photography and traveling. | |
Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
Host: | David Dunlap | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday November 17, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cosmology at the forefront of new physics |
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Presenter: | Prof. Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University) | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ kb3ns | |
Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday November 21, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum many-body equilibration of fast neutrino flavor oscillations |
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Presenter: | Joshua D. Martin (LANL) | |
Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
Host: | David Camarena | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday November 30, 2023
2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Applications of Machine Learning Algorithms on astronomical datasets |
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Presenter: | Rajorshi Bhattacharya, UNM | |
Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday December 1, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
One Hundred Years After Heisenberg: Discovering the World of Simultaneous Measurements of Noncommuting Observables |
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Presenter: | Prof. Carlton Caves (UNM) | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 92709699696 | |
Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Thursday December 7, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Sensing and Timing at AFRL |
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Presenter: | Brian Kasch (AFRL) | |
Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday December 8, 2023
3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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Presenter: | Prof. Rob Carey (Boston University) | |
Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 92709699696 | |
Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |