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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
 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)
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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)
 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)
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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 -
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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.
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 Presenter:  Tonmoy Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, UNM Physics and Astronomy

David Camarena, Postdoc Fellow, UNM Physics and Astronomy
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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

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