Events Calendar
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
The Colloquia series is a weekly seminar that brings speakers from academia, national labs and industry to discuss a wide range of research topics. The series is free and all are welcome to attend. These events are held on Friday afternoons from 3:30 to 5 pm either in the Colloquium room, 1100 PAÍS, or remotely via Zoom. If you would like to attend any Physics and Astronomy events online, please contact the front office at 505 277-2616 for registration and passcode information.
Friday January 27, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Observations of the seismic wavefield as a window into the dynamics of the deep Earth |
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| Presenter: | Maureen Long, Yale | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / web.microsoftstream.com/ channel/ c80102d8-dbf8-45c5-adce-4fea2677ac92 | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Friday February 3, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) - Science and Telescope Design |
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| Presenter: | Bryan Butler (NRAO) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday February 24, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The NASA Psyche Mission: An Electric Journey to a Metal World |
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| Presenter: |
Dr Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University Lindy Elkins-Tanton, recipient of the 2020 Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship, is the lead of the NASA Psyche mission; Arizona State University Vice President of the Interplanetary Initiative; and co-founder of Beagle Learning, a tech company training and measuring collaborative problem-solving and critical thinking. Her research concerns terrestrial planetary evolution. Elkins-Tanton received her academic degrees from MIT. She worked at Brown University, MIT, and the Carnegie Institution for Science before moving to Arizona State University. Asteroid (8252) Elkins-Tanton is named for her. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 2022 William Morrow published her memoir, A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman. |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Friday March 3, 2023
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea with a Fleet of Seismic Robots |
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| Presenter: | Frederik J Simons, Princeton | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / earthscopeoceans.org/ | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Friday March 10, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Introduction to subcycle quantum optics and applications |
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| Presenter: | Denis Seletskiy is an Associate Professor of Engineering Physics and a holder of Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in "Ultrafast and Quantum Photonics" at Polytechnique Montreal. He received his PhD from the Optical Sciences and Engineering program at the University of New Mexico in 2010, followed by a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at Air Force Research Laboratories (2010-2012) and a 5-year junior group leader position and Marie Curie Zukuntskolleg Research fellowship at the University of Konstanz, Germany. In 2017 Seletskiy established the femtoQ laboratory at Polytechnique, which is focused on advancing theory, laser technology, and metrology protocols for time-domain quantum photonics. Since October 2022, he is leading an EU-CAN consortium in Mid-Infrared Quantum Technologies for Sensing (MIRAQLS). | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Mansoor Sheik-Bahae | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Friday March 31, 2023
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Rock friction, from the lab to Discrete Element Method simulations to earthquakes |
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| Presenter: | Allan Rubin, Princeton | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Friday April 7, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Light dark matter and the LDMX experiment |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Friday April 14, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Nondestructive 3D pathology and analysis for precision medicine |
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| Presenter: |
Jonathan Liu, University of Washington
Jonathan T.C. Liu is a professor of mechanical engineering, bioengineering, and laboratory medicine & pathology at the University of Washington, where his molecular biophotonics laboratory develops high-resolution optical-imaging devices and computational-analysis strategies for guiding treatment decisions. Dr. Liu received his BSE from Princeton and his PhD from Stanford before becoming a postdoc and instructor in the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford. Dr. Liu is a co-founder and board member of Alpenglow Biosciences Inc., which has commercialized the non-destructive 3D pathology technologies developed in his lab. Dr. Liu's work is funded by the NCI, NIBIB, DoD, NSF, and various foundations. |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 92709699696 | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Friday April 21, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
IceCube and the birth of high-energy neutrino astrophysics |
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| Presenter: | Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | John Matthews | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Friday April 28, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Scale hierarchies in particle physics and cosmology |
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| Presenter: | Ignatios Antoniadis, LPTHE Sorbonne Paris | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Emil Mottola | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday May 5, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Rethinking Cosmology |
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| Presenter: |
Paul J. Steinhardt,
Albert Einstein Professor in Science Professor of Physics Director, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 92709699696 | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
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