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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

Zoom logoThe 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: 
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Observations of the seismic wavefield as a window into the dynamics of the deep Earth
 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: 
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The next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) - Science and Telescope Design
 Presenter:  Bryan Butler (NRAO)
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-1100, PAIS

 

Friday February 24, 2023
3:30 pm  Title: 
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The NASA Psyche Mission: An Electric Journey to a Metal World
 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.
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Location:  PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey

 

Friday March 3, 2023
4:00 pm  Title: 
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea with a Fleet of Seismic Robots
 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: 
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Introduction to subcycle quantum optics and applications
 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: 
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Rock friction, from the lab to Discrete Element Method simulations to earthquakes
 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: 
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Light dark matter and the LDMX experiment
 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: 
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Nondestructive 3D pathology and analysis for precision medicine
 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.
 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: 
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IceCube and the birth of high-energy neutrino astrophysics
 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: 
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Scale hierarchies in particle physics and cosmology
 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: 
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Rethinking Cosmology
 Presenter:  Paul J. Steinhardt,
Albert Einstein Professor in Science
Professor of Physics
Director, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
 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

Disability Notice If you need an auxiliary aid or service to attend any Department of Physics and Astronomy event, please contact the department (phone: 505 277-2616; email: physics@unm.edu) as far in advance as possible to ensure you are accommodated.