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Events Calendar

Events for April 2014

Tuesday April 1, 2014
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Rare event searches with MALBEK
 Presenter:  Graham Giovanetti (University of North Carolina)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday April 3, 2014
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Product-state approximations to ground states
 Presenter:  Aram Harrow, MIT
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Akimasa Miyake
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
4:00 pm  Title: 
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Hydrodynamics and polymer diffusion in lipid membranes
 Presenter:  Ashok Prasad
Chemical & Biological Engineering
Colorado State University
 Host:  Kevin Cahill
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Tuesday April 8, 2014
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Evidence for B-mode Polarization of the CMB and Implications for Inflation
 Presenter:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday April 10, 2014
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Finding the First Cosmic Explosions
 Presenter:  Joseph Smidt (LANL)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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A simple method for optimal hamiltonian simulation
 Presenter:  Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS
5:00 pm  Title: 
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The Science of Speed: Safer, Stronger, Faster
 Presenter:  Diandra Leslie-Pelecky,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room C, UNM Conference Center

 

Friday April 11, 2014
1:30 pm  Title: 
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Neutron star models: masses and radii
 Presenter:  Lei Ma
 Series:  Computational Physics Seminar
 Host:  Huaiyu (Mike) Duan
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Thursday April 17, 2014
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Using Ammonia to Trace Methanol Masers near SNRs
 Presenter:  Bridget McEwen
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday April 18, 2014
10:30 am  Title: 
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Atomic physics in a semiconductor vacuum: Quantum optics and nanoscale sensing in diamond
 Presenter:  Victor Acosta, Researcher, Google. Acosta is a research scientist at Google [x]. Previously he was a postdoc in Charles Santori and Ray Beausoleil's group at HP Labs, where he led efforts to integrate NV centers into photonic circuits for quantum computing and sensing. Victor did his PhD work in Dmitry Budker's AMO group in the UC Berkeley Physics dept, graduating in 2011. There he studied the basic physics underlying optical sensors based on alkali vapor cells as well as diamond NV centers. Victor has co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, including 7 in Physical Review Letters, and has delivered more than 20 invited talks at international conferences and academic seminars.
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials
1:30 pm  Title: 
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Cooling of neutron stars
 Presenter:  Matthew Chase
 Series:  Computational Physics Seminar
 Host:  Huaiyu (Mike) Duan
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Tuesday April 22, 2014
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Collective Neutrino Oscillations: Challenges and future directions (Part I)
 Presenter:  Shashank Shalgar (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Huaiyu (Mike) Duan
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Thursday April 24, 2014
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum metrology with matterwave interferometers
 Presenter:  Grant Biedermann, SNL
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday April 25, 2014
1:30 pm  Title: 
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Stellar collapse and supernova explosions
 Presenter:  Shashank Shalgar
 Series:  Computational Physics Seminar
 Host:  Huaiyu (Mike) Duan
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Tuesday April 29, 2014
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Classical Gravitational Back-Reaction
 Presenter:  Nick Tsamis (University of Crete, Greece)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

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