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Events Calendar

Events for February 2023

Wednesday February 1, 2023
3:00 pm  Title: 
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Advanced Biophotonics Seminar
 Presenter:  TBD
 Series:  Advanced Biophotonics Seminar
 Web Site:    https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html
 Host:  Tonmoy Chakraborty
 Location:  PAIS-2210, PAIS

 

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

 

Tuesday February 7, 2023
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Discovering Unanticipated New Physics with Machine Learning
 Presenter:  Dr. Ben Nachman of LBNL
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Sally Seidel
 Location:  PAIS-3205, PAIS

 

Wednesday February 8, 2023
3:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)
Advanced Biophotonics Seminar
 Presenter:  TBD
 Series:  Advanced Biophotonics Seminar
 Web Site:    https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html
 Host:  Tonmoy Chakraborty
 Location:  PAIS-2210, PAIS

 

Thursday February 9, 2023
2:00 pm  Title: 
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SETI and the COSMIC VLA
 Presenter:  Chenoa Tremblay and Savin Shynu Varghese from the SETI Institute
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-3205, PAIS

 

Tuesday February 14, 2023
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Utilizing a newly revealed symmetry of observables with fundamental constant variation to resolve the Hubble-Lemaitre Tension
 Presenter:  Kylar Greene (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine
 Location:  PAIS-3205, PAIS

 

Wednesday February 15, 2023
3:00 pm  Title: 
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Advanced Biophotonics Seminar
 Presenter:  TBD
 Series:  Advanced Biophotonics Seminar
 Web Site:    https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html
 Host:  Tonmoy Chakraborty
 Location:  PAIS-2210, PAIS

 

Thursday February 16, 2023
6:30 pm  Title: 
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Altering nature with gene drives: We can. But should we?
 Presenter:  James P. Collins is Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment at Arizona State University. He studies host-pathogen biology and its relationship to the decline and extinction of species, the intellectual and institutional factors that have shaped Ecology's development as a discipline, as well as Ecological Ethics. Professor Collins is the author of numerous peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and is co-author with Dr. Martha Crump of Extinction in Our Times: Global Amphibian Decline (Oxford University Press). Dr. Collins served as chair of the Board on Life Sciences of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Chair of the Board of the American Association of Colleges & Universities; and President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  David Dunlap
 Location:  PAIS-1100, PAIS

 

Saturday February 18, 2023
6:30 pm  Title: 
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Roving with Perseverance: A New Mexico Field Geologist Goes to Mars
 Presenter:  Larry S. Crumpler, Ph.D.

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Research Curator of Volcanology and Space Sciences
 Web Site:    http:/ / events.constantcontact.com/ register/ event?llr=tl5km7uab&oeidk=a07ejmgpw4jabce83b3
 Location:  New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

 

Tuesday February 21, 2023
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Neutrinos from Charm: a Forward Physics Facility at the LHC and Atmospheric Neutrinos
 Presenter:  Mary Hall Reno (University of Iowa)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Sally Seidel
 Location:  PAIS-3205, PAIS

 

Wednesday February 22, 2023
3:00 pm  Title: 
(click on Title for Abstract)
Advanced Biophotonics Seminar
 Presenter:  TBD
 Series:  Advanced Biophotonics Seminar
 Web Site:    https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html
 Host:  Tonmoy Chakraborty
 Location:  PAIS-2210, PAIS

 

Thursday February 23, 2023
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Deep radio observations of galaxy clusters with MeerKATDeep radio observations of galaxy clusters with MeerKAT
 Presenter:  Viral Parekh (NRAO)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-3205, 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

 

Tuesday February 28, 2023
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Search for New Physics in B0(s)→ μ+μ- decays, Development of Particle Detection Technology, and Assessment of Radiation Damage in the ATLAS Pixel Detector
 Presenter:  Hijas Farook
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Web Site:    https:/ / physics.unm.edu/ pandaweb/ events/ flyers/ Hijas_Farook_NuPAC_Abstract.pdf
 Host:  Sally Seidel
 Location:  PAIS-3205, PAIS

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