Events Calendar
Events for April 2024
Monday April 1, 2024
| 1:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A Precise Measurement of the Lifetime of B-mesons, Measurement of CP-violation Parameters of Bs-mesons, the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC, and Development of Silicon Detectors for Future Particle Physics Experiments |
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| Presenter: | Easwar Narayanan | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 2, 2024
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A Search for New Physics in Decays of B Mesons to Muon Pairs, Development of New Particle Timing Technology, and Characterization of Radiation Damage in Silicon Detectors at the Large Hadron Collider |
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| Presenter: | Hijas Farook (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 April 3, 2024
| 1:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cosmic Explorer: a next-generation gravitational-wave observatory |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Joshua Smith (Cal State Fullerton) and Dr. Kathryne Daniel (U Arizona) | |
| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Host: | Richard Rand | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 4, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Utilizing motional states of tweezer arrays |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Manuel Endres | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday April 5, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Science with Tweezer Arrays |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Manuel Endres (Caltech) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 9, 2024
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A Ratio-Preserving Approach to Cosmological Concordance |
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| Presenter: | Kylar Greene (UNM & Fermilab) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday April 11, 2024
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Statistical Analyses of Meteor Persistent Trains |
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| Presenter: | Logan Cordonnier | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Diana Dragomir | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Benchmarking trapped-ion QCCD quantum computers |
| Presenter: | Charlie Baldwin | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday April 12, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The quantum limits of precision magnetic resonance for fundamental science |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Alex Sushkov (Boston University) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ qls6e | |
| Host: | Victor Acosta | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Saturday April 13, 2024
| 8:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Physics Day 2024 |
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| Presenter: | Faculty Host: David Dunlap | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ day2024/ | |
| Host: | David Dunlap | |
| Location: | Multiple rooms, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 16, 2024
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Recent progress toward a definitive neutrino-less double beta decay search with a xenon gas time projection chamber—the NEXT experimental program |
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| Presenter: | Prof. David Nygren (UT Arlington) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Department Convocation |
| Presenter: | Nicole Lloyd Ronning, Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| Host: | Richard Rand | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Thursday April 18, 2024
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Understanding weather trends for planning CMB surveys |
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| Presenter: | Katie Dalton | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Diana Dragomir | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 5:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Obesity, Energetics, and Lifespan: Exploring the Many Curious Connections |
| Presenter: | David Allison Ph.D., is Dean, Distinguished Professor, and Provost Professor at Indiana University–Bloomington School of Public Health. Continuously NIH-funded as a PI for over 25 years, he has authored more than 600 scientific publications. Awards include the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (2006); the Friends of Albert (Mickey) Stunkard Lifetime Achievement Award (The Obesity Society, 2021); Elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012, he also serves as co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences’ Strategic Council on Research Excellence, Integrity and Trust. Dr. Allison is a staunch advocate for rigor in research methods and the uncompromisingly truthful communication of research findings. | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | David Dunlap | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday April 19, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum Technologies for New-physics Searches in the Laboratory and in Space |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Marianna Safronova (Univ of Delaware) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 92709699696 | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 23, 2024
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter Interactions |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Kimberly K Boddy (UT Austin) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
| Host: | David Camarena | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday April 25, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Jun Takahashi | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday April 26, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Malcolm J. Perry, Cambridge Univ. England | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
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