Events Calendar
Events for the Fall 2021 semester
Thursday June 24, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | A Search for the 21 cm Cosmic Dawn Absorption Signal with the Long Wavelength Array |
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| Presenter: | Christopher DiLullo | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Searching for the Global 21 cm Cosmic Dawn Absorption Signal with the Long Wavelength Array |
| Presenter: | Chris DiLullo (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday July 9, 2021
| 1:00 pm | Title: | Fundamental Aspects of the Interaction between Light and Nanostructures |
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| Presenter: | Stephen Keith Sanders | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday July 16, 2021
| 10:00 am | Title: | Pulsar Studies and their Applications |
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| Presenter: | Pratik Kumar (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Tuesday July 20, 2021
| 1:00 pm | Title: | Astro Coffee |
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| Presenter: | Various | |
| Series: | Astro Coffee | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/ | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Tuesday July 27, 2021
| 1:00 pm | Title: | Astro Coffee |
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| Presenter: | Various | |
| Series: | Astro Coffee | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/ | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Tuesday August 3, 2021
| 1:00 pm | Title: | Astro Coffee |
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| Presenter: | Various | |
| Series: | Astro Coffee | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/ | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Tuesday August 10, 2021
| 1:00 pm | Title: | Astro Coffee |
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| Presenter: | Various | |
| Series: | Astro Coffee | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/ | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Monday August 16, 2021
| 4:00 pm | Title: | Detecting Persistent Trains from Meteors |
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| Presenter: | Logan Cordonnier (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Thursday August 19, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Compact Symmetric Objects and the Evolution of Active Galaxies |
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| Presenter: | Evan Sheldahl (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Friday August 27, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Extend Python with C++ |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Huaiyu Duan (UNM) | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 97766920797 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-1160, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The Search for Habitable Worlds around Nearby Stars |
| Presenter: | Daniel Apai, The University of Arizona | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Diana Dragomir | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday August 31, 2021
| 1:00 pm | Title: | Astro Coffee |
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| Presenter: | Various | |
| Series: | Astro Coffee | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/ | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: | A Symmetry of Cosmological Observables, and a High Hubble Constant as an Indicator of a Mirror World Dark Sector |
| Presenter: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday September 3, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Introduction to CARC |
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| Presenter: | Katherine Cosburn (UNM) | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 97766920797 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-1160, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | A Dark Baryon Explanation of The Neutron Decay Anomaly |
| Presenter: | Benjamin Grinstein, UCSD | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / youtu.be/ P4ci-UGEwcw | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Tuesday September 7, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | The effect of kick velocities on the spatial distribution of millisecond pulsars and implications for the galactic centre excess |
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| Presenter: | Chris Gordon, University of Canterbury | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday September 9, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | How to perform the coherent measurement of a curved phase space by continuous isotropic measurement. Spin and the Kraus-operator geometry of SL(2,C) |
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| Presenter: | Carl Caves (UNM) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday September 10, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Software Version Control - Why and How |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Darcy Barron (UNM) | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 97766920797 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-1160, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Scalable semiconductor quantum systems |
| Presenter: |
Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University is the Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics, Stanford University She is also a faculty member of Ginzton Lab, Q-FARM, PULSE, SIMES, SPRC, Wu-Tsai Neurosciences Institute, SystemX, Bio-X PI of the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics (NQP) Lab |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Tuesday September 14, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Sphaleron bound in some nonstandard cosmology scenarios |
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| Presenter: | Phuc Duc Loc Ngo | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday September 16, 2021
| 9:30 am | Title: | Dynamical quantum phase transitions |
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| Presenter: | Markus Heyl (MPI Complex Systems - Dresden) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday September 17, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Introduction to computer algebra in Python with sympy |
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| Presenter: | Anupam Mitra (UNM) | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 97766920797 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-1160, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Quantum and Classical Time Crystals |
| Presenter: | Norman Yao, UC Berekely | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Saturday September 18, 2021
| 9:00 am | Title: | Free Workshop for NM Science Teachers |
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| Presenter: | Sally Seidel, Professor: Physics Astronomy Department | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ QuarkNet@UNM/ workshop_2021.php | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | Explora 1701 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque | |
Sunday September 19, 2021
| 9:00 am | Title: | Free Workshop for NM Science Teachers |
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| Presenter: | Sally Seidel, Professor: Physics Astronomy Department | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ QuarkNet@UNM/ workshop_2021.php | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | Explora 1701 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque | |
Friday September 24, 2021
| 11:00 am | Title: | Astro Coffee |
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| Presenter: | Various | |
| Series: | Astro Coffee | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/ | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Python Performance Considerations |
| Presenter: | Dr. Jayce Dowell (UNM) | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 97766920797 | |
| Host: | Jayce Dowell | |
| Location: | PAIS-1160, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Black Hole Thermodynamics: Then and Now |
| Presenter: | Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / youtu.be/ kLwrP9_Y79E | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Tuesday September 28, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | First results from the Muon g – 2 Experiment at Fermilab |
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| Presenter: | James Mott, Fermilab | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday September 30, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Quantum Logic Control of a Single Molecular Ion |
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| Presenter: | Dietrich Leibfried (NIST) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday October 1, 2021
| 11:00 am | Title: | Astro Coffee |
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| Presenter: | Various | |
| Series: | Astro Coffee | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/ | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: | The Monte Carlo method and its uses |
| Presenter: | Dr. Kevin Cahill (UNM) | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 97766920797 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-1160, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Iran Nuclear Deal: A Plea for Nuclear Arms Control in Uncertain Times |
| Presenter: |
Matthias Grosse Perdekamp
Professor and Head of the Department of Physics Director of ACDIS the Program in Arms Control and Domestic and International Security University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Paul Schwoebel | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Monday October 4, 2021
| 1:00 pm | Title: | Mammalian Brains |
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| Presenter: | Julia M Stephen, Professor of Translational Neuroscience and MEG Core Director at the Mind Research Network | |
| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / youtu.be/ 3FObVjmhrs4 | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Tuesday October 5, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Towards a Realistic Model of Dark Atoms to Resolve the Hubble Tension |
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| Presenter: | Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday October 7, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Simulating Near-Term Quantum Computers with Approximate Tensor Network Algorithms |
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| Presenter: | Miles Stoudenmire (Flatiron Institute) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday October 8, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | How to Form a Habitable Planet |
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| Presenter: | Meredith MacGregor, University of Colorado Boulder | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 12, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Higher-spin wave dark matter and polarized solitons |
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| Presenter: | Mudit Jain, Rice University | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday October 14, 2021
| 7:00 am | Title: | 23rd Annual SQuInT Workshop |
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| Presenter: | Various TBD | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / physics.unm.edu/ SQuInT/ 2021/ | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday October 15, 2021
| 11:00 am | Title: | Astro Coffee |
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| Presenter: | Various | |
| Series: | Astro Coffee | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/ | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
Tuesday October 19, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Search for Neutral Long-lived Particles Decaying in the CMS Endcap Muon Detectors |
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| Presenter: | Christina Wang, Caltech | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Encoding a qubit in a spin |
| Presenter: | Jonathan Gross (Google Quantum AI) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Carlton Caves | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday October 21, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Equilibration time in many-body quantum systems |
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| Presenter: | Lea Santos (Yeshiva University) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Pablo Poggi | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday October 22, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Julia with applications in microscopy using GPUs and interactive notebooks |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Keith Lidke (UNM) | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 97766920797 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-1160, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The third cosmological paradigm |
| Presenter: | Michael Turner is the Bruce V. and Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor; Director of the National Science Foundation's Physics Frontiers Centers at Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago's Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics; Enrico Fermi Institute | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Tuesday October 26, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Neutrino interactions from the cosmos |
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| Presenter: | Ivan Esteban, Ohio State University | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday October 29, 2021
| 11:00 am | Title: | Astro Coffee |
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| Presenter: | Various | |
| Series: | Astro Coffee | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/ | |
| Location: | PAIS-3300, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Introduction to Computational Electromagnetics |
| Presenter: | Dr. Viktoriia Babicheva (UNM) | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 97766920797 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-1160, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Black holes in globular clusters |
| Presenter: | Tom Maccarone, Texas Tech | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlstrom | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Thursday November 4, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | NANOGrav's Search for Gravitational Waves, Including Interstellar Medium Bonus Science |
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| Presenter: | Tim Dolch (Hillsdale) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Variational Neural Annealing |
| Presenter: | Juan Felipe Carrasquilla (Vector Institute and University of Waterloo) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Cunlu Zhou | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday November 5, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Steven Clayton, Los Alamos National Lab | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Thursday November 11, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan (Los Alamos) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday November 12, 2021
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Introduction to Machine Learning |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Susan Atlas (UNM) | |
| Series: | Computational Physics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 97766920797 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-1160, PAIS | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: | TBD |
| Presenter: | Saul Teukolsky, Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics at Cornell University | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Friday November 19, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Seeing around corners |
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| Presenter: | Andreas Velten, U. Wisconsin, Madison | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Thursday December 2, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Optimization of Clifford circuits |
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| Presenter: | Sergey Bravyi (IBM Quantum) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Milad Marvian Mashhad | |
| Location: | TBD | |
Friday December 3, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | |
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| Presenter: | Lynn Matthews, MIT | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Thursday December 9, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Vedika Khemani (Stanford) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Susan Atlas | |
| Location: | TBD | |
Friday December 10, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | David Schuster, U. Chicago | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Thursday December 16, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Yuan-Yu Jau (Sandia) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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