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Events for the Fall 2021 semester

Thursday June 24, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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A Search for the 21 cm Cosmic Dawn Absorption Signal with the Long Wavelength Array
 Presenter:  Christopher DiLullo
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  Zoom
2:00 pm  Title: 
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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: 
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Fundamental Aspects of the Interaction between Light and Nanostructures
 Presenter:  Stephen Keith Sanders
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  Zoom

 

Friday July 16, 2021
10:00 am  Title: 
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Pulsar Studies and their Applications
 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: 
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Astro Coffee
 Presenter:  Various
 Series:  Astro Coffee
 Web Site:    https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/
 Location:  Zoom

 

Tuesday July 27, 2021
1:00 pm  Title: 
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Astro Coffee
 Presenter:  Various
 Series:  Astro Coffee
 Web Site:    https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/
 Location:  Zoom

 

Tuesday August 3, 2021
1:00 pm  Title: 
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Astro Coffee
 Presenter:  Various
 Series:  Astro Coffee
 Web Site:    https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/
 Location:  Zoom

 

Tuesday August 10, 2021
1:00 pm  Title: 
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Astro Coffee
 Presenter:  Various
 Series:  Astro Coffee
 Web Site:    https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/
 Location:  Zoom

 

Monday August 16, 2021
4:00 pm  Title: 
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Detecting Persistent Trains from Meteors
 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: 
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Compact Symmetric Objects and the Evolution of Active Galaxies
 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: 
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Extend Python with C++
 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: 
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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: 
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Astro Coffee
 Presenter:  Various
 Series:  Astro Coffee
 Web Site:    https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/
 Location:  PAIS-3205, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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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: 
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Introduction to CARC
 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: 
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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: 
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The effect of kick velocities on the spatial distribution of millisecond pulsars and implications for the galactic centre excess
 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: 
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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)
 Presenter:  Carl Caves (UNM)
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday September 10, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Software Version Control - Why and How
 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: 
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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
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  Zoom

 

Tuesday September 14, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Sphaleron bound in some nonstandard cosmology scenarios
 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: 
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Dynamical quantum phase transitions
 Presenter:  Markus Heyl (MPI Complex Systems - Dresden)
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  Zoom

 

Friday September 17, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Introduction to computer algebra in Python with sympy
 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: 
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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: 
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Free Workshop for NM Science Teachers
 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: 
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Free Workshop for NM Science Teachers
 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: 
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Astro Coffee
 Presenter:  Various
 Series:  Astro Coffee
 Web Site:    https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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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: 
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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: 
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First results from the Muon g – 2 Experiment at Fermilab
 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: 
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Quantum Logic Control of a Single Molecular Ion
 Presenter:  Dietrich Leibfried (NIST)
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Francisco Becerra Chavez
 Location:  Zoom

 

Friday October 1, 2021
11:00 am  Title: 
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Astro Coffee
 Presenter:  Various
 Series:  Astro Coffee
 Web Site:    https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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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: 
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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
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Host:  Paul Schwoebel
 Location:  PAIS-1100, PAIS

 

Monday October 4, 2021
1:00 pm  Title: 
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Mammalian Brains
 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: 
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Towards a Realistic Model of Dark Atoms to Resolve the Hubble Tension
 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: 
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Simulating Near-Term Quantum Computers with Approximate Tensor Network Algorithms
 Presenter:  Miles Stoudenmire (Flatiron Institute)
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  Zoom

 

Friday October 8, 2021
3:30 pm  Title: 
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How to Form a Habitable Planet
 Presenter:  Meredith MacGregor, University of Colorado Boulder
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Location:  PAIS-1100, PAIS

 

Tuesday October 12, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Higher-spin wave dark matter and polarized solitons
 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: 
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23rd Annual SQuInT Workshop
 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: 
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Astro Coffee
 Presenter:  Various
 Series:  Astro Coffee
 Web Site:    https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS

 

Tuesday October 19, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Search for Neutral Long-lived Particles Decaying in the CMS Endcap Muon Detectors
 Presenter:  Christina Wang, Caltech
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Sally Seidel
 Location:  Zoom
3:30 pm  Title: 
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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: 
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Equilibration time in many-body quantum systems
 Presenter:  Lea Santos (Yeshiva University)
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Pablo Poggi
 Location:  Zoom

 

Friday October 22, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Julia with applications in microscopy using GPUs and interactive notebooks
 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: 
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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: 
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Neutrino interactions from the cosmos
 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: 
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Astro Coffee
 Presenter:  Various
 Series:  Astro Coffee
 Web Site:    https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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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: 
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Black holes in globular clusters
 Presenter:  Tom Maccarone, Texas Tech
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-1100, PAIS

 

Tuesday November 2, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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High precision tests of Standard Model in B-physics measurements in p-p collisions of LHC and HL-LHC in ATLAS.
 Presenter:  Maria Smizanska, CERN
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Sally Seidel
 Location:  Zoom

 

Thursday November 4, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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NANOGrav's Search for Gravitational Waves, Including Interstellar Medium Bonus Science
 Presenter:  Tim Dolch (Hillsdale)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  Zoom
3:30 pm  Title: 
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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
11:00 am  Title: 
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Astro Coffee
 Presenter:  Various
 Series:  Astro Coffee
 Web Site:    https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Data Reduction Pipelines
 Presenter:  Dr. Jayce Dowell (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: 
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Precision measurements of neutron beta decay and the neutron lifetime puzzle
 Presenter:  Steven Clayton, Los Alamos National Lab
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    https:/ / youtu.be/ PyzXP1oOCxg
 Host:  Kevin Cahill
 Location:  Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey

 

Saturday November 6, 2021
10:00 am  Title: 
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Fall Open House
 Presenter:  David Dunlap
 Host:  David Dunlap
 Location:  Multiple rooms, PAIS

 

Tuesday November 9, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Gravitational Waves: Sources and Next-Gen Observatories
 Presenter:  Matthew Evans, MIT
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Carlton Caves
 Location:  Zoom

 

Friday November 12, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Introduction to Machine Learning
 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: 
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Testing the No-Hair Theorem and the Area Theorem with LIGO
 Presenter:  Saul Teukolsky, Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics at Cornell University
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    https:/ / youtu.be/ b5QItBxVSCM
 Host:  Kevin Cahill
 Location:  Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey

 

Thursday November 18, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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A Statistical Approach to Distance Calculations for BAaDE Sources
 Presenter:  Brandon Medina (UNM)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  PAIS-3205, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Twist-untwist protocols for quantum sensing
 Presenter:  Tyler Volkoff (Los Alamos)
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday November 19, 2021
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Surgical Fluorescence Imaging with Computational Single Photon Cameras
 Presenter:  Andreas Velten, U. Wisconsin, Madison
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Location:  PAIS-1100, PAIS

 

Tuesday November 23, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Milli-magnetic monopole dark matter and the survival of Galactic Magnetic Fields
 Presenter:  Michael Graesser (LANL)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  Zoom

 

Tuesday November 30, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Progress on Detecting the Migdal Effect: the Dynamic Range Issue and Novel Track Reconstruction
 Presenter:  Alexandre Mills, UNM
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  PAIS-3205, PAIS

 

Thursday December 2, 2021
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Detecting Persistent Trains from Meteors in Widefield Images
 Presenter:  Logan Cordonnier (UNM)
 Series:  Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  PAIS-3205, PAIS
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Optimization of Clifford circuits
 Presenter:  Sergey Bravyi (IBM Quantum)
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Milad Marvian
 Location:  Zoom

 

Friday December 3, 2021
11:00 am  Title: 
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Astro Coffee
 Presenter:  Various
 Series:  Astro Coffee
 Web Site:    https:/ / www.benty-fields.com/
 Location:  PAIS-3300, PAIS
2:00 pm  Title: 
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Scientific Computing with GPUs
 Presenter:  Dr. Jayce Dowell (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: 
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Imaging the Dynamic Atmospheres of Dying Stars
 Presenter:  Lynn Matthews, MIT
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Host:  Ylva Pihlström
 Location:  Zoom

 

Thursday December 9, 2021
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Many-Body Physics in the NISQ Era: Quantum Programming a Discrete Time Crystal
 Presenter:  Vedika Khemani (Stanford)
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Susan Atlas
 Location:  Zoom
6:00 pm  Title: 
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Missions to Mars Book Signing and Talk by Dr. Larry Crumpler
 Presenter:  Larry S. Crumpler, Ph.D. is Research Curator of Volcanology and Space Sciences at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. He received his doctorate from the University of Arizona in Planetary Sciences and MS from the University of New Mexico in Geology. Prior to the Museum, he worked as a research scientist at Brown University. His research includes the geology of the inner planets of our solar system, with particular emphasis on Mars, and studies of New Mexico volcanism with an emphasis on lava flows.
Currently, he is a member of the Perseverance Rover Mission science team, and was a member of the development team for the Ingenuity helicopter. Previously, he was a science team member on the Mars Exploration Rover (Spirit & Opportunity) mission, Mars Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (HiRISE). On the Mars Exploration Rover mission, he served as “Long-term Planning Lead” and downlinked information from the rovers on a daily basis from his office at the Museum. On the Perseverance Mission he is responsible for geologic context mapping of the terrain traversed by the rover.
He began his work with Mars as a student intern with NASA’s Viking Mission and later worked with the Pathfinder Mars mission, Magellan radar mission to Venus, and planning for the Russian Mars 96 mission. He has participated in Mars landing site selection for all of the landed science missions to date, and in many Mars rover field tests. He has published many professional papers, book chapters, and geologic maps; and he has authored magazine articles and book chapters for the general public about the geology of New Mexico and our neighboring planets. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.
 Web Site:    https:/ / nmnaturalhistory.org/ events/ missions-mars-book-signing-and-talk-dr-larry-crumpler
 Location:  The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104

 

Friday December 10, 2021
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Building materials from microwave photons
 Presenter:  David Schuster, U. Chicago
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Location:  Zoom

 

Thursday December 16, 2021
3:30 pm  Title: 
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Quantum enabled new metrology: E-field sensing/imaging with neutrons
 Presenter:  Yuan-Yu Jau (Sandia)
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Host:  Ivan Deutsch
 Location:  PAIS-2540, PAIS

 

Friday December 17, 2021
6:00 pm  Title: 
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Looking to the Edge of the Universe: James Webb Space Telescope Lecture
 Presenter:  Diana Dragomir, UNM Assistant Professor and Tony Hull, UNM Adjunct Professor
 Web Site:    https:/ / nmnaturalhistory.org/ events/ looking-edge-universe-james-webb-space-telescope-lecture
 Host:  Diana Dragomir
 Location:  New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Planetarium

 

Saturday December 18, 2021
11:00 am  Title: 
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James Webb Space Telescope Pre-Launch Party
 Presenter:  Diana Dragomir, UNM Assistant Professor and Tony Hull, UNM Adjunct Professor
 Web Site:    https:/ / nmnaturalhistory.org/ events/ james-webb-space-telescope-pre-launch-party
 Host:  Diana Dragomir
 Location:  New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science

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