Events Calendar
Events for the Spring 2022 semester
Friday January 14, 2022
| 11:00 am | Title: | Symmetry Protected Topological Order in Open Quantum Systems |
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| Presenter: | Alex Turzillo | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Wednesday January 19, 2022
| 4:00 pm | Title: | Applied QBism and its Potential |
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| Presenter: | John DeBrota | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday January 20, 2022
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Candidacy Exam: Variation of Fundamental Constants, the Dark Sector, and H_0 (NOTE SPECIAL TIME) |
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| Presenter: | Kylar Greene, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Efficient estimation of cyclic parameters in quantum systems |
| Presenter: | Marco Antonio Rodriguez Garcia, UNAM | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday January 21, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | In Search of New Physics with MicroBooNE |
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| Presenter: |
Georgia Karagiorgi is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Columbia University.
She received her Ph.D. in Experimental High Energy Physics from MIT in 2010. Her main research is in experimental particle physics, including searches for new physics in the neutrino sector with particle-accelerator-based and/or large underground neutrino experiments. The discovery and study of rare processes with the next generation of neutrino detectors requires continuous and efficient processing of data streams with rates of up to multiple terabytes per second. Her current research includes data processing hardware design and exploration of digital data processing techniques for high data rate environments, and more recently she has been exploring the implementation of machine learning algorithms on field-programmable gate arrays. |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / datascience.columbia.edu/ people/ georgia-karagiorgi/ | |
| Host: | Michael Gold | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Tuesday January 25, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Early Matter Domination from Long-Lived Particles in the Visible Sector |
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| Presenter: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday January 28, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Neutrinos, Light and Heavy |
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| Presenter: | Boris J Kayser, FNAL | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / www.youtube.com/ watch?v=yyT-APZgGsU | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Thursday February 3, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Approximating the free energy of quantum Hamiltonians using convex relaxations |
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| Presenter: | Anirban Chowdhury, IQC Waterloo | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Pablo Poggi | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday February 4, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Ultrafast Semiconductor Diode Lasers |
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| Presenter: | Peter Delfyett received the B.E.(E.E.) degree from The City College of New York (1981), the M.S. degree in EE from The University of Rochester (1983), the M. Phil and Ph.D. degrees from The Graduate School & University Center of the City University of New York (1988). His PhD was focused on developing and utilizing a real time ultrafast spectroscopic probe to study molecular and phonon dynamics in condensed matter, using both supercontinuum and optical phase conjugation techniques. After obtaining the Ph.D. degree, he joined Bell Communication Research as a Member of the Technical Staff, where he concentrated his efforts towards generating ultrafast high power optical pulses from semiconductor diode lasers, for applications in ultra-wideband optical signal processing and communications. In 1993, he moved to University of Central Florida, where he is Pegasus Professor and Trustee Chair Professor of Optics, EE & Physics in CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, and is currently serving as the Director of the Townes Laser Institute. In 2003, Dr. Delfyett founded "Raydiance, Inc." a spin-off company developing high power, ultrafast laser systems, based on his research, for applications in medicine, consumer electronics, defense, material processing, biotechnology, automotive and other key technological markets. He is a Fellow of the APS, IEEE, NAI, NSBP, OSA, and SPIE. He is also the recipient of the NSF PECASE Award, the APS Edward Bouchet Award, the 2014 Medalist from the Florida Academy of Science, the 2018 Townsend Harris Award, the 2020 IEEE Photonics Society's William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, and the 2021 APS Arthur L Schawlow Prize in Laser Science. Most recently, he was elected into the National Academy of Engineering. He has over 200 journal publications, and 600 conference proceedings and presentations, with 45 US patents. | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Mansoor Sheik-Bahae | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Tuesday February 8, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Fundamental physics with strong gravitational lenses |
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| Presenter: | Daniel Gilman, University of Toronto | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday February 10, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | My favorite not-quite-probability distribution and its usefulness in metrology |
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| Presenter: | Nicole Yunger Halpern, NIST/Maryland | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Pablo Poggi | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 4:00 pm | Title: | Reliability of Quantum Simulation on NISQ-era Devices |
| Presenter: | Karthik Chinni | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 15, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Venturing into the neutrino fog |
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| Presenter: | Ciaran O'Hare (University of Sidney) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday February 17, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Phase transitions and critical states of monitored quantum systems |
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| Presenter: | Ehud Altman, UC Berkely | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Akimasa Miyake | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday February 18, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Cold Dark Matter Caustics |
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| Presenter: | Pierre Sikivie, Universty of Florida | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / youtu.be/ dypKyNPsWpg | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Tuesday February 22, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Large-Scale Structure Cosmology in the Systematics-Limited Regime |
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| Presenter: | Elisabeth Krause, University of Arizona | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday February 23, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Continued Radio Searches of Fermi Unassociated Gamma-Ray Sources |
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| Presenter: | Seth Bruzewski (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday February 24, 2022
| 9:00 am | Title: | Many-body physics with arrays of individual atoms and optical dipoles |
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| Presenter: | Antoine Browaeys - Institute d'Optique, CNRS | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday February 25, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Why Clouds Don't Fall |
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| Presenter: | Kevin E. Cahill is a Professor of Physics & Astronomy at UNM. His research interests are particle theory, lattice-gauge theory. and medical physics. He is the author of Physical Mathematics, released in a second edition in 2019 | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / youtu.be/ ABFDlS6l9Gw | |
| Host: | Richard Rand | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 1, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | The Search for sub-GeV Dark Matter at Coherent Captain Mills |
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| Presenter: | William Thompson, LANL | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Michael Gold | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday March 3, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | An open quantum testbed based on trapped ions (QSCOUT) |
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| Presenter: | Susan Clark, Sandia National Labs | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday March 4, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Change |
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| Presenter: | Dave Gutzler, UNM Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences (Emeritus) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / youtu.be/ DvkO8PRw9fQ | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 8, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Searching for axion dark matter with the South Pole Telescope |
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| Presenter: | Kyle Ferguson, UCLA | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Darcy Barron | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday March 10, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Boosting engine performance with Bose-Einstein condensation |
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| Presenter: | Nathan Myers, UMBC/LANL | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Pablo Poggi | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 22, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Neutrino, Supernova, and Flavor Isospin Wave |
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| Presenter: | Huaiyu Duan, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Effects of XX-catalysts on quantum annealing spectra with perturbative crossings |
| Presenter: | Natasha Feinstein, University College London | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Tameem Albash | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday March 25, 2022
| 11:00 am | Title: | An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Volcanoes and Their Processes |
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| Presenter: | Katherine Cosburn | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Chipping Away at the "N" in NISQ-era Quantum Computers |
| Presenter: | Dr. Irfan Siddiqi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 29, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Searching for new physics with X-rays from compact stars |
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| Presenter: | Andrew Long, Rice University | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday March 30, 2022
| 7:00 pm | Title: | Spring Lecture Demo Show |
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| Presenter: | Students and Faculty of the Physics and Astronomy Department, University of New Mexico | |
| Host: | David Dunlap | |
| File/Video Recording: | http://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/Spring_2022_Demo_Show.pdf | |
| Location: | Room 103, Regener Hall | |
Thursday March 31, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Illuminating the radius valley with TESS and CHEOPS |
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| Presenter: | Dominic Oddo (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday April 1, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | How machine learning can help us get the most out of our highest fidelity physical models |
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| Presenter: | Kyle S Cranmer, NYU | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Michael Gold | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 5, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | General relativity with fermions: Lorentz invariance |
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| Presenter: |
Kevin Cahill
UNM |
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| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: | General relativity with fermions: Lorentz invariance |
| Presenter: |
Kevin Cahill
UNM Physics Professor |
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| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / youtu.be/ lr3_CCMlmgI | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Thursday April 7, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | A Novel Observational Study of Southern HII Regions |
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| Presenter: | Chenoa Tremblay (SETI) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Progress in high-precision quantum state preparation |
| Presenter: | Rolando Somma, LANL | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday April 8, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Precision tomography of silicon donor qubits at the threshold of fault tolerance |
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| Presenter: | Robin Blume-Kohout, Sandia | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 12, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Dark Matter, the Migdal Effect and Directional Detectors |
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| Presenter: | Elizabeth Tilly, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday April 13, 2022
| 4:00 pm | Title: | Nonequilibrium and Nonlinear Dynamics in Collective Spin Models and Implementations Using Quantum Feedback Control |
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| Presenter: | Manuel Munoz Arias | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday April 14, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Detecting and Characterizing Long-period Planets with TESS |
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| Presenter: | Ismael Mireless (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The implication of symmetries in CHSH-like games |
| Presenter: | Amir Kalev, USC/ISI | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday April 15, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | nEXO and the future of neutrinoless double beta decay |
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| Presenter: | Brian Lenardo, Sanford | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / youtu.be/ 3qW1MScFgbM | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Saturday April 16, 2022
| 8:00 am | Title: | Physics Day 2022 |
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| Presenter: | Keith Lidke, Professor, UNM Physics and Astronomy Department | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ day2022 | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | Multiple rooms, PAIS | |
Tuesday April 19, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Transient Phenomena in Surveys of the Cosmic Microwave Background |
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| Presenter: | Ian Birdwell, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Darcy Barron | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday April 21, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | The Journey to a More Comprehensive Catalog of Compact Symmetric Objects |
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| Presenter: | Evan Sheldahl (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday April 22, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Multi-messenger observations of cosmic collisions, relativistic blasts, and their remnants |
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| Presenter: | Alessandra Corsi (Texas Tech University) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 92048459507 | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Tuesday April 26, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | The CMB as a backlight |
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| Presenter: | Alexander Van Engelen, ASU | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday April 28, 2022
| 11:00 am | Title: | Characterizing coherence times of solid state spin defects |
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| Presenter: | Chandrasekhar Ramanthan, Dartmouth | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Victor Acosta | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Searching for Water on Neptune-sized Exoplanets |
| Presenter: | Sara Jeffreys | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Diana Dragomir | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday April 29, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | How Bright is the Radio Sky? We Don't Know ... Yet |
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| Presenter: | Jack Singal, University of Richmond | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday May 3, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Seeing the unseen: Using small-scale lensing anisotropies to study dark matter |
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| Presenter: | Birendra Dhanasingham (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday May 5, 2022
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Multifrequency observations of Pulsars |
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| Presenter: | Pratik Kumar (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Dynamics of transmon ionization |
| Presenter: | Alexandre Blais, Sherbrooke | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday May 6, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | TBA | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Thursday May 12, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Quantum algorithms for thermal state preparation using fluctuation theorems |
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| Presenter: | Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan (LANL) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday May 13, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | FCC, the accelerator for the 22nd Century - a window onto new physics in the heaviest quarks |
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| Presenter: | Radek Novotny, UNM | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Saturday May 14, 2022
| 12:00 pm | Title: | Department Convocation |
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| Presenter: | David L. Hayes, Research Scientist, Honeywell Quantum Solutions | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / youtu.be/ CKEGzPShE-o | |
| Host: | Richard Rand | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Wednesday May 18, 2022
| 3:30 pm | Title: | QSC/SQMS Quantum Algorithms Workshop |
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| Presenter: |
Nathan Wiebe (Toronto)
Matteo Ipolliti (Stanford) Natalie Klco (Caltech) Peter Love (Tufts) Naomi Nickerson (Psi Quantum) Josh Combes (University of Colorado) Robert Huang (Caltech) |
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| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ workshops/ qaw.html | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
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