Events Calendar
Events for the Fall 2023 semester
Sunday June 18, 2023
| 8:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC) 2023 |
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| Presenter: |
Mohammad Amin (D-Wave)
Jemma Bennett (University of Innsbruck) Lucas Brady (NASA QuAIL) Arthur Braida (ATOS) Madelyn Cain (Harvard University) Carleton Coffrin (LANL) Lucas Kocia (SNL) Trevor Lanting (D-Wave) Glen Mbeng (University of Innsbruck) Humberto Munoz (University of Southern California) Giacomo Nannicini (University of Southern California) Shruti Puri (Yale University) Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (NEC) |
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| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ 2023/ 06/ aqc.html | |
| Host: | Tameem Albash | |
| Location: | Multiple rooms, PAIS | |
Wednesday July 5, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Application of Quantum Mechanical Techniques to Optical Waveguide Structures |
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| Presenter: | Stuart Ward | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday August 22, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Measurement of the Partial Branching Fraction for the Decay B0->Ks mumu with the ATLAS Experiment, New Techniques for Selecting Electrons for Precision Measurements at the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, and Development of 3D Silicon Sensors for Fu |
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| Presenter: | Andrew Gentry (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday August 24, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Magnetic fields and radio-gamma connection in 3C345 |
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| Presenter: | Jan Roeder, MPIfR Bonn | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday August 25, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Understanding Stellar Explosions: A Problem for the World’s Most Powerful Computers |
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| Presenter: | Bronson Messer (ORNL) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday August 29, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Flavor Instabilities and Collective Neutrino Oscillations |
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| Presenter: | Huaiyu Duan (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday August 30, 2023
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
One Hundred Years After Heisenberg: Discovering the World of Simultaneous Measurements of Noncommuting Observables (part 1 of 2) |
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| Presenter: | Carlton M. Caves (UNM) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday August 31, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
One Hundred Years After Heisenberg: Discovering the World of Simultaneous Measurements of Noncommuting Observables (part 2 of 2) |
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| Presenter: | Carlton M. Caves (UNM) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Tuesday September 5, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Theory and experiment for precise neutrino physics |
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| Presenter: | Oleksandr Tomalak (LANL) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday September 7, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
New Limits on Short GRBs from Radio Observations |
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| Presenter: | Sarah Chastain, UNM | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Quantum computation for materials in extreme conditions |
| Presenter: | Andrew D. Baczewski (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday September 14, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Binary Stellar Mass Black Holes in AGN Disks as Possible LIGO Sources |
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| Presenter: | Hui Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Principle-based formulations of quantum theory |
| Presenter: | Howard N. Barnum | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday September 15, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The NANOGrav 15-year Data Release: Evidence for Gravitational Waves from Radio Pulsar Timing |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Timothy Dolch (Hillsdale College/Eureka Scientific) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday September 19, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
The SPLENDOR experiment - Search for Particles of Light Dark Matter with Narrow-Gap Semiconductors |
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| Presenter: | Aparajita Mazumdar (LANL) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
| Host: | David Camarena | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday September 22, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
First-Passage Processes in Physics, Biology, and Beyond |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Sid Redner (Santa Fe Institute) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday September 26, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Interesting Isomers - From classic nuclear physics to dark matter - |
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| Presenter: | Ralph Massarczyk (LANL) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
| Host: | David Camarena | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday September 27, 2023
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Matchgate shadows for fermionic quantum simulation |
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| Presenter: | Kianna Wan (Stanford, Google AI) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Thursday September 28, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Character Phase Estimation |
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| Presenter: | Kevin Young (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday September 29, 2023
| 10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Understanding the Nature of Pulsars and Characterizing Propagation Effects using Pulsar Timing |
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| Presenter: | Pratik Kumar | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 10:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Understanding the Nature of Pulsars and Characterizing Propagation Effects using Pulsar Timing |
| Presenter: | Pratik Kumar, UNM | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Nonequilibrium statistical physics in living systems: The role of energy dissipation for biological functions |
| Presenter: | Dr. Yuhai Tu (IBM Watson Research Center) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Saturday September 30, 2023
| 2:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Distinguished Professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae Memorial |
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| Presenter: | Department Faculty, Staff, and students | |
| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / news.unm.edu/ news/ unm-department-of-physics-and-astronomy-mourns-the-loss-of-distinguished-professor-mansoor-sheik-bahae | |
| Host: | Richard Rand | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/Sep-30-MSB.pdf | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Thursday October 5, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A Brief History of Measuring Solar Magnetic Fields |
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| Presenter: | Carl Henney (AFRL) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlström | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Saturday October 14, 2023
| 9:15 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Annular Eclipse |
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| Presenter: | The Sun and the Moon | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / solarsystem.nasa.gov/ eclipses/ 2023/ oct-14-annular/ where-when/ | |
| Location: | Albuquerque | |
Friday October 20, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Dt Ingo Tews (LANL) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Huaiyu (Mike) Duan | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Thursday October 26, 2023
| 4:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
25th Annual SQuInT Workshop |
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| Presenter: | Coming soon | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / squint.unm.edu/ | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday October 27, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Kevin Cahill (UNM) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Richard Rand | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday November 3, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Radioactive atoms and molecules for precision measurements |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Andrew Jayich (UC San Diego) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday November 10, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Krister Shalm (NIST) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday November 17, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday December 1, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Carlton Caves (UNM) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday December 8, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
TBA |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Rob Carey (Boston University) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
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