Events Calendar
Events for the Spring 2023 semester
Wednesday January 18, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | The Quantum Computational Utility of Symmetry-Protected Topological Order: From Near-Term Advantages to Universal Measurement-Based Quantum Computing |
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| Presenter: | Austin Daniel | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Saturday January 21, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Deployable cold atom interferometry sensor platforms based on diffractive optics and integrated photonics |
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| Presenter: | Jongmin Lee, Sandia National Labs | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Tuesday January 24, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | NUPAC Seminar |
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| Presenter: | Kevin Cahill, UNM | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | Zoom link: https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 98102444842 Passcode: NuPAC | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Wednesday January 25, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Friday January 27, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Observations of the seismic wavefield as a window into the dynamics of the deep Earth |
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| Presenter: | Maureen Long, Yale | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / web.microsoftstream.com/ channel/ c80102d8-dbf8-45c5-adce-4fea2677ac92 | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Tuesday January 31, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Experimental Limits on Cosmic-Ray Boosted Dark Matter |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday February 1, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Friday February 3, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) - Science and Telescope Design |
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| Presenter: | Bryan Butler (NRAO) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Gregory Taylor | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 7, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Discovering Unanticipated New Physics with Machine Learning |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Ben Nachman of LBNL | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday February 8, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Thursday February 9, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | SETI and the COSMIC VLA |
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| Presenter: | Chenoa Tremblay and Savin Shynu Varghese from the SETI Institute | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlstrom | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 14, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Utilizing a newly revealed symmetry of observables with fundamental constant variation to resolve the Hubble-Lemaitre Tension |
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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 | |
Wednesday February 15, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Thursday February 16, 2023
| 6:30 pm | Title: | Altering nature with gene drives: We can. But should we? |
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| Presenter: | James P. Collins is Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment at Arizona State University. He studies host-pathogen biology and its relationship to the decline and extinction of species, the intellectual and institutional factors that have shaped Ecology's development as a discipline, as well as Ecological Ethics. Professor Collins is the author of numerous peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and is co-author with Dr. Martha Crump of Extinction in Our Times: Global Amphibian Decline (Oxford University Press). Dr. Collins served as chair of the Board on Life Sciences of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Chair of the Board of the American Association of Colleges & Universities; and President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | David Dunlap | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Saturday February 18, 2023
| 6:30 pm | Title: | Roving with Perseverance: A New Mexico Field Geologist Goes to Mars |
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| Presenter: |
Larry S. Crumpler, Ph.D.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Research Curator of Volcanology and Space Sciences |
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| Web Site: | http:/ / events.constantcontact.com/ register/ event?llr=tl5km7uab&oeidk=a07ejmgpw4jabce83b3 | |
| Location: | New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science | |
Tuesday February 21, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Neutrinos from Charm: a Forward Physics Facility at the LHC and Atmospheric Neutrinos |
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| Presenter: | Mary Hall Reno (University of Iowa) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday February 22, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Thursday February 23, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Deep radio observations of galaxy clusters with MeerKATDeep radio observations of galaxy clusters with MeerKAT |
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| Presenter: | Viral Parekh (NRAO) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlstrom | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday February 24, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The NASA Psyche Mission: An Electric Journey to a Metal World |
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| Presenter: |
Dr Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University Lindy Elkins-Tanton, recipient of the 2020 Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship, is the lead of the NASA Psyche mission; Arizona State University Vice President of the Interplanetary Initiative; and co-founder of Beagle Learning, a tech company training and measuring collaborative problem-solving and critical thinking. Her research concerns terrestrial planetary evolution. Elkins-Tanton received her academic degrees from MIT. She worked at Brown University, MIT, and the Carnegie Institution for Science before moving to Arizona State University. Asteroid (8252) Elkins-Tanton is named for her. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 2022 William Morrow published her memoir, A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman. |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Tuesday February 28, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Search for New Physics in B0(s)→ μ+μ- decays, Development of Particle Detection Technology, and Assessment of Radiation Damage in the ATLAS Pixel Detector |
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| Presenter: |
Hijas Farook
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico |
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| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / physics.unm.edu/ pandaweb/ events/ flyers/ Hijas_Farook_NuPAC_Abstract.pdf | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday March 1, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Friday March 3, 2023
| 4:00 pm | Title: | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea with a Fleet of Seismic Robots |
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| Presenter: | Frederik J Simons, Princeton | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / earthscopeoceans.org/ | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Tuesday March 7, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Study of the rare decays Β0(s) → μ+ μ- in ATLAS, new simulation techniques for ATLAS events, and development of fast timing detectors for future particle physics experiments |
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| Presenter: | Josef Sorenson | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / physics.unm.edu/ pandaweb/ events/ flyers/ Joey_Sorenson.pdf | |
| Host: | Sally Seidel | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday March 8, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
| 6:00 pm | Title: | Energy Storage to Support Renewable Generation |
| Presenter: |
Joydeep Mitra, Michigan State University
Joydeep Mitra (Ph.D., FIEEE) is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Director of the Energy Reliability & Security (ERiSe) Laboratory, and Senior Faculty Associate at the Institute of Public Utilities. Prof. Mitra is known for his contributions to power system reliability analysis and reliability-based planning. He has over 250 publications and patents in the power systems area; he is co-author of the book, "Electric Power Grid Reliability Evaluation: Models and Methods," and of IEEE Standard 762, a standard on reliability reporting. He is recipient of the 2019 IEEE-PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award and the 2020 PMAPS Merit Award. Prof. Mitra serves as Chair of the IEEE PES Fellow Evaluation Committee and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. In the past he has served as Chair of the IEEE-PES Analytic Methods for Power Systems Committee, Chair of several IEEE-PES Subcommittees, and as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Power Engineering Letters, and for the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Prof. Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE-PES Distinguished Lecturer. |
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| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Host: | David Dunlap | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday March 10, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Introduction to subcycle quantum optics and applications |
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| Presenter: | Denis Seletskiy is an Associate Professor of Engineering Physics and a holder of Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in "Ultrafast and Quantum Photonics" at Polytechnique Montreal. He received his PhD from the Optical Sciences and Engineering program at the University of New Mexico in 2010, followed by a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at Air Force Research Laboratories (2010-2012) and a 5-year junior group leader position and Marie Curie Zukuntskolleg Research fellowship at the University of Konstanz, Germany. In 2017 Seletskiy established the femtoQ laboratory at Polytechnique, which is focused on advancing theory, laser technology, and metrology protocols for time-domain quantum photonics. Since October 2022, he is leading an EU-CAN consortium in Mid-Infrared Quantum Technologies for Sensing (MIRAQLS). | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Mansoor Sheik-Bahae | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Thursday March 16, 2023
| 6:30 pm | Title: | Good Vibrations: The Interplay of Music and Physics |
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| Presenter: |
Laurie McNeil is the Bernard Gray Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She earned an A.B. in Chemistry and Physics from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After two years as an IBM Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT she joined the faculty at UNC-CH in 1984. She serves as a Deputy Editor at the Journal of Applied Physics. Prof. McNeil is a materials physicist who uses optical spectroscopy to investigate the properties of semiconductors and insulators. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has worked throughout her career to enhance the representation and success of women in physics. Together with a colleague in the Department of Music at UNC-CH she teaches a course on the physics of musical instruments. |
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| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | David Dunlap | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 21, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Tracking Magma: Using Geochemistry to Investigate Transport Processes in the Lithosphere |
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| Presenter: | Kellen Malone (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday March 22, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Tuesday March 28, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Neutrino Oscillations, an aperture to look through Beyond Standard Model (BSM) Physics |
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| Presenter: | Tousif Reza (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Wednesday March 29, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Thursday March 30, 2023
| 2:00 pm | Title: | Finding Fermi's Missing Gamma-Ray Pulsars |
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| Presenter: | Seth Bruzewski (UNM) | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Ylva Pihlstrom | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday March 31, 2023
| 4:00 pm | Title: | Rock friction, from the lab to Discrete Element Method simulations to earthquakes |
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| Presenter: | Allan Rubin, Princeton | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Mousumi Roy | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Wednesday April 5, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
| 7:00 pm | Title: | Spring Demo Show |
| Presenter: | Students for Physics Society and Faculty and Staff of the UNM Physics and Astronomy Department | |
| Series: | Outreach | |
| Host: | David Dunlap | |
| File/Video Recording: | https://physics.unm.edu/pandaweb/events/flyers/Spring_2023_Demo_Show.pdf | |
| Location: | Room 103, Regener Hall | |
Friday April 7, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBD |
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| Presenter: | Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Saturday April 8, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Fault-tolerance with Bosonic Qubits |
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| Presenter: | Shruti Puri, Yale | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Tuesday April 11, 2023
| 1:00 pm | Title: | An Optically Pumped Comagnetometer for High- Sensitivity RF Detection without Magnetic Shielding |
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| Presenter: | Jonathan Bainbridge | |
| Series: | Thesis and Dissertation Defenses | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Wednesday April 12, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Friday April 14, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Non-destructive 3D pathology with open-top light-sheet (OTLS) microscopy |
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| Presenter: | Jonathan Liu, University of Washington | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 92709699696 | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | Via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Saturday April 15, 2023
| 8:00 am | Title: | Physics Day 2023 |
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| Presenter: | Faculty Host: Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Web Site: | http:/ / physics.unm.edu/ day2023/ | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | Multiple rooms, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Harnessing Piezoelectricity in Novel Microsystems for Classical and Quantum Information Processing |
| Presenter: | Matt Eichenfield, Sandia National Labs | |
| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Wednesday April 19, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Friday April 21, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: | IceCube and the birth of high-energy neutrino astrophysics |
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| Presenter: | Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | John Matthews | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Wednesday April 26, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Friday April 28, 2023
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Ignatios Antoniadis, LPTHE Sorbonne Paris | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Emil Mottola | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Wednesday May 3, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar |
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| Presenter: | TBD | |
| Series: | Advanced Biophotonics Seminar | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / chakra.unm.edu/ courses/ 2023-spring-advanced-biophotonics-seminar.html | |
| Host: | Tonmoy Chakraborty | |
| Location: | PAIS-2210, PAIS | |
Friday May 5, 2023
| 3:00 pm | Title: | TBD |
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| Presenter: |
Paul J. Steinhardt,
Albert Einstein Professor in Science Professor of Physics Director, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science |
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| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 92709699696 | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | PAIS 1100 and via Zoom. Please take the Satisfaction Survey | |
Friday May 12, 2023
| 12:00 pm | Title: | Center for Teaching Award Ceremony |
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| Presenter: | Aeron Haynie | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
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