Events Calendar
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
For Fall 2021, all UNM Physics and Astronomy Colloquia will take place on Friday afternoon from 3:30 to 5 pm either in the Colloquium room, 1100 PAÍS, or remotely via Zoom. If you would like to attend any Physics and Astronomy events online, please contact the front office at 505 277-2616 for registration and passcode information.
The Colloquia series is a weekly seminar that brings speakers from academia, national labs and industry to discuss a wide range of research topics. The series is free and all are welcome to attend.
Friday August 27, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The Search for Habitable Worlds around Nearby Stars |
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| Presenter: | Daniel Apai, The University of Arizona | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Diana Dragomir | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday September 3, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | A Dark Baryon Explanation of The Neutron Decay Anomaly |
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| Presenter: | Benjamin Grinstein, UCSD | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / youtu.be/ P4ci-UGEwcw | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday September 10, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Scalable semiconductor quantum systems |
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| 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 | |
Friday September 17, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Quantum and Classical Time Crystals |
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| Presenter: | Norman Yao, UC Berekely | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Ivan Deutsch | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday September 24, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Black Hole Thermodynamics: Then and Now |
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| Presenter: | Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday October 1, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | Iran Nuclear Deal |
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| Presenter: | Matthias Perdekamp, U. Illinois | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Paul Schwoebel | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday October 8, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | Meredith MacGregor, University of Colorado Boulder | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday October 22, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | The third cosmological paradigm |
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| 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: | Zoom | |
Friday October 29, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBD |
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| Presenter: | Tom Maccarone, Texas Tech | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
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 | |
Friday November 12, 2021
| 4:00 pm | Title: | TBD |
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| Presenter: | Saul Teukolsky, Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics at Cornell University | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Host: | Kevin Cahill | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
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: | Zoom | |
Friday December 3, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | |
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| Presenter: | Lynn Matthews, MIT | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday December 10, 2021
| 3:30 pm | Title: | TBA |
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| Presenter: | David Schuster, U. Chicago | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
If you need an auxiliary aid or service to attend any Department of Physics and Astronomy event, please contact the department (phone: 505 277-2616; email: