Events Calendar
Events for February 2023
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 | |
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