Events Calendar
Events for February 2024
Thursday February 1, 2024
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Post-Merger Galaxies and (Still) Enigmatic Supermassive Black Hole Binaries |
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| Presenter: | Greg Walsh | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Diana Dragomir | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Friday February 2, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A Challenge to the Standard Cosmological Model |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ rth4a | |
| Host: | Rouzbeh Allahverdi | |
| Location: | Zoom | |
Friday February 9, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Evolution of Circumstellar Disks and Planet Formation |
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| Presenter: | Dr. Wladimir Lyra (NMSU) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ ra29e | |
| Host: | Diana Dragomir | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 13, 2024
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Study of the rare decays B0(S) →μ-μ+ with ATLAS and development of detectors for future particle physics experiments |
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| Presenter: | Joey Sorenson | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
| Host: | David Camarena | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday February 15, 2024
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
IR implications of quantum gravity |
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| Presenter: | Alek Bedroya (Harvard) | |
| Host: | David Camarena | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 6:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Gravitational Waves: The Discovery that Won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Presenter: | Lynn Cominsky is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Sonoma State University (SSU), where she has been on the faculty for over 35 years. She is an author on over 225 research papers in refereed journals, and is the founder and director of SSU’s EdEon STEM Learning (formerly known as the Education and Public Outreach Group), which develops educational materials for NASA, NSF and the US Department of Education. In 1993, Prof. Cominsky was named SSU’s Outstanding Professor, and the California Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Current projects include NASA’s Neurodiversity Network (N3), which aims to develop resources and internships for teens on the autism spectrum and the development of an integrated ninth[1]grade CSTEM curriculum, branded as Learning by Making (LbyM), that has been funded by US Department of Education for the past decade. | |
| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Host: | David Dunlap | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Friday February 16, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Dark Matter, Cosmic Background Radiation, and the Birth of the First Stars |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Tracy Slatyer (MIT) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ 57ibk | |
| Host: | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 20, 2024
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Vacuum Energy & Condensate Stars in the Effective Theory of Low Energy Gravity |
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| Presenter: | Emil Mottola (UNM) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
| Host: | David Camarena | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday February 22, 2024
| 11:00 am | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Broad-tunable microwave-to-optical conversion in a room-temperature atomic vapor |
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| Presenter: |
Benjamin Smith from Lindsay LeBlanc’s group at the University of Alberta.
Benjamin is a PhD candidate working on experimental atomic physics and coherent microwave-to-optical conversion based on atomic vapors and microwave cavities for quantum networking. |
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| Series: | Special Talk | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Construction and Commissioning of an LWA-Swarm Prototype: LWA – North Arm |
| Presenter: | Craig Taylor | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Diana Dragomir | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
“Quantum Biology”: how nature harnesses quantum processes to function optimally, and how might we control such quantum processes to therapeutic and tech advantage |
| Presenter: |
Clarice Aiello:
Dr. Clarice D. Aiello is a quantum engineer interested in how quantum physics informs biology at the nanoscale. She is an expert on nanosensors harnessing room-temperature quantum effects in noisy environments. Clarice received her B.S. in Physics from the Ecole Polytechnique; her M.Phil. in Physics from the University of Cambridge, Trinity College; and her Ph.D. from MIT in Electrical Engineering. She also held postdoctoral appointments in Bioengineering at Stanford, and in Chemistry at Berkeley. Two months before the pandemic, she joined UCLA, where she led the Quantum Biology Tech (QuBiT) Lab. Since Nov 2023, she is the CEO of a startup unsurprisingly named Quantum Biology Tech (QuBiT) Lab, and is writing the first-ever textbook about Quantum Biology. |
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| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / cquic.unm.edu/ events/ cquic-seminar/ index.html | |
| Host: | Francisco Becerra Chavez | |
| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
Friday February 23, 2024
| 3:30 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Observations of Compact Objects with the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), and Upcoming and Proposed Balloon-Borne Astroparticle Experiments |
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| Presenter: | Prof. Henric Krawczynski (Washington Univ) | |
| Series: | Physics and Astronomy Colloquium | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / goto.unm.edu/ vt35x | |
| Host: | Dinesh Loomba | |
| Location: | PAIS-1100, PAIS | |
Tuesday February 27, 2024
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
Search for Baryon Number Violation in 130Te with CUORE |
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| Presenter: | Vivek Sharma (Virginia Tech) | |
| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Web Site: | https:/ / unm.zoom.us/ j/ 94141126387 | |
| Host: | David Camarena | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
Thursday February 29, 2024
| 2:00 pm | Title: (click on Title for Abstract) |
A New View of Molecular Gas within High-redshift Cluster Galaxies |
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| Presenter: | Allison Noble | |
| Series: | Center for Astrophysics Research and Technologies Seminar Series | |
| Host: | Diana Dragomir | |
| Location: | PAIS-3205, PAIS | |
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