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Events for the Fall 2009 semester

July 7, 2009

10:00 am	Title:	Statistical Mechanics of Transport in Disordered Lattices and Reaction-Diffusion Systems
	Presenter:	Ziya Kalay
	Series:	Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

1:30 pm	Title:	Weak Ergodicity Breaking
	Presenter:	Prof. Eli Barkai from the Department of Physics at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
	Series:	Consortium of the Americas Seminars
	Host:	V.M. Kenkre
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

July 17, 2009

3:30 pm	Title:	Modeling the dynamics of VEGF binding on the cell membrane
	Presenter:	Prof. Adam Halasz: Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University.
	Series:	Consortium of the Americas Seminars
	Host:	V.M. Kenkre
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

July 22, 2009

10:00 am	Title:	Optical Control and Quantum Computing with Ultracold Alkaline-Earth-like Atoms
	Presenter:	Iris Reichenbach
	Series:	Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

July 27, 2009

7:30 pm	Title:	Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture
	Presenter:	Jeff Hawkins, Founder, Numenta
	Series:	J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee
	Web Site:	http:/ / www.jromc.org
	Location:	Duane Smith Auditorium, Los Alamos

August 3, 2009

10:00 am	Title:	Parameter Estimation, Model Reduction and Quantum Filtering
	Presenter:	Bradley Chase
	Series:	Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

August 27, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Radio emission from Fermi AGN and the Radio-gamma-ray Relation
	Presenter:	Greg Taylor (UNM)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Host:	Gregory Taylor
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

3:30 pm	Title:	Quantum search with decoherence
	Presenter:	Charles Hill, Department of Physics, University of Melbourne
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Web Site:	http:/ / www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/ researcher/ person192149.html
	Host:	Carlton Caves
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

August 28, 2009

4:00 pm	Title:	The Physical Basis for Climate Change Science
	Presenter:	Dr. David Gutzler, Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences Dept., UNM
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Web Site:	http:/ / epswww.unm.edu/ facstaff/ gutzler/ home.htm
	Host:	Dinesh Loomba
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

August 31, 2009

1:30 pm	Title:	Random walks of moving organisms: Brownian motion or Lévy flights?
	Presenter:	Professor Gandhimohan M. Viswanathan Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brasil
	Series:	Consortium of the Americas Seminars
	Web Site:	http:/ / www.sciencedirect.com/ science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B75DC-4S5FJG2-1&_user=1550512&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000053660&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1550512&md5=beb30440f19a8423894c04d3e00450e8
	Host:	V.M. Kenkre
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

September 1, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Selected Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory
	Presenter:	Bernard Becker (UNM)
	Series:	Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
	Host:	John Matthews
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

September 3, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Polarization Patterns in Pulsar Radio Emission
	Presenter:	Mark McKinnon (NRAO)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

September 4, 2009

4:00 pm	Title:	Surveying the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky with Milagro and HAWC
	Presenter:	Dr. Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Host:	John Matthews
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

September 8, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Core-Collapse Supernovae: New Advances in Probing Nuclear Physics
	Presenter:	Dr. Christopher Fryer, Los alamos National Laboratory
	Series:	Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

September 10, 2009

3:30 pm	Title:	Impact of classical electronics constraints on a solid-state logical qubit memory
	Presenter:	Andrew J. Landahl, Sandia National Laboratories
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Host:	Carlton Caves
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

September 11, 2009

4:00 pm	Title:	Gauge/Gravity Duality
	Presenter:	Dr. Joseph Polchinski (KITP, Santa Barbara)
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Host:	Rouzbeh Allahverdi
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

September 15, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Interacting fermions as a source of Dark Energ
	Presenter:	Dr. Gerard Stephenson (UNM)
	Series:	Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
	Host:	Rouzbeh Allahverdi
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

7:30 pm	Title:	Adventures in the Simple and the Complex - A Tribute to Murray Gell-Mann
	Presenter:	Chris Llewellyn-Smith Mark Pagel Daniel Schrag
	Web Site:	http:/ / www.santafe.edu/ events/ abstract/ 1498
	Location:	James A. Little Theater

September 17, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Science with the first Long Wavelength Array Station
	Presenter:	Lee Rickard (UNM)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Host:	Gregory Taylor
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

September 18, 2009

4:00 pm	Title:	A System Design Space For Biochemical Systems
	Presenter:	Dr. Michael Savageau (University of California, Davis)
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Host:	Kevin Cahill
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

September 21, 2009

1:30 pm	Title:	"Explosive pulsed power, principles and applications to physics research."
	Presenter:	Dr. Doug Tasker, Los Alamos National Laboratories
	Series:	Consortium of the Americas Seminars
	Host:	V.M. Kenkre
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

September 24, 2009

10:30 am	Title:	High Electric Field Deuterium Ion Source for Neutron Generators
	Presenter:	Birk Reichenbach
	Series:	Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

2:00 pm	Title:	Understanding the Fundamental Limits of Ground-based Astronomical Imaging
	Presenter:	Doug Hope (UNM)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Host:	Sudhakar Prasad
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

3:30 pm	Title:	Engineering ion traps for quantum computing
	Presenter:	Daniel Stick, Sandia National Laboratories
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Host:	Carlton Caves
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

September 25, 2009

4:00 pm	Title:	Double Beta Decay: Is the neutrino mass within reach?
	Presenter:	Dr. Steve Elliott, Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Host:	Dinesh Loomba
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

September 28, 2009

1:30 pm	Title:	“Converting Space into Time: How to Order the Disordered.”
	Presenter:	V. M. Kenkre Physics Department University of New Mexico
	Series:	Consortium of the Americas Seminars
	Host:	V.M. Kenkre
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

September 29, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Milagro Sky-Mapping Techniques
	Presenter:	Dr. John Pretz (LANL)
	Series:	Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
	Host:	John Matthews
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

October 1, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	The Spin Down of an Accretion-Powered millisecond Pulsar: a Missing Link in Neutron Star Evolution
	Presenter:	Jake Hartman (NRL)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Host:	Gregory Taylor
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

3:30 pm	Title:	Quantum satisfiability
	Presenter:	Cris Moore, University of New Mexico
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Host:	Carlton Caves
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

October 2, 2009

4:00 pm	Title:	Measurement Astrophysics (MAP) vs. Earth's Evil Atmosphere
	Presenter:	Dr. John T. McGraw, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UNM
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

October 6, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	The DEAP and the CLEAN search
	Presenter:	Dr. Franco Giuliani (UNM)
	Series:	Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
	Host:	Dinesh Loomba
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

October 7, 2009

10:00 am	Title:	Investigating magnetic fields in nearby galaxies using current and future radio telescopes
	Presenter:	George Heald (ASTRON)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Host:	Richard Rand
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

October 8, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	A Search for French Units
	Presenter:	Pete Zimmer (UNM)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Host:	Gregory Taylor
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

3:30 pm	Title:	Reversing time and space in classical and quantum optics
	Presenter:	Mankei Tsang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Host:	Carlton Caves
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

October 9, 2009

4:00 pm	Title:	Single-Molecule Microscopy and Spectroscopy at the CINT Gateway
	Presenter:	Dr. Peter Goodwin (LANL)
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Host:	Steven Koch
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

October 12, 2009

1:30 pm	Title:	Coalescence Dynamics of Brownian Emulsion Droplets
	Presenter:	Professor Dimiter Petsev from the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, and Center for Biomedical Engineering at UNM.
	Series:	Consortium of the Americas Seminars
	Host:	V.M. Kenkre
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

October 13, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Prospects for SUSY After 1 Year of LHC
	Presenter:	Dr. Howard Baer (Oklahoma University)
	Series:	Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
	Host:	Michael Gold
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

October 15, 2009

5:00 pm	Title:	High altitude adaptation in andean birds
	Presenter:	Christopher C. Witt, Biology Department, UNM
	Series:	Sigma Xi Public Talk
	Host:	Harjit Ahluwalia
	Location:	Room G, UNM Conference Center

October 20, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Optical Charging Issues in Advanced LIGO
	Presenter:	Dr. Dennis Ugolini (Trinity University)
	Series:	Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
	Host:	Dinesh Loomba
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

October 22, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Two Large Spaceborne Telescopes, Two Distinct Missions
	Presenter:	Tony Hull (L3 Integrated Optical Systems)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Host:	John McGraw
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

3:30 pm	Title:	Quantum key distribution: Longer ranges and stronger security with superconducting detectors and decoy states
	Presenter:	Richard Hughes, Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Host:	Carlton Caves
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

October 23, 2009

4:00 pm	Title:	Where Did The Matter in The Universe Come From?
	Presenter:	Dr. Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Host:	Rouzbeh Allahverdi
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

October 27, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Supernova Neutrino Oscillations at Late Times
	Presenter:	Dr. Alex Friedland (LANL)
	Series:	Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
	Host:	Rouzbeh Allahverdi
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

October 29, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Molecular Gas and the Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies
	Presenter:	Lisa Young (NMT)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Host:	Gregory Taylor
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

3:30 pm	Title:	Entangled photons for long distance quantum communication
	Presenter:	Steve Rolston, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and NIST Gaithersburg
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Host:	Ivan Deutsch
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

October 30, 2009

12:00 pm	Title:	Galaxy Zoo: Passive Red Spirals
	Presenter:	Laura Zschaechner
	Series:	Astrophysics Journal Club
	Web Site:	http:/ / arxiv.org/ abs/ 0910.4113
	Location:	Room 1131, Physics & Astronomy

4:00 pm	Title:	The Current State of Gravitational Wave Detection
	Presenter:	Dr. Rainer Weiss (MIT, VIRGO/LIGO Collaboration)
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Host:	Dinesh Loomba
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

November 2, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Magnetotransport and Absorption in Double Quantum Well and Double Quantum Wire Structures
	Presenter:	Christian Morath
	Series:	Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

November 5, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	TBD
	Presenter:	Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Host:	Gregory Taylor
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

2:00 pm	Title:	Prospects for Indirect Detection of Dark Matter with IceCube
	Presenter:	Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Host:	Gregory Taylor
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

November 6, 2009

4:00 pm	Title:	How difficult would it be to detect the Cosmic Neutrino Background?
	Presenter:	Dr. Petr Vogel, California Institute of Technology
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Host:	Dinesh Loomba
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

November 9, 2009

1:30 pm	Title:	Strong Mobility in Disordered Systems
	Presenter:	Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
	Series:	Consortium of the Americas Seminars
	Host:	V.M. Kenkre
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

November 10, 2009

1:00 pm	Title:	Hunting for the WIMP: Current and Future Prospects
	Presenter:	Dr. Rupak Mahapatra (Texas A&M University)
	Series:	Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
	Host:	Dinesh Loomba
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

November 12, 2009

2:00 pm	Title:	Science Instrument Deployment at the Magdalena Ridge Observatory
	Presenter:	Colby Jurgenson (NMT)
	Series:	Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
	Host:	Gregory Taylor
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

3:30 pm	Title:	Ultrafast quantum state tomography
	Presenter:	Steven T. Flammia, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Host:	Carlton Caves
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

November 13, 2009

12:15 pm	Title:	Searching for Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter With Pulsar Timing Arrays
	Presenter:	Steve Tremblay
	Series:	Astrophysics Journal Club
	Web Site:	http:/ / ajc.phys.unm.edu/
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

4:00 pm	Title:	Sounding the Internal Rotation Profiles of Stars With Seismic Waves
	Presenter:	Dr. Gilles Fontaine (Universite de Montreal)
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Host:	John McGraw
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

November 19, 2009

3:30 pm	Title:	Magnetoencephalography with atomic magnetometers
	Presenter:	Cort Johnson, Sandia National Laboratories
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Host:	Carlton Caves
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

November 20, 2009

12:15 pm	Title:	Theory of Accretion Disks I; Angular Momentum Transport Processes
	Presenter:	Eric Miller
	Series:	Astrophysics Journal Club
	Web Site:	http:/ / ajc.phys.unm.edu/
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

4:00 pm	Title:	Femtosecond Laser Technologies for EUV and X-ray sources
	Presenter:	Dr. Franz X. Kärtner (MIT)
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Host:	Jean-Claude Diels
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

November 24, 2009

1:00 pm	Title:	Measuring the speed resolution of extensive air showers at the Southern Pierre Auger Observatory
	Presenter:	Kathleen Gesterling (UNM)
	Series:	Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
	Host:	John Matthews
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

December 2, 2009

3:00 pm	Title:	Enhancing Communication Protocols with Quantum Information
	Presenter:	Patrick R. Rice
	Series:	Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

December 3, 2009

3:30 pm	Title:	Quantum control of mesoscopic collective spin states
	Presenter:	Ivan H. Deutsch, University of New Mexico
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Host:	Carlton Caves
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

December 4, 2009

12:15 pm	Title:	The Type Ia Supernova SNLS-03D3bb From a Super-Chandrasekhar-mass White Dwarf Star
	Presenter:	Paige Romero
	Series:	Astrophysics Journal Club
	Location:	Room 190, Physics & Astronomy

4:00 pm	Title:	Cooling a mechanical resonator close to the quantum ground state
	Presenter:	Dr. Keith Schwab (Caltech)
	Series:	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
	Host:	Carlton Caves
	Location:	Room 125, Dane Smith Hall

December 10, 2009

3:30 pm	Title:	The twist and the spin, and other tales of quantum control
	Presenter:	Poul S. Jessen, University of Arizona
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Host:	Carlton Caves
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

December 17, 2009

3:30 pm	Title:	TBA
	Presenter:	Alexey Gorshkov, Harvard University
	Series:	CQuIC Seminars
	Host:	Ivan Deutsch
	Location:	Room 184, Physics & Astronomy

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2009 UNM Calendar

Jan 19: Martin Luther King Day
Jan 20: Spring Session Begins
Mar 15–Mar 22: Spring Break
May 11–May 16: Spring Final Exams
May 16: Spring Session Ends
May 25: Memorial Day
Jun 8: Summer Session Begins
Jul 3: Independence Day
Aug 1: Summer Session Ends
Aug 24: Fall Semester Begins
Sep 7: Labor Day
Oct 15–Oct 16: Fall Break
Nov 26–Nov 27: Thanksgiving
Dec 14–Dec 18: Fall Final Exams
Dec 19: Fall Semester Ends
Dec 24–Jan 1: Winter Break

2010 UNM Calendar

Jan 18: Martin Luther King Day
Mar 14–Mar 21: Spring Break
May 11–May 15: Spring Final Exams
May 31: Memorial Day
Jun 7: Summer Session Begins
Jul 5: Independence Day
Jul 31: Summer Session Ends
Aug 23: Fall Semester Begins
Sep 6: Labor Day
Oct 14–Oct 15: Fall Break
Nov 25–Nov 26: Thanksgiving
Dec 13–Dec 17: Fall Final Exams
Dec 17: Fall Semester Ends
Dec 24–Jan 1: Winter Break

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