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Events for the Spring 2009 semester

January 8, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  Ionospheric calibration of low frequency radio interferometric observations using SPAM
 Presenter:  Huib Intema (Leiden)
 Series:  Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

January 22, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  Gravity tests with cold atom interferometers
 Presenter:  Grant Biedermann, Sandia National Laboratories
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 

January 23, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  Measurement Science for Earth and Space Remote Sensing
 Presenter:  Dr. Gerald T. Fraser
Physics Laboratory
NIST, Gaithersburg
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / physics.nist.gov/ Divisions/ Div844/ staff/ Gp3/ fraser.html
 Host:  John McGraw
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

January 26, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  VERITAS and Observations of Supernova Remnants at TeV Energies
 Presenter:  Mark Theiling (Clemson)
 Series:  Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

January 27, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  Physics and Astrophysics of Particles and Unparticles
 Presenter:  Alex Friedland (LANL)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

January 30, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  The Next Spectroscopy: New Elementary Particles at the Large Hadron Collider
 Presenter:  Dr. Michael Peskin
SLAC, Stanford University
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / www.slac.stanford.edu/ ~mpeskin/
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

February 2, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  The Pulsar in the Crab Nebula
 Presenter:  Jean Eilek (NMT)
 Series:  Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 
1:30 pm  Title:  Semiclassical coherent state propagator close to phase-space caustics
 Presenter:  Dr. Alexandre Dias Ribeiro, Departamento de Fisica -- Universidade Federal do Parana
 Series:  Consortium of the Americas Seminars
 Host:  V.M. Kenkre
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

February 3, 2009

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

February 5, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  The Symmetry Conjecture
 Presenter:  David Bacon, University of Washington
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 

February 6, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  The Race to Build a Quantum Computer
 Presenter:  Dr. Dave Bacon
Department of Physics
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / abstract.cs.washington.edu/ ~dabacon/ index.php/ User:Dabacon
 Host:  Andrew Landahl
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

February 9, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  Star formation and dust obscuration at z~2: galaxies at the dawn of downsizing
 Presenter:  Maurilio Pannella (NRAO)
 Series:  Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

February 10, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  Precision electroweak physics with light quarks
 Presenter:  Vincenzo Cirigliano (LANL)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

February 12, 2009

5:00 pm  Title:  Frankenstein: How physics, literature, and theatre led to a scientific success
 Presenter:  Emily A. Tobey, Professor
University of Texas, Dallas, TX.
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room G, UNM Conference Center
 

February 13, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  Tracking Single Quantum Dots in Three Dimensions: Following Cell Receptor Traffic and Membrane Topology
 Presenter:  Dr. James Werner
LANL/Center for Integrative Technologies
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Host:  Steven Koch
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

February 17, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  Nuclear Reaction Data for Nuclear Technologies and Applications
 Presenter:  Toshihiko Kawano (LANL)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

February 19, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  Cluster-type entangled coherent states and losses in Cavity QED
 Presenter:  Prof. José Antonio Roversi from Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.
 Series:  Consortium of the Americas Seminars
 Host:  V.M. Kenkre
 Location:  Room 4, Physics & Astronomy
 

February 20, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  Nature's Own Cosmic Telescopes: Strong Gravitational Lenses as Probes of Galaxies and Dark Matter
 Presenter:  Dr. Leonidas (Lexi) Moustakas
JPL and Caltech
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / www.its.caltech.edu/ ~leonidas/
 Host:  John McGraw
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

February 23, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  VLBA Observations of HI in the Archetype Compact Symmetric Object B2352+495
 Presenter:  Esteban Araya (UNM/NRAO)
 Series:  Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

February 24, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  Dark matter in the light of PAMELA
 Presenter:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

February 26, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  Watching the birth and death of a superfluid
 Presenter:  Brian Anderson, University of Arizona
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 

February 27, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  An Introduction to Satellite-based Cloud Remote Sensing
 Presenter:  Prof. Shaima Nasiri
Department of Atmopsheric Sciences
Texas A&M University
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / atmo.tamu.edu/ profile/ Snasiri
 Host:  Pete Zimmer
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

March 3, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  The Fermi Many body Problem: Learning from Cold Atoms
 Presenter:  Michael Forbes (LANL)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

March 5, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  Complementarity-Inspired Measures of Classical and Separable Quantum Correlations
 Presenter:  Trace Tessier, UNM
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 

March 6, 2009

12:00 pm  Title:  Development of Laser Diagnostics in Turbulent Pool Fires and Low-Pressure Plasmas
 Presenter:  Dr. Kraig Frederickson
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque
 Series:  OSA Student Chapter Talk
 Web Site:    www.unm.edu/ osa/
 Location:  CHTM Room 101
 
4:00 pm  Title:  Do Fundamental Constants Change over Time?
 Presenter:  Prof. Keith Olive
William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute
University of Minnesota
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / www.tpi.umn.edu/ olive/
 Host:  Bernard Becker
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

March 9, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  A look at Complex Objects from the VLBA Imaging and Polarization Survey
 Presenter:  Steven Tremblay (UNM)
 Series:  Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

March 10, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  Two Problems of Some Gravity: Black Holes and Cosmic Acceleration
 Presenter:  Emil Mottola (LANL)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

March 12, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  Interacting Anyonic Fermions in a Two-Body Color Code Model
 Presenter:  Hector Bombin, MIT
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 
5:00 pm  Title:  How Did Petroleum Source Rocks Accummulate?
 Presenter:  Philip A. MyersProfessor (Emeritus)
Marine Geology & Geochemistry Program
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room G, UNM Conference Center
 

March 13, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  Single Molecule Imaging of the Dynamic Organization of Cellular Membranes
 Presenter:  Prof. Ken Ritchie
Department of Physics
Purdue University
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / www.physics.purdue.edu/ people/ faculty/ ritchie.shtml
 Host:  Steven Koch
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

March 23, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  AGN Feedback and Origin of Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Clusters
 Presenter:  Hui Li (LANL)
 Series:  Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

March 24, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  The center vortex model for nonperturbative strong interaction dynamics
 Presenter:  Michael Engelhardt (NMSU)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Gerard Stephenson
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

March 25, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  Imaging With and Without Time Resolution Using Femtosecond Laser Pulses
 Presenter:  Xuejun Liu
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  Room 1131, Physics & Astronomy
 

March 26, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  Fault-tolerant quantum computation with color codes
 Presenter:  Andrew Landahl, UNM
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 

March 27, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  Dark Energy
 Presenter:  Professor Rocky Kolb
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Chicago
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / astro.uchicago.edu/ ~rocky/
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

March 30, 2009

10:00 am  Title:  Analysis and Modeling of Phase Noise in LOCSET and the AFRL High Power Fibert Test Bed
 Presenter:  Donald Seeley
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials
 
1:30 pm  Title:  Modeling soft matter with colloids
 Presenter:  Prof. Ramón Castañeda Priego from Instituto de Fisica de la Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico.
 Series:  Consortium of the Americas Seminars
 Host:  V.M. Kenkre
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

March 31, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  Fundamental Physics from the Sky
 Presenter:  Stefano Profumo (UCSC)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Franco Giuliani
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 2, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  Creating Cat-States in a Nanoresonator using Continuous Measurement
 Presenter:  Kurt Jacobs, U Mass Boston
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 
3:30 pm  Title:  Thermodynamics, structure and density-dependent interactions of charged colloidal dispersions in the weak screening regime
 Presenter:  Prof. Ramón Castañeda Priego from Instituto de Fisica de la Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico.
 Series:  Consortium of the Americas Seminars
 Host:  V.M. Kenkre
 Location:  Room 4, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 3, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  Recent Results from Auger
 Presenter:  Prof. John Matthews
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of New Mexico
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / nmcpp.phys.unm.edu/ johnm/
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 
4:00 pm  Title:  Why Are We Still Studying Cosmic Rays?
 Presenter:  Prof. John Matthews
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of New Mexico
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / nmcpp.phys.unm.edu/ johnm/
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

April 6, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  Observational Signatures of Black Hole Mergers
 Presenter:  Greg Taylor (UNM)
 Series:  Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 7, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  Early Results from the Fermi Telescope
 Presenter:  Eduardo do Couto e Silva (SLAC/KIPAC)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 9, 2009

1:00 pm  Title:  TBA
 Presenter:  Michael Biercuk, Georgia Tech.
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 
3:30 pm  Title:  Optimized Dynamical Decoupling in a Model Quantum Memory
 Presenter:  Michael Biercuk, NIST
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 
5:00 pm  Title:  Trends in Solar Energy and Solar Photovoltaics
 Presenter:  Betty Prince, CEO of New Energy Strategies International.
She has 35 years experience in the semiconductor industry with Texas Instruments, N.V. Philips, Motorola, R.C.A., and Fairchild in various engineering and management positions. She has authored several technical books in semiconductor area and numerous technical papers. Betty is a IEEE Senior Member and IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer on Solar Technology. Also, she has served on the Technical Advisory Boards of IEEE Spectrum magazine and several companies including: Cavendish Kinetics, Emerging Memory Technologies and Silicon Access Networks; she was a Director of Mosaid Technologies for many years. Betty holds patents in the memory, processor and interface areas.
 Series:  Sigma Xi Public Talk
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room G, UNM Conference Center
 

April 10, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  Four wave mixing in a diamond configuration: experiments with rubidium vapor
 Presenter:  Luis Orozco, JQI, U. Maryland
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 
4:00 pm  Title:  Solar Interior Seismology
 Presenter:  Prof. Jason Jackiewicz
Department of Astronomy
New Mexico State University
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / astronomy.nmsu.edu/ jasonj/
 Host:  Harjit Ahluwalia
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

April 13, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  The Long Wavelength Array: Architecture and First Station
 Presenter:  Joe Craig (UNM)
 Series:  Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 14, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  New physics at the LHC: What and when?
 Presenter:  Martin Schmaltz (Boston University/LBL)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 15, 2009

10:00 am  Title:  Experimental Study of Infrared Filaments under Different Initial Conditions
 Presenter:  Daniel Mirell
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Host:  Jean-Claude Diels
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 16, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  Quantum algorithms based on span programs: The general adversary bound is nearly tight for quantum query complexity
 Presenter:  Ben Reichardt, U. Waterloo
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 17, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  Young Stellar Disks - Gaps, Edges, and Planet Formation
 Presenter:  Prof. Michael Sitko
Space Science Institute and
Department of Physics
University of Cincinnati
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / www.physics.uc.edu/ ~sitko/ home.html
 Host:  John McGraw
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

April 20, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  Follow up and Characterization of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids using the MRO 2.4m Telescope
 Presenter:  Eileen Ryan (NMT)
 Series:  Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 21, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  Direct Detection Dark Matter Experiments - CDMS, SuperCDMS and Beyond
 Presenter:  Rupak Mahapatra (Texas A&M)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 23, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  TBA
 Presenter:  Steven Rolston, University of Maryland
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 24, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  Magnetically Induced Ferroelectric Order
 Presenter:  Prof. Gavin Lawes
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Wayne State University
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / www.physics.wayne.edu/ ~glawes/
 Host:  Steven Koch
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

April 27, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  Predicting Politics One Issue at a Time
 Presenter:  Prof. Christopher Butler from the Department of Political Science at UNM.
 Series:  Consortium of the Americas Seminars
 Host:  V.M. Kenkre
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 28, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  An Exact Calculation of Temperature Equilibration in a Hot Plasma
 Presenter:  Robert Singleton (LANL)
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

April 30, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  Two aligned dipoles under spherically symmetric harmonic confinement
 Presenter:  Krittika Kanjilal, Washington State University
 Series:  CQuIC Seminars
 Location:  Room 184, Physics & Astronomy
 

May 1, 2009

12:00 pm  Title:  Student Ballooning to the Edge of Space
 Presenter:  Dr. T. Gregory Guzik, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, LSU
 Series:  Special Seminar
 Web Site:    http:/ / www.phys.lsu.edu/ dept/ people/ guzik.html
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 
4:00 pm  Title:  A Bump from the ATIC: Observations of High Energy Cosmic Ray Electrons
 Presenter:  Professor T. Gregory Guzik
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Louisiana State University
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / www.phys.lsu.edu/ dept/ people/ guzik.html
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

May 4, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  Next-Generation Cosmology: Is Theory up to the Task?
 Presenter:  Salman Habib (LANL)
 Series:  Institute for Astrophysics Seminar Series
 Host:  Gregory Taylor
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

May 5, 2009

2:00 pm  Title:  Searches for Dark Matter with IceCube
 Presenter:  Carsten Rott, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ohio State University
 Series:  Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
 Host:  Dinesh Loomba
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

May 8, 2009

4:00 pm  Title:  String Theory: Quantum Mechanics and Gravity - The Start of a Beautiful Relationship?
 Presenter:  Prof. Cliff Burgess
Department of Physics and Astronomy
McMaster University and
Perimeter Institute
 Series:  Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
 Web Site:    http:/ / www.physics.mcmaster.ca/ ~cburges/
 Host:  Rouzbeh Allahverdi
 Location:  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
 

May 12, 2009

3:30 pm  Title:  Acrylic Attenuation Measurements for the MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Detector
 Presenter:  Nguyen S. Phan
 Series:  Honors Thesis Presentation
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

May 14, 2009

2:30 pm  Title:  Theoretical Modeling of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Effects and Suppression Techniques in High Power Fiber Amplifiers
 Presenter:  Michael Zmuda
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Host:  Jean-Claude Diels
 Location:  Room 148, Center for High Tech Materials
 

May 18, 2009

8:30 am  Title:  Energy for the 21st Century Conference
 Presenter:  Speaker List:


Massoud Amin
University of Minnesota
David Bader
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Paul Barbara
University of Texas
Robert Blankenship
Washington University in St. Louis
Brian Clark
Schlumberger Oilfield Services
Charles Dismukes
Princeton UniversityRajan Gupta
Los Alamos National Lab
Michael Himmel
DOE BioEnergy Science Center & NRELP
Marija Ilic
Carnegie Mellon University
Prashant Kamat
University of Notre Dame
Melinda Kimble
United Nations Foundation
Victor Klimov
Los Alamos National Lab
Michael Ladisch
Purdue University
Paul Langan
Los Alamos National Lab
Robert McGrath
National Renewable Energy Lab
Tom Meyer
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Vienna University of Technology
Michael Nastasi
Los Alamos National Lab
Arthur Nozik
National Renewable Energy Lab
Franklin Orr
Stanford University
William Provine
DuPont
Trey Sato
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
Richard Sayre
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Blake Simmons
DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute & SNL
Finis Southworth
AREVA NP, Inc.
 Web Site:    http:/ / cnls.lanl.gov/ annual29
 Location:  La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe
 

May 29, 2009

11:00 am  Title:  Applications of Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Science to Ecological Phenomena
 Presenter:  Luis Felipe Gonzalez-Palacio
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

June 2, 2009

10:00 am  Title:  Quantum Control of Cold Alkali Atoms
 Presenter:  Seth T. Merkel
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  Room 190, Physics & Astronomy
 

June 15, 2009

3:00 pm  Title:  Southwest Optics Student Conference
 Presenter:  OSA & SPIE UNM student chapter
 Web Site:    http:/ / www.unm.edu/ osa/ swsc/ index.html
 Location:  UNM/CHTM/Hilton
 

June 26, 2009

10:00 am  Title:  Uncovering the Origins of Spiral Structure through the Measurement of Pattern Speeds and Their Radial Variation
 Presenter:  Sharon E. Meidt
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  Room 1131, Physics & Astronomy
 
1:00 pm  Title:  Studies of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
 Presenter:  John D. Hague
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  Room 1131, Physics & Astronomy
 
1:00 pm  Title:  Studies of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
 Presenter:  John D. Hague
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  Room 1131, Physics & Astronomy
 

June 30, 2009

10:30 am  Title:  On the Sources of Astrometric Anomalous Refraction
 Presenter:  M. Suzanne Taylor
 Series:  Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
 Location:  Room 1131, Physics & Astronomy
 

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