Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Past Colloquia Spring 2018
NOTE: All colloquia will be held on THURSDAY at 3:30 PM in Rm. 119 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Title of Talk | Speaker | Speaker's Institution | Host |
| Jan. 25 | R-Process Nucleosynthesis and Short-Lived Radioactivities in the Early Solar System | Clemson University | Jeff Blackmon | |
| Feb. 1 | Good timing: Exploiting Entanglement for Secure Clock Synchronization |
University of Texas at Austin |
Jonathan Dowling | |
| Feb. 8 | Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS): Doing Big Physics with Small Neutrino Detectors | North Carolina Central University | Jeff Blackmon | |
| Feb. 15 | Nuclear Astrophysics in the New Era of Multi-messenger Astronomy | Florida State University | Jeff Blackmon | |
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Feb. 20 (Special colloquium, Tuesday) |
Multiphoton Quantum Interference: Pushing the Limits of Quantum Photonic Technologies |
National Institute Standards and Technology |
Mark Wilde | |
| Feb. 22 | Multi-messenger signals from merging neutron stars | Stockholm University | Peter Diener | |
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March 1 |
Understanding Massive Stellar Death: Predictive Simulation of Core-collapse Supernovae | Michigan State University | Manos Chatzopoulos | |
| March 8 | Deriving loop quantum cosmology from diffeomorphism invariance | Florida Atlantic University | Ivan Agullo | |
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March 13 (Special colloquium, Tuesday) |
On Superposition, Interference and Feynman Paths | Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India | Ravi Rau | |
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March 16 (Hearne Eminent Lecture, Friday
at Union Ballroom)
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What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? about Quantum Mechanics |
Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy University of New Mexico Director of UNM's Center for Quantum Information and Control |
Mark Wilde | |
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March 20 (Special colloquium, Tuesday) |
Light for Quantum communication: Narrowband, entangled photon pairs | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Mark Wilde | |
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March 22 |
Helical molecules in flatland: chiral recognition, spin-filtering and molecular machines | University of Zurich | Jiandi Zhang | |
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March 27 (Special colloquium, Tuesday) |
Quantum Technology Race | University of Bristol, UK | Mark Wilde | |
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March 29 |
Spring Break | |||
| April 5 | An Uncooperative Universe: Large Scale Anomalies in the CMB | Case Western University | Ivan Agullo | |
| April 12 | Theory and Simulation of Turbulence via Computer | University of Arizona | Manos Chatzopoulos | |
| April 19 | Black Holes in Globular Clusters | Texas Tech University | Rob Hynes | |
| April 26 | The Microphysics of the GW170817 Kilonova | University of Notre Dame | Scott Marley | |