Spring 2025 Quantum Photonics seminar
Spring 2025 Quantum Photonics seminar
Spring 2025: Quantum Photonics seminar series (PHYS 500-004, CHEM 625, ECE 595)
Instructor: Victor Acosta, vmacosta@unm.edu and the QPAQT core faculty.
Syllabus: This website serves as your course syllabus.
Class meets: Every other Friday, 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm, PAIS 1140, In person only There will also be research talks given by 2nd-yr PhD students during May 3-16. They will be announced later in the semester.The schedule is available on this webpage, but treat this information as tentative, as updates are not always entered in immediately..
Overview: This seminar course is a series of informal, faculty-led discussions surrounding research and professional development in disciplines relevant to Quantum Photonics. This is not your typical colloquium-style seminar course. The speakers in this course will be QPAQT faculty, all QPAQT students and faculty will attend, and the floor will be open for interactive Q/A and comments. Anticipated learning outcomes include:
1. Students will be exposed to a wide range of topics relevant to quantum photonics.
2. Students will have the chance to develop professional skills such as science communication, teamwork, science funding, navigating PhD programs, and more.
3. Students will learn (by example) how to deliver a coherent oral presentation.
Requisites: Students in QPAQT are required to take the course for credit. However, all grad students interested in Quantum Photonics are welcome! Textbook: None.
Final exam: None.
Grading: Registered students will receive a grade of CR in this 1.0 credit hours class when they have successfully attended 80% or more of the scheduled seminars. Attendance will be monitored each class via a sign-in sheet. Attendance is defined as arriving by 2:05 pm and staying for the full lecture.
Seminar schedule
January 24, 2025
2:00 - 2:50 pm, PAIS 1140.
QPAQT Core faculty: Victor Acosta, Susan Atlas, Viktoriia Babicheva, Ganesh Balakrishnan, Elohim Becerra, Tara Drake, Terefe Habteyes, Keith Lidke
"Quantum Photonics research at UNM: Five minute overviews"
February 7, 2025
2-2:50p, PAIS 1140.
Prof. Terefe Habteyes
UNM, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Center for High Technology Materials
"How to think"
February 21, 2025
2-2:50p, PAIS 1140.
Prof. Viktoriia Babicheva
UNM, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
"Navigating oral exams and other requirements for PhD programs"
March 7, 2025
2-2:50p, PAIS 1140
Prof. Elohim Becerra
University of New Mexico, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Center for Quantum Information and Control
"A prelude to quantum technologies "
March 28, 2025
2-2:50p, PAIS 1140
Prof. Susan Atlas
University of New Mexico, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Center for Quantum Information and Control
"How to read a research paper (and why you should)"
April 11, 2025
2-2:50p, PAIS 1140
Prof. Ganesh Balakrishnan
University of New Mexico, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Center for High Technology Materials
"Standing on the shoulders of giants: the role of effective mentoring in research"
April 25, 2025
2-2:50p, PAIS 1140
Prof. Tara Drake
University of New Mexico, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Center for High Technology Materials
"How to make a poster for a science/engineering conference"
May 9, 2025
2-2:50p, PAIS 1140
Prof. Keith Lidke
University of New Mexico, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
"How science funding works"
May 16
2-3:15p, PAIS 1160
2:00-2:30: Ameen Zerrad
Grad student, University of New Mexico, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Center for High Technology Materials
"Broadband light generation in nonlinear silicon nitride microresonators"
2:30-3:00: Spencer Dimitroff
Grad student, University of New Mexico, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
“Learning optical states with quantum computers”