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<div><font size="4" class="">As promised we will have another REYES talk on Tuesday by Zohreh Davoudi. </font></div>
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<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font size="4" class="">Date and time: <b class="">Tuesday March 30, 2021, 3:00pm </b></font></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font size="4" class="">Speaker: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Zohreh
Davoudi, Ph.D</strong></font></div>
<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Assistant Professor and RIKEN Fellow</span></font></div>
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<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font size="4" class=""><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">University of Maryland, College Park</span></font></div>
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<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font size="4" class="">Title: <span class=""><b class="">Toward Simulating Laws of Nature...and its Implications for a Simulated Universe!</b></span></font></div>
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<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font size="4" class="">Abstract: The complexities of the visible Universe, from stars and galaxies, down to biological organisms and molecules and atoms, arise from a few fundamental laws -- laws that mostly have a quantum-mechanical
and relativistic theoretical description. Can one set out these physical laws in a numerical simulation and build out the entire universe given enough computing power? Remarkably, scientists are making exciting progress in achieving this goal, although only
small patches of matter have been yet simulated on our largest supercomputers. Quantum computation or other revolutionary advances in computing may expedite the progress in the coming decades and open new perspectives. I will highlight some of these activities
and the characteristics of such first-principle simulations of nature. Moreover, I will also take a more dramatic step to argue this progress might be in favor of the Simulation Hypothesis - the notion that the Universe itself is a numerical simulation! As
physicists, we are interested to know how to test this hypothesis in our experiments and look for potential signatures, and I will point out a few ideas that are being proposed.</font></div>
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<div class="">On Mar 13, 2021, at 12:00 PM, Raul Briceno <<a href="mailto:rbriceno@jlab.org" class="">rbriceno@jlab.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">This month we have two REYES talks. The first one will be this Monday on NASA’s Mars mission. The second is on March 30th by Zohreh Davoudi. </div>
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<div class="">Zoom connection: <font color="#003057" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="https://odu.zoom.us/j/94198759574" class="">https://odu.zoom.us/j/94198759574</a></span></font> </div>
<div class="">Date and time: <b class="">Monday March 15, 2021, 3:00pm </b></div>
<div class="">Speaker: <b class="">Michelle Munk (</b><b class="">NASA)</b></div>
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<div class="">Title: <span class=""><b class="">Mars Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL): Past, Present and Future</b></span></div>
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<div class="">Abstract: On February 18, NASA successfully landed the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater, on the surface of Mars. The most exciting part of the journey is the last “seven minutes of terror” – when the rover has to travel through the Mars atmosphere
to get safely to the surface. This talk will provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the system is designed, how entry, descent and landing at Mars has progressed over the decades, what’s special about the Perseverance mission, and what the future of Mars
landings might bring. Read all about the Mars 2020 mission here: <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance" class="">
https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance</a></div>
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<div class="">p.s. SAVE THE DATA for Zohreh Davoudi’s talk on March 30th: <a href="https://odu.edu/reyes/calendar/2021/3/reyes_.html" class="">https://odu.edu/reyes/calendar/2021/3/reyes_.html</a> </div>
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