UNM Physics Day 2017
Welcome to the University of New Mexico Physics Day 2017 organized by the Physics and Astronomy department at UNM.
- Location: Physics and Astronomy Department Building, 1919 Lomas NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Date: Saturday, April 8!
We will have:
Oral and poster presentations by undergraduate students from:
U of Az, NAU, Embry Riddle, NM Tech, NMSU, ASU, NMHU, and UNM- Tours of the Campus Observatory, different Research Labs, and the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC)
- Plenary talk by Prof. Arash Mafi from UNM
- Awards for the best presentations
- Lunch and dinner for all attendees!
Program
| 9.00 - 9.15 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| 9.15 - 9.45 | Prof. Arash Mafi The joy of being a physicist: a personal perspective | |
| 9.45 - 10.45 | 1st Oral session | |
| 9.45 - 10.00 | Zachary Castillo, UNM Viability of integrating Op-Amps for event detection in time projection chambers | |
| 10.00 - 10.15 | Patrick Brown, UNM Dark matter as probe of the very early universe | |
| 10.15 - 10.30 | Samuel Montgomery, NM Tech Ionized hydrogen survey of nearby spiral galaxies | |
| 10.30 - 10.45 | Veronica Dike, UNM Detecting pulsar polarization below100MHz with the LWA | |
| 10.45 - 11.00 | Break | |
| 11.00 - 11.45 | 2nd Oral session | |
| 11.00 - 11.15 | Lauren Zundel, UNM Spatially resolved optical sensing using graphene nanodisk arrays | |
| 11.15 - 11.30 | Amy Lili Soudachanh, UNM Effect of doping concentrations of p-GaAs onohmic contacts | |
| 11.30 - 11.45 | Montie Avery, UNM Numerical and asymptotic methods in pattern forming systems | |
| 11.45 - 13.30 | Lunch and barrel implosion (in the lobby of the P&A department) | |
| 13.30 - 15.30 | Lab Tours Lidke Lab, Becerra Lab, Sheik-Bahae Lab, and Center for Advanced Research Computing | |
| 15.30 - 16.30 | Poster session | |
| Brady Spears, UNM The Arecibo HI Zone of Avoidance Survey | ||
| Nicholas Huntoon, UNM Local absorption for plasmon-induced hot carrier generation | ||
| Christian Roberts, UNM Two approaches to evanescent illumination for microscopy applications | ||
| Veronica Dike, UNM Cross-correlating radiation belt electron flux and substorm activity | ||
| Ryan Dunagin, UNM What lies beneath the dunes? | ||
| 16.30 - 17.00 | Concluding remarks and awards | |
| 18.00 - 20.00 | Dinner at Church Street Café | |
| 20.00 - 21.00 | Observing at the campus observatory | |
