UNM Physics Day 2018
Welcome to the University of New Mexico Physics Day 2018 organized by the Physics and Astronomy department at UNM.
- Location: Physics and Astronomy Department Building, 1919 Lomas NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
- Date: Saturday, April 7!
We will have:
- Oral and poster presentations by undergraduate students.
- Tours of: the Campus Observatory, different Research Labs, and the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC).
- Plenary talk by Dr. Kate Brown, a UNM alumnus from Hamilton College.
- Awards for the best oral and poster presentations.
- Coffee breaks, lunch, and dinner for all attendees!
Plan to visit the poster presentation and attend the oral presentations. Come with questions!
Program
| 9.00 - 9.15 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| 9.15 - 9.45 | Prof. Kate Brown Sage Advice and a Series of Vignettes from a UNM Physics Alum | |
| 9.45 - 11:00 | 1st Oral session | |
| 9.45 - 10.00 | Patrick Brown Non‐Standard Cosmological Histories | |
| 10.00 - 10.15 | Kylar Greene Mira Variable Stars and SiO Masers | |
| 10.15 - 10.30 | Ryan Gibbons Shielding for Detecting Neutrino‐Less Double Beta Decay | |
| 10.30 - 10.45 | Daniel Puentes X-Ray Scattering and Reflectivity Studies | |
| 10.45 – 11.00 | Ryan Hamblin Characterization and Applications of the Nanoscale Structure of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers | |
| 11.00 – 11.15 | Break | |
| 11.15 – 12.30 | 2nd Oral session | |
| 11.00 - 11.15 | Lauren Zundel Flat Top Surface Plasmon Polariton Beams | |
| 11.15 - 11.30 | Amy Soudachanh Optical Measurements of SiN Coupled Ring Resonators for Optomechanical Gyroscopes | |
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Bryan Rubio‐Perez Engineering the Optical Properties of Aluminum Oxide | |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | John Keeney Optical Rogue Wave Generation in Dielectrics with Correlated Fluctuations of Refractive Index | |
| 12.15 – 12.30 | Asher May Extraordinary Enhancement of Dipole‐Forbidden Transitions Using Nanostructured Graphene | |
| 12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch and barrel implosion (in the lobby of the P&A department) | |
| 14.00 – 15.30 | Lab Tours Lidke Lab, Becerra Lab, Sheik-Bahae Lab, and Center for Advanced Research Computing | |
| 15.30 - 16.30 | Poster session | |
| Bradley Malko (NAU) Thermal Infrared Planetary Science Imager | ||
| Eric Putney Analysis of Diffusion of a Rhodium Adatomona Tungsten (111) Surface | ||
| Dilys Ruan Analysis of Diffusion of a Rhodium Adatomona Tungsten (111) Surface | ||
| Lauren Zundel Spatially Resolved Optical Sensing Using Graphene Nanodisk Arrays | ||
| Christian Roberts Probabilistic and Statistical Modeling of Nanoparticle Diffusion Processes | ||
| Bryan Rubio-Perez Engineering the Optical Properties of Aluminum Oxide | ||
| Brady Spears Computer Modeling of Subsurface Density Structures | ||
| Daniel Puentes Automation of a High Precision Stage For X-Ray Grazing Incidence Small-Angle Scattering (GI-SAXS) and Reflectivity (XR) Studies | ||
| 17.30 - 18.00 | Concluding remarks and awards | |
| 18.00 - 20.00 | Dinner (in the lobby of the P&A department) | |
| 20.00 - 21.00 | Observing at the campus observatory | |
