UNM Physics Day 2023

Welcome to the University of New Mexico Physics Day 2023 organized by the Physics and Astronomy department at UNM.

  • Francis-Yan Cyr-RacineOral and poster presentations by undergraduate students
  • Plenary talk by Assistant Professor Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine
  • Awards for the best oral and poster presentations
  • Coffee breaks, lunch, and dinner for all attendees

Please join us at the Physics and Astronomy Department Building, 210 Yale NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Saturday, April 15!

All presentations will be in Room 1160. Posters will be in the Lobby. Lunch and physics demo will be in the corridor. 

See the event photos.

Program

10:00-10:15Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:15-11:00Plenary Talk by Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, My long journey towards understanding the Universe
11:00-14:00Oral Presentation Session
11:00 - 11:20Michael Bess
Atmospheric Characterization of Super-Earth 55 Cancri e with JWST
11:20 - 11:40Stephanie Hansen
SiO Maser Dependency on the Circumstellar Shell in AGB Stars
11:40 - 12:00Simon Matin
Radio Frequency Interference at the South Pole's Dark Sector
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
 13:00-13:20Andrew Gibson
R&D for the Migdal Search
13:20-13:40Tristan Jackson Larkin
Machine Learning and the Migdal Search
13:40-14:00Emilio Pérez de Juan
Thermal effects in microresonators
14:00-14:30Physics Demo
14:30-15:30Poster session
15:30-16:00Break
16:00-16:30Concluding remarks and awards