UNM Physics Day 2024

Welcome to the University of New Mexico Physics Day 2024 organized by the Physics and Astronomy department at UNM.

We will have:

• Oral and poster presentations by undergraduate students
• Plenary talk by Professor Mousumi Roy
• Awards for the best oral and poster presentations
• Breakfast and lunch for all attendees

All presentations will be in Room 1100. Posters will be in the Lobby.

See the event photos.

Physics Day 2024 Program

Time: Saturday, April 13, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Venue: 1100 Physics, Astronomy, and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (PAÍS), 210 Yale Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106

Saturday Morning Session Chair: Greg Taylor
9:00 am	Breakfast
9:40 – 9:50 am	Welcome	Dave Dunlap
9:50 – 10:40 am	Have Physics, will Travel: my Journey from Everest to the Center of the Earth	Mousumi Roy
Honor's Thesis Talks
10:40 - 11:00 am	Proteins Under Pressure: Simulating Membrane Proteins with Repulsive Interactions	Jonathan Mills
11:00 - 11:20 am	Predicting Parylene Film Growth with Computational Fluid Dynamics	Kevin Baca
11:20 - 11:40 am	Study of 3D and Low Gain Avalanche Detectors for Particle Physics Experiments	Jordan Hernandez
11:40 - 12:00 pm	Study of repetition rate of OFCs through EO modulation	Emilio Pérez de Juan
12:00 - 12:30 pm	Lunch
12:30 - 1:00 pm	Physics Demonstrations	Hatem Babaa
Saturday Afternoon Session Chair: Diana Dragomir
1:00 - 1:40 pm	Poster Session
	Poster 1: Identifying Trends in the Radio Frequency Environment of the South Pole's Dark Sector	Stephen Luttrell
	Poster 2: Development of a Microwave Chain for Low-Phase Noise Resonance Control of Cesium Atoms	Christian Pereira
Rayburn Award Talks
1:40 - 2:00 pm	Exploring Physics Beyond the Standard Model through the Early Universe Cosmology	Fernando Garcia Cortez
2:00 - 2:20 pm	CS2/CF4 and Noble Gas Measurement Analysis to Aid in the Search for the Migdal Effect	Andrew Gibson
2:20 - 2:40 pm	Molecules as Neural Networks	Sol Samuels
2:40 - 3:00 pm	Afternoon Break
3:00 pm	Closing Remarks and Awards