UNM Physics Day 2025
Welcome to the University of New Mexico Physics Day 2025 organized by the Physics and Astronomy department at UNM.
Congratulations to the student winners
- Drew Gibson
- Sol Samuels
- Benicio Gutierrez
Physics Day 2025 Program
Time: Saturday, April 19, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Venue: 1100 Physics, Astronomy, and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (PAÍS), 210 Yale Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
Registration Desk: Sara Pezzaioli and Ethan Sloan
| Saturday Morning Session | Chair: Jeremiah Dacpano | |
| 8:45am | Breakfast | |
| 9:15 – 9:20 am | Welcome | Rich Rand |
| 9:20 – 10:00 am | Quantum 2.0: Opportunity, Hype, or Just Plain Fun? | Niklas Muller |
| Honors Thesis Talks | ||
| 10:00 – 10:15 am | Cosmological Primordial Perturbation Modes | Graham Byrd |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Exploring Primordial Black Holes as Probes for Early Cosmological History | Alexis Craig |
| 10:30 – 10:45 am | Using Neural Network Tools for Fast Point Spread Function Convolutions | Joel Gates |
| 10:45 – 11:00 am | Deep learning-based keypoint detection for electron recoil vertex identification and trajectory reconstruction | Stephanie Paiva-Flynn |
| 11:00 – 11:15 am | Break | Chair: Ethan Sloan |
| 11:15 – 11:30 am | LWA Swarm: Unlocking the Cosmos with Interferometry | Sara Pezzaioli |
| 11:30 – 11:45 am | Precise modeling of the B_s^0 meson invariant mass distribution from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC | Luis Flores-Sanchez |
| 11:45 – 12:00 pm | Radial Density Encoding of Molecular Environments: Neural Networks and Spherical DFT | Sol Samuels |
| 12:00 – 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 12:30 – 1:00 pm | Physics Demonstrations | Hatem Babaa |
| Saturday Afternoon Session Honors Thesis and Rayburn Awardees | Chair: Gabe Sidebottom | |
| 1:00 – 1:15 pm | When Darkness Conducts: Rethinking Dark Matter and the Cosmos Fernando | Garcia Cortez |
| 1:15 – 1:30 pm | Electronegative Gas Doping to Improve Energy Resolution in Time Projection Chamber Detectors | Drew Gibson |
| 1:30 – 1:45 pm | Exploring Generalized Cosmological Expansion Histories with Differentiable Likelihoods | Benicio Gutierrez |
| 1:45 – 2:00 pm | Resolving the Entropy Minimum Paradox of the Chapman-Jouguet theory of Detonation | Ethan Sloan |
| 2:00 – 2:45 pm | Posters and Afternoon Break | |
| 2:45pm | Closing Remarks and Awards | Chair: Rouzbeh Allahverdi |
Ground floor of PAIS building. All talks will be in room 1100.
