UNM Physics Day 2025
Physics Day 2025 was held April 19, 2025 and was organized by the Physics and Astronomy department at UNM.
Congratulations to the oral and poster presentation 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.
