UNM Physics Day 2026
Physics Day 2025 was held Saturday, 8:45 am – 2:30 pm, April 25, 2025 and was organized by the Physics and Astronomy department at UNM.
Plenary talk by Diana Dragomir.
Registration Desk: Jordan Atkinson
See the printed program (.pdf)
See the event photo gallery.
Physics Day 2026 Program
Saturday Morning Session | Chair: Gabriel Sidebottom | |
| 8:45 am | Breakfast | |
| 9:15 – 9:20 am | Welcome | Rich Rand |
| 9:20 – 10:00 am | Dreaming of other worlds | Diana Dragomir |
| Contributed Talks | ||
| 10:00 – 10:20 am | Finding Exoplanet Transits with Machine Learning | Allison Shaver |
| 10:20 – 10:40 am | Measurements of Radiation Effects in DC-coupled Low Gain Avalanche Detectors | Seth Medina |
| 10:40 – 11:00 am | Break | Chair: Jordan Atkinson |
| 11:00 – 11:20 am | TCAD Simulation and Optimization of Silicon Pixel Detectors for High Energy Physics Applications | Olivia Hass (UNM) |
| 11:20 – 11:40 am | LWA Swarm: Unlocking the Cosmos with Interferometry | Sara Pezzaioli (UNM) |
| 11:40 – 12:00 pm | LWA instrumentation | Jacob Grosso (UNM) |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch and Demos | |
Saturday Afternoon Session | Chair: Jordan Atkinson | |
| 1:00 – 1:20 pm | Characterizing the Precipitable Water Vapor of Microwave Background the Atmosphere at Cosmic Observatory Sites | Yifu Chen (UNM) |
| 1:20 –1:40 pm | Characterizing Trends in Radio Frequency Interference at CMB Observatory Sites | Tristan Eggenberger (UNM) |
| 1:40 - 2:00 pm | How Friction Shapes Force Chains in Granular Piles, A Network Approach | Tatiana Flanagan (CNM) |
| 2:00 - 2:15 pm | Break | |
| 2:15 - 2:30 pm | Closing Remarks and Awards | Chair: Rouzbeh Allahverdi |
Ground floor of PAIS building room 1100.
