9.00 - 9.15	Welcome and Opening Remarks
9.15 - 9.45	Prof. Arash Mafi The joy of being a physicist: a personal perspective
9.45 - 10.45	1st Oral session
	9.45 - 10.00	Zachary Castillo, UNM Viability of integrating Op-Amps for event detection in time projection chambers
	10.00 - 10.15	Patrick Brown, UNM Dark matter as probe of the very early universe
	10.15 - 10.30	Samuel Montgomery, NM Tech Ionized hydrogen survey of nearby spiral galaxies
	10.30 - 10.45	Veronica Dike, UNM Detecting pulsar polarization below100MHz with the LWA
10.45 - 11.00	Break
11.00 - 11.45	2nd Oral session
	11.00 - 11.15	Lauren Zundel, UNM Spatially resolved optical sensing using graphene nanodisk arrays
	11.15 - 11.30	Amy Lili Soudachanh, UNM Effect of doping concentrations of p-GaAs onohmic contacts
	11.30 - 11.45	Montie Avery, UNM Numerical and asymptotic methods in pattern forming systems
11.45 - 13.30	Lunch and barrel implosion (in the lobby of the P&A department)
13.30 - 15.30	Lab Tours Lidke Lab, Becerra Lab, Sheik-Bahae Lab, and Center for Advanced Research Computing
15.30 - 16.30	Poster session
	Brady Spears, UNM The Arecibo HI Zone of Avoidance Survey
	Nicholas Huntoon, UNM Local absorption for plasmon-induced hot carrier generation
	Christian Roberts, UNM Two approaches to evanescent illumination for microscopy applications
	Veronica Dike, UNM Cross-correlating radiation belt electron flux and substorm activity
	Ryan Dunagin, UNM What lies beneath the dunes?
16.30 - 17.00	Concluding remarks and awards
18.00 - 20.00	Dinner at Church Street Café
20.00 - 21.00	Observing at the campus observatory

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