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News from the Chair Easwar Anand Narayanan has been awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship
Easwar Narayanan
UNM Physics graduate student Easwar Anand Narayanan has been awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship to participate in a research program offered by the Embassy of France.
The Chateaubriand Fellowship grant supports outstanding PhD students from U.S. institutions who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in France
Easwar will relocate for 9 months to the Irene-Joliot Curie Laboratory in Paris where he will develop new detectors for operation at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. These detectors will be used to search for new physical processes that may transform our understanding of elementary particles, the building blocks of nature.
Easwar was also selected for the Sigma Xi Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award last year .
Congratulations, Easwar!
Research Highlights Ghostly 'mirror world' might be cause of cosmic controversy
This theory might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology today -- predictions about the rate of expansion of the universe that don't quite match our most precise local measurements.
See the article in the UNM Newsroom here .
News from the Chair 2022 Convocation
The Physics and Astronomy Department celebrated the first in-person Convocation in two years, and the first at the PAÍS building.
Our convocation speaker was David L. Hayes, who received a BS Physics in 2005 and MS Physics in 2007 from UNM. David is now at Honeywell Quantum Solutions where he is the technical manager for the theory and architecture team which is working on a trapped-ion quantum computer. See the talk here .
News from the Chair P&A Welcomes Three New Staff Members
We recently welcomed three new members of the department staff!
Anca-Monia Constantinescu is settling in as our new Advanced Lab Coordinator. She has a wealth of experience with all kinds of lab equipment and is ready to help our education mission.
Lisa-Marie Johnson is our new Accountant. With over 26 years of accounting experience, Lisa Marie has been with UNM for seven years, previously with the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology department and the Student Financial Aid Office. She is excited to be join P&A and is getting familiar with our staff and faculty.
Our new Journeyman Prototype Machinist, Joseph Reichert , comes to us with many years of experience from Los Alamos National Laboratory. He earned his Juris Doctor in 1978 from UNM School of Law and graduated with a BA in History/Philosophy from Tulane University.
News from the Chair Physics Day 2022
On Saturday we held our first Physics Day in three years, and it was a great success. Congratulations to the winners of the best oral presentation award, Will Crockett and Graham Byrd, and the best poster award, Emilio Perez De Juan!
News from the Chair Job Openings at UNM Physics & Astronomy Department
Postdoctoral fellow position in optical imaging instrument development Chakraborty Lab
Postdoctoral fellow position in High Performance Computing Long Wavelength Array . You will work with C++/CUDA/Python in developing and testing the streaming framework for data processing.
