Event Archives
January
Detection and Generation of Single Photons
10 Years of Observing the (Mostly) Dark Side of the Universe with LIGO, the World’s Largest Quantum Sensor
Jan. 30, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
Isotopic Carbon & Oxygen Abundances in Cool Dwarf Stars: Implications for Galactic Chemical Evolution and Giant Exoplanet Formation
Jan. 22, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Ion Trapping – Integrating Technology and Beyond
Jan. 8, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 2540
Measurement of the Branching Ratio of a Neutral B meson to K-short Plus Two Muons Using ATLAS Data at Center-of-Mass Energy 13 TeV, and Development of Silicon Detectors for Future Particle Physics Experiments
Jan. 20, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Non-Abelian transport distinguishes three usually equivalent notions of entropy production
Jan. 20, 4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
PAIS 2540
Standard Model Effective Field Theory - Part I
Jan. 27, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
February
When innovative science intersects with the needs of public health and communities
Feb. 19, 5:00 PM
Physics, Astronomy, & Interdisciplinary Science (PAIS), 210 Yale Blvd NE Rm 1100

Intro to Photonics Experience courtesy of ThorLabs
Feb. 24, 12:00 AM -
4:00 PM
Yale Mall, west of PAIS, UNM Main Campus
Peering Inside the Proton
Feb. 6, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
No Colloquium Today (February 13)
Feb. 13, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
Rethinking Math Readiness for First-Year Physics and Engineering
Feb. 20, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
Solar System Observations: Recent Results from ALMA and the VLA
Feb. 27, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
Recent physics and detector studies at LANL for the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)
Feb. 17, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
A Search for New Physics in Decays of B Mesons to Muon Pairs, Characterization of Radiation Damage in Silicon Detectors at the Large Hadron Collider, and Development of New Particle Timing Technology
Feb. 24, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Using Experimental Petrology to Find Geochemically Habitable Exoplanets
Feb. 12, 2:00 PM -
3:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Standard Model Effective Field Theory - Part II
Feb. 3, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Nambu-Goldstone Bosons
Feb. 10, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Non-Markovian collective atom-photon interactions in waveguide QED
Feb. 5, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 2540
Does the path to quantum advantage lie in spin-boson quantum computers?
Feb. 12, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 2540
Tailoring Rydberg interactions for expanding quantum capabilities
Feb. 18, 11:00 AM -
12:00 PM
PAIS 2540
A resource theory of asynchronous quantum information processing
Feb. 26, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 2540
March
Assessing PFAS contamination levels and toxicity in the wildlife of Holloman Lake, New Mexico: Key Insights from Five Years of Research.
Mar. 26, 5:30 PM
Physics, Astronomy, & Interdisciplinary Science (PAIS), 210 Yale Blvd NE Rm 1100
Quantum systems and devices built of ultracold atoms and light
Mar. 6, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
No Colloquium this week due to Spring Break
Mar. 20, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
No Colloquium on March 13
Mar. 13, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
Precision tests of quantum electrodynamics through hydrogen spectroscopy and vacuum birefringence
Mar. 27, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
Hunting for Exotic Matter: How AI is Helping Our Search for the Strange Side of Quantum Physics
Mar. 3, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
How to Falsify String Theory at a Collider
Mar. 31, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model via Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Mar. 24, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Pebble accretion for Earth’s composition and water delivery
Mar. 5, 2:00 PM -
3:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and the BACoN Experiment
Mar. 10, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Cold-atom quantum simulation of geometric effects in materials
Mar. 5, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 2540
Search for New Physics in the Rare Decays of B0->mu+mu- and Development of High-Precision Timing Detectors
Mar. 9, 10:00 AM
PAIS 2540
Quantum control of qubits and qudits in neutral atom systems
Mar. 23, 3:15 PM
PAIS 2540
April
Spring Demo Show
Apr. 18, 12:00 PM -
1:00 PM
Regener Hall Auditorium Room 103
UNM Physics Day 2026
Apr. 25, 8:45 AM -
3:00 PM
PAIS 1100
Frequency-domain device physics for Error-corrected Photonic Integrated Qubits (EPIQ)
Apr. 2, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 2540
No Colloquium on April 3
Apr. 3, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
When Nuclear Power Goes Wrong: A Nuclear Engineer Reflects on Visits to Three Nuclear Accident Sites
Apr. 10, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
Dual-comb spectroscopy from terahertz to petahertz and beyond
Apr. 24, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
The quantum computers at Quantinuum
Apr. 17, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 1100
Optimizing Next Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments to Probe Inflation
Apr. 7, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
From Idealized Forecasts to Realistic Inference of Dark Matter Physics with Milky Way Satellites
Apr. 28, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
A Multi-Frequency Investigation of Compact Symmetric Objects
Apr. 2, 2:00 PM -
3:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Pathway to the Formation of Planetesimals in Early Solar Nebula by Turbulent Concentration
Apr. 9, 2:00 PM -
3:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Development of 4/5D detectors for near-future Higgs factories and nuclear physics experiments
Apr. 14, 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Stellar Pulsations and Observations from Space
Apr. 16, 2:00 PM -
3:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Remote Sensing Infrasound using a “Space Microphone”
Apr. 23, 2:00 PM -
3:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Interplanetary Scintillation with the Long Wavelength Array
Apr. 30, 2:00 PM -
3:00 PM
PAIS 3205
Implications of New Physics for Cosmology and Compact Objects
Apr. 21, 1:45 PM
PAIS 3205
A Quantum Phase Space Description of Local Noise in Atomic Ensembles (and applications to metrology)
Apr. 8, 4:00 PM
PAIS 2540
Information scrambling and the learning landscape of a quantum machine learning
Apr. 23, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 2540
Quantum simulation with tensor networks in two- and three- dimensions
Apr. 30, 3:30 PM -
4:30 PM
PAIS 2540
May
Department Convocation
May. 16, 12:00 PM -
2:00 PM
PAIS 1100 and Lobby

