Planetary habitability in the solar system and beyond
Stephen Kane (University of California, Riverside)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
September 5, 2025 3:30 PM
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SPLENDOR: a novel detector platform to search for light dark matter with narrow-gap semiconductors
Daniele Alves (LANL)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
September 9, 2025 2:00 PM
No Colloquium today (Sep. 12)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
September 12, 2025 3:30 PM
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Stephen T Boyd (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
September 16, 2025 2:00 PM
Particle Cosmology in the Southwest (PCS)
No Affiliation
September 18, 2025 12:00 AM
Optical lattice clocks: From Timekeepers to Spies of the Quantum Realm
Ana Maria Rey (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO )
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
September 19, 2025 3:30 PM
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Manoj Kaplinghat (UCI)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
September 23, 2025 2:00 PM
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Darcy Barron
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
September 26, 2025 3:30 PM
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Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
September 30, 2025 2:00 PM
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Yanbei Chen
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Mesons, baryons, and tetraquarks in the QCD medium at LHCb
Matt Durham (LANL)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
October 7, 2025 2:00 PM
SQuInT 2025 Annual Workshop
Various
No Affiliation
October 9, 2025 12:00 AM
No Colloquium today
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
October 10, 2025 3:30 PM
TBD
Ken Obenberger (AFRL)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
October 16, 2025 2:00 PM
TBD
Diana Dragomir
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
October 17, 2025 3:30 PM
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Xiaoxuan (Shane) Li (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
October 21, 2025 2:00 PM
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Martin Savage
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
October 24, 2025 3:30 PM
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Saheed Oyeniran (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
October 28, 2025 2:00 PM
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Sarah Stamer (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
October 30, 2025 2:00 PM
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Jens Biegert
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
October 31, 2025 3:30 PM
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Dustin Edgeman (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
November 4, 2025 2:00 PM
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Rachel Weller (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
November 6, 2025 2:00 PM
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Tara Drake
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
November 7, 2025 3:30 PM
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Georgia McDowell (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
November 11, 2025 2:00 PM
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Dominic Oddo (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
November 13, 2025 2:00 PM
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Tonmoy Chakraborty
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
November 14, 2025 3:30 PM
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Wesley Thompson (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
November 18, 2025 2:00 PM
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Mallory Harris (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
November 20, 2025 2:00 PM
Core-Collapse Supernova Explosion Theory
Adam Burrows (Princeton University)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
November 21, 2025 3:30 PM
TBD
Josef Sorenson (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
November 25, 2025 2:00 PM
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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
November 28, 2025 3:30 PM
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Andrew Gentry (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
December 2, 2025 2:00 PM
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Brett Skinner (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
December 4, 2025 2:00 PM
Colloquium TBD
Masaru Kuno
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
December 5, 2025 3:30 PM
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December 12, 2025 3:30 PM
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An Exploration of Exoplanet Architectures Through The Lens of Stellar Obliquities
Alex Polanski (Lowell)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
September 4, 2025 2:00 PM
Precision Event Shape Analysis for DIS at HERA and EIC
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Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
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Alexey Gorshkov (NIST, JQI, UMD)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
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Stefan Sandner (LANL)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
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Hui Li (LANL)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
August 21, 2025 2:00 PM
From Transits to Trends: the Next Decade of Long-Period Exoplanets
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August 5, 2025 12:00 AM
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Milad Houshmand Charmkhoran
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July 23, 2025 2:00 PM

Threshold for Fault-tolerant Quantum Advantage with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm
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CQuIC Seminars
July 16, 2025 3:30 PM
Investigating Long-Lasting Meteor Train Phenomena in Optical and Radio Regimes
Logan Cordonnier
Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
June 30, 2025 2:00 PM
Evolution of collective neutrino oscillations in supernovae
Milad Delfan Azari (Waseda University)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
June 3, 2025 2:00 PM
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Katie Richardson, Ph.D
Special Talk
May 17, 2025 12:00 PM

Measuring Cosmic Sound with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
May 16, 2025 3:30 PM
No Colloquium on May 9
TBD
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
May 9, 2025 3:30 PM
Development of next generation readout for Cosmic Microwave Background instruments
Wilber Dominguez (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
May 8, 2025 2:00 PM
MIGDAL Optical TPC: Fitting Observations to Simulation
Dustin Edgeman (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
May 6, 2025 2:00 PM
Single-Cavity Dual-Comb Lasers: Revolutionizing Spectroscopy, Long-Distance LiDAR and Pump-Probe Measurements
Ursula Keller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
May 2, 2025 3:30 PM
Interplanetary Scintillation with the Long Wavelength Array
Charlie Siders (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
May 1, 2025 2:00 PM
Massless Particles and the Structure of the Visible Universe
Raza Sufian (NMSU)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
April 29, 2025 2:00 PM
No Colloquium on April 25
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
April 25, 2025 3:30 PM
Imaging the Moon with VLBA + GBT
Steven Tremblay (NRAO)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
April 24, 2025 2:00 PM
Next Generation Very Large Array Listening Session
Outreach
Special Talk
April 23, 2025 6:00 PM
Forecasting Dark Matter Physics with the Milky Way Satellite Galaxies: A Forward-Modeling Approach
Soumyodipta Karmakar (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
April 22, 2025 2:00 PM
Physics Day 2025
Niklas Muller
Special Talk
April 19, 2025 8:45 AM
Expanding the Discovery Space with the Next Generation VLA
Dr. Ylva Pihlstrom (NRAO & UNM)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
April 18, 2025 3:30 PM
Prejudice in Psychology: The Case of Charles H. Turner
Charles I. Abramson
Sigma Xi Public Talk
April 17, 2025 5:30 PM

Exploring Compact Symmetric Objects Using VLBA and Fermi-LAT
Evan Sheldahl (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
April 17, 2025 2:00 PM
Cosmology from Three Years of DESI Spectroscopy
Kyle Dawson (U of Utah)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
April 15, 2025 2:00 PM
No 𝜈s is Good News
Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
April 11, 2025 3:30 PM
Multi-band Images of International Celestial Reference Frame Sources
Lucas Hunt (NRAO)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
April 10, 2025 2:00 PM
Motivations for the Directional Detection of Dark Matter
Wesley Thompson (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
April 8, 2025 2:00 PM
Cosmology and Unification
Dr. Raman Sundrum (University of Maryland)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
April 4, 2025 3:30 PM
Exploring Evolved Stars: Bolometric Luminosities, SiO Masers, and Machine Learning Classification.
Rajorshi Bhattacharya (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
April 3, 2025 2:00 PM
MERA for Quantum Field Theories
Daniele Alves (LANL)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
April 1, 2025 2:00 PM
Single Barium Ion Identification Technologies for Background-Free Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches
Dr. Benjamin Jones (University of Texas, Arlington)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
March 28, 2025 3:30 PM
High-fidelity teleportation of a logical qubit using transversal gates and lattice surgery
Ciaran Ryan-Anderson (Quantinuum)
CQuIC Seminars
March 27, 2025 3:30 PM
The Boundary Layer of a Gravitational Vacuum Condensate Star (Gravastar)
Evan David (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
March 25, 2025 2:00 PM
Atoms Interlinked by Light: Programmable Interactions and Entanglement
Dr. Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
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Comparing Long-Lasting Meteor Trains in Visible and Radio Regimes
Logan Cordonnier (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
March 13, 2025 2:00 PM
Observable CMB B-Modes from Cosmological Phase Transitions
Kylar Greene (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
March 11, 2025 2:00 PM
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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
March 7, 2025 3:30 PM
Quantum metrological limits in noisy environments
Sisi Zhou (Perimeter Institute)
CQuIC Seminars
March 6, 2025 3:30 PM
Electronic noise in low temperature bolometers for neutrinoless double beta decay (NDBD)
Vishal Vatsa (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
March 4, 2025 2:00 PM
Quantum Radar with Undetected Photons
Diego Dalvit (LANL)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
February 28, 2025 3:30 PM
Space-Time Quantum Metasurfaces
Diego Dalvit (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
CQuIC Seminars
February 27, 2025 3:30 PM
A Search for New Physics in Decays of B Mesons to Muon Pairs, Development of New Particle Timing Technology, and Characterization of Radiation Damage in Silicon Detectors at the Large Hadron Collider
Hijas Farook (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
February 25, 2025 2:00 PM
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Dr. Raman Sundrum (University of Maryland)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
February 21, 2025 3:30 PM
Nuclear Waste: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Christopher Perfetti
Sigma Xi Public Talk
February 20, 2025 5:00 PM
LWA Swarm Interferometry
Craig Taylor (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
February 20, 2025 2:00 PM
Scaling Relations in the Phase Space Structure of Dark Matter Haloes
Axel Gross (LANL)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
February 18, 2025 2:00 PM