No Colloquium Today (February 13)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
February 13, 2026 3:30 PM
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Recent physics and detector studies at LANL for the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)
Xuan Li (LANL)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
February 17, 2026 2:00 PM
When innovative science intersects with the needs of public health and communities
Eliane El Hayek
Sigma Xi Public Talk
February 19, 2026 5:00 PM
Rethinking Math Readiness for First-Year Physics and Engineering
Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University, TX)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
February 20, 2026 3:30 PM
Intro to Photonics Experience courtesy of ThorLabs
ThorLabs
No Affiliation
Outreach
February 24, 2026 12:00 AM
TBA
Hijas Farook (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
February 24, 2026 2:00 PM
Title TBD
Bryan Butler (NRAO)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
February 27, 2026 3:30 PM
Hunting for Exotic Matter: How AI is Helping Our Search for the Strange Side of Quantum Physics
Cesar Luis Da Silva (LANL)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
March 3, 2026 2:00 PM
TBD
Susmita Garai (UNM EPS)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
March 5, 2026 2:00 PM
Title TBD
Dan Stamper-Kurn (Berkeley)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
March 6, 2026 3:30 PM
TBA
Geogia McDowell (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
March 10, 2026 2:00 PM
Title TBD
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
March 13, 2026 3:30 PM
No Colloquium this week due to Spring Break
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
March 20, 2026 3:30 PM
TBA
Tensor Elmikawy (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
March 24, 2026 2:00 PM
TBD
Rajorshi Bhattacharya
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
March 26, 2026 2:00 PM
Title TBD
Dylan Yost (Colorado State University)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
March 27, 2026 3:30 PM
TBA
Matthew Baumgart (ASU)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
March 31, 2026 2:00 PM
TBD
Evan Sheldahl
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
Thesis and Dissertation Defenses
April 2, 2026 2:00 PM
Title TBD
Presenter TBD
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
April 3, 2026 3:30 PM
TBA
Wilber Dominguez (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
April 7, 2026 2:00 PM
TBD
Debanjan Sengupta (NMSU)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
April 9, 2026 2:00 PM
Title TBD
Carl Willis (UNM Nuclear Eng )
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
April 10, 2026 3:30 PM
TBA
Simone Mazza (UCSC)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
April 14, 2026 2:00 PM
TBD
Joyce Guzik (LANL)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
April 16, 2026 2:00 PM
High-resolution dual-frequency comb spectroscopy
Konstantin Vodopyanov (CREOL)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
April 17, 2026 3:30 PM
TBA
Evan David (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
April 21, 2026 2:00 PM
TBD
Ken Obenberger (AFRL)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
April 23, 2026 2:00 PM
Title TBD
Ian J. M. Crossfield, Astronomer
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
April 24, 2026 3:30 PM
TBA
Soumyodipta Karmakar (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
April 28, 2026 2:00 PM
TBD
Charlie Siders
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
April 30, 2026 2:00 PM
Title TBD
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
May 1, 2026 3:30 PM
TBD
Sam Halverson (JPL)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
May 7, 2026 2:00 PM
Title TBD
Presenter TBD
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
May 8, 2026 3:30 PM
Finals Week -- No Colloquium
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
May 15, 2026 3:30 PM
Department Convocation
Kathrin Spendier, PhD
Special Talk
May 16, 2026 12:00 PM
Recent Events
Does the path to quantum advantage lie in spin-boson quantum computers?
Alaina Green
CQuIC Seminars
February 12, 2026 3:30 PM
Using Experimental Petrology to Find Geochemically Habitable Exoplanets
Kara Brugman (UNM EPS/IOM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
February 12, 2026 2:00 PM
Nambu-Goldstone Bosons
Rouzbeh Allahverdi
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
February 10, 2026 2:00 PM
Peering Inside the Proton
Christopher Monahan (Colorado College)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
February 6, 2026 3:30 PM
Non-Markovian collective atom-photon interactions in waveguide QED
Kanu Sinha
CQuIC Seminars
February 5, 2026 3:30 PM
Standard Model Effective Field Theory - Part II
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Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
February 3, 2026 2:00 PM
10 Years of Observing the (Mostly) Dark Side of the Universe with LIGO, the World’s Largest Quantum Sensor
David H. Reitze | Director, LIGO Lab
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
January 30, 2026 3:30 PM
Standard Model Effective Field Theory - Part I
Rouzbeh Allahverdi (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
January 27, 2026 2:00 PM
Detection and Generation of Single Photons
Prof. Val Zwiller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
January 23, 2026 3:30 PM
Isotopic Carbon & Oxygen Abundances in Cool Dwarf Stars: Implications for Galactic Chemical Evolution and Giant Exoplanet Formation
David Coria
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
January 22, 2026 2:00 PM
Non-Abelian transport distinguishes three usually equivalent notions of entropy production
Billy Braasch
CQuIC Seminars
January 20, 2026 4:00 PM
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
Andrew Gentry (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
January 20, 2026 2:00 PM
Ion Trapping – Integrating Technology and Beyond
Melissa Revelle
CQuIC Seminars
January 8, 2026 3:30 PM
No Colloquium - Finals Week
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
December 12, 2025 3:30 PM
Quantum thermodynamics with quantum information flow: Theory and experiment
Takahiro Sagawa (The University of Tokyo)
CQuIC Seminars
December 8, 2025 3:30 PM
Condensed Phase Optical Refrigeration
Masaru Kuno (University of Notre Dame)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
December 5, 2025 3:30 PM
A Path to Scalable Quantum Computing: The Photonic GKP Qubit Architecture
Rafael Alexander
CQuIC Seminars
December 4, 2025 3:30 PM
Solving Period Aliases of Single Transits in TESS Data Using Single Transit Search
Brett Skinner (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
December 4, 2025 2:00 PM
Seminar Canceled
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
December 2, 2025 2:00 PM
No Colloquium due to Thanksgiving
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
November 28, 2025 3:30 PM
Rare decays of neutral B mesons and 4D-Trackers
Josef Sorenson (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
November 25, 2025 2:00 PM
Characterizing a Diverse Trio of Warm Jupiter Systems from TESS
Ismael Mireles
Special Talk
November 25, 2025 1:00 PM
Core-Collapse Supernova Explosion Theory
Adam Burrows (Princeton University)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
November 21, 2025 3:30 PM
Cold Cases: Solving the Mystery of Wide-Orbit Planets with TESS
Mallory Harris (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
November 20, 2025 2:00 PM
Detector Performance Studies of the MIGDAL TPC
Wesley Thompson (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
November 18, 2025 1:30 PM
From Cells to Tissues: Bridging Scales with Next-Generation Light-Sheet Microscopy
Tonmoy Chakraborty
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
November 14, 2025 3:30 PM
Layer codes as partially self-correcting quantum memories
Aleksander Kubica
CQuIC Seminars
November 13, 2025 3:30 PM
New results from TESS towards small stars and transiting circumbinary planets
Dominic Oddo (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
November 13, 2025 2:00 PM
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and the BACoN Experiment
Georgia McDowell (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
November 11, 2025 2:00 PM
Kerr-Microresonator Optical Frequency Combs
Tara Drake
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
November 7, 2025 3:30 PM
Precision Limits in Noisy Quantum Frequency Estimation With Spin Squeezed States
Francisco Riberi
CQuIC Seminars
November 6, 2025 3:30 PM
Bright Maser Emission in the Galaxy as Probes for Different Stellar Populations
Rachel Weller (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
November 6, 2025 2:00 PM
Generalized Measurements of Binary Coherent States Under Noise
Morteza Darvishi
CQuIC Seminars
November 5, 2025 4:00 PM
Setting angular resolution limits for electron direction
Dustin Edgeman (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
November 4, 2025 2:00 PM
ATTOSECOND QUANTUM DYNAMICS – DECIPHERING A CHEMICAL REACTION
Jens Biegert
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
October 31, 2025 3:30 PM
Analyzing the JWST/NIRSpec Transmission Spectrum of LTT 9779 b
Sarah Stamer (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
October 30, 2025 2:00 PM
From Sensor to Discovery: Search for CP Violation in the ATLAS Experiment in B_s^0⟶J/ψϕ (BsJpsiPhi) , Operating the ATLAS Detector and R & D for Future Upgrades
Saheed Oyeniran (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
October 28, 2025 2:00 PM
Simulating Fundamental Physics Using Quantum Computers
Martin Savage
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
October 24, 2025 3:30 PM
Low-Scale Baryogenesis and its Experimental and Astrophysical Probes
Xiaoxuan (Shane) Li (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
October 21, 2025 2:00 PM
The kaleidoscopic outcomes of planet formation
Diana Dragomir
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
October 17, 2025 3:30 PM
TBD
Ken Obenberger (AFRL)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
October 16, 2025 2:00 PM
Neutrinos at their densest: Classical and quantum challenges
Anson Kost (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
October 14, 2025 2:00 PM
No Colloquium today
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
October 10, 2025 3:30 PM
SQuInT 2025 Annual Workshop
Various
No Affiliation
October 9, 2025 12:00 AM
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
Towards experimentally testing the quantum nature of gravity
Yanbei Chen (Caltech)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
October 3, 2025 3:30 PM
Energy Correlators at Particle Colliders
Bianka Mecaj (LANL)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
September 30, 2025 2:00 PM
Cosmology with the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Darcy Barron
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
September 26, 2025 3:30 PM
Tailoring interactions and Hilbert space fragments with Rydberg atom arrays
Huanqian Loh
CQuIC Seminars
September 25, 2025 3:30 PM
Motivations for self-interacting dark matter models and their viable signatures
Manoj Kaplinghat (UCI)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
September 23, 2025 2:00 PM
