Particle Cosmology in the Southwest (PCS)
No Affiliation
September 18, 2025 12:00 AM
Events
Upcoming Events
More than two can dance: Twisting, Binding and Double-Twisting in an optical cavity
Ana Maria Rey (JILA, NIST, and CU, Boulder)
CQuIC Seminars
September 18, 2025 3:30 PM
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
TBD
Manoj Kaplinghat (UCI)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
September 23, 2025 2:00 PM
TBD
Darcy Barron
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
September 26, 2025 3:30 PM
TBA
Bianka Mecaj (LANL)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
September 30, 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
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
TBD
Xiaoxuan (Shane) Li (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
October 21, 2025 2:00 PM
TBD
Martin Savage
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
October 24, 2025 3:30 PM
TBD
Saheed Oyeniran (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
October 28, 2025 2:00 PM
TBD
Sarah Stamer (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
October 30, 2025 2:00 PM
TBD
Jens Biegert
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
October 31, 2025 3:30 PM
TBD
Dustin Edgeman (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
November 4, 2025 2:00 PM
TBD
Rachel Weller (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
November 6, 2025 2:00 PM
TBD
Tara Drake
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
November 7, 2025 3:30 PM
TBD
Georgia McDowell (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
November 11, 2025 2:00 PM
TBD
Dominic Oddo (UNM)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
November 13, 2025 2:00 PM
TBD
Tonmoy Chakraborty
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
November 14, 2025 3:30 PM
TBD
Wesley Thompson (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
November 18, 2025 2:00 PM
TBD
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
No Colloquium due to Thanksgiving
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
November 28, 2025 3:30 PM
TBD
Andrew Gentry (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
December 2, 2025 2:00 PM
TBD
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
No Colloquium - Finals Week
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
December 12, 2025 3:30 PM
Recent Events
Low Temperature Particle Detection using Magnetic Sensing
Stephen T Boyd (UNM)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
September 16, 2025 2:00 PM
No Colloquium today (Sep. 12)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
September 12, 2025 3:30 PM
Challenges and Successes in Solving Applications with Quantum Computers
Dr. Carleton Coffrin (LANL)
CQuIC Seminars
September 11, 2025 3:30 PM
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
Planetary habitability in the solar system and beyond
Stephen Kane (University of California, Riverside)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
September 5, 2025 3:30 PM
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
June-Haak Ee (LANL)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
September 2, 2025 2:00 PM
Quantum sensor networks
Alexey Gorshkov (NIST, JQI, UMD)
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
August 29, 2025 3:30 PM
Neutrino Cosmology
Stefan Sandner (LANL)
Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars
August 26, 2025 2:00 PM
No Colloquium today
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
August 22, 2025 3:30 PM
New Challenges in 3D Gas+Dust Dynamics in Protoplanetary Disks: Implications for Planet Formation
Hui Li (LANL)
CART Astrophysics Seminar Series
August 21, 2025 2:00 PM
From Transits to Trends: the Next Decade of Long-Period Exoplanets
No Affiliation
August 5, 2025 12:00 AM
Magnetoencephalography Research Seminar
Milad Houshmand Charmkhoran
Special Talk
July 23, 2025 2:00 PM

Threshold for Fault-tolerant Quantum Advantage with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm
Dr. Michael Perlin (JPMorgan Chase)
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
Department Convocation
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
March 14, 2025 3:30 PM
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
(No Colloquium on March 7)
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