Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine Promoted to Associate Professor; Huaiyu Duan Promoted to Professor

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Francis-Y…

Research Assistant Professor Svende Braun has been named Co-convener of the B-Physics Weak Decays Working Group within the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

The ATLAS Experiment at CERN l…

The University of New Mexico announces a significant addition to its academic leadership with the appointment of Robert “Bob” Ledoux as the new director of the Quantum New Mexico Institute

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Xiaobing Zhu is the first winner of the Sheik-Bahae Award for the best dissertation in optics.  The award is open to students in both the Physics and Optical Science & Engineering (OSE) degree pr…

Victor Acosta has been chosen by the College of Arts & Sciences as one of this year's Regents' Lecturers. Victor will receive a stipend for the next three years and will always keep the title of Regen…

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The $3M Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for 2025 was awarded to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for results on fundamental particle physics from its second run from 2015 to 2024.

The ATLAS …