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March

Prasad Patent
March 29, 2017

US Patent graph

Fig. 1. Surface plots of the incoherent PE-PSF, with L=7 (top row) and 10 terms (middle row) in the Fresnel-zone partitioning of the pupil. The IDL-PSF is shown in the bottom row of plots. The plots …

April

May

Loomba promoted to Professor
May 8, 2017

Dinest Loomba
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Dinesh Loomba has been promoted to Professor.

Loomba's research focuses on Extragalactic Astronomy, Particle Astrophysics, and Dark Mat…

June

August

Great American Eclipse
August 21, 2017

Solar Eclipse

By Andrew Fraknoi and Dennis Schatz


Total Eclipse

On Monday, August 21, 2017, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible in the continental U.S. for the first time in almost 40 years. Remarkably, the…


October

Mafi elected OSA Fellow
October 16, 2017

Arash Mafi

Congratulations to our colleague Prof. Arash Mafi. He was elected as a Fellow of The Optical Society of America.

Founded in 1916, The Optical Society is the leading professional organization for scien…


Osinski selected for Grad Research Program
October 13, 2017

Jacek Osinski

Grad student Jacek Osinski won U.S. Department of Energy Science Graduate Student Research funding for his project at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Beyond the WIMP Miracle.

The program goal is to pr…


Lewis wins NM Space Grant Scholarship
October 8, 2017

Megan Lewis

Megan Lewis was awarded the New Mexico Space Grant Graduate Research Scholarship for work toward her PhD on SiO masers in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars.  The incidence and ratios of different iso…


Ward '00 on Nobel winning team
October 4, 2017

Robert Ward

Did you see the announcement that the 2017 Nobel prize in physics was for gravity wave detection? Our own alumnus and Albuquerque native Robert Ward '00 is a Research Fellow on the team that made the …


November

Zundel wins Space Grant award
November 30, 2017

Lauren Zundel

Lauren Zundel (BS Physics ’19) has been awarded the New Mexico Space Grant Undergraduate Research Scholarship. This award will help understand the optical response of arrays of nanostructures, w…


Glassman '92 wins Great Teacher Award
November 16, 2017

Jack Glassman

EDWARDSVILLE - The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Alumni Association has selected Jack Glassman, PhD, as its 2017 Great Teacher Award recipient. The New York City native is a physics profes…


December

McFadden wins NM Space Grant Scholarship
December 12, 2017

Neil McFadden

Neil McFadden has been awarded the New Mexico Space Grant Graduate Research Scholarship to pursue his PhD on proposed tonne-scale experiments that will search for neutrino-less double-beta decay with …