Dr. Elohim Becerra Chavez’s research group recently published Quantum measurements: surpassing conventional sensitivity limits at low powers in Nature Partner Journals
Light has intrinsic quantu…
Graduate Student Kat Cosburn has been selected for an American Geophysical Union Outstanding Student Paper Award, based on her poster at the Fall Meeting of the AGU.
Her research title is "Testing joi…
Arash Mafi, associate professor of physics and astronomy, has been named director of the Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). Prior to the competitive search, Mafi had served as interim direct…
Research on periodic arrays in nanostructures from Dr. Manjavacas's team could result in better biosensors, solar cells and more efficient photodetectors.
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University Libraries awarded six undergraduate students with the Jim and Mary Lois Hulsman Undergraduate Research Award implemented specifically to recognize undergraduate research.
Patrick…
Aidan Grummer has been selected to receive the US Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. The award recognizes his outstanding academic accomplishments, the mer…
UNM Physics Graduate student Neil McFadden has been selected to receive the US Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award to pursue his PhD this summ…
Students protect their ears before demonstrating the rocket car. Professor Paul Schwoebel is the rocket car passenger
Congratulations and thank you to our students Dilys Ruan, Eric Putney, Christine …
The official groundbreaking of a new facility named Physics & Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Science or PAÍS, hosted by UNM Arts & Sciences Dean Mark Peceny, took place on Tuesda…
Physics Day Participants
On Saturday morning, nearly forty undergraduates gathered at the Department of Physics and Astronomy to take part in the second annual UNM Physics Day, a conference dedicated …
Starting in September, Elizabeth Crosson will join the Department of Physics and Astronomy as an assistant professor in the Center for Quantum Information and Control. Crosson comes to UNM from Caltec…
Senior Lauren Zundel won the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program award.
The scholarship supports students who intend to pursue careers in science, mathematics and engine…
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Greg Taylor has been awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.
Dr. Taylor joined the UNM Physics and Astronomy faculty in 2005. Hi…
Left to right, Kat Cosburn, Kyle T. Kennard, and Steve Portillo
2018-May-07 -- The UNM Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, announces the winners of its
Excellence Awards compe…
An Astro 101 class taught by Trace Tessier inspired a career at NASA. Congratulations to new graduate Noah Michelsohn!
More information and a video from KOB 4: UNM grad fulfills dream to work fo…
Darcy Barron has joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy as an assistant professor. Barron comes to UNM from University of California, Berkeley where she has been a postdoctoral scholar since …
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that Akimasa Miyake has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Miyake's research focuses on Quantum Information, Quantum Computation, Quantu…
Jacob Miller and Dissertation Director Akimasa Miyake
Jacob Miller's coffee-fueled dissertation, "Measurement-Based Quantum Computation and Symmetry-Protected Topological Order", won Chair's Best D…
Jacob Miller and Akimasa Miyake have recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters giving strong evidence that certain forms of symmetric topological quantum matter can be utilized ubiquitousl…
Optical communication uses light to encode and transmit information over long distances, such as in optical fibers with losses, and requires reliable detection schemes to read out information from low…
Starting in August, 2019, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine will join the Department of Physics and Astronomy as an assistant professor.
Cyr-Racine earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of British Col…
Eight undergraduates have come from all over the country to participate in the National Science Foundation-sponsored Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in the Physics and Astronomy …
Distinguished Professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae's research laboratory paper First demonstration of an all-solid-state optical cryocooler in the Nature Journal of Light: Science and Applicat…
The U.S. Department of Energy announced $40 million in funding for 31 projects to advance research in the development of microbes as practical platforms for the production of biofuels and other biopro…
Diana Dragomir will join the Department of Physics and Astronomy as a Research Assistant Professor in August, 2019, and as an Assistant Professor in August, 2020.
Dr. Dragomir obtained her Ph.D. in…
Effective July 1, 2018, Regents’ Professor Ivan Deutsch will serve as the next Director of the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC). Professor Deutsch has been a long-standing seni…
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that both Keith Lidke and Arash Mafi have been awarded the title of Professor.
Dr. Lidke joined the UNM Physics and Astronomy faculty in 20…
Researchers at The University of New Mexico will participate in a $15 million, multi-university collaboration as part of a National Science Foundation program designed with …
Greg Taylor lectures the REU group at the Long Wavelength Array near Soccorro, New Mexico
The Physics and Astronomy Department's summer REU program finished its first summer on August 3 with a final p…
Physicist Sally Seidel, on left, met with science faculty members of Oregon Episcopal School, which serves pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students (Photo courtesy of Linda Mantel.)
Professor Sall…
Elizabeth Crosson, our new Quantum Computing faculty member, was part of Advance's August Highlights. Advance at UNM is an NSF project to recruit, retain and promote women and minority STEM faculty.
One of our two new faculty members, Darcy Barron, was the first highlight in August from Advance at UNM, an NSF project to recruit, retain and promote women and minority STEM faculty.
Barron's area of…
2018-October-25 -- Our traditional Open House Physics Demo Show was held last night in Regener Hall. Physics and Astronomy undergraduate students Dilys Ruan, Eric Putney, Ivey Davis, Cameron Zamor…
Twenty four UNM undergraduate students in the Society of Physics Students traveled to University of Utah over the fall break to attend the Annual Meeting of the Four Corners Section of the American P…
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Aidan Grummer in the Seidel Lab
On 20 September 2018, at the International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM 2018), ATLAS revealed the most stringent experimental constraint of the very rare…
Colloidal Nanoparticle Synthesis and Characterization Lab with Marek Osinski.
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The National Science Foundation announced a nearly $750,000 award to the University of New Mexico ov…
The UNM Observatory makes a cameo appearance in the latest UNM video at 1:03.
Thanks to Associate Professor Ylva Pihlström, who pointed it out.
As reported in the Albuquerque Journal, "Produced …
Award-winning group at Four Corners American Physical Society Meeting, October 12-13, 2018
2018-December-11-- Congratulations to our Society of Physics Students Chapter, which just received the Out…
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