CHTM director Arash Mafi honored

2019 Research Year-in-Review

L-R: Professor Doug Fields, Assistant Professor and UNM Alumnus Aaron Zimmerman ('08)

It was our pleasure to host last week's colloquium speaker, one of our own alumni, Assistant Professor Aaron Zimm…

KRQE 13 talked with Chair Richard Rand and toured the new Physics, Astronomy, and Interdisciplinary Science building.

Brady Spears (BS Physics with EPS concentration, graduating this May) has been awarded a Harry and Mabel F. Leonard Fellowship.

Brady's Senior Honors thesis explores a joint inversion of…

Several years ago, Professor Emeritus and former department chair David Wolfe started a science teacher training program in South Africa.  This has proven to be very successful but there is so mu…

Artistic view of the angular momentum transfer along a chain of rotating nanoparticles mediated by the fluctuations of the electromagnetic field.
Credit: Manjavacas Lab 2020

Profe…

This class has seen a great change in scenery within the past years.

First, many of us began our studies in the gritty halls of Regener.

Then, we migrated over to PandA and …

Quantum Information Theory research recognized by NAS

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the election of University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor Emer…

Diamond Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Credit: Acosta Lab

Professor Victor Acosta has received an NSF CAREER Award for a project entitled "CAREER: Picoliter Nuclear Magnet…

Scientists have discovered a planet about as large as Neptune that circles the young star AU Mic.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA)

Research Assistant Profe…

Congratulations to Professors Tara Drake and Mousumi Roy!

Both have won Women in STEM awards from Advance at UNM.

Dr. Drake's proposal was "Construction of a Fast Optical…

Many of the most disastrous volcanic incidents in human history, like the eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius, Mt. Pelée, and Mt. St. Helens, were deadly because they were so …

The COVID-19 pandemic prevented us from getting together for our usual convocation ceremony this year.

So instead, we decided to make a video to mark the occasion.

Hear about highlights of …

Artist’s rendition of quantum entanglement. Credit: Nicolle R. Fuller/NSF

CQuIC is excited to be part of the newly created center entitled “Quantum Systems through Entangled Science and E…

By Steve Carr

Galaxies not only contain stars, gas, dust, and the mysterious Dark Matter, they are also magnetized. The magnetic fields are many orders of magnitude weaker than the Earth's field or a…

Prof. Trish Henning will be taking a leave of absence from UNM to take on the role of Assistant Director of Science Support and Research at the National Radio Astronomy Observator…

The Quantum Systems Accelerator

Innovative laser researchers

Credit: UNM Newsroom

Esmaeil Robini and Saeid Rostami in the laser cooling lab

Laser cooling glass

Credit: UNM Newsroom

Mostafa Peysokhan

Credit: UNM Newsroom

in…

Please welcome our new faculty and staff for Fall 2020

Tonmoy Chakraborty (tchakraborty@unm.edu) is our …

Research Associate Professor Vitaly Gruzdev was awarded a prestigious Newton Award from the Department of Defense. These awards were given out for transformative ideas during the Covi…

By Sarah Carpenter, CARC

In the fall of 2019, a group of researchers from Google released a paper boldly claiming that the company had achieved “quantum supremacy,” or the use of…

https://www.wlu.ca/news/news-releases/2020/aug/laurier-quantum-physicist-selected-as-nserc-chair-for-women-in-science-and-engineering.html 

Scientists led by Assistant Professor of Physics Alejandro Manjavacas from the Theoretical Nanophotonics Group and

An…

Starting this August, Dr. Tonmoy Chakraborty will join the Department of Physics and Astronomy as an assistant professor.

Tonmoy comes to UNM from University of Texas Southwestern …

By David Dunlap

The 2020 Four Corners Sectional (Virtual) Meeting of the American Physical Society concluded late Saturday afternoon with an awards ceremony at which two P&A graduate students, Andrew …

LTT9779 system: This artist's impression

Credit: Ethen Schmidt, Kansas University

shows the LTT9779 system approximately to scale, with the hot Neptune-sized planet at left and its bright, nea…

Laser Waveguide Technology Could Divert Lightning Strikes

By Sarah Carpenter

James L. Thomas, associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at The University of New Mexico, assisted by local high school student Ennis Quinn, has been using com…

Congratulations to Facilities Operations Manager Gary Harrison who was awarded one of five 20

Andreas Tuennermann, head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, discusses his work with fiber lasers, quantum applications, and manufacturing in a global pandemic. …

Department of Physics and Astronomy research professor one of three recognized internationally

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Carlton Caves, and founding Director of CQuIC, is a recipient of the pr…

By Prabhakar Palni  (Prabi)

I graduated from the University of New Mexico under the guidance of Sally Seidel, Igor Gorelov, and Martin Hoeferkamp. My dissertation involved the search for a heavy…

Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He was a W. M. Keck Institute for Space Studies Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at the California…