News Archives
January
CHTM Director Arash Mafi honored
Physics and Astronomy Findings Featured in Research Year-in-Review
January 6, 2020
February
Aaron Zimmerman, '08, Re-visits the Department
February 8, 2020
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…
March
KRQE Visits the New Physics, Astronomy, and Interdisciplinary Science Building
March 18, 2020
Brady Spears Wins Undergraduate Fellowship
March 4, 2020
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 cosmic ray m…
April
Professor Emeritus David Wolfe is Making A Difference in South Africa
April 21, 2020
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…
Prof. Manjavacas Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
April 8, 2020
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
Professor Alejandro Manja…
May
The University of New Mexico Becomes IBM Q Hub's First University Member
May 27, 2020
Under the direction of Michael Devetsikiotis, chair of the Department of Electrical an…
Graduating Class of 2020
May 10, 2020
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 …
Caves Elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 5, 2020
Quantum Information Theory research recognized by NAS
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the election of University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Profe…
Prof. Acosta Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
May 4, 2020
Professor Victor Acosta has received an NSF CAREER Award for a project entitled "CAREER: Picoliter Nuclear Ma…
June
Research Assistant Professor Diana Dragomir Plays Key Role in Exoplanet Discovery
June 24, 2020
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…
Professors Drake and Roy Selected for 2020 UNM Women in STEM awards
June 17, 2020
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…
Kate Cosburn Uses Computer Modeling to Understand Volcano Shapes
June 10, 2020
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 …
Convocation 2020 Video Celebration
June 8, 2020
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 …
July
CQuIC Receives Award in New NSF Quantum Leaps Challenge Institute
July 28, 2020
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…
Graduate Student Tim Braun and Professor Rand on Team Revealing the Magnetic Field of a Spiral Galaxy
July 21, 2020
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…
Professor Trish Henning Takes on Role at NRAO
July 9, 2020
Trish Henning
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…
August
New $115 million Quantum Systems Accelerator to Pioneer Quantum Technologies For Discovery science
August 26, 2020
The Quantum Systems Accelerator
New $115 million Quantum Systems Accelerator to pioneer quantum technologies for discovery science
CHTM, Physics Labs Successfully Cool Glass with Lasers
August 12, 2020
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 for Fall 2020
August 12, 2020
Please welcome our new faculty and staff for Fall 2020
Tonmoy Chakraborty (tchakraborty@unm.edu) is our …
Gruzdev Wins Competitive Newton Award
August 5, 2020
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…
September
Miyake Research Group Improves Quantum Computing Algorithms
September 8, 2020
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…
Shohini Ghose (PhD 2003), Selected as Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering
September 7, 2020
New Advancement in Nanophotonics Has the Potential to Improve Light-based Biosensors
September 2, 2020
Scientists led by Assistant Professor of Physics Alejandro Manjavacas from the Theoretical Nanophotonics Group and
L-R: Stephen Sanders, Lauren Zundel, and Alvaro Cuartero-González
An…
P&A Welcomes New Faculty Member Chakraborty
September 1, 2020
Tonmoy Chakraborty
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 …
October
AGC New Mexico: PAÍS Wins Best Building $20 Million and Over
October 29, 2020
Andrew Forbes and Anupam Mitra Win Outstanding Student Talks Award at Four Corners APS Meeting
October 29, 2020
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 …
Assistant Professor Diana Dragomir leads team exploring rare hot Neptune exoplanet
October 26, 2020
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…
Virtual Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Tour
October 6, 2020
OCTOBER 2, 2020 - NOVEMBER 8, 2020
(ENDING WITH NATIONAL STEM DAY)
Welcome to the celebration of an effort that began 20 years ago when th…
Laser Waveguide Technology Could Divert Lightning Strikes
October 4, 2020
November
Pablo Poggi Named Research Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy
November 24, 2020
Gloria Cordova
CQuIC is pleased to welcome Dr. Pablo Poggi as Research Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy. In January, 2018, Pablo began work at CQuIC as a Postdoctoral Fellow on the N…
Associate Professor Jim Thomas Investigates Mysterious Biophysics Behavior
November 18, 2020
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…
Gary Harrison Wins 2020 Gerald W. May Outstanding Staff Award
November 16, 2020
Congratulations to Facilities Operations Manager Gary Harrison who was awarded one of five 20
At the time UNM Presi…
Alejandro Manjavacas Highlights Nanophotonics Research on Popular Podcast
November 3, 2020
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. …
December
Carlton Caves Receives Micius Quantum Prize 2020
December 11, 2020
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…
Bringing Nuclear and Particle Physics to Goa University
December 3, 2020
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…
Cyr-Racine Reviews Book by Nobel Prize Winner Peebles
December 1, 2020
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…