Plan to visit the poster presentation and attend the oral presentations. Come with questions!

9.00 - 9.15	Welcome and Opening Remarks
9.15 - 9.45	Prof. Kate Brown Sage Advice and a Series of Vignettes from a UNM Physics Alum
9.45 - 11:00	1st Oral session
	9.45 - 10.00	Patrick Brown Non‐Standard Cosmological Histories
	10.00 - 10.15	Kylar Greene Mira Variable Stars and SiO Masers
	10.15 - 10.30	Ryan Gibbons Shielding for Detecting Neutrino‐Less Double Beta Decay
	10.30 - 10.45	Daniel Puentes X-Ray Scattering and Reflectivity Studies
	10.45 – 11.00	Ryan Hamblin Characterization and Applications of the Nanoscale Structure of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers
11.00 – 11.15	Break
11.15 – 12.30	2nd Oral session
	11.00 - 11.15	Lauren Zundel Flat Top Surface Plasmon Polariton Beams
	11.15 - 11.30	Amy Soudachanh Optical Measurements of SiN Coupled Ring Resonators for Optomechanical Gyroscopes
	11.45 – 12.00	Bryan Rubio‐Perez Engineering the Optical Properties of Aluminum Oxide
	12.00 – 12.15	John Keeney Optical Rogue Wave Generation in Dielectrics with Correlated Fluctuations of Refractive Index
	12.15 – 12.30	Asher May Extraordinary Enhancement of Dipole‐Forbidden Transitions Using Nanostructured Graphene
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch and barrel implosion (in the lobby of the P&A department)
14.00 – 15.30	Lab Tours Lidke Lab, Becerra Lab, Sheik-Bahae Lab, and Center for Advanced Research Computing
15.30 - 16.30	Poster session
	Bradley Malko (NAU) Thermal Infrared Planetary Science Imager
	Eric Putney Analysis of Diffusion of a Rhodium Adatomona Tungsten (111) Surface
	Dilys Ruan Analysis of Diffusion of a Rhodium Adatomona Tungsten (111) Surface
	Lauren Zundel Spatially Resolved Optical Sensing Using Graphene Nanodisk Arrays
	Christian Roberts Probabilistic and Statistical Modeling of Nanoparticle Diffusion Processes
	Bryan Rubio-Perez Engineering the Optical Properties of Aluminum Oxide
	Brady Spears Computer Modeling of Subsurface Density Structures
	Daniel Puentes Automation of a High Precision Stage For X-Ray Grazing Incidence Small-Angle Scattering (GI-SAXS) and Reflectivity (XR) Studies
17.30 - 18.00	Concluding remarks and awards
18.00 - 20.00	Dinner (in the lobby of the P&A department)
20.00 - 21.00	Observing at the campus observatory

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