Department of Physics
Physicists ask the most fundamental questions about science. Why are we here? What are we made of? What happens if I run 100,000 amps through a gas or have a magnetic field with more energy per volume than TNT? Physicists at New Mexico Tech are specifically fascinated by phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere and in deep space. We have active groups in astrophysics and atmospheric physics.
COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK: Serendipitous discovery of a collision between two unrelated open clusters in the Milky Way, by Andrés Piati. Thursday in Workman 101 @ 4pm:
This video provides a glimpse of what it's like to be a student in the Physics Department at New Mexico Tech. It was created by Physics PhD student Daniel Jensen.