Colloquium Schedule & Defenses

Department Defenses

Follow this link to the NMT Seminar/Colloquium google calendar. The dates of the defenses will be added there. 

Fall 2026 Colloquium Schedule

Location: Workman 101
Time: Thursdays at 4pm.
Zoom Link (Meeting Id: 975 7234 8560; Passcode: 677943)

Date Speaker Tile Affiliation Mode
9/3/29
Michelle Creech-Eakman
How to Succeed in Graduate Physics at NMT?
NMT
in person
9/10/26
Stipo Sentic
Field Projects in Atmospheric Physics
NMT
in person
9/17/26
William Dean Stone
What came first - the Mathemachicken or the Physicsegg?
NMT
in person
9/24/26
Mostafa Hassanalian
Unlocking Nature’s Secrets: Bioinspired Aerodynamics and Autonomous Drone Systems
NMT
in person
10/1/26
Students
Mini Presentations 
NMT 
in person 
10/8/26
John Sandusky
Detecting asteroids using heliostat arrays at night 
Mantis Space 
in person 
10/15/26
Dyet Lytle
A software engineer's view of astronomy and planetary science over the last 43 years
NMT alumni
in person
10/22/26
Break
 Break
Break 
Break 
10/29/26
Jessie Edward Slaten
Strengthening QUIC-Fire in Complex Terrain Environments
LANL
 in person
11/5/26
Lisa Hackett
Hybrid Interactions in Piezoelectric Phononic Heterostructures
Sandia National Laboratories
 in person
11/12/26
TBD
 
 
 
11/19/26
TBD