2022 Hoodie Ceremony
    PHYS 260/261 (2018-19) reunion. Photo by Steven Girvin
    Edward Bouchet mural by Kwadwo Adae on Henry Street, New Haven
    Research group
    Quantum sensors
    Instrumentation Lunch presentation
    Optical table
    Seminar
    PROSPECT assembly
    Presentation
    SBND APA
    Poster session
    Outreach
    Physics graduates
    Yale Pathways to Science outreach
    Outreach with Yale Pathways to Science
    Optical trapping of microspheres
    HAYSTAC
    CUORE Cryostat
    COSINE-100
    CHIME
    ALICE event
    Women in Physics
    PROSPECT team
    Laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of strontium monofluoride. (Matt Steinecker)
    PROSPECT photo multiplier tubes (Ke Han)
    Colored phase contrast images of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii cells. (Veikko F. Geyer, Benjamin M. Friedrich)
    Displacing oxygens in the interfacial layer of a LSMO/BTO interface. (Alexandru Bogdan Georgescu)
    Confocal image of mouse keratinocytes. (Aaron Mertz)
    ATLAS detector from above (Lawrence Lee)
    Quantum Mixmaster Excitation State (2,1) in Minisuperspace (Joseph Bae)

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Image courtesy of Yale Wright Laboratory/Victoria Misenti
March 8, 2024
On March 4-6, 2024,  researchers from Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the Flatiron Institute, and Argonne National Laboratory, who collaborate with Wright...
March 7, 2024
Caines’ research has revealed important insights into the behavior of nuclear matter under extremes of temperature and density.   Helen Caines, a physicist whose research...
From left to right: Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors Karsten Heeger, Reina Maruyama, Priyamvada Natarajan, and Laura Newburgh
March 1, 2024
The coldest cubic meter in the known universe lies beneath a mountain in Italy. There, in Gran Sasso National Laboratory, researchers hope to catch a neutrino behaving in...
February 23, 2024
How long it takes for cells to rush to close a fruit fly’s wound can tell us a lot about the healing process in the early developmental stages of humans, and potentially lead...