Department of Physics

Composite Hubble Space Telescope Image. Meg Urry.

The electron density for nanowires of silicon. Ismail-Beigi .

Atomic positions color coded with their relation to the wire. Ismail-Beigi.

Composite image numerical solutions in two dielectric cavities. Stone.

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Meg Urry (Israel Munson Professor Physics & Astronomy) will be awarded the 2012 George van Biesbroeck Prize

The American Astronomical Society Committee on the Status of Women has announced that the 2012 George van Biesbroeck Prize will be awarded to Meg Urry for her tireless efforts to enhance the participation of women in astronomy! The citation will read as follows:

"The 2012 George van...

The Yale Monthly Physics Challenge

The Yale undergraduate student to submit the most elegant (as determined by the judges) and correct solution to the following problem will win an official Yale Physics Department mug with their initials sandblasted onto it.

Submit answers on paper to Sarah Compton in the business office or...

Physics upcoming events


Girls Science Investigations - Sat, February 11, 2012 When: Saturday, February 11, 2012 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Physics Club: Michael Pepper, University College London, "Semiconductor Nanostructures- The Engineering of Physics" - Mon, February 13, 2012 When: Monday, February 13, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
YCAA seminar Stephanie LaMassa, Yale University Title:Hidden Black Holes: Finding Obscured AGN and Investigating Their Relationship to the Host Galaxy - Tue, February 14, 2012 When: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Atomic Physics Seminar: Jeff Sherman, NIST Boulder, "Blackbody-Stark and cold-collision shifts in an optical lattice clock" - Tue, February 14, 2012 When: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Dissertation Defense: Hangui Chen, Yale University, "A first principles study of oxide interfaces" - Tue, February 14, 2012 When: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
WIDG Seminar: Joshua Albert, Duke University, "First Observations of Electron Neutrino Appearance at T2K" - Tue, February 14, 2012 When: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Condensed Matter Seminar: Bogdan Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University, "Fractional Topological Insulators" - Thu, February 16, 2012 When: Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Physics Research @ Yale Talks: Corey O'Hern, Yale University, "Theoretical and Computational Soft Matter and Biophysics at Yale" - Fri, February 17, 2012 When: Friday, February 17, 2012 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Special Particle Theory Seminar: C.-J. David Lin, National Chiao-Tung University and National Centre for Theoretical Sciences, "Strong-Yukawa models on the lattice" - Thu, February 16, 2012 When: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Graduate Student Lunch Talk: John Barry, Yale University, "Laser cooling and slowing of a diatomic molecule" - Mon, February 13, 2012 When: Monday, February 13, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM