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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Department News

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...

Helen Caines (Associate Professor of Physics) has been named the American Physical Society Woman Physicist of the Month for January 2012

Helen Caines (Associate Professor of Physics) has been named the American Physical Society Woman Physicist of the Month for January 2012. See http://www.aps.org/programs/women/scholarships...

Physics upcoming events


Physics Club: Murat Acar, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and the Yale Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, "Feedback Regulation and Dosage Compensation in Gene Networks" - Mon, January 30, 2012 When: Monday, January 30, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Particle Theory Seminar: David Skinner, Perimeter Institute, "Scattering Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in Twistor Space (or, How To Tie Your Shoelaces in Three Complex Dimensions)" - Tue, January 31, 2012 When: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
YCAA Seminar: Llyod Knox, University of California, Davis Title: "Neutrino Fever and How I Recovered" - Tue, January 31, 2012 When: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Special Seminar - Marisa Pedretti, Lawrence Livermore National Lab - "Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: The CUORE Experiment" - Mon, January 30, 2012 When: Monday, January 30, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Particle Theory Seminar: Anatoly Dymarsky, IAS, "Power of holography: from QCD to Cosmology" - Wed, February 1, 2012 When: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Special Seminar (AMO): Xiaohui Qu, University of California, Berkeley, "Watching single ribosome translation in real time: a quantitative study of ribosome helicase activity" - Thu, February 2, 2012 When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Physics Research @ Yale Talks: Jack Harris, Yale University, "Quantum electronics and optomechnics" - Fri, February 3, 2012 When: Friday, February 3, 2012 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM