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

Camille Avestruz, Graduate Student, June “Green Light Employee”

Each month a Physics employee is selected at random and is asked questions regarding sustainability. This month, Camille Avestruz was asked about going green. Q. The Yale Sustainability Summit 2011 theme is People, Planet, Profit: Fostering Sustainability through Community. Did you...

Alice Ohlson (Graduate Student) has just won the Nuclear Physics A. Young Scientist Best Presentation award at Quark Matter 2011

Alice Ohlson (Graduate Student) working with Helen Caines (Associate Professor of Physics) has just won the Nuclear Physics A. Young Scientist Best Presentation award at Quark Matter 2011, which is the biggest conference in her field. All Post Docs and students speaking were considered, and since...

Howard L. Schultz and DeForest Pioneer Prize recipients for Yale College class of 2011

Congratulations to Diana Qiu (YC'2011) Physics (Int.) major and Michael Weiner (YC'2011) Physics (Int.) major for winning the Howard L. Schultz prize awarded by the Physics Department. Congratulations also go to Ivan Kozyryev (YC'2011) Physics (Int.) major and William J. Zeng (YC'2011) Physics (Int...