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

Laurie Shaw, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, February "Green Light Employee"

Each month a Physics employee is selected at random and is asked questions regarding sustainability. This month, Laurie Shaw was asked about going green.Q. The Physics Sustainability leaders have set a goal for Physics to reduce paper by 25%. How have you changed your daily usage of paper? A....

37th Hanan Rosenthal Memorial Lecture

The 37th Hanan Rosenthal Memorial Lecture will be held on April 4, 2011. Speaker: Tilman Esslinger, ETH, "From Synthetic Quantum Many-Body Systems to Quantum Simulation". Click here to see the History of the Hanan Rosenthal Memorial Lecture.

Peter D. Parker (Professor of Physics & Astronomy) has been named as one of the Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters Journals

Peter D. Parker (Professor of Physics & Astronomy) has been is among the 144 Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters Journals as chosen by the journal editors for 2011.Initiated in 2008, the Outstanding Referee program expresses appreciation for the essential...