Research in Physics

Astrophysics

For further information see, Yale Department of Astronomy and The Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

• Charles Baltay: General Information; The QUEST Project - Experimental Cosmology (with David Rabinowitz); SNAP - A space based experiment on free properties of Dark Energy via the study of Supernovae (with David Rabinowitz and Andrew Szymkowiak)
• Paolo Coppi: General Information
• Marla Geha: General Information
• Daniel McKinsey: General Information; Particle Astrophysics
• Daisuke Nagai: General Information: Computational Cosmology and Astrophysics
• Priyamvada Natarajan: General Information
• Nikil Padmanabhan: General Information
  
• Meg Urry: General Information; Active Galactic Nuclei 
• Pieter van Dokkum: General Information

Atomic Physics

For further information see, Atomic Physics web site

• David DeMille: General Information; Fundamental Physics with Diatomic Molecules
• Steve Girvin: General Information; Many Body Physics and Quantum Computation
• Leonid Glazman: General Information; Quantum Dynamics of Cold Atomic Gases
• Jack Harris: General Information; Quantum Optics and Optomechanics
• Steve Lamoreaux: General Information; Precision optical and electronic measurements of fundamental physical properties of fields and matter
• Daniel McKinsey: General Information; Scintillations in Liquified Noble Gases

Beam Physics

For further information see, Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL)

• Jay Hirshfield: General Information

Biophysics

For further information see, Physical Engineering and Biology (PEB)

• Thierry Emonet: General Information; How cells process information and make decisions
• Simon Mochrie: General Information; Soft Condensed Matter and Biological Physics
• Anna Elizabeth Rhoades: General Information; Protein Folding, Misfolding, and Dynamics
• Xiao-Jing Wang: General Information

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

Experimental Nuclear Physics

For further information see, Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL) and Relativistic Heavy Ion group

• Cornelius Beausang:
• Richard Casten: General Information; Nuclear Structure
• Moshe Gai: General Information; Nuclear Astrophysics
• John Harris: General Information; Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics (with Nikolai Smirnov and Richard Witt)
• Volker Werner: General Information: Nuclear Structure

Experimental Particle Physics

For further information see, Yale High Energy Physics Web Server, The LaSilla-QUEST Variablity Survey, STAR, and  World Wide Linear Collider

• Robert Adair (Emeritus): General Information
• Charles Baltay: General Information; The SLD experiment at SLAC; International Linear Collider - Vertex Detector R&D; The QUEST Project - Experimental Cosmology (with David Rabinowitz); SNAP - A space based experiment on the properties of Dark Energy via the study of Supernovae (with David Rabinowitz and Andrew Szymkowiak)
• Keith Baker: General Information; ATLAS Experiment
• Sarah Demers: General Information; ATLAS Experiment
• Bonnie Fleming: General Information; High Energy Neutrino Physics
• Tobias Golling: General Information; ATLAS Experiment
• Daniel McKinsey: General Information; Direct Detection of Dark Matter
• Jack Sandweiss: General Information; Search for Strangelets with the AMS ; New States of Hadronic Matter; Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics (with John Harris and Helen Caines); Lunar Soil Strangelet Search(LSSS) (with High Energy Group and WNSL)
• Paul Tipton: General Information; ATLAS Experiment
• Michael Zeller (Emeritus): General Information; CP Violation in Kaons (KOPIO); ATLAS Experiment
  

Gravitational Physics

• Vincent Moncrief: General Information; Gravitation Physics

High Energy Theory and Cosmology

For further information see, theoretical high energy physics website

• Thomas Appelquist: General Information; Website
• George Fleming: General Information; Website
• Walter Goldberger: General Information
  
• Samuel MacDowell (Emeritus): General Information
  
• Witold Skiba: General Information
  
• Charles Sommerfield (Emeritus): General Information

Quantum Electronics

• Richard Chang (Emeritus): General Information; Laser Diagnostics and Optical Scattering
• Paul Fleury: General Information; Laser spectroscopy and non-linear optics

Quantum Information Physics (CQuIP)

For further information see, quantum computing

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

For further information see, Condensed Matter Theory web page, Theoretical Chemistry Group, Condensed Matter Geophysics, and the Statistical Mechanics of Nonequilibrium Systems 

• Yoram Alhassid: General Information; Nuclear Many Body Theory and Mesoscopic Quantum Dots
• Steve Girvin: General Information; Many Body Physics and Quantum Computation 
• Leonid Glazman: General Information; Physics of Low-dimensional and Mesoscopic Systems, Quantum Many-Body Theory
• Sohrab Ismail-Beigi: General Information; Ab Initio and Computational Solid State, Nanoscale, and Many-body Physics
• Corey O'Hern: General Information; Statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems
• Nicholas Read: General Information; Quantum Hall Effect and Conformal Field Theories
  
• R. Shankar: General Information; Statistical and Many Body Physics
• Douglas Stone: General Information; Mesoscopic and Optical Physics
• John Tully: General Information; Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
• John Wettlaufer: General Information; Microscopic kinetics in crystal growth and melting

Theoretical Nuclear Physics

• Yoram Alhassid: General Information; Nuclear Many Body Theory and Mesoscopic Quantum Dots
• Francesco Iachello: General Information; Nuclear and molecular structure: the interacting boson model

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