2022 Hoodie Ceremony
    PHYS 260/261 (2018-19) reunion. Photo by Steven Girvin
    Edward Bouchet mural by Kwadwo Adae on Henry Street, New Haven
    Research group
    Quantum sensors
    Instrumentation Lunch presentation
    Optical table
    Seminar
    PROSPECT assembly
    Presentation
    SBND APA
    Poster session
    Outreach
    Physics graduates
    Yale Pathways to Science outreach
    Outreach with Yale Pathways to Science
    Optical trapping of microspheres
    HAYSTAC
    CUORE Cryostat
    COSINE-100
    CHIME
    ALICE event
    Women in Physics
    PROSPECT team
    Laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of strontium monofluoride. (Matt Steinecker)
    PROSPECT photo multiplier tubes (Ke Han)
    Colored phase contrast images of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii cells. (Veikko F. Geyer, Benjamin M. Friedrich)
    Displacing oxygens in the interfacial layer of a LSMO/BTO interface. (Alexandru Bogdan Georgescu)
    Confocal image of mouse keratinocytes. (Aaron Mertz)
    ATLAS detector from above (Lawrence Lee)
    Quantum Mixmaster Excitation State (2,1) in Minisuperspace (Joseph Bae)

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HoFoP explores representation of physics in museums

May 24, 2024
On May 15, the Yale History and Foundations of Physics Reading Group (HoFoP) held a discussion called, “How Does Physics Make it to the Museum,” along with a visit to the...
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Picture This: Making Waves with Chiara Mingarelli

May 22, 2024
Chiara Mingarellli, assistant professor of physics, recently published  a new popular science article on black hole mergers for Pioneer Works. This was her second piece of...

2024 Physics Undergraduate Prize Winners

May 21, 2024
Annually, the Physics Department selects students based on faculty nominations and academic achievement for the Howard L. Schultz, Sr. Prize, awarded by the Physics...
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Congratulations Class of 2024

May 21, 2024
Yale Physics congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2024, including: Yale Physics Ph.D. Graduates December 2023 Graduates Yunpeng Ji, ‘23 (advisor Nir Navon...
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