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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New Course: PHYS 060 - What's the Universe made of? From Quarks to the Cosmos

July 1, 2024
A seminar course for First-Year students. The course will develop the hierarchy of nature in how the tiniest basic constituents, the quarks and leptons, combine to form atoms...
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Yale Physics welcomes new faculty Konrad Lehnert

June 26, 2024
The Yale University Department of Physics welcomes Konrad Lehnert as professor of physics and as a member of both the Yale Quantum Institute and Yale’s Wright Lab, effective...
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Project 8 hosts high school internship

June 18, 2024
The Project 8 experiment team at Yale hosted Asia Genawi, a rising senior in high school at the Indiana Academy for Science, Math, and the Humanities at Ball State...
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Inspiration and collaboration: Reimagining Yale science

June 13, 2024
A decade of investment and leadership by outgoing Yale president Peter Salovey has led to a science renaissance across campus, which includes significant investments in Yale...
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