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Benjamin Siegel successfully defends thesis, "Arrays of Optomechanically Levitated Microspheres"

March 11, 2026
On March 3, Benjamin Siegel successfully defended the thesis “Arrays of Optomechanically Levitated Microspheres” (advisor: David Moore). Siegel explained, “In...

Chitres Guria successfully defends thesis, "Measuring the geometry and topology of non-Hermitian systems"

March 11, 2026
On February 20, Chitres Guria successfully defended the thesis, “Measuring the geometry and topology of non-Hermitian systems” (advisor: Jack Harris). Guria explained, “My...
The group in Wright Lab’s high bay in front of an assembly area for the DUNE charge readout planes. Credit: Yale Wright Laboratory/Victoria Misenti

BNL-Yale collaboration in instrumentation development for the physical sciences

March 9, 2026
On February 27, a group from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)’s Discovery Technologies Directorate visited Yale Wright Laboratory (Wright Lab) to discuss ongoing...
Chladni plates developed for the YPO “make-and-take”. Image courtesy of Caitlin Hansen.

Wright Lab and Yale Physics host international exchange for outreach development

March 6, 2026
Verania Echaid Navarro, a Ph.D. student in Physics Education from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico City visited Yale Physics and the Wright Lab...
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