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
    Physics majors
    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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Researchers work on the assembly of the CUORE experiment before it begins taking data. (Credit: CUORE Collaboration)

The neutrino turns 90

December 4, 2020
December 4, 2020 is the 90th anniversary of the neutrino, a mysterious, ghostly particle that passes through most matter in the universe without being affected.    The...
Samuel MacDowell, Professor Emeritus of Physics (March 24, 1929-November 30, 2020)

Samuel MacDowell - In Memoriam

December 2, 2020
On November 30, 2020, Samuel MacDowell, professor emeritus of physics, passed away at the age of 91 after a long illness. MacDowell had a very prominent career in particle...
Jack Sandweiss, Donner Professor Emeritus of Physics (August 19, 1930-November 20, 2020)

Jack Sandweiss – In Memoriam

November 30, 2020
On November 20, 2020 Jack Sandweiss, Donner Professor Emeritus of Physics died at the age of 90. He will be greatly missed by all his Physics friends and our entire community...
Image courtesy of D. Moore

SIMPLE-ifying the search for dark matter

November 24, 2020
Researchers at Wright Lab in assistant professor David Moore’s and professor Jack Harris’s groups are pioneering innovative mechanical sensing techniques for searching for...
Illustration by McGill University Graphic Design Team

Assistant professor Laura Newburgh interprets a magnetar’s message

November 18, 2020
Assistant professor Laura Newburgh has developed pioneering analysis and measurements that helped establish the brightness of a fast radio burst (FRB) emanating from a nearby...
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