Hoodie Ceremony 2021
    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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Millions of man-made debris and naturally occurring micrometeoroids orbit in and around Earth's space environment at hypervelocity speeds averaging 10 km/s (22,000 mph). This "space junk" collides with spacecraft and satellites potentially causing serious damage or catastrophic failure. (Image courtesy of NASA)

Marla Geha, The race is on to erase space junk

November 30, 2021
Marla Geha, professor of astronomy, with a secondary appointment in physics was featured in Yale News (Jim Shelton, Nov. 30, 2021), “The race is on to erase space junk”....

Yale Physics Talia Weiss co-founds Kimball Smith Series

November 30, 2021
The Kimball Smith Series–co-founded by Talia Weiss, graduate student in physics and member of Yale’s Wright Lab, and Ellie Singer, undergraduate  student in political...

2021 Beatrice Tinsley Prize Lecture on November 29, 2021

November 24, 2021
Beatrice Tinsley Prize Lecture 2021 The Beatrice Tinsley Prize Lecture for 2021 will be held on Monday, November 29, 2021 at 4:00pm via zoom. The speaker is John C. Mather...
Dog with football helmet and football.

Yale physicist Steve Lamoreaux explains the physics of football on ESPN

November 24, 2021
Steve Lamoreaux, professor of physics, and member of Yale’s Wright Lab, explained the physics of football for a segment for ESPN’s NFL Countdown that aired on...

Yale Physics Castiglia and Zagorac win the inaugural Leigh Page Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching

November 22, 2021
The Leigh Page Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching, is a new physics department graduate teaching award. The award seeks to acknowledge and celebrate excellence...
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