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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Left: A new image of the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov. Right: A composite image of the comet with a photo of the Earth to show scale. (Pieter van Dokkum, Cheng-Han Hsieh, Shany Danieli, Gregory Laughlin)

Pieter van Dokkum (the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy) research in the news

December 3, 2019
Yale astronomers have taken a new, close-up image of the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov. 2l/Borisov, first spotted this summer, continues to draw nearer to Earth and will...
Photo credit: Yale Wright Laboratory/Kimberly Tighe

Christian Weber defends graduate thesis “New Search for H→ZZd→4l using pp collision data at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector”

November 15, 2019
On October 31, 2019, graduate student Christian Weber successfully defended his thesis, “New Search for H→ZZd→4l using pp collision data at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector...

Adriane Steinacker (Lecturer in Physics) has been selected as a recipient of the 2019 Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation

November 13, 2019
From Marvin Chun - Dean of Yale College, “This honor reflects your outstanding commitment to excellence in teaching. You were chosen on your accomplishments and strong...
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