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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Karen DeFelice (Operations Manager) retiring July 31, 2020

July 2, 2020
Karen DeFelice will be retiring on July 31st.     We are sincerely grateful to Karen for her 44 ½ years of dedicated service to the Physics Department.  She has served in...
Members of the Yale and BNL research teams. Pictured from left to right are Maile Harris (Yale), Benjamin Salinwanchik (Yale), Laura Newburgh (Yale), Will Tyndall (Yale), Emily Kuhn (Yale), Anze Slosar (Brookhaven Lab), and Justine Haupt (Brookhaven Lab). Note: this photo was taken in March 2020, prior to current COVID-19 social distancing guidelines. Photo credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory

Newburgh’s drones help calibrate Brookhaven National Laboratory telescope

June 25, 2020
Wright Lab assistant professor Laura Newburgh has been developing an innovative technique to calibrate radio telescopes across the world, in particular CHIME in Canada and ...
Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein

CHIME collaboration detects a busy signal from outer space

June 18, 2020
Wright Lab’s assistant professor of physics Laura Newburgh has collaborated with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) since its beginning, and the CHIME...

Welcome Michael Jewell (Postdoctoral Associate with Reina Maruyama)

June 10, 2020
Welcome to Michael Jewell who comes to us as a postdoctoral associate working with Reina Maruyama. Michael is working on the HAYSTAC experiment which is searching for dark...

Hao Yan defends thesis “Positional Fluctuations in Synthetic and Living Polymer Systems"

June 8, 2020
On June 8, 2020 Hao Yan successfully defended his thesis: “Positional Fluctuations in Synthetic and Living Polymer Systems” (Advisor: Simon Mochrie). Yan explained “DNA is...
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