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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Lesher creates podcast about the intersection of nuclear science and society

March 1, 2021
Shelly Lesher, a professor of physics at University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse (UWL) who was in residence at Wright Lab from 2019-20 as a Yale Presidential Visiting Scholar, has...
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Amber Young (YC'2021) featured in "Black Voices at Yale"

March 1, 2021
Black STEM scholars at Yale discuss the challenges of being an underrepresented demographic in Yale’s STEM departments. Perspectives on microaggressions, community, and...
A chip detects laser fluctuations to generate random numbers. (credit: Kyungduk Kim)

Hui Cao (John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics) getting random numbers faster

March 1, 2021
Random numbers are increasingly important to our digitally connected world, with applications that include e-commerce, cryptography, and cloud computing. Producing a large...
Antonio Ereditato

Ereditato joins Yale Physics as Visiting Professor

February 26, 2021
Yale Physics welcome Antonio Ereditato as a visiting professor in physics, a 3-year joint appointment between Yale and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). ...
Isabella Graf, Yale University

Isabella Graf (Postdoctoral Associate with Ben Machta) is awarded the Theodor Hänsch PhD Award for 2020

February 22, 2021
Dr. Isabella Graf, Yale Postdoctoral Associate with Ben Machta, received the “Theodor-Hänsch-Promotionspreis” 2020 from the Faculty of Physics of Ludwig-Maxmilians-...
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