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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Sigma Pi Sigma Induction Fall 2020

Yale's Inaugural Chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma the National Physics Honor Society

October 22, 2020
On Friday, October 16, 2020, Yale joined the ranks of  Sigma Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor Society, as Chapter #584. In a virtual ceremony we inducted 32 members of...
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Yale Physics and Wright Lab host Kuheli Dutt Seminar on “Addressing Systemic Racism in STEM”

October 21, 2020
On October 20, 2020, the Yale Department of Physics and Wright Lab both co-sponsored a lecture given by Dr. Kuheli Dutt of Columbia University on “Diversity, Equity and...

Wright Lab alumni spotlight on scientist and advocate Charles D. Brown II

October 16, 2020
Wright Lab alum Dr. Charles D. Brown II is an experimental quantum physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, a passionate science communicator, and a champion for...
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#BlackInPhysics Week events at Yale

October 16, 2020
#BlackInPhysics Week, which will be held on October 25-31, 2020, is “dedicated to celebrating Black physicists, [their] scientific contributions, and revealing a more...
PROSPECT detector (Credit: PROSPECT collaboration)

PROSPECT experiment featured in Wired magazine article “Neutrino Detectors Could Be Used to Spot Nuclear Rogues”

October 12, 2020
Wired magazine has featured the Yale-led PROSPECT experiment in its article “Neutrino Detectors Could Be Used to Spot Nuclear Rogues”. The Precision Reactor Oscillation and...
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