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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Yale Physics' Wright Lab marks 5th anniversary with celebration in the Vault

May 18, 2022

The Yale Physics community came together at 3 p.m. on May 16 in the Wright Vault to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the official opening of Wright Lab. Karsten Heeger...

First image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. (Image: EHT Collaboration)

Snapping a cosmic selfie — the first image of the Milky Way’s black hole

May 16, 2022

Mislav Baloković, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Department of Physics, and an EHT member, spoke with Yale News about the new...

Barkotel Zemenu (YC'2024 Physics-Intensive) named a Rosenfeld Science Scholar

May 13, 2022

Barkotel Zemenu, YC ’2024 Physics-Intensive major, and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, has been named a Rosenfeld Science Scholar. The award is given to Yale...

Jamil awarded Dicke Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton

May 13, 2022

Graduate student Ako Jamil received the Dicke Postdoctorial Fellowship at Princeton, and will be starting his new position in September 2022. The fellowship is an...

Larry Gladney to serve as FAS Dean of Science

May 10, 2022

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Tamar Gendler has announced that Larry Gladney will serve as the FAS Dean of Science for a 5-year term, effective July 1, 2022,...

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