2022 Hoodie Ceremony
    PHYS 260/261 (2018-19) reunion. Photo by Steven Girvin
    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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Welcome Sabrina Zacarias Postdoctoral Associate

September 19, 2023
Welcome to Sabrina Zacarias who comes to us from Technische Universitat Darmstadt as a postdoctoral associate working with Reina Maruyama. Zacarias’ research is working on...

The Physics Department welcomes 2023-24 DOE Research Trainees for Diversity in Nuclear Physics

September 19, 2023
Wright Lab welcomes Celín Hidalgo and Sergio Oscar Nuñez Silva, who have both been selected as Wright Lab DOE Research Trainees for Diversity in Nuclear Physics for the...

Brown and Mingarelli receive Public Voices Fellowships

September 13, 2023
Charles Brown, Assistant Professor of Physics and Chiara Mingarelli, Assistant Professor of Physics have received 2023-2024 Public Voices Fellowships hosted by the Women...

Sohan Vartak successfully defends thesis, "Nuclear Spectroscopy of Heavy Nuclei in the Shell Model Monte Carlo Method"

September 12, 2023
On September 6, 2023, Sohan Vartak successfully defended the thesis “Nuclear Spectroscopy of Heavy Nuclei in the Shell Model Monte Carlo Method” (advisor: Yoram Alhassid)....
A. Ashtari Esfahani et al. (Project 8 Collaboration)

Project 8 demonstrates new technique to measure neutrino mass

September 12, 2023
The neutrino is an elusive subatomic particle that passes effortlessly through normal matter and plays an outsized role among the particles that comprise our universe. To...

Lauren Saunders successfully defends thesis, “Telescope Pointing for the Simons Observatory: Data Acquisition & Control Software, Calibration, and Modeling”

September 8, 2023
On August 21, 2023, Lauren Saunders successfully defended the thesis “Telescope Pointing for the Simons Observatory: Data Acquisition & Control Software, Calibration,...

2024 American Physical Society Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics

September 1, 2023
Join us January 19-21, 2024 for  the American Physical Society Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics. Applications opened August 28, 2023 and will close October 23,...
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