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Prakhar Garg

Garg appointed to CPAD Executive Board

April 15, 2026
Prakhar Garg, a research scientist at Yale Wright Laboratory (Wright Lab) has been appointed to the Executive Board of the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (...

Mark Gonzalez successfully defends thesis, "Detectorology and its Phenomenological Applications"

April 14, 2026
On April 10, 2026, Mark Gonzalez successfully defended the thesis, “Detectorology and its Phenomenological Applications” (advisor: Ian Moult). Gonzalez explained, “My thesis...
Kirsty Scott dissertation defense

Kirsty Scott successfully defends thesis "Insights into Unconventional Superconductivity: A Spectroscopic Investigation of Intertwined Electronic States"

April 13, 2026
On April 7, 2026, Kirsty Scott successfully defended the thesis, “Insights into Unconventional Superconductivity: A Spectroscopic Investigation of Intertwined Electronic...
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Showing the math for Earth’s first — and sudden — spark of life

April 13, 2026
Inspired by a Yale undergraduate science class, a new study uses math to suggest that the spark of life on Earth happened quickly — once the conditions were right. Isolating...
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