Undergraduate Research

Active Research in the Yale Physics Department

Research Opportunities

Charles Brown

Contact: Charles Brown (charles.d.brown@yale.edu)

Website: https://physics.yale.edu/people/keith-baker

Quantum Simulation of Quasicrystals

Helen Caines

Contact: Helen Caines (helen.caines@yale.edu)

Website: https://wlab.yale.edu/research/relativistic-heavy-ions

The first set of studies are analyses that focus on measurements that aim to deepen our understanding the properties of the hot and dense matter created when ultra-relativistic heavy-ions are collided.   The second set can be hardware or software focused and will assist with our detector development studies for the future electron-ion collider.

Meng Cheng

Contact: Meng Cheng (m.cheng@yale.edu"> m.cheng@yale.edu)

Website: https://meng-cheng.github.io/

Entanglement entropy and defect in quantum many-body systems Phases and phase transitions in open quantum systems. 

Steven Girvin

Contact: Steven Girvin ( steven.girvin@yale.edu)

Website: https://girvin.sites.yale.edu/

Learning about circuit quantum electrodynamics–the quantum mechanics of superconducting microwave circuits and superconducting qubits.

Walter Goldberger

Contact: Walter Goldberger ( walter.goldberger@yale.edu)

Website: https://het.yale.edu

I would be happy to meet regularly with an undergraduate or two to do some directed reading in theoretical physics.

Laura Havener

Contact: Laura Havener ( laura.havener@yale.edu)

Website: https://rhig.physics.yale.edu/

We have various hardware R&D projects in the group related to preparing for the future Electron-Ion Collider.

Karsten Heeger

Contact: Karsten Heeger (karsten.heeger@yale.edu)

Website: https://heegerlab.yale.edu

Sensitivity calculations for the Project 8 neutrino mass experiment

Steven Konezny

Contact: Steven Konezny ( steven.konezny@yale.edu)

Website: https://konezny.sites.yale.edu/

I have 3 research projects that are focused on fabrication, measurement, and/or theory, depending on student interest and experience.

Christopher Lynn

Contact: Christopher Lynn ( christopher.lynn@yale.edu)

Website: https://lynnlab.yale.edu/

In-lab and remote opportunities

We are interested in understanding how structure and function emerge in complex living systems, particularly the brain. 

Simon Mochrie

Contact: Simon Mochrie ( simon.mochrie@yale.edu)

Website: https://mochrielab.yale.edu/

To computationally explore a simple model of the chromatin polymer to investigate how its polymer properties, such as its persistence length and compaction (number of base pairs per contour length) depend on nucleosome occupancy, spacing, and disorder.

David Moore

Contact: David Moore ( david.c.moore@yale.edu)

Website: https://campuspress.yale.edu/moorelab/

We have projects aiming to test fundamental physics at the precision frontier of nuclear and particle physics.

Ian Moult

Contact: Ian Moult ( ian.moult@yale.edu)

Website: https://physics.yale.edu/people/ian-moult

We have projects aiming to test fundamental physics at the precision frontier of nuclear and particle physics.

Daisuke Nagai

Contact: Daisuke Nagai ( daisuke.nagai@yale.edu)

Website: http://www.astro.yale.edu/nagai/

Cosmology with Fast Radio Bursts.

Nir Navon

Contact: Nir Navon ( nir.navon@yale.edu)

Website: https://uqm.yale.edu/

Projects in Ultracold Quantum Matter.

Corey O’Hern

Contact: Sam Banks ( sam.banks@yale.edu) or Naomi Brandt (naomi.brandt@yale.edu)

Website: http://jamming.research.yale.edu

Potential summer research projects include developing a computational model of lobe formation in 2D and 3D, simulating mechanical tests of tissues with lobed cells, and analyzing a cross-species dataset to quantify trends in lobed geometry..

David Poland

Contact: David Poland ( david.poland@yale.edu)

Website: https://het.yale.edu/

My research relates to the study of conformal field theories, which are quantum or statistical systems which have a symmetry under zooming in or out. These mathematical structures describe the physics of continuous phase transitions. I’m open to supervising research or directed reading projects in this area for motivated students.

John Sous

Contact: Jeffrey Wei ( Jeffrey.wei@yale.edu)

Website: https://sous.yale.edu/profile/john-sous

Physics of Machine Learning.