January 2023 News

April 10, 2023
On April 3, 2023, Rajeev Erramilli successfully defended the thesis “Bootstrapping Fermionic Conformal Field Theories” (advisor: David Poland). Erramilli explained, “...
Image courtesy of RHIG.
April 7, 2023
From March 26-31, fifteen present and past members of Wright Lab’s Yale Relativistic Heavy Ion group (RHIG) joined more than 300 scientists in  Aschaffenburg, Germany to...
April 6, 2023
Just published by Springer Books, Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences, by Simon Mochrie (Yale University) and Claudia De Grandi (University of  Utah, formerly of  Yale...
An illustration of the “slingshot” scenario that may have catapulted a supermassive black hole away from its host galaxy after three supermassive black holes came together. (Credit: NASA, NAOJ, and P. van Dokkum)
April 6, 2023
Astronomers say they may have found evidence of a “runaway” black hole, a discovery that would prove a theory that originated five decades ago. Yale astronomers are on the...
Yale President Peter Salovey and New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker. (Photo by Dan Renzetti)
April 6, 2023
Yale and New Haven leaders yesterday bestowed Seton Elm-Ivy Awards on eight people and organizations strengthening the ties between the university and city. A Yale faculty...