Congratulations Class of 2024

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May 21, 2024

Yale Physics congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2024, including:

Yale Physics Ph.D. Graduates

December 2023 Graduates

  • Yunpeng Ji, ‘23 (advisor Nir Navon), “Many-Body Physics in a Ultracold Uniform Fermi Gas”
  • Daniel Nemes, ‘23 (advisor Helen Caines), “Semi-Inclusive Measurement of the Shared Groomed Momentum Fraction of Jets in Au+Au Collisions at STAR”
  • Lauren Saunders, ‘23 (advisor Laura Newburgh), “Telescope Pointing for the Simons Observatory: Data Acquisition & Control Software, Calibration, and Modeling”
  • James Teoh, ‘23 (advisor Robert Schoelkopf), “Error Detected Operations for Bosonic Quantum Information Processing”
  • Sohan Vartak, ‘23 (advisor Yoram Alhassid), “Nuclear Spectroscopy of Heavy Nuclei in the Shell Model Monte Carlo Method”
  • Xu Xiao, ‘23 (advisor Michel Devoret), “A Diagrammatic Method to Compute the Effective Hamiltonian of Driven Nonlinear Oscillators”

May 2024 Graduates

  • Jacob Curtis, ‘24 (advisor Robert Schoelkopf), “Error Mitigation and Detection in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics Powered by QND Measurements”
  • Kimmy Cushman, ‘24 (advisor David Poland), “Stealth Dark Matter with Lattice Field Theory”
  • Suhas Ganjam, ‘24 (advisor Robert Schoelkopf), “Improving the Coherence of Superconducting Quantum Circuits through Loss Characterization and Design Optimization”
  • Varun Jorapur, ‘24 (advisor Steve Lamoreaux), “Towards a Bose-Einstein Condensate of SrF molecules”
  • Jakob Kastelic, ‘24 (advisor Steve Lamoreaux), “Search for Time-Reversal-Symmetry Violation in Thallium Fluoride Using a Cryogenic Buffer-Gas Beam Source”
  • Vlad Kurilovic, ‘24 (advisor Leonid Glazman), “Criticality in Majorana wires”
  • Tong Liu, ‘24 (advisor Helen Caines), “Inclusive Hadron Yield Analysis in Small and Mid-sized Collision Systems at Sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV at STAR”
  • Alex Sandomirsky, ‘24 (advisor Witold Skiba), “Explicit Conformal Blocks”
  • Grant Schumacher, ‘24 (advisor Nir Navon), “Stability of a Three-Component Fermi Gas”
  • Kidae Shin, ‘24 (advisor Charles Ahn), “MBE-grown Thin Films for Novel Applications: From Single Atomic Layer Ferroelectrics to Isotopically Pure Quantum Memories”
  • Chuan Tian, ‘24 (advisor Meg Urry), “Studying Host Galaxy Morphologies of Bright Active Galactic Nuclei via Machine Learning in Hyper Supreme-Cam Wide Survey”

Yale Physics Undergraduates

Mathematics & Physics

  • Finn Gibson* (advisor Daisuke Nagai), “Mass and Feedback Dependence of Density Correlations in Small Halos”
  • Pranav Parakh*+ (advisor Michel Devoret), “Design, Testing, and Fabrication of a Cavity Shield & Simulation of Trajectory States”

Physics

  • Matt Bruning*+ (advisor Yehia Khalil), “Root Cause Analysis of the Nuclear Accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi”
  • Sri Devulapalli*+ (advisor Charles Bailyn), “ML Classification of XRB Spectral and Timing Properties”
  • Sofie Fusco*+ (advisor Steven Konezny), “Exploring Copper-Thiocyanate (CuSCN) as a Hole Transport Layer in Thin-Film Photovoltaic Cells (PVCs)”
  • Sophia Getz*+ (advisor Juan Lora), “Modeling Climate Impacts of Deforestation in the Amazon”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Ayelet Kalfus* (advisor Farren Isaacs), “Developing Computational Software to Guide Genome Redesign”
  • Michael Lee+ (advisor Michel Devoret), “Investigating the Zak Transform and its applications to Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) quantum error correction”
  • Michael Lin+ (advisor Reina Maruyama), “Synthetic Signal Injection Routines for the Haloscope At Yale Sensitive to Axion Cold Dark Matter (HAYSTAC)”
  • Rachel Merrill*+ (advisor Stephen Irons and Alison  Sweeney), “Investigating the Impact of Introductory Lab Experiments on Students’ Physics Self-Efficacy”. Winner, Deforest Pioneers Prize
  • Carmen Muscolina (advisor Colin Burke and Meg Urry), “Exploring the Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Stellar Mass Across Cosmic Time”
  • Jack Roche (advisor Helen Caines), “Establishing a Methodology for Scintillating Tile Characterization”
  • Julian Rubinfien (advisor Ben Machta), “Information and Optimal Inference”
  • Jake Schaffer (advisor Meg Urry), “Calculating Black Hole Masses for Type 1 AGN in Stripe 82”
  • Elizabeth Welch-Jani+ (advisor Meg Urry), “Corrected Luminosity Distribution for AGN at Redshift 1”

Physics & Geosciences

  • Catherine Zhang* (advisor Mary-Louise Timmermans), “The spatial and temporal evolution of the deep water in the Arctic Ocean’s Canada Basin”

Physics & Philosophy

  • Alexa Pan+ (advisor L.A. Paul), “Exploring the Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Stellar Mass Across Cosmic Time”

Physics (Int.)

  • Jessie Chen*+ (advisor Meng Cheng), “Lindbladian Dynamics in Open–System Phase Transitions with Strong-to-Weak SSB”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Alex Deters* (advisor Robert Schoelkopf), “Progress in Lower Nyquist Zone Calibration of Phases and Nonlinearities in a
    Quantum Control System Employing Direct Digital Synthesis”
  • Kameron Duncan+ (advisor Jack Harris), “Measuring Femtometer Displacement in High-finesse Cavity Optomechanics”
  • Elsa Durcan+ (advisor Reina Maruyama), “Superconducting Nanowire Electron Detectors for the RAY Experiment”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Sofia Fausone*+ (advisor Joe Howard), “Data-Driven Discovery of Governing Equations: Microtubule Dynamic Instability”
  • Argyris Giannisis Manes* (advisor Shruti Puri), “Distance-preserving stabilizer measurements in hypergraph product codes”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Ruobin Han* (advisor Yu He), “Surprising superconductivity in Pr doped Bi2212”
  • Ben McDonough*+ (advisor Steven Girvin), “Tensor-network perspectives on gauging SPT phases”. Winner, Deforest Pioneers Prize.
  • Eitan Meir Minsky-Fenick*+ (advisor Michael  Loewenberg), “Unsteady-State Particle Distribution in Poiseuille Flow”
  • Luke Mozarsky*+ (advisor Helen Caines), “Tuning the Herwig 7.2 Monte Carlo Event Generator using Professor 2.0”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Rose Powers*+ (advisor Sarah Demers), “Photon Energy Resolution Studies for a 10TeV Muon Collider”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Agastya Rana (advisor Thierry Emonet), “Inferring Optimal Olfactory Navigation Strategies of Drosophila in Turbulent, Naturalistic Plumes”
  • Juan Recoaro*+ (advisor Jack Harris), “Probing Supercooled Water with a Magnetic Levitation Platform”
  • Michael Sacks*+ (advisor Simon Mochrie), “Recovering 3-Dimensional Loci Dynamics with Multiple Particle Tracking”
  • Peter van Vlaanderen (advisor Robert Schoelkopf), “Simulating losses of dielectric interfaces in kinetic inductance-based superconducting circuits”
  • Varun Varanasi+ (advisor Jun Korenaga), “Investigation of Autocatalytic Reaction Networks”
  • David Wells*+ (advisor Nir Navon), “Phase impriting a vortex on an ultracold fermi gas”
  • Barkotel Zemenu*+ (advisor David Moore), “Characterizing the Outgassing of Electronegative Impurities in nEXO”

*indicates distinction in the major
+ indicates induction into Sigma Pi Sigma