April 2024 News

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April 23, 2024
Charles D. Brown II, assistant profossor of physics, and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, has been named an at-large director of the board of the American Institute of...
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April 19, 2024
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Richard Rhodes came to campus on April 16 to give a keynote talk on “The Rise of Malignant Deterrence”, as well as a writing workshop for a...
April 17, 2024
On April 12, Varun Jorapur successfully defended the thesis “Towards a Bose-Einstein Condensate of SrF molecules” (advisor: Steve Lamoreaux, work under the direction of David...
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April 15, 2024
The Yale chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) hosted their first day-long regional meeting for New England (SPS Zone 1) on April 13, 2024.  Twenty students...
Left to right: Charles Brown, Yoram Alhassid, Nir Navon, Chris Greene (Purdue University), Grant Schumacher, and Jack Harris
April 15, 2024
On April 12, Grant Schumacher successfully defended the thesis “Stability of a Three-Component Fermi Gas” (advisor: Nir Navon). Grant explained, “Understanding how systems...