April 2024 News

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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: David DeMille). Varun explained, “Ultracold polar...
people sitting in chairs looking at a panel of people who are in front of a chalkboard.
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...
Left to right: Jorge Torres, Isabella Graf, Farnik Nikakhtar, and Yogesh Patil
April 15, 2024
The Yale Physics Department’s Postdoctoral Advisory Committee (PDAC) recently held its Spring 2024 town hall meeting. The current committee consists of Isabella Graf (...