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Stephen Albright successfully defends thesis: "Ultra-thin Film Growth of Chalcogenides to Realize Novel Electronic Phenomena"

September 18, 2020
On September 17, 2020, Stephen Albright successfully defended his thesis, “Ultra-thin Film Growth of Chalcogenides to Realize Novel Electronic Phenomena” (Advisor: Charles...

Yale Physics Graduate Student Advisory Committee enables shared leadership

September 18, 2020
A new Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) has recently been formed in the  Yale Physics Department. This committee serves as a point of communication between graduate...

Beatrice Tinsley Prize Lecture 2020

September 15, 2020
The Yale Physics 2020 Beatrice Tinsley Prize Lecture, hosted by the Yale Society of Physics Students, Women in Physics, and selected Astronomy majors, will be given on...
Hubble Space Telescope image of the massive galaxy cluster MACSJ1206 with the distortions produced by light bending and the dark matter map generated from these lensing effects (shown on the left in blue). Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Caminha (University of Groningen), M. Meneghetti (Observatory of Astrophysics and Space Science of Bologna), P. Natarajan (Yale University), the CLASH team, and M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble)

Priyamvada Natarajan (Professor of Astronomy) research in the news

September 11, 2020
Yale News (September 10, 2020), “Holding up a mirror to a dark matter discrepancy” The universe’s funhouse mirrors are revealing a difference between how dark matter behaves...

Welcome Mislav Balokovic (YCAA Postdoctoral Fellow)

September 9, 2020
Welcome to Mislav Balokovic who comes to us as a YCAA Postdoctoral Fellow working in Astrophysics with Meg Urry. He will be working with Prof. Urry on better understanding...