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The thesis committee (L-R): O. Keith Baker, Francesco Iachello, Brooke Russell, Bonnie Fleming, Steve Lamoreaux. Image courtesy of Brooke Russell.

Brooke Russell defends graduate thesis “An Electron Neutrino Appearance Search in MicroBooNE with 5 x 10^19 POT”

December 16, 2019
On December 6, 2019, Brooke Russell successfully defended her thesis, “An Electron Neutrino Appearance Search in MicroBooNE with 5 x 1019 POT” (advisor Bonnie Fleming)...
Left: A new image of the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov. Right: A composite image of the comet with a photo of the Earth to show scale. (Pieter van Dokkum, Cheng-Han Hsieh, Shany Danieli, Gregory Laughlin)

Pieter van Dokkum (the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy) research in the news

December 3, 2019
Yale astronomers have taken a new, close-up image of the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov. 2l/Borisov, first spotted this summer, continues to draw nearer to Earth and will...

Beatrice Tinsley Prize Lecture 2019

December 1, 2019
The Yale Physics 2019 Beatrice Tinsley Prize Lecture, hosted by the Yale Society of Physics Students, Women in Physics, and selected Astronomy majors, will be given on...
Photo credit: Yale Wright Laboratory/Kimberly Tighe

Christian Weber defends graduate thesis “New Search for H→ZZd→4l using pp collision data at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector”

November 15, 2019
On October 31, 2019, graduate student Christian Weber successfully defended his thesis, “New Search for H→ZZd→4l using pp collision data at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector...

Adriane Steinacker (Lecturer in Physics) has been selected as a recipient of the 2019 Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation

November 13, 2019
From Marvin Chun - Dean of Yale College, “This honor reflects your outstanding commitment to excellence in teaching. You were chosen on your accomplishments and strong...