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September 10, 2025
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration—which includes Yale Physics researchers Charles Baltay, Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Physics; Xinyi Chen...
September 5, 2025
Wright Lab research scientist Nikolai Smirnov is retiring this Fall after thirty-three years of working at the Yale Physics department. Below is a tribute composed by Wright...
September 4, 2025
On September 3, Derek Sherry successfully defended the thesis, “Lattice Ultrasensitivity: a new model for signal amplification in E. coli chemotaxis” (advisor: Ben Machta)....
August 29, 2025
On August 25, Joseph Dominicus Lap successfully defended the thesis, “Approaches to Strongly-Coupled Field Theory” (advisor: Ian Moult). Lap explained, “A microsecond after...
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August 29, 2025
Yale physics faculty members, who are affiliated with Wright Lab, won two out of twenty-five grants recently awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to projects in...