Faculty

Astronomy & Astrophysics Colloquium: Ed Bertschinger - Space for All of us: Inclusion and Belonging in 2024

Elite universities have never been more demographically diverse, produced more equitable outcomes, nor been more inclusive. Yet many faculty do not feel a sense of belonging and many students do not feel heard. This talk will show how to understand these differences using three kinds of data: demographics, climate survey data, and policies and practices. Individual stories and narratives prove to be crucial.

Spring 2024 EHS Orientation for Wright Lab Shops

Wright Lab will host two, identical 1-hour Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Shop Orientations on Friday, January 26 at 11:30 a.m. and Tuesday, January 30 at 3:00 p.m. The EHS shop orientation is offered each semester and is required to be taken once by anyone who would like to gain access and make use of the research and teaching shops at Wright Lab.

For more information on the shop facilities at Wright Lab see:
https://wlab.yale.edu/facilities

Spring 2024 EHS Orientation for Wright Lab Shops

Wright Lab will host two, identical 1-hour Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Shop Orientations on Friday, January 26 at 11:30 a.m. and Tuesday, January 30 at 3:00 p.m. The EHS shop orientation is offered each semester and is required to be taken once by anyone who would like to gain access and make use of the research and teaching shops at Wright Lab.

For more information on the shop facilities at Wright Lab see:
https://wlab.yale.edu/facilities

NPA Seminar: Adriaan Duivenvoorden, Flatiron Institute; Simons Foundation, "Cosmology from the fine details of the microwave sky with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory"

Modern ground-based microwave observatories offer a high-resolution perspective on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and its secondary components, complementing galaxy surveys and the low resolution CMB data from the Planck and WMAP satellites. In this talk, I will introduce two such observatories, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Simons Observatory. The ACT collaboration is preparing to release its sixth public data release. This release, DR6, is the result from a 6-year-long survey covering 40% of the sky at arcminute resolution.

NPA Seminar: Deepa Thomas, The University of Texas at Austin, "Probing hot QCD matter with charm and beauty quarks"

Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions produce a hot and dense QCD matter, called Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Unlike in ordinary matter, quarks and gluons are not confined within short distances but can roam freely over distances larger than the hadronic scale in the state of QGP. Understanding this novel state of matter offers a new way to learn how quarks and gluons bind to form stable particles like the proton.

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