Sigma Pi Sigma exists to honor outstanding scholarship in physics and astronomy, to encourage interest in physics and astronomy among students at all levels, to promote an attitude of service, and to provide a fellowship of persons who have excelled in physics and astronomy. Founded in 1921, Sigma Pi Sigma is a member honor society of the Association of College Honor Societies. Election to Sigma Pi Sigma is a lifetime membership.
Current Academic Year Inductees
Class of 2027 Inductees
Hope Applegate
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Research Project: “Monitoring Beam Health in the Mu2e Experiment”
John Cho
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); History
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Max Colomer
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Steven Konezny
Research Project: “Electrical Characterization of CuSCN After Hydrogen Exposure”
Kelly Dai
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: Yu He
Research Project: “LEED-IV Curve Analysis for Surface Structure of Fe1/3NbS2”
Ian Gill
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics (Intensive)
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Aleksander Kubica
Research Project: “Generalized matching decoders for 2D topological translationally-invariant codes”
Benny Gruenbaum
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Research Project: “Estimating Muon Stops in the Mu2e Luminosity Stream”
Jerry Li
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Meng Cheng
Research Project: “Topological Order in the Kitaev Quantum Double Model”
Andres Luengo
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Computer Science
Residential College: Trumbull College
Advisor: Earl Bellinger
Research Project: “Data-Driven Modeling of Red Giant Oscillation Background Parameters”
Vasilisa Malenkiy
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: David Moore
Research Project: “Next Generation HVeV Detectors for the BeEST Experiment”
Siddiq Mohammed
Major(s): Biomedical Engineering; Biomechanics & Mechanobiology; Physics
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Corey O’Hern
Research Project: “Droplet Breakup & Coalescence in Dense Obstacle Arrays”
Gha Yuan Ng
Major(s): Physics; Economics
Residential College: Silliman College
Marvin Odobashi
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Corey O’Hern
Research Project: “An Optimized Package for the Deformable Particle Model”
Ashton Perlroth
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Saybrook College
Yasmine Samolada
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Engineering Science-Mechanical
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Laura Havener
Research Project: “Design optimizations of the pfRICH detector for enhanced particle identification at the Electron-Ion Collider”
Rebecca Schussheim
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Lizzie Seward
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Humanities
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: Logan Wright
Research Project: “Achieving µm-scale interference fringes for patterning Brilliant Yellow azo-dye”
Ronald Thorpe
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Humanities
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: Steven Konezny
Research Project: “Conductivity Analysis of Thin-Film Copper (I) Thiocyanate (CuSCN)”
Robin Tsai
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics (Intensive)
Residential College: Trumbull College
Roberto Wick
Major(s) Physics
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: Michael Murrell
Research Project: “Particle Microrheology Reveals Confined Probe Motion in Elastic F-Actin PEG/DEX Droplets”
Nick Wojnar
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Timothy Dwight College
Advisor: Nir Navon
Research Project: “Leggett-Rice Effect in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas”
Donglin Wu
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Daisuke Nagai
Research Project: “Constraining Feedback Using Dispersion Measures of Fast Radio Bursts from Their Host Halos”
Class of 2026 Inductees
Mason Abrell
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Global Affairs
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: Hong Tang
Research Project: “Quantum Laser Across The Sound: Building Up A Lab”
Alexander Adams
Major(s): Physics; History: United States
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Advisor: Marla Geha
Research Project: “Mars Mission Abort Options”
Peter Bowman-Davis
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Jun Korenaga
Research Project: “Symbolic Regression for Orientation-Dependent Eshelby Tensor in Transversely Isotropic Media”
Simon Britton
Major(s): Chemistry (Intensive); Physics
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: Nir Navon
Research Project: “Exactly Solvable Dephasing Models for a 1D Noninteracting Fermi Gas”
Maddi Brown
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Laura Havener
Research Project: “Exploring the R-Dependence of Jet Formation in Proton-Proton Collisions”
Cayden Cerveny
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mechanical Engineering
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Bauyrzhan Primkulov
Research Project: Simulating Non-Reciprocal Interactions in Pilot Wave Hydrodynamics
Tanish Chettiar
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Trumbull College
Jeb Cui
Major(s): Computer Science; Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Damon Clark
Research Project: “Distribution of Dense Core Vesicles in Fruit Fly Neurons”
Quinn Ennis
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Timothy Dwight College
Advisor: Shu Hu
Research Project: “Chiral Specific Chemical Interactions on Faceted Strontium Titanate”
Sam Friedman
Major(s): Physics & Philosophy
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Helen Caines, Daniel Grimmer
Research Project: “Geiger Counters and the Particle Problem: Pragmatic Limits of QFT Ontology”
Edos Herwegh Vonk
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Philosophy
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: David Moore
Research Project: “Optimising Feedback Cooling on an Optically Trapped Nanoparticle”
Morgan Holien
Major(s): Mathematics & Physics
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: Charles Bailyn
Research Project: “Models of Anamalous Orbital Decay in Compact Black Hole X-ray Binaries”
Tavian Jones
Major(s): Applied Mathematics; Physics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Michael Hatridge
Research Project: “Hamiltonian Simulation and Chirped Pulse Optimization for Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers”
Christian Kang
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Peter Rakich
Research Project: “Non-classical phonon states in cavity optomechanical systems”
John Kiely
Major(s): Physics; Applied Mathematics
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Ian Adelstein
Research Project: “Diffusion-Based Higher-Order Optimal Transport for Geophysical Data”
Anh-Thai Le
Major(s): Mathematics (Intensive); Physics
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Richard Kenyon
Research Project: “Induced Vertex Transformations for Spin-1/2 Vertex Models”
June Lee
Major(s): Mathematics; Physics
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Witold Skiba
Research Project: “Half-Filled Landau Lowest Levels on the Fuzzy Sphere”
Nina Liu
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Computer Science
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Malena Rice
Research Project: “Hot-Jupiter-Hosting Binary Systems are Preferentially Eccentric”
Alexand Mader
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Simon Mochrie
Gabriel Marous
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Fengnian Xia
Research Project: “Topological Properties of Bilayer Graphene in Superlattice Potentials”
Ethan Martinez
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pauli Murray Colege
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Research Project: “Reconstructing Tau Leptons in a 10 TeV Muon Collider”
Nikita Mazotov
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Daniel Mladek
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Humanities
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Advisor: Maureen Long
Research Project: “Testing the Mantle Upwelling Hypothesis for the Northern Appalachian Anomaly via the Effects of Anisotropy on SKS Waveforms”
Alexander Morand
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Engineering Science-Mechanical
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Corey O’Hern
Andrew Nupp
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Diana Qiu
Research Project: “Benchmarking VAE–Based Corrections to DFT Band Structures”
Emily Peng
Major(s): Physics; Applied Mathematics
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: “Preliminary Insights About Attrition in Physics Majors at Yale”
George Ploumis
Major(s): Engineering Science-Mechanical; Physics (Intensive)
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Research Project: “Exploring a lower muon threshold for Higgs→ττ triggers in a search for Charge-Parity Violation”
Aiden Pulmano
Major(s): Chemical Engineering; Physics
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Yehia Khalil
Research Project: “Comparing Once-Through and Recycling in the United States: Environmental and Economic Analysis of Nuclear Fuel Cycles”
Cleber Redondo
Major(s): Physics; Economics
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Laura Havener
Research Project: “Construction of Neutron and Gamma Shielding for HRPPD Irradiation Tests”
Ingrid Rodríguez Vila
Major(s): Physics; Philosophy
Residential College: Branford College
Pranet Sharma
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Economics
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Nir Navon
Research Project: “Progress Towards an Optical Tweezer Array of Sr Atoms”
Noah Silverberg
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics (Intensive)
Residential College: Trumbull College
Advisor: Emily Draeger
Research Project: “Monte Carlo Validation of a GammaMed Plus Ir-192 Source and Leipzig Applicator Toward Flattening-Filter Design for Surface HDR Brachytherapy”
Jaden Uram
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Jack Harris
Research Project: “Fabricating a Glass Microbubble Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator”
Rohan Wassink
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Advisor: David Poland
Research Project: “Fabricating a Glass Microbubble Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator”
Nicolas Wyszkowski
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Hui Cao
Research Project: “Emission and Dynamics in Systems with Nonlinear Exceptional Point Degeneracies”
Maryanne Xu
Major(s): Physics; History: Global
Residential College: Pierson College
Iffat Zarif
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Research Project: “Development of a Photon Filter for the Mu2e Experiment”
Daniel Zhang
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Aleksander Kubica
Research Project: “Smallest Magic State Distillation Protocol”
Zachary Zitzewitz
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Logan Wright
Research Project: “Towards Hyperscale Computing with Optical Neural Interconnects”
Previous Year’s Inductees
Nathan Apfel
Major(s): Mathematics & Physics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Nir Navon
Research Project: “Axisymmetric excitations of superfluid vortices”
Diego Aspinwall
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Saybrook College
Timothy Atkeson
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Hong Tang
Research Project: “Phase-Locking in a Fiber Optic Squeezed Light Setup”
Aaron Chizhik
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Music
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Karsten Heeger
William Cho
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Steven Konezny
Adrian Hall
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Joe Howard
Henry Kaplan
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Laura Havener
Reece Kirkpatrick
Major(s): Physics; Political Science
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Steve Lamoreaux
Quazi Rumman Rahman
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Edurado Higino da Silva Neto
Alex Roseman
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Steven Zucker
Research Project: “Maniforld Inference”
Matt Bruning
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Yehia Khalil
Research Project: “Root Cause Analysis of the Nuclear Accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi”
Jessie Chen
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Computer Science
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: Meng Cheng
Research Project: “Lindbladian Dynamics in Open–System Phase Transitions with Strong-to-Weak SSB”
Sri Devulapalli
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Charles Bailyn
Research Project: “ML Classification of XRB Spectral and Timing Properties”
Kameron Duncan
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Jack Harris
Research Project: “Measuring Femtometer Displacement in High-finesse Cavity Optomechanics”
Elsa Durcan
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); History Science, Medicine & Public Health
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Reina Maruyama
Research Project: “Superconducting Nanowire Electron Detectors for the RAY Experiment”
Sofia Fausone
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics & Philosophy
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Joe Howard
Research Project: “Data-Driven Discovery of Governing Equations: Microtubule Dynamic Instability”
Sofie Fusco
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Steven Konezny
Research Project: “Exploring Copper-Thiocyanate (CuSCN) as a Hole Transport Layer in Thin-Film Photovoltaic Cells (PVCs)”
Sophia Getz
Major(s): Economics; Physics
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Juan Lora
Research Project: “Modeling Climate Impacts of Deforestation in the Amazon”
Michael Lee
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: “Investigating the Zak Transform and its applications to Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) quantum error correction”
Michael Lin
Major(s): Physics; Economics
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Reina Maruyama
Research Project: “Synthetic Signal Injection Routines for the Haloscope At Yale Sensitive to Axion Cold Dark Matter (HAYSTAC)”
Ben McDonough
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics (Intensive)
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Steven Girvin
Research Project: “Tensor-network perspectives on gauging SPT phases”
Rachel Merrill
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Trumbull College
Advisor: Stephen Irons and Alison Sweeney
Research Project: “Investigating the Impact of Introductory Lab Experiments on Students’ Physics Self-Efficacy”
Eitan Meir Minsky-Fenick
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Michael Loewenberg
Research Project: “Unsteady-State Particle Distribution in Poiseuille Flow”
Luke Mozarsky
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Statistics and Data Science
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Helen Caines
Research Project: “Tuning the Herwig 7.2 Monte Carlo Event Generator using Professor 2.0”
Alexa Pan
Major(s): Physics & Philosophy
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: L.A. Paul
Research Project: “Cooperating with Changing Selves: A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Self-Modifying Rational Agents”
Pranav Parakh
Major(s): Mathematics & Physics
Residential College: Timothy Dwight College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: “Design, Testing, and Fabrication of a Cavity Shield & Simulation of Trajectory States”
Rose Powers
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Research Project: “Photon Energy Resolution Studies for a 10TeV Muon Collider”
Juan Recoaro
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Jack Harris
Research Project: “Probing Supercooled Water with a Magnetic Levitation Platform”
Michael Sacks
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Simon Mochrie
Research Project: “Recovering 3-Dimensional Loci Dynamics with Multiple Particle Tracking”
Varun Varanasi
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Statistics and Data Science
Residential College: Timothy Dwight College
Advisor: Jun Korenaga
Research Project: “Investigation of Autocatalytic Reaction Networks”
Elizabeth Welch-Jani
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Spanish
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: “Corrected Luminosity Distribution for AGN at Redshift 1”
David Wells
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Trumbull College
Advisor: Nir Navon
Research Project: “Phase impriting a vortex on an ultracold fermi gas”
Barkotel Zemenu
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: David Moore
Research Project: “Characterizing the Outgassing of Electronegative Impurities in nEXO”
Olivia Aspegren
Major(s): Physics-Intensive with Distinction
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: “The Relative Sensitivity of eROSITA, Chandra and XMM-Newton to Heavily Obscured AGN”
Eric Chavez
Major(s): Physics; Spanish (Intensive)
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Steven Konezny
Research Project: “PTAA Solar Cells”
Nikhil Harle
Major(s): Physics (Intensive) with Distinction
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: “Exploring the Computational Complexity of Hilbert Space and Phase Space with Numerical Simulations”
Tausif Hossain
Major(s): Physics (Intensive) with Distinction
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Research Project: “The Mu2e Trigger Rates Analysis and Data Quality Monitor Development”
Richard Li
Major(s): B.S., Physics (Intensive) with Distinction
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Steven Girvin
Research Project: “Hybrid Qubit-Bosonic Mode
Quantum Computers and Cat-State Amplification”
Helena Lyng-Olsen
Major(s): Physics with Distinction; English
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Mary-Louise Timmermans
Neal Ma
Major(s): Physics (Intensive) with Distinction
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Diana Qiu
Research Project: “Modelling Two-Dimensional HfSe2 and the Screening Effects of HfO2”
Claire Recamier
Major(s): Physics with Distinction
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Nikhil Padmanabhan
Research Project: “Investigating Fuzzy Dark Matter through Stellar Streams”
Kohsuke Sato
Major(s): Physics with Distinction
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Charles Baltay
Yu Jun Shen
Major(s): Electrical Engineering with Distinction; Physics with Distinction
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Abhishek Bhattacharjee
Research Project: “Investigation of Variational Quantum Eigensolver techniques in Qiskit”
Alejandro Simon
Major(s): Physics (Intensive) with Distinction; Computer Science
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Abhishek Bhattacharjee
Research Project: “A Quantum Algorithm for the Leaky Competing Accumulator”
Tristan Weaver
Major(s): Physics (Intensive) with Distinction; Mathematics (Intensive)
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Sami Alves
Major(s): Physics; Computer Science
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Damon Clark
Keon Azar
Major(s): Physics; Economics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Gregory Laughlin
Research Project: “Conducting simulations of multi-exoplanet systems in order to characterize their orbital dynamics and constrain their masses”
Amanda Butler
Major(s): Astronomy; Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Daisuke Nagai
Jack Chapman
Major(s): Physics & Philosophy
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Mark Gerstein
Research Project: “Applying Quantum Neural Networks to Problems in Bioinformatics “
Jeff Cieslikowski
Major(s): Political Science; Physics
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Alexey Fedorov
Research Project: “Physical Forcings of ENSO under a Warming Climate”
Rebecca Dai
Major(s): Physics; History
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Helen Caines
Sarah Dickson
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: David Moore
Research Project: “Detection of Whispering Gallery Modes in Optically-Levitated Microspheres”
Ryan Flynn
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Daisuke Nagai
Research Project: “Shattering in the Intergalactic Medium in TNG100”
Luke Grossman
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Nir Navon
Matt King
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics (Intensive)
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Advisor: Bonnie Fleming
Research Project: “Pion Absorption Cross Section Measurement in Liquid Argon”
Charlie Mayhew
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); History
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: David Moore
Jack McArthur
Major(s): Chemistry; Physics
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Diana Qiu
Research Project: “Molecular dielectric embedding GW for ionically bonded hybrid perovskites”
Georgia Michelman
Major(s): Physics; History
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Daniel Qenani
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Davenport College
Advisor: Keith Baker
Research Project: “Quantum K-Means Algorithm for Signal Processing of H → ZZ* → 4l as Proof of Quantum Entanglement”
Annika Salmi
Major(s): Physics; Astronomy
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Will Sun
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Steven Girvin
Research Project: “Generating Qubits with QGANs”
Jiawei Tang
Major(s): Physics; Applied Mathematics
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Ben Togni
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Grace Hopper College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Charlie Uchno
Major(s): Physics; Economics
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: Alison Sweeney
Jean Wang
Major(s): Physics (Intensive); Mathematics & Philosophy
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Steven Girvin
Research Project: “Frequency Stability of Oscillator Systems”
Grace Zdeblick
Major(s): Mathematics; Physics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: “Identifying Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning”
Yiming Zhang
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Jack Harris
Research Project: “Building a Optomechanical Platform for Eigenvalue Braids and Knots”
Laura Zhou
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Nir Navon
Amer Al-Hiyasat
Major(s): Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry; Physics
Residential College: Pauli Murray College
Advisor: Jonathon Howard
Research Project: “A Non-Equilibrium Mechanism of Spastin’s Accumulation on Shrinking Microtubule Tips”
Nicholas Archambault
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Juan Lora (EPS)
Research Project: “An Energy Balance Model of Moist Static Energy Flux on Titan”
India Bhalla-Ladd
Major(s): Physics & Philosophy
Residential College: Timothy Dwight College
Advisor: Sarah Demers
Research Project: “M2T: Late-Projected Transverse Mass Calculation in a Search for VH,H→ττ in ATLAS Run 2”
Joe Brownsberger
Major(s): Physics & Philosophy
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: “Evaluating Retrocausal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics”
Shoumik Chowdhury
Major(s): Mathematics & Physics
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: “Investigating multi-photon nonlinear resonances and dynamical effects in driven superconducting qubits”
Caleb Clothier
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Krish Desai
Major(s): Mathematics (Intensive); Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Silliman College
Advisor: Thomas Appelquist
Research Project: “String Theory”
Noah Goodman
Major(s): Physics; Humanities
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Teddy Hague
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Nir Navon
Research Project: “Electromagnetic Sensor Assembly in Yale’s Ultracold Quantum Laboratory”
Gabe Hoshino
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Benjamin Franklin College
Advisor: Reina Maruyama
Research Project: “Measurements with a Desktop Muon Detector”
Shantanu Jha
Major(s): Mathematics & Physics
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Michel Devoret
Research Project: “Universal Control of Weakly Coupled Cavity-Transmon System”
Derek Kuldinow
Major(s): Mechanical Engineering; Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Timothy Dwight College
Advisor: Juan da la Mora
Research Project: “Cluster Sizing Studies in a Diffusive Condensation Particle Counter”
Alex Lathem
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Berkeley College
Advisor: David C. Moore
Research Project: “Outgassing of Electronegative Impurities in nEXO Candidate Polymers”
Lucy McEwan
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Branford College
Advisor: Shelly Lesher
Research Project: “Erbium 168 Transition Probabilities from Lifetime Measurements”
Shaun Radgowski
Major(s): Physics; East Asian Studies
Residential College: Morse College
Advisor: Shruti Puri
Research Project: “State-Overlap Hamiltonians in QAOA: Performance Advantage for Quantum Machine Learning”
Sajan Ramanathan
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Ezra Stiles College
Advisor: Laura Newburgh
Research Project: “Ringmap Statistics for the CHIME Telescope”
Isabel Sands
Major(s): Physics (Intensive)
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Nikhil Padmanabhan
Research Project: “Linear Approximations to UltraLight Dark Matter Stationary States”
Sukhman Singh
Major(s): Mathematics & Physics
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Steve Lamoreaux
Research Project: “Signal Processing Techniques for the HAYSTAC Experiment”
Tyler Tavrytzky
Major(s): Engineering Science-Mechanical; Physics
Residential College: Pierson College
Advisor: Mark Reed
Research Project: “Merit of Nanowire Biosensors to Detect Pathogenic Organisms”
Miles Waits
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Jonathan Edwards College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: “Determining the Dependence of AGN Obscuration on Redshift and Luminosity”
Chris West
Major(s): Physics; Computer Science & Mathematics
Residential College: Saybrook College
Advisor: Julie Zimmerman
Research Project: “Energy Demand of Supercritical Nanoparticle Synthesis Using Ethanol and Water”
Ben Zolkiewicz
Major(s): Physics
Residential College: Trumbull College
Advisor: Meg Urry
Research Project: “Project to be completed”