Welcome from the Chair The Department of Physics offers studies in a wide range of fields leading to Baccalaureate and Doctoral degrees. The Department has a diverse faculty pool with the majority of professors having their primary appointment in the Physics Department. Many faculty members have joint appointments in other departments at Yale. These include Applied Physics; Astronomy; Mechanical Engineering; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Chemistry; Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry; Mathematics; Philosophy; Computer Sciences & Mathematics; and Geology & Geophysics. The specific interests of the Department's faculty members fall into several areas of research which are detailed on the Department's Research Web-page.		Weekly Physics Club Colloquium Usually held Fridays at 4:00 pm in 57 Sloane Physics Laboratory Tea at 3:30 in SPL 3rd Floor Lounge PHYSICS CLUB FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2008 SPL 57, 4:00 PM Paul Sommers Pennsylvania State University The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory: the high energy frontier of astroparticle physics [Abstract] For complete semester calendar please click here. Current News R. Shankar (John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics) and Robert Schoelkopf (Professor of Applied Physics & Physics) have won top prizes from the APS. Congratulations are due to them both! Click here for more details. (October 2008) Student Scientists Board NASA Aircraft for Weightless Experiment in Yale Bulletin Friday, September 26, 2008. Getting to zero gravity in Houston in Yale Daily News Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Notice: Physics Club will be moving to Mondays at 4:00 pm starting in the Spring semester. (September 2008) Click here for previous news items.
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