2022 Hoodie Ceremony
    PHYS 260/261 (2018-19) reunion. Photo by Steven Girvin
    Edward Bouchet mural by Kwadwo Adae on Henry Street, New Haven
    Research group
    Quantum sensors
    Instrumentation Lunch presentation
    Optical table
    Seminar
    PROSPECT assembly
    Presentation
    SBND APA
    Poster session
    Outreach
    Physics graduates
    Yale Pathways to Science outreach
    Outreach with Yale Pathways to Science
    Optical trapping of microspheres
    HAYSTAC
    CUORE Cryostat
    COSINE-100
    CHIME
    ALICE event
    Women in Physics
    PROSPECT team
    Laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of strontium monofluoride. (Matt Steinecker)
    PROSPECT photo multiplier tubes (Ke Han)
    Colored phase contrast images of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii cells. (Veikko F. Geyer, Benjamin M. Friedrich)
    Displacing oxygens in the interfacial layer of a LSMO/BTO interface. (Alexandru Bogdan Georgescu)
    Confocal image of mouse keratinocytes. (Aaron Mertz)
    ATLAS detector from above (Lawrence Lee)
    Quantum Mixmaster Excitation State (2,1) in Minisuperspace (Joseph Bae)

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March 26, 2024
Yale Physics alum Emma Ideal, Ph.D. ‘15 is now a data science & engineering leader at Netflix based in Los Angeles, CA.  We asked Dr. Ideal a few questions about her Yale...
Pictured L-R, Front row: Amin Karbasi, Ruzica Piskac. Middle row: Kidae Shin, Fengnian Xia Back row: Fred Walker, John Fortner, Yongshan Ding, Dean Jeffrey Brock, Jaehong Kim, Mark Saltzman, Fund Director Claudia Reuter, Jung Han. Not pictured: Charles Ahn, Ben Fisch.
March 22, 2024
Charles Ahn, the John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics, along with Fred Walker, senior research scientist in...
March 21, 2024
Chiara Mingarelli, assistant professor of physics, has been chosen as the recipient of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Career Award 2023. The MCAA Career Award...
Image courtesy of Yale Wright Laboratory/Victoria Misenti
March 8, 2024
On March 4-6, 2024,  researchers from Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the Flatiron Institute, and Argonne National Laboratory, who collaborate with Wright...