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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Varun Jorapur successfully defends thesis, "Towards a Bose-Einstein Condensate of SrF molecules"

April 17, 2024
On April 12, Varun Jorapur successfully defended the thesis “Towards a Bose-Einstein Condensate of SrF molecules” (advisor: David DeMille). Varun explained, “Ultracold polar...
Left to right: Charles Brown, Yoram Alhassid, Nir Navon, Chris Greene (Purdue University), Grant Schumacher, and Jack Harris

Grant Schumacher successfully defends thesis, "Stability of a Three-Component Fermi Gas"

April 15, 2024
On April 12, Grant Schumacher successfully defended the thesis “Stability of a Three-Component Fermi Gas” (advisor: Nir Navon). Grant explained, “Understanding how systems...
people sitting in chairs looking at a panel of people who are in front of a chalkboard.

Society of Physics Students hosts regional meeting

April 15, 2024
The Yale chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) hosted their first day-long regional meeting for New England (SPS Zone 1) on April 13, 2024.  Twenty students...
Left to right: Jorge Torres, Isabella Graf, Farnik Nikakhtar, and Yogesh Patil

Yale Physics Postdoctoral Advisory Committee holds town hall

April 15, 2024
The Yale Physics Department’s Postdoctoral Advisory Committee (PDAC) recently held its Spring 2024 town hall meeting. The current committee consists of Isabella Graf (...
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