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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The search is on for signs of the first stars in the universe

May 10, 2024
Yale’s Priyamvada Natarajan and colleagues say the first stars left behind distinctive flares that can be detected by a new generation of space telescopes. Astronomers at...

Gabriel T Assumpção awarded the 2023-2024 D. Allan Bromley Graduate Fellowship in Physics

May 9, 2024
Gabriel T Assumpção is the recipient of this year’s Yale Physics D. Allan Bromley Graduate Fellowship in Physics. Assumpção’s citation reads, “For his...
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Zemenu selected as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar

May 8, 2024
Barkotel Zemenu  is one of seven  Yale affilates who  are among 90 scholars from 30 countries to be named Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University. The scholars were...
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Physics Community Gathers to Celebrate Accomplishments

May 6, 2024
On Friday, May 3, 2024 members of the Yale Physics community gathered to celebrate the end of a successful academic year and to recognize the accomplishments of its members....
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