2015 Photo Contest

  • First Place - Postdoc Andreas Stergiou unraveling current mysteries in High Energy Theory. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
    First Place - Postdoc Andreas Stergiou unraveling current mysteries in High Energy Theory. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
  • Second Place - Nature at Yale exists - a barred owl on the top of Science Hill near Sloane Physics Lab! Taken by Grace Pan.
    Second Place - Nature at Yale exists - a barred owl on the top of Science Hill near Sloane Physics Lab! Taken by Grace Pan.
  • Third Place - Bikes on central campus (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    Third Place - Bikes on central campus (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • Fourth Place - Colored phase contrast images of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii cells. Photo by Veikko Geyer.
    Fourth Place - Colored phase contrast images of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii cells. Photo by Veikko Geyer.
  • A Walkway next to SPL (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    A Walkway next to SPL (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • Central campus in the fall (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    Central campus in the fall (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • Central campus in the fall (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    Central campus in the fall (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • Central campus in the fall (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    Central campus in the fall (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • East Rock (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    East Rock (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • HGS in the spring (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    HGS in the spring (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • SPL in the summer (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    SPL in the summer (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • Top of East Rock in the spring (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    Top of East Rock in the spring (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • View from the top of East Rock in the fall (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    View from the top of East Rock in the fall (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • Wooster Square cherry blossoms (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    Wooster Square cherry blossoms (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • Wooster Square (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
    Wooster Square (photo by Anna Kashkanova)
  • WNSL Tandem (photo by Richard Casten)
    WNSL Tandem (photo by Richard Casten)
  • Strolling on snowy Hillhouse Avenue (photo by Fabio Del Sordo)
    Strolling on snowy Hillhouse Avenue (photo by Fabio Del Sordo)
  • Urban Meadow (photo submitted by Laurelyn Celone)
    Urban Meadow (photo submitted by Laurelyn Celone)
  • Lux: Ideas Through Light, the light show projected on the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Taken by Grace Pan.
    Lux: Ideas Through Light, the light show projected on the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Taken by Grace Pan.
  • (Some of) the women who planned the 2015 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at a group reunion at Professor Sarah Demers' house. Taken by Steve Demers.
    (Some of) the women who planned the 2015 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at a group reunion at Professor Sarah Demers' house. Taken by Steve Demers.
  • A bronze statue of Christopher Columbus faces one of many blossoming Japanese cherry trees in Wooster Square, inspiring adventure and exploration. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
    A bronze statue of Christopher Columbus faces one of many blossoming Japanese cherry trees in Wooster Square, inspiring adventure and exploration. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
  • Post doctoral researcher Daniel McCarron fine tuning his experiment in Professor David DeMille’s Atomic Physics lab. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
    Post doctoral researcher Daniel McCarron fine tuning his experiment in Professor David DeMille’s Atomic Physics lab. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
  • Post doctoral researcher Daniel McCarron fine tuning his experiment in Professor David DeMille’s Atomic Physics lab. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
    Post doctoral researcher Daniel McCarron fine tuning his experiment in Professor David DeMille’s Atomic Physics lab. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
  • A glimpse of various elements involved in the Atomic Physics experiments conducted in Professor Jack Harris’s lab. Photo by Jennifer Stergiouj
    A glimpse of various elements involved in the Atomic Physics experiments conducted in Professor Jack Harris’s lab. Photo by Jennifer Stergiouj
  • Graduate student David Mason hard at work in a web of lasers, lenses, wires, and computers within Professor Jack Harris’s lab. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
    Graduate student David Mason hard at work in a web of lasers, lenses, wires, and computers within Professor Jack Harris’s lab. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
  • Technology used in the Atomic Physics research inside Professor David DeMille’s lab. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
    Technology used in the Atomic Physics research inside Professor David DeMille’s lab. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
  • A liquid helium freezer cools components in Professor Jack Harris’s lab to just 4 degrees above absolute zero! Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
    A liquid helium freezer cools components in Professor Jack Harris’s lab to just 4 degrees above absolute zero! Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
  • Professor David Poland carefully considers a point raised by a colleague during a discussion. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
    Professor David Poland carefully considers a point raised by a colleague during a discussion. Photo by Jennifer Stergiou
  • Four undergraduates practicing for the PHYS 166 practical exam. Photo by Sidney Cahn
    Four undergraduates practicing for the PHYS 166 practical exam. Photo by Sidney Cahn
  • Jonathan Edwards College. Photo by Anna Kashkanova
    Jonathan Edwards College. Photo by Anna Kashkanova
  • Wooster Square in Spring. Photo by Anna Kashkanova
    Wooster Square in Spring. Photo by Anna Kashkanova
  • Picture of Daliang Li kayak fishing on Quinnipiac river of new haven. Taken by Jun Wang
    Picture of Daliang Li kayak fishing on Quinnipiac river of new haven. Taken by Jun Wang
  • Farmington canal trail next to the students health center. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
    Farmington canal trail next to the students health center. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
  • Leaves at the East Rock Park. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
    Leaves at the East Rock Park. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
  • Livingston Street. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
    Livingston Street. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
  • River at the East Rock Park. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
    River at the East Rock Park. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
  • Sleeping Giant from a distance. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
    Sleeping Giant from a distance. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
  • Sun and trees at the East Rock park. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
    Sun and trees at the East Rock park. Photo by Alexey Shkarin
  • Simulation of an isolated and reactivated axoneme from the single cell green alga Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii. Presented is a standard deviation plot of a movie, showing the in-circle swimming of the axonemal structure. Regions of red color depict a frequent encounter, whereas blue regions depict transient encounter. The image is by Veikko F. Geyer.
    Simulation of an isolated and reactivated axoneme from the single cell green alga Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii. Presented is a standard deviation plot of a movie, showing the in-circle swimming of the axonemal structure. Regions of red color depict a frequent encounter, whereas blue regions depict transient encounter. The image is by Veikko F. Geyer.
  • Visitors taking a tour inside the Yale tandem Van de Graaf particle accelerator. (photographer: I think Karsten?). Submitted by Danielle Norcini
    Visitors taking a tour inside the Yale tandem Van de Graaf particle accelerator. (photographer: I think Karsten?). Submitted by Danielle Norcini
  • Visitors taking a tour inside the Yale tandem Van de Graaf particle accelerator. (photographer: I think Karsten?). Submitted by Danielle Norcini
    Visitors taking a tour inside the Yale tandem Van de Graaf particle accelerator. (photographer: I think Karsten?). Submitted by Danielle Norcini
  • Tom Langford, Ke Han, and Danielle Norcini (left to right) filling the PROSPECT20 liquid scintillator neutrino detector in the new labspace in Wright Laboratory. (photo by Ke Han)
    Tom Langford, Ke Han, and Danielle Norcini (left to right) filling the PROSPECT20 liquid scintillator neutrino detector in the new labspace in Wright Laboratory. (photo by Ke Han)
  • Sloane Pysics Lab. Photo by Dani Heller
    Sloane Pysics Lab. Photo by Dani Heller
  • Enthusiastic crowd at the public tour of the Tandem Accelerator at Wright Lab. Photo by Ke Han.
    Enthusiastic crowd at the public tour of the Tandem Accelerator at Wright Lab. Photo by Ke Han.
  • Karla, Supraja and Tyler (and me) working on one of the last problem sets of the semester. Photo by Christian Weber
    Karla, Supraja and Tyler (and me) working on one of the last problem sets of the semester. Photo by Christian Weber
  • Undergraduate students in the 165 lab during their final exam. Photo by Christian Weber
    Undergraduate students in the 165 lab during their final exam. Photo by Christian Weber
  • Sanford Research Lab underground lab showing the LUX gas system. Photo by Lucie Tvrznikova
    Sanford Research Lab underground lab showing the LUX gas system. Photo by Lucie Tvrznikova
  • Sanford Research Lab the hoist room for the cage we take to get to the lab. Photo by Lucie Tvrznikova
    Sanford Research Lab the hoist room for the cage we take to get to the lab. Photo by Lucie Tvrznikova
  • Yale LUX group stand-up paddle boarding during our analysis workshop in UCSB this February. Photo by Markus Horn
    Yale LUX group stand-up paddle boarding during our analysis workshop in UCSB this February. Photo by Markus Horn
  • One of the CUORE crystal towers in the final assembly stage in a glove box. Photo by Ke Han.
    One of the CUORE crystal towers in the final assembly stage in a glove box. Photo by Ke Han.
  • Long lines outside Wright Lab to bid farewell to the Tandem Accelerator on a chilly Saturday morning. Photo by Ke Han.
    Long lines outside Wright Lab to bid farewell to the Tandem Accelerator on a chilly Saturday morning. Photo by Ke Han.
  • PROSPECT photo multiplier tubes being characterized at Wright Lab. Photo by Ke Han.
    PROSPECT photo multiplier tubes being characterized at Wright Lab. Photo by Ke Han.
  • Department farewell party for the big blue Tandem Accelerator tank with an image of the tank installation in 1987 projected on the wall. Photo by Ke Han.
    Department farewell party for the big blue Tandem Accelerator tank with an image of the tank installation in 1987 projected on the wall. Photo by Ke Han.
  • Yale high voltage test apparatus for noble liquid dark matter detectors. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    Yale high voltage test apparatus for noble liquid dark matter detectors. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • Downtown New Haven and the East Rock neighborhood at sunset, as viewed from above Orange street. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    Downtown New Haven and the East Rock neighborhood at sunset, as viewed from above Orange street. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • Ice crystals growing on the rim of a dewar containing liquid nitrogen. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    Ice crystals growing on the rim of a dewar containing liquid nitrogen. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • An Orchard Oriole at Sunken Meadow State Park, on the north shore of Long Island. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    An Orchard Oriole at Sunken Meadow State Park, on the north shore of Long Island. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • Physics graduate student Lucie Tvrznikova assembles a camera viewport on a liquid argon high voltage test experiment. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    Physics graduate student Lucie Tvrznikova assembles a camera viewport on a liquid argon high voltage test experiment. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • Interior view of the PIXeY liquid xenon detector at Yale. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    Interior view of the PIXeY liquid xenon detector at Yale. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • Testing the calibration LED of the PIXeY liquid xenon detector at Yale. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    Testing the calibration LED of the PIXeY liquid xenon detector at Yale. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • Interior structures of a Hamamatsu R8778 photomultiplier tube, as used in the LUX dark matter experiment. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    Interior structures of a Hamamatsu R8778 photomultiplier tube, as used in the LUX dark matter experiment. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • A snapping turtle crossing the Farmington Canal bicycle trail, Hamden, Connecticut. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    A snapping turtle crossing the Farmington Canal bicycle trail, Hamden, Connecticut. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • Canopy view of cherry blossoms in Wooster Square, New Haven. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    Canopy view of cherry blossoms in Wooster Square, New Haven. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • Detail of Cherry blossoms in Wooster Square, New Haven. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    Detail of Cherry blossoms in Wooster Square, New Haven. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • Visiting “Squeaky”, the resident cat at the Edgerton Park public greenhouse, New Haven. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
    Visiting “Squeaky”, the resident cat at the Edgerton Park public greenhouse, New Haven. Photo by Ethan Bernard.
  • The “urban meadow” behind Wright Lab, taken last fall. Photo by P. Farnsworth.
    The “urban meadow” behind Wright Lab, taken last fall. Photo by P. Farnsworth.
  • A hawk landing on the front roof of the Wright Lab. Photo by P. Farnsworth
    A hawk landing on the front roof of the Wright Lab. Photo by P. Farnsworth
  • The central barrel of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Photo by Raymond Ehlers
    The central barrel of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Photo by Raymond Ehlers
  • muon spectrometer of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Photo by Raymond Ehlers
    muon spectrometer of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Photo by Raymond Ehlers
  • A beam test (at the Proton Synchrotron at CERN) of upgrades to the Time Projection Chamber of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Photo by Raymond Ehlers
    A beam test (at the Proton Synchrotron at CERN) of upgrades to the Time Projection Chamber of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Photo by Raymond Ehlers
  • Optics used in laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of strontium monofluoride. The first laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of a molecule were achieved at Yale. Photo by Matt Steinecker
    Optics used in laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of strontium monofluoride. The first laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of a molecule were achieved at Yale. Photo by Matt Steinecker
  • Optics used in laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of strontium monofluoride. The first laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of a molecule were achieved at Yale. Photo by Matt Steinecker
    Optics used in laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of strontium monofluoride. The first laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of a molecule were achieved at Yale. Photo by Matt Steinecker
  • The Yale Bulldog, Handsome Dan, came to visit the new lab spaces in the Wright Laboratory. Submitted by Danielle Norcini
    The Yale Bulldog, Handsome Dan, came to visit the new lab spaces in the Wright Laboratory. Submitted by Danielle Norcini
May 4, 2015

Gallery of photo submissions for 2015 Photo contest