March 2022 News

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Michael Oliver successfully defends thesis, “Measurement of Correlations Between Neutral Pions and Charged Hadrons in Heavy Ion Collisions with ALICE”

March 21, 2022
On Monday, March 14, 2022, Michael Oliver successfully defended his thesis, “Measurement of Correlations Between Neutral Pions and Charged Hadrons in Heavy Ion Collisions...
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Yale Physics welcomes NSF MPS-Ascend postdoctoral fellow Fernando Flor

March 18, 2022
Yale Physics and Wright Lab welcome Fernando Flor, a postdoctoral fellow working with Helen Caines and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Group.  Flor is the first postdoctoral...
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Emma Castiglia successfully defends thesis, “Machine Learning for Tau Leptons and the Search for the Associated Production of a Higgs Boson with a Vector Boson, with the Higgs Boson Decaying to a Tau Pair at ATLAS”

March 18, 2022
On March 11, 2022, Emma Castiglia successfully defended the thesis “Machine Learning for Tau Leptons and the Search for the Associated Production of a Higgs Boson with a...
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William Thompson successfully defends thesis, “Searching for Dark Matter with COSINE-100”

March 18, 2022
On March 8, 2022, Yale Physics and Wright Lab graduate student William Thompson successfully defended the thesis “Searching for Dark Matter with COSINE-100”. (Advisor:...
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Research Traineeship for Diversity in Nuclear Physics pilot program established at Wright Lab

March 18, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded support for a 2-year pilot Research Traineeship for Diversity in Nuclear Physics program at Wright Lab. The traineeship...