News

Eduardo da Silva Neto (Research Scientist) awarded 2019 NSF Career Award

January 16, 2020
Eduardo da Silva Neto (Research Scientist, to start as an Assistant Professor in Physics on July 1, 2020) has been awarded an NSF Career Award, “Determining the Role of...
By Charles Levy - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56719

New undergraduate course examines the “Impact of the Atom”

January 12, 2020
Shelly Lesher, Yale Presidential visiting fellow and visiting associate professor in physics in residence at Wright Lab, is offering a new course for undergraduates entitled...

Shantanu Mundhada defends graduate thesis "Hardware-efficient autonomous quantum error correction"

December 23, 2019
On December 19, 2019, Shantanu Mundhada successfully defended his thesis, “Hardware-efficient autonomous quantum error correction” (Advisor: Michel Devoret). Mundhada...
The thesis committee (L-R): O. Keith Baker, Francesco Iachello, Brooke Russell, Bonnie Fleming, Steve Lamoreaux. Image courtesy of Brooke Russell.

Brooke Russell defends graduate thesis “An Electron Neutrino Appearance Search in MicroBooNE with 5 x 10^19 POT”

December 16, 2019
On December 6, 2019, Brooke Russell successfully defended her thesis, “An Electron Neutrino Appearance Search in MicroBooNE with 5 x 1019 POT” (advisor Bonnie Fleming)...
Left: A new image of the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov. Right: A composite image of the comet with a photo of the Earth to show scale. (Pieter van Dokkum, Cheng-Han Hsieh, Shany Danieli, Gregory Laughlin)

Pieter van Dokkum (the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy) research in the news

December 3, 2019
Yale astronomers have taken a new, close-up image of the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov. 2l/Borisov, first spotted this summer, continues to draw nearer to Earth and will...