Instructor in machine shop pointing out how to use milling machine to group of students who are watching.

Training

Wright Lab leads and provides access to training workshops, classes, and safety orientations for the Advanced Prototyping Center (APC), machine shop, and computing facilities, as well as professional development opportunities.

Classes and workshops hone skills that enable students and researchers to design and build their own research experiments and instrumentation, analyze data, publish results that contribute to answering the most challenging questions in the field of physics today, and develop project management skills.

  • Advanced Prototyping Center

    For information on access and training for the APC, please E-mail Craig Miller.

  • Shop Training

    The Yale course PHYS 7620L, Laboratory in Instrument Design and the Mechanical Arts provides shop training. For more info, contact David Johnson. 

  • Computing

    Wright Lab provides access to training on a range of topics through its partnership with the Yale Center for Research Computing. For more information, contact Seraphim McGann.

  • Safety

    Wright Lab provides a series of laboratory safety trainings and Environmental Health & Safety shop orientations. For more information, contact Jeff Ashenfelter.

Professional Development

The Yale Physics Professional Development Organization (YPPDO), founded in 2017 by two Wright Lab graduate students, is focused on providing physical science Ph.D.s and postdocs with information, contacts, and resources on a range of career opportunities, especially outside academia. YPPDO talks are supported by the Yale Physics Department and Wright Lab.

YPPDO Seminar Organizers YPPDO Website
YPPDO Alumni Panel where alumni are on zoom screen and audience is sitting at tables facing screen.

Training Contacts