News
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BNL-Yale collaboration in instrumentation development for the physical sciences
A group from Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Discovery Technologies Directorate visited the lab to discuss ongoing collaborations and new initiatives
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Wright Lab and Yale Physics host international exchange for outreach development
Verania Echaid Navarro, a Ph.D. student in Physics Education from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico visited Wright Lab in February.
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Malenkiy awarded Caltech WAVE Fellowship
Malenkiy will conduct research with President Rosenbaum, exploring quantum phase transitions via domain dynamics in microwave-driven quantum quenches.
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Heeger appointed to APS Committee on International Scientific Affairs
The three-year term runs from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2028.
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Knuesel elected to Diversity Office for the ALICE collaboration
Wright Lab graduate student Morgan Knuesel was elected as the junior representative to the Diversity Office of the ALICE Collaboration at the LHC.
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Insights & Outcomes: Methanol, mitochondria, and new science at CERN
Wright Lab graduate students Sierra Cantway and Andrew Tamis of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Group are featured in this Yale News Insights and Outcomes.
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‘We’re part of a whole’: Faculty contributions to Yale’s budgeting process
It takes a team to prepare Yale’s budget. Sarah Demers is one of the faculty serving in the Budget Advisory Group, helping Yale advance its mission.
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In pursuit of the post-inflation axion
Breaking with decades of haloscope design, the ALPHA and MADMAX collaborations are pushing the search for dark matter into a promising new niche.
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DESI — and the search to understand dark energy — get a day in the sun
Baltay discusses his work on a groundbreaking project that is creating a 3D map of the Universe and could answer questions about dark energy.
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YaleNews Insights & Outcomes: Lights, cameras — physics!
A new film documentary about faraway physics experiments includes a Yale-affiliated project in the South Pole and features Wright Lab’s Reina Maruyama
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Advancing the frontiers of physics at Wright Lab through advanced prototyping
The APC at Wright Lab has provided an advanced fabrication facility and design support for custom instrumentation within the Yale community since 2018
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Cantway invited by CERN to support ALICE detector operations and present thesis work
Wright Lab grad student Sierra Cantway was invited to spend three weeks at CERN to support detector operations and present thesis work.
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Tamis publishes results on the evolution of jets through time
Graduate student Andrew Tamis is pioneering the characterization of the evolution of jets through time to better understand the strong force.
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A story of physics at Yale
Eun-Joo Ahn—lecturer in physics, astrophysicist, and historian of science—presented “A Story of Physics at Yale” at the October 27 Physics Club.
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Undergraduates represent Yale Physics and win awards at SPSCon 2025
Six Yale Physics undergraduates attended the 2025 Physics and Astronomy Congress (SPSCon 2025) in Denver. The theme was Σupporting Our Πhase Σhifts.
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Science diplomacy for global security
Graduate student Talia Weiss recently traveled to Japan participate in the 63rd Pugwash Conference and ISYP early career conference in Hiroshima.
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Heeger elected to APS DNP Executive Committee
Heeger was elected to a two-year term on the Executive Committee for the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP).
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Yale Physics hosts Haunted Hallway and Halloween Demo Show
About 275 people attended, with students and their families coming from public schools in New Haven, West Haven, and Orange.
