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Sierra Wilde successfully defends thesis, "Rare Event Searches in Neutrino Detectors"
Wilde developed tools and analyzed data for the nEXO and BeEST experiments to search for neutrinoless double beta decay and dark matter.
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In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
‘Human physics is not over’: Wright Lab physicist Sarah Demers elaborates on benefits and drawbacks of AI use in a “Quanta Magazine” Q&A.
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Yale Physics hosts 2026 Pathways to Science Summer Scholars
Members of the Yale Physics community taught 3 week-long workshops and 2 enrichment sessions for the 2026 Pathways to Science Summer Scholars Program.
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Gregory Penn successfully defends thesis, "The Search for Evidence of Electroweak Baryogenesis with Higgs Decays to Tau Leptons at ATLAS"
This thesis presents two searches for additional sources of Charge-Parity (CP) violation beyond those predicted by the Standard Model.
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Middle School students explore robotics, programming, and science at Yale Wright Laboratory
Wright Lab hosted a week-long program from July 27 to 31 for a cohort of middle school students from New Haven and surrounding towns.
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Human awarded Leigh Page Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching
The award recognizes broad and impactful contributions to physics education at Yale, both within the department and the broader community.
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2026 Summer Research Students present their work in final symposia
The 2026 Summer Student Research Program at Wright Lab supported 58 students.
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Lowe creates “The Physics of Light” course for women in prison
Lowe is starting a physics course for women at the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution through the Yale Prison Education Initiative.
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Group well-represented at Hard Probes 2026 conference
The conference focused on developments on perturbative probes of hot and dense QCD matter as studied in high-energy collisions.
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Wright Lab expands to explore the invisible Universe
The Wright Lab Exploration Wing includes new offices, research and technical facilities along with the Advanced Instrumentation Development Center.
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Garg Elected to RHIC & AGS Users' Executive Committee
The RHIC & AGS Users’ Executive Committee exists to keep communication flowing between BNL’s administration and the scientists who use it.
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Alex Reda successfully defends thesis, "Beam Calibration for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment"
Reda’s methods have given us a way to understand some features of the CHIME instrument that cannot be measured using other techniques.
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David Nguyen successfully defends thesis, "The Simons Observatory: Data Monitoring, Alarm System, and Half-wave Plate Study from First Light Data"
The thesis focuses on the software tools & analysis required for effective and efficient observatory operations in order to produce accurate results.
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Glenn Richardson successfully defends thesis, "Probing the Universe with 136Xe - The Physics Reach of nEXO"
Exploring how liquid xenon detectors can be used to make world-leading measurements of our Sun, extracting new science from existing technology.
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Suri and Thais write articles on AI for the APS Forum on Physics & Society Newsletter
Suri is a graduate student with Sarah Demers and Thais is a Wright Lab alum (Ph.D. 2019).
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Probing the Mysteries of Neutrinos a Mile Underground
4,850 feet beneath the surface of the Earth in a former gold mine, scientists & engineers are building an ambitious neutrino physics experiment: DUNE
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Xiran Bai successfully defends thesis, "Quantum Squeezing to Accelerate Axion Dark Matter Searches: From Demonstration to Broad Scan Range"
Bai’s thesis with the HAYSTAC experiment enabled broad range scans that go beyond just small-scale demonstrations.
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Wright Lab research represented at DAMOP conference
Several Wright Lab research groups presented their work at the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics meeting.
