Congratulations Class of 2024

happy graduating students in cap and gown.
May 20, 2024

Wright Lab congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2024, including:

Yale Physics Ph.D. Graduates

  • Varun Jorapur, ‘24 (advisor Steve Lamoreaux), “Towards a Bose-Einstein Condensate of SrF molecules”
  • Jakob Kastelic, ‘24 (advisor Steve Lamoreaux), “Search for Time-Reversal-Symmetry Violation in Thallium Fluoride Using a Cryogenic Buffer-Gas Beam Source”
  • Tong Liu, ‘24 (advisor Helen Caines), “Inclusive Hadron Yield Analysis in Small and Mid-sized Collision Systems at Sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV at STAR”
  • Daniel Nemes, ‘23 (advisor Helen Caines), “Semi-Inclusive Measurement of the Shared Groomed Momentum Fraction of Jets in Au+Au Collisions at STAR”
  • Lauren Saunders, ‘23 (advisor Laura Newburgh), “Telescope Pointing for the Simons Observatory: Data Acquisition & Control Software, Calibration, and Modeling”

Yale Applied Physics Ph.D. Graduates

  • Sumita Ghosh, ‘23 (advisor Reina Maruyama), “Harnessing HAYSTAC for Hidden Photons and Advancing Rydberg Atom-based Axion Detection”
  • Yiqi Wang, ‘23 (advisor Jack Harris), “Manipulating and measuring states of a superfluid optomechanical resonator in the quantum regime”
  • Lucy Yu, ‘23 (advisor Jack Harris), “Toward the Quantum Control of the Motional State of Superfluid 4He in a Optomechanical Resonator”

Yale Physics Undergraduates

  • Kameron Duncan+ (advisor Jack Harris), “Measuring Femtometer Displacement in High-finesse Cavity Optomechanics”
  • Elsa Durcan+ (advisor Reina Maruyama), “Superconducting Nanowire Electron Detectors for the RAY Experiment”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Michael Lin+ (advisor Reina Maruyama), “Synthetic Signal Injection Routines for the Haloscope At Yale Sensitive to Axion Cold Dark Matter (HAYSTAC)”
  • Luke Mozarsky+ (advisor Helen Caines), “Tuning the Herwig 7.2 Monte Carlo Event Generator using Professor 2.0”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Rose Powers*+ (advisor Sarah Demers), “Photon Energy Resolution Studies for a 10TeV Muon Collider”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Juan Recoaro*+ (advisor Jack Harris), “Probing Supercooled Water with a Magnetic Levitation Platform”
  • Jack Roche (advisor Helen Caines), “Establishing a Methodology for Scintillating Tile Characterization”
  • Barkotel Zemenu*+ (advisor David Moore), “Characterizing the Outgassing of Electronegative Impurities in nEXO”

Yale Astronomy Undergraduate

  • Audrey Cesene (advisor Laura Newburgh), “Noise Source Printed Circuit Board and Drone Payload Iterations: High Precision Drone Radio Telescope Calibration”

We also congratulate the following graduating undergraduate students who have worked at Wright Lab as part of their academic journey:

  • Jessie Chen*+ (advisor Meng Cheng), “Lindbladian Dynamics in Open–System Phase Transitions with Strong-to-Weak SSB”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Sophia Getz*+ (advisor Juan Lora), “Modeling Climate Impacts of Deforestation in the Amazon”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Argyris Giannisis Manes* (advisor Shruti Puri), “Distance-preserving stabilizer measurements in hypergraph product codes”. Winner, Howard L. Schultz Prize
  • Eitan Meir Minsky-Fenick*+ (advisor Michael  Loewenberg), “Unsteady-State Particle Distribution in Poiseuille Flow”

*indicates distinction in the major
+ indicates induction into Sigma Pi Sigma