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