Ian Moult, assistant professor of physics, and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, has won the Wu-Ki Tung Award for Early-Career Research on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) for his “pioneering work on QCD energy correlators, including their all-orders factorization, multi-loop structure, phenomenological applications, and connections to conformal field theory”.
His work has focused on developing new theoretical techniques to improve our understanding of real world collider experiments, with applications in particle and nuclear physics. A number of the approaches he introduced were first demonstrated in measurements by graduate students Andrew Tamis and Ananya Rai in Wright Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Group, which is led by Helen Caines, Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics, and Laura Havener, assistant professor.
The Wu-Ki Tung award is to recognize outstanding contributions made by early-career physicists on experimental or theoretical research on QCD.