May 19, 2025
The Howard L. Schultz Prize, established in 1977 in honor of Howard, L. Schultz, ‘37 PhD, is awarded to outstanding seniors in the Yale Physics Department. The awardees for 2025 and their senior projects are listed below, with names in bold representing members of Wright Lab.
- Nathan Apfel*+ ’25 BS, Mathematics & Physics. Advisor: Nir Navon. “Superfluid vortex excitations”
- Wayne Ariston*+ ’25 BS, Physics (Int.). Advisor: Nicholas Read. “Non-trivial eigenvalues of the Liouvillian in open quantum systems”
- Timothy Atkeson*+ ’25 BS, Physics (Int.). Advisor: Hong Tang. “Phase-Locking in a Fiber Optic Squeezed Light Setup”.
- Grant Fitez* ‘25 BS, Physics (Int.) Advisor: Helen Caines. “Automation of LFHCal Tile Measurements”.
- Henry Kaplan+ ‘25 BS, Physics (Int.). Advisor: Laura Havener. “Characterization of HRPPD tiles for the pfRICH detector at ePIC”.
- Alex Roseman*+ ’25 BS, Physics (Int.). Advisor: Steven Zucker. “Optimal Transport to Compare Manifold Inference Results”.
- Misheal Saah ‘25 BS, Mathematics & Physics. Advisor: Ian Moult. “Asymptotic Symmetries and Soft Theorems in Gravity: A Light-Ray Approach”
* indicates distinction in the major
+ indicates induction into Sigma Pi Sigma
bold text indicates member of Wright Lab