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September 15, 2023
From June 5 to August 4, 2023, Wright Lab hosted a 9-week summer research program for undergraduates, postgraduates, and high school students, in partnership with the Yale...
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September 12, 2023
The neutrino is an elusive subatomic particle that passes effortlessly through normal matter and plays an outsized role among the particles that comprise our universe. To...
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September 8, 2023
Wright Lab welcomes Celín Hidalgo and Sergio Oscar Nuñez Silva, who have both been selected as Wright Lab DOE Research Trainees for Diversity in Nuclear Physics for the...
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September 1, 2023
On August 21, 2023, Lauren Saunders successfully defended the thesis “Telescope Pointing for the Simons Observatory: Data Acquisition & Control Software, Calibration, and...
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August 21, 2023
In July 2023, members of the Wright Lab community taught three week-long workshops and two enrichment sessions for the 2023 Pathways Summer Scholars–a free two-week summer...
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August 4, 2023
On Wednesday, August 2, Yiqi Wang, an applied physics student and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, successfully defended the thesis “Manipulating and measuring states of a...
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July 27, 2023
On Friday, July 21, Sumita Ghosh successfully defended the thesis, “Harnessing HAYSTAC for Hidden Photons and Advancing Rydberg Atom-based Axion Detection” (advisor Reina...
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July 7, 2023
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is designed to create a 3-D map of the sky that will allow researchers to measure the effects of dark energy on the expansion...
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June 16, 2023
Karsten Heeger, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, chair of the physics department, and director of Wright Lab; and his collaborators in the Daya Bay collaboration have...
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June 12, 2023
Barkotel Zemenu, a rising senior majoring in Physics (Intensive), co-president of Yale Society of Physics Students (SPS), and member of Yale Wright Lab’s Moore group, was...