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July 6, 2022
July 4, 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the announcement during a seminar at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) that the discovery of a new fundamental...
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July 1, 2022
On June 29, 2022, Benjamin Foust successfully defended his thesis, “Precise Measurement of the U-235 Antineutrino Energy Spectrum” (advisor: Karsten Heeger). Foust explained...
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June 22, 2022
On June 21, Wright Lab officially welcomed 7 students from Italy who are participating in the inaugural ONAOSI-Yale Undergraduate Research Experience in Instrumentation at...
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June 13, 2022
Wright Lab hosted three Yale Alumni Weekend tours of Wright Lab on May 28, led by Karsten Heeger, professor of physics, director of Wright Lab, and chair of the Yale Physics...
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June 13, 2022
On June 8, Wright Lab held a community coffee hour to welcome a portion of the 20 undergraduate researchers who will be working at the lab this summer.   Present at the event...
June 6, 2022
Yale Physics professor Reina Maruyama, who is also a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, was interviewed by Sophia Chen for Heising-Simon’s 1400degrees.org.  The interview,...
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June 2, 2022
Over nearly nine years, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment captured an unprecedented five and a half million interactions from subatomic particles called neutrinos. Now...
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May 25, 2022
The sixth annual Equity in the Job Search Symposium was held partially online and in person on May 13, 2022. This year’s theme was “Mastering Inclusive Mentoring to Catapult...
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May 23, 2022
Congratulations to seven of our Wright Lab graduating seniors, who have been awarded prizes from the Yale Physics department. The Howard L. Schultz Prize for being an...
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May 23, 2022
Wright Lab congratulates our graduating students in the class of 2022, including: Ph.D. Graduates Emma Castiglia (advisor Sarah Demers), “Machine Learning for Tau Leptons...