Wright Lab students and alumni awarded Yale Physics’ Howard L. Schultz, Sr. Prize

The Yale Physics Department annually selects oustanding seniors in the department for the Howard L. Schultz, Sr. PhD. ‘37  Prize; based on faculty nominations and academic achievement. 

Wright Lab congratulates current members Elsa Durcan, Luke Mozarsky, Rose Powers,  and  Barkotel Zemenu; as well as Wright Lab alumni Sophia Getz and Argyris Giannisis Manes; for being awarded the 2024 prize, along with Jessie Chen, who works with Yale Physics assistant professor Meng Cheng.  More details about the students and their senior projects follow.

• Jessie Chen. B.S., Physics (Int.) with Distinction in the Major  / Computer Science. Advisor: Meng Cheng. Senior Project, “Lindbladian Dynamics in Open–System Phase Transitions with Strong-to-Weak SSB”. A member of Sigma Pi Sigma.
• Elsa Durcan. B.S., Physics (Int.) / History of Science, Medicine and Public Health; member of Yale’s Wright Lab. Advisor: Reina Maruyama. Senior Project, “Superconducting Nanowire Electron Detectors for the RAY Experiment”. A member of Sigma Pi Sigma.
• Sophia Getz. B.S., Economics / Physics with Distinction in the Major. Advisor: Juan Lora. Senior Project: “Modeling Climate Impacts of Deforestation in the Amazon”. A Member of Sigma Pi Sigma.
• Argyris Giannisis Manes. B.S., Physics (Int.) with Distinction in the Major / Mathematics. Advisor: Shruti Puri. Senior Project, “Distance-preserving stabilizer measurements in hypergraph product codes”.
• Luke Mozarsky. B.S., Physics (Int.) with Distinction in the Major / Statistics and Data Science; member of Yale’s Wright Lab. Advisor: Helen Caines. Senior Project, “Tuning the Herwig 7.2 Monte Carlo Event Generator using Professor 2.0”. A member of Sigma Pi Sigma.
• Rose Powers. B.S., Physics (Int.) with Distinction in the Major; member of Yale’s Wright Lab. Advisor: Sarah Demers. Senior Project: “Photon Energy Resolution Studies for a 10TeV Muon Collider”. A member of Sigma Pi Sigma.
• Barkotel Zemenu. B.S., Physics (Int.) with Distinction in the Major; member of Yale’s Wright Lab. Advisor: David Moore. Senior Project: “Characterizing the Outgassing of Electronegative Impurities in nEXO”. A member os Sigma Pi Sigma.