Yale Society of Physics Student Picnic 2025
Annual picnic hosted by the Yale Society of Physics Students as a celebration of the end of the academic year and as a thank you to faculty and staff.
Annual picnic hosted by the Yale Society of Physics Students as a celebration of the end of the academic year and as a thank you to faculty and staff.
Join STEM Hill Day and the Kimball Smith Series for a discussion on the role of science advocacy in shaping public policy, featuring Tara Drozdenko, Director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. This one-hour event will explore how scientists, researchers, and science-based policymakers can effectively communicate their expertise to lawmakers, navigate the complexities of science advocacy, and contribute to evidence-based policymaking.
Date: Friday, December 6th
Time: 3-4:30 pm
Location: GM Room, Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave
Speaker: Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist at X-energy, Dr. Eben Mulder
Register here: https://forms.gle/hh9tUf5F3V67qJQeA
In addition to being the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne and the only person ever to have won Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry, Marie Curie welcomed other women into her lab. It was her lab from the untimely death of her husband, Pierre, in 1906, till her own death in 1934. She ran it, enlarged it, moved it into the imposing new Radium Institute, and peopled it with an international assembly of scientists, more than forty of whom were women, including her daughter Irène, the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Now in science operations, NASA’s Webb Telescope is the most powerful telescope ever built. Science results are now pouring in from Webb like a waterfall. In this talk, Dr. Riby will summarize what this Webb is, how it works, and the breadth and the depth of its science program, from planets in our own solar system to galaxies seen when the Universe was young. She will touch on the power of using Webb in combination with cosmic telescopes, also known as gravitational lenses.
*Registration for this event is full.*
On behalf of the Department of Physics, we are excited to invite Yale community members to an exclusive viewing of rare physics books, including works by Newton and Gauss.
Join the Kimball Smith Series for a moderated panel followed by small group discussions regarding quantum technologies and their relevance to international affairs.
The panel will feature Mark Ritter (Chair of Physical Science Council at IBM Research) and Robert Schoelkopf (Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics; Director of Yale Quantum Institute). Both panelists are members of the U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee.
Pre-register at https://forms.gle/GmzCEAyQoAcGmRkA9 so we can plan teams in advance; walk-ins also welcome
More info and agenda are at https://wlab.yale.edu/visualize
Speaker: Professor Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief of the Science Family of Journals and a Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University.
Host: Asian Faculty Association at Yale.
Co-sponsors: Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale, Kimball Smith Series.
Reception following presentation. No registration is required for the lecture.
Register below for a lecture by Richard Rhodes, historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb.” Light dinner will be provided. Yale community members of all disciplines and levels of expertise are encouraged to attend.
Co-sponsors: Physics Department, History Department.
Partners: Wright Laboratory, Political Science Department.
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