This page has information about Yale Ph.D. alumni who completed their thesis work at Wright Lab from 2013 to the present.
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Alumni News
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Yale Physics alumnus Andrew J. Lankford awarded Wilbur Cross Medal
Experimental particle physicist Andrew J. Lankford ’72, ’78 PhD and three other Yale Graduate School alumni, were awarded the Wilbur Cross Medal.
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Experiments Refute Dark Matter Claim
The thesis work of Wright Lab graduate student Sophia Hollick in the Reina Maruyama group significantly contributed to this result.
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Wright Lab students awarded 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Four Wright Lab students and one alum have been awarded 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
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Thesis Defense News
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Andrew Tamis successfully defends thesis, "Measurement of Energy Correlators Within Jets at STAR"
Presents the first measurement of energy correlators at RHIC in proton-proton collisions, and introduces a method that will enable future measurements
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Chitres Guria successfully defends thesis, “Measuring the geometry and topology of non-Hermitian systems”
The thesis is study of Newtonian mechanics of a simple, but ubiquitous system of coupled classical harmonic oscillators, whose parameters can be tuned
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Benjamin Siegel successfully defends thesis, "Arrays of Optomechanically Levitated Microspheres"
Siegel’s research aims to realize large arrays of levitated objects for improving the sensitivity of beyond the Standard Model physics searches.
