Wright Lab research represented at 2026 APS Global Physics Summit

The 2026 American Physical Society (APS) Global Physics Summit was held in Denver, Colorado from March 15-20. This conference brought together scientists from around the world and from across all disciplines of physics to showcase their work, connect with others, and discover groundbreaking physics research. The theme of this year’s conference was “Science for a Shared Future.”  

Yale Physics was well-represented at the conference, with several members of Wright Lab presenting or represented as contributing authors.  Please see below for additional information. 

Invited talks & panels 

• Helen Caines, Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics, Recreating the First Microsecond: What Heavy-Ion Collisions Reveal About the Universe’s Secrets 

• Sarah Demers, professor of physics and chair of APS Panel on Public Affairs, EVW-L02 AI Town Hall: A Conversation on the Future of Physics and AI 

• Prakhar Garg, research scientist, Design and Performance Overview of the ePIC Detector at the EIC 

• Laura Havener, assistant professor, Jet Quenching at the LHC 

• Yogesh Patil, research scientist, Magnetically Levitated Drops of Superfluid Helium: Measuring Brownian Motion and Optical Backaction 

Additional invited talks that include Wright Lab authors: 

• Inclusive Jet Production at NNLO + NNLL for Breakthroughs in QCD at the Collider Frontier (Wright Lab co-author: Ian Moult) 

Session chairs 

• Caines, Jet Quenching in the Quark-Gluon Plasma from RHIC to the LHC 

• Demers, Physics of Particle Flavor 

Contributed session presenters 

• Claire Laffan, graduate student, Results from Axion Search with HAYSTAC (Wright Lab co-authors: Xiran Bai, Reina Maruyama, Michael Jewell) 

• Siddhant Mehrotra, graduate student, Optical Trapping of Xenon for Beyond Standard Model Physics Searches (Wright Lab co-authors: Lucas Darroch, David Moore) 

Additional contributed session talks that include Wright Lab authors: 

• Design and preliminary test of a kinetic inductance millimeter-wave converter (Wright Lab co-author: Konrad Lehnert) 

• Quantum non-demolition measurement of a microwave cavity via a remote Josephson converter (Wright Lab co-author: Konrad Lehnert) 

• ATLAS On the Air! - Measuring the Success of the ATLAS Virtual Visit Programme (Wright Lab co-author: Elise Le Boulicaut Ennis) 

Focus session talks 

• Sierra Wilde, graduate student, Searching for Invisible Decay Modes of Nuclear Excited States with the BeEST 

Additional focus session talks that include Wright Lab authors: 

• High-throughput bidirectional microwave-to-optical transduction assessed with a practical quantum capacity (Wright Lab co-author: Konrad Lehnert) 

• Single photon detector measurement of a membrane transducer in a dilution refrigerator (Wright Lab co-author: Konrad Lehnert) 

• Optomechanical ground-state cooling of a 5 MHz silicon nitride membrane mode in a closed-cycle dilution refrigerator (Wright Lab co-author: Konrad Lehnert) 

• Towards integrating a coherent microwave single-photon source with a high-throughput electro-optic transducer (Wright Lab co-author: Konrad Lehnert) 

• Superconducting switches for modular quantum networks (Wright Lab co-author: Konrad Lehnert) 

• Thermal nonlinearity and readout-induced TLS heating in phononic crystal resonators (Wright Lab co-author: Konrad Lehnert) 

• Statistical Methods for Data Cleaning with the BeEST Phase-III Heavy Neutrino Search (Wright Lab co-authors: Katie Ream, Sierra Wilde) 

Poster session 

• Tunable Inductive Bridge for readout while reducing resonator thermal photons. (Wright Lab co-author: Konrad Lehnert)