• PhysicsWorld
  December 2024
  Return to Helgoland: celebrating 100 years of quantum mechanics.
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• NATO Women and Girls in Science
  February 2024
  NATO launches challenge for women and girls in science. Winners travel to Belgium and Italy.
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• Helgoland2025
  January 2024
  A workshop on quantum mechanics's foundations and their applications will be held on the island of Helgoland on the precise centenary of Heisenberg's 1925 visit.
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• Yale Alumni Magazine
  July 2023
  Giovanna Truong (YC '23) discusses physics, yiddish, and juggling.
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• NewScientist
  June 2023
  Extremely cold drop of helium can be levitated forever.
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• Eighth GRC conference on Mechanical Quantum Systems
  May 2023
  The Gordon Research Conferences have announced that the eighth GRC on “Mechanical Systems in the quantum regime” will be held in Ventura, California from March 3 - 8, 2024 (together with a GRS on March 2 & 3).
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• Short Story Contest concludes
  May 2023
  Winners of the Quantum Steampunk Short Story Contest have been announced.
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• #BlackInPhysics Week essay series
  October 2022
  Group Alum (and codirector of Black In Physics) Charles Brown announces this year's series of six essays, published in Physics Today
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• Short Story Contest
  October 2022
  Submissions are solicited for original Quantum Steampunk short stories. Prizes will be awarded. The interdisciplinary panel of judges includes Jack Harris.
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• Undergradute Thesis Prize
  May 2022
  Yiming Zhang (YC '22) received the DeForest Pioneers Prize, which is awarded by the physics department each year "to a senior physics major for distinguished creative achievement in physics".
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• World Quantum Day
  April 2022
  Group alum Charles Brown is featured in a video from the White House celebrating World Quantum Day.
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• Seventh GRC conference on Mechanical Quantum Systems
  January 2022
  The Gordon Research Conferences have announced that the seventh GRC on “Mechanical Systems in the quantum regime” will be held in Ventura, California from June 19 - 24, 2022.
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• Group Alum Woody Underwood patents a new fiber polarisation scrambler
  December 2020
  U.S. patent application number 16/849665 was filed with the patent office on 2020-10-22 for fiber polarisation scrambler. This patent application is currently assigned to Nufern. The applicant listed for this patent is Nufern. Invention is credited to Mitchell UNDERWOOD, III.
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• Jack Harris presents the IBM QISKIT seminar
  October 2020
  Jack Harris presented his group's work on Single Phonon Quantum Acoustics with Superfluid Helium at the IBM QISKIT Seminar Series.
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• Group alum Charles Brown published a Commentary on Disentangling anti-Blackness from physics in Physics Today
  July 2020
  We encourage you to read Charles' piece and the links within it.
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• Jack Harris receives Vanenvar Bush Faculty Fellowship
  May 2019
  The Department of Defense (DoD) announced the selection of 10 distinguished faculty scientists and engineers for the 2019 Class of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows, today.
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• Seventh GRC conference on Mechanical Quantum Systems
  January 2019
  The Gordon Research Conferences have announced that the seventh GRC on “Mechanical Systems in the quantum regime” will be held in Courtyard by Marriott Hong Kong Sha Tin, Hong Kong, China from June 21 - 26, 2020.
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• Charles Brown wins “Best AMO Poster” at the 2018 NSBP Conference
  November 2018
  
• Charles Brown receives Ford Foundation Fellowship
  November 2018
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• Plaque commemorating Edward Bouchet’s Ph.D. work unveiled at Yale
  April 2017
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• Charles Brown receives the 2017 D. Allan Bromley Graduate Fellowship
  January 2017
  Charles Brown and Tonima Ananna have been named co-recipients of the 2017 D. Allan Bromley Graduate Fellowship in Physics.
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• Sixth GRC conference on Mechanical Quantum Systems
  January 2017
  The Gordon Research Conferences have announced that the sixth GRC on “Mechanical Systems in the quantum regime” will be held in Ventura, California from Feb. 25 - March 2, 2018.
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• Best Poster Award at Heraeus Seminar
  October 2016
  Anthony Lollo was awarded the 1st place poster prize at the Heraeus-Seminar Trends in Mesoscopic Superconductivity for his poster “Phase slips in mesoscopic superconducting rings.”
  
• Jack Harris is elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
  October 2016
  Charles Brown and Tonima Ananna have been named co-recipients of the 2017 D. Allan Bromley Graduate Fellowship in Physics.
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• Best Poster at Opto- and Electro-Mechanical Technologies
  July 2016
  David Mason was awarded best poster at Opto- and Electro-Mechanical Technologies in Monte Verita Switzerland.
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• APS Historical Site honoring Edward Bouchet
  June 2016
  Honoring Edward Bouchet and the original Sloane Laboratory, where he studied.
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• AKPA OYRA
  February 2015
  Donghun Lee receives the Outstanding Young Researcher Award.
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• Summer School on Quantum Optomechanics and Nanomechanics
  February 2015
  L’Ecole de Physique des Houches announces that a summer school on quantum optomechanics and nanomechanics will be held from August 3 - 28, 2015.
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• Fifth GRC conference on Mechanical Quantum Systems
  January 2015
  The Gordon Research Conferences have announced that the fifth GRC on “Mechanical Systems in the quantum regime” will be held in Ventura, California from March 6 - 11, 2016.
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• Special Issue of Annalen der Physik on Quantum and Hybrid Mechanical Systems
  January 2015
  Honoring Edward Bouchet and the original Sloane Laboratory, where he studied.
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• Charles Brown has won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  May 2014
  
• Katherine Lawrence has received a Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship
  March 2014
  
• Fourth GRC conference on Mechanical Quantum Systems
  January 2014
  The Gordon Research Conferences have announced that the fourth GRC on “Mechanical Systems in the quantum regime” will be held in Ventura, California from March 8 - 9, 2014.
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• L’Oréal USA Fellowship
  June 2012
  Postdoctoral associate Lily Childress has won the 2012 L’Oréal USA Fellowship for Women in Science.
• Andrew Jayich defends his thesis on Optomechanics
  February 2012
  

• Brian Yang defends his thesis on Optomechanics
  September 2011
  
• Ben Zwickl defends his thesis on Optomechanics
  February 2011
  
• Will Shanks defends his thesis on Persistent Currents in Normal Metal Rings
  January 2011
  
• Arthur Greer Memorial Prize
  January 2011
  The Gordon Research Conferences have announced that the third GRC on “Mechanical Systems in the quantum regime” will be held in Galveston, Texas from March 4 - 9, 2012.
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• Jack Harris receives the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize.
  January 2011
  

• DARPA Young Faculty Award
  July 2009
  Jack Harris has received a Young Faculty Award from DARPA.
• Best Poster” at the Heraeus Seminar
  July 2009
  Postdoctoral associate Jack Sankey received the “Best Poster” award at the Heraeus Seminar on “Quantum optics of nano- and micromechanical systems” in Bad Honnef, Germany.

• Discover Magazine
  December 2008
  Jack Harris has been named one of 20 under 40 by Discover magazine.
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• L’Oréal USA Fellowship
  March 2008
  Postdoctoral associate Ania Bleszynski Jayich has won the 2008 L’Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science. The L’Oréal USA Fellowships for Women in Science program is a national awards program that annually recognizes and rewards five U.S.-based women researchers at the beginning of their scientific careers.
• Martin and Beate Block Award
  February 2008
  Postdoctoral associate Ania Bleszynski Jayich has won the Martin and Beate Block Award for best poster at the Aspen Center for Physics Frontiers in Condensed Matter Systems Conference.

• Apker Finalist
  July 2007
  Undergraduate researcher Jeff Thompson is named as a finalist for the APS LeRoy Apker award.
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• Fulbright Grant
  April 2007
  Undergraduate researcher Jeff Thompson receives a Fulbright grant to study atomic physics in Mainz, Germany for one year.