2026 Summer Student Research Program at Wright Lab Symposium and Luncheon

Friday Jul 31, 2026, 9:00 AM → 2:00 PM US/Eastern

305 (Bass)

AGENDA   10:00 a.m. Eloise Benchley Visualizing Nuclear Spectrums with Photomultiplier Tubes Caines 10:15 a.m. Nathan Burns The ePIC Collaboration: QA and Improvements of SiPM-on-Tile Designs Caines 10:30 a.m. Jesse Lior Automated SiPM Surface Imperfection Analysis Caines 10:45 a.m. Brad Foutz Machine Learning Cherenkov Event Reconstruction Havener 11:00 a.m. Lucas Weaver Quantifying and Correcting Background Distortion in the Lund Jet Plane Havener 11:15 a.m. Sylvie Sanok Dufallo  Cooling a Magneto-Gravitationally Levitated Water Droplet Moore 11:30 a.m. Kilian Schlager TFINER rotor development Moore 11:45 a.m. Yuchong Chen Spin Transport in Ultracold Fermi Gas Navon 12:00 p.m. Lunch     12:30 p.m. Sahar Mokal Using PID control to regulate oven temperature for the RAY experiment Maruyama 12:45 p.m. Emely Rivas Design of a Square Helmholtz Coil System for RAY Maruyama 1:00 p.m. Ben Braecklein  Project 8 electron trap coils  Heeger 1:15 p.m. Emery Cunningham How to Assemble a Cryocube Maruyama/Heeger 1:30 p.m. Lucy  Fagan Designing Muon Veto Prototypes for the CUPID experiment Heeger/Maruyama 1:45 p.m. Pablo Macias Lopez Design, Fabrication, and Assembly of the CUPID Muon Veto Detector Panels Maruyama/Heeger 2:00 p.m. Aryan Bawa Quantum Singular Value Transformation on NISQ Hardware Ding, Girvin Zoom link: 94253152699 Passcode: 890647

The 9-week Wright Lab summer student research program is open to undergraduates and postgraduates who are doing research this summer at the Yale Physics Department, the Yale Astronomy Department, or the Yale Quantum Institute (YQI), including those in certain associated programs at Hopkins Authentic Research Program in Science (HARPS), SCSU (Werth IAF/Quantum Pie), and QuantumCT

01-Benchley-Summer-Symposium-2026.pdf

02-Burns-Presentation of Research - WL Summer 2026.pdf

03-Lior SiPM QA.pdf

04-Foutz-Summer-Symposium-2026.pdf

05-Weaver-Summer-Symposium-2026.pdf

06-Sanok_Dufallo-Summer-Symposium-2026.pdf

07-Schlager - Yale Summer Symposium 2026.pdf

08-Chen_Spin_Transport_2026.pdf

09-Mokal Summer 2026 Wright Lab Presentation.pdf

11-Ben Braecklein Summer 2026 slides (1).pdf

12-Cunningham Cryocube Assembly.pdf

13-Fagan-Yale-Summer-Symposium-2026.pdf

14-MaciasLopez-Summer-Symposium-2026_2.pdf

15-bawa_yqi_26X_presentation.pdf

Agenda

Aryan Bawa Recording

Ben Braecklein Recording

Brad Foutz Recording

Eloise Benchley Recording

Emely Rivas Recording

Emery Cunningham Recording

Jesse Lior Recording

Kilian Schlager Recording

Lucas Weaver Recording

Lucy Fagan Recording

Nathan Burns Recording

Sahar Mokal Recording

Sylvie Sanok Dufallo Recording

Yuchong Chen Recording