Yearly Archives: 2017
Week 22 at the Pole
Another busy week for IceCube’s winterovers—they were paged several times to deal with crashes and [...]
Week 21 at the Pole
Last week, IceCube’s winterovers were quite busy. There were a few battery and other power [...]
WIPAC scientists lead UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative award
Kael Hanson, WIPAC director and a professor of physics at UW–Madison, has been awarded a [...]
Week 20 at the Pole
Last week at the Pole saw the start of a new physics run and some [...]
The IC86-2017 physics run: better neutrino alerts and a brand-new monitoring system
It’s that time of the year. Down at the South Pole, our team is in [...]
Week 19 at the Pole
There are privileges that come with winterovering at the South Pole. Being able to step [...]
Week 18 at the Pole
If you find yourself at the South Pole, and the sky above you is sparkling [...]
The IceCube Collaboration meeting and IPA conference in Madison
The Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) was excited to recently host two meetings on [...]
Week 17 at the Pole
It surely is a staircase to the stars. That’s the ICL’s staircase, set against a [...]
Week 16 at the Pole
Arms up—let’s hear it for auroras! With an extremely stable IceCube detector that needed little [...]