Author Archives: Silvia Bravo

A search for neutrinos from fast radio bursts

Here comes a burst of electromagnetic radiation, a radio burst to be more precise. It [...]

Multimessenger astronomy and cosmic-ray detectors in another great WIPAC-QuarkNet internship

In the northwest corridor at WIPAC, voices are sporadic once again. The open work area [...]

WIPAC research at ICRC2017

Summer is a hot season for science conferences. And in astrophysics, the International Conference on [...]

WIPAC scientists lead UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative award

Kael Hanson, WIPAC director and a professor of physics at UW–Madison, has been awarded a [...]

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 [...]

The 2017 IceCube Masterclasses: connecting students and researchers through IceCube

The fourth edition of the IceCube Masterclass hosted over 200 students at 14 institutions in [...]

Summer season done, now ready for the long winter

Up until almost the last minute, the summer activities at the Pole kept the IceCube [...]

A science night in Spanish at the planetarium

Last Friday, over 150 Spanish speakers came out for a science night in Spanish at [...]

APS April meeting highlights: IceCube results on neutrino oscillations and WIPAC talks

The American Physical Society meeting on astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics, the so-called April [...]

Advancing neutrino, gamma-ray, and cosmic-ray astrophysics

Those of us working with high-energy neutrinos always have great expectations for a new year, [...]