Category Archives: WIPAC

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, [...]

WIPAC at the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics in Madison

The UW–Madison Department of Physics hosted a meeting of the Conference for Undergraduate Women in [...]

Everything you always wanted to know about the IceCube detector

The IceCube detector has been explained widely—in many different languages and in hundreds of locations [...]

Can cosmic rays eventually reveal their origin?

A recent work by Markus Ahlers, a John Bahcall fellow at WIPAC, has shown that [...]

Meet Gretel and Roberto, two physicists-in-training

This summer, two students worked with WIPAC throught the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at [...]

IceCube search for the ‘sterile neutrino’ draws a blank

In an effort to fill in the blanks of the Standard Model of particle physics, [...]

High school interns benefit from tackling IceCube challenges

As the summer is heating up, two local high school students are chilling out working [...]

Feds renew big IceCube observatory contract with UW–Madison

The National Science Foundation today, March 30, announced that it has renewed a cooperative agreement [...]