Category Archives: WIPAC

WIPAC professor Stefan Westerhoff named 2013 APS fellow

Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin–Madison physics professor and faculty member at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle [...]

IceCube awarded the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year

The IceCube Lab in March, 2013. Apart from the U.S. flag, the flags from Chile [...]

BigData project uses gaming hardware to tackle radio data challenges

Large physics experiments are often developed in remote areas: the vast plains of Argentina, a [...]

HAWC explores gamma-ray astronomy

The above image depicts HAWC as it will appear when construction is complete in 2014. [...]

WIPAC education partners announce classroom engineering initiative

KSTF teachers learning about the IceCube drill during 2009  summer training at the UW PSL [...]

Published in Science: Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector

Today, nearly 25 years after the pioneering idea of detecting neutrinos in ice, the IceCube [...]

IceCube telescope stars in new planetarium show

A joint production of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) at UW–Madison and the [...]

A UW–Madison multidisciplinary team improves IceCube’s computing

By 2010, the year that construction was completed, it was clear that the IceCube Neutrino [...]

Fall 2013 high school Internship program opens

Last January, eight Madison-area high school students began an internship at Wisconsin’s only astrophysics research [...]

Maruyama named APS Woman Physicist of the Month

Reina Maruyama, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and faculty member at the Wisconsin [...]