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 [...]