Category Archives: WIPAC
South Pole Science at UW-Barron County
Jim Madsen at the South Pole. Image: J. Roth, NSF On most days, the South [...]
Madison-area teacher and students headed to Antarctica
Students and teachers reviewing equipment that will be taken along on their Antarctic expedition. Image: [...]
WIPAC spring high school internship program begins
Three area high school students working together on an LED project. Image: L. Norris, IceCube [...]
Wisconsin or Antarctica?
The polar vortex that has enveloped the Midwest has created an interesting scenario: temperatures in [...]
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 [...]