Category Archives: WIPAC
WIPAC and IceCube are at Madison’s Holiday Fantasy in Lights!
Have you seen WIPAC's display at the Holiday Fantasy in Lights show in Madison, WI? [...]
IceCube at ScienceWriters 2020
Like the vast majority of conferences and meetings this year, ScienceWriters 2020 went virtual in [...]
How do astronomers test-drive a telescope?
Graduate student Leslie Taylor helped fine-tune a high-energy gamma-ray telescope this summer. Detecting the Crab [...]
WIPAC stands for diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice
We are outraged by the death of Mr. George Floyd.
Winter at the Whipple Observatory: Leslie Taylor’s four months commissioning the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope
University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate student Leslie Taylor spent four months in Arizona recently. Her research [...]
UW–Madison scientists play instrumental role in proving viability of innovative gamma-ray telescope
Scientists in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium have detected gamma rays from the Crab [...]
UW–Madison astrophysicists donate computing resources to aid COVID-19 research
Some of WIPAC's computing resources are beingused to simulate protein folding of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible [...]
Physics department honors three WIPAC graduate students
Every year, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Physics Department offers a number of awards to their [...]
WIPAC’s Response to COVID-19
WIPAC's number one priority has always been the health and safety of its employees, and [...]
Researchers continue to narrow in on dark matter
There are theories that say neutrinos—shy, lightweight fundamental particles—may provide the key to understanding dark [...]