Category Archives: WIPAC
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 [...]
WIPAC researchers find that ultra-high-energy neutrinos are detectable by IceCube after all
IceCube researchers at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), a research center of the [...]
SDSC, WIPAC Conduct GPU Cloudburst Experiment
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), an Organized Research Unit of UC San Diego; and [...]
An all-sky cosmic-ray proton anisotropy search with Fermi-LAT
Collaborators from Fermi-LAT realized that the abundance of cosmic-ray protons in the LAT data set [...]
A successful ICRC 2019
It has been a week since the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference ended in Madison, [...]