IceCube, the Antarctic neutrino detector that in July of 2018 helped unravel one of the oldest riddles in physics and astronomy — the origin of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays — is getting an upgrade.
South Pole station had their final all-hands meeting, at which they held their yearly raffle of flags that had been outside all winter.
Last week, the intrepid South Pole station winterovers got themselves together (all but two of them!) for an outdoor group photo.
It was sunrise last week at the Pole, but the sky opposite the sunrise was a showstopper as well.
Although sunrise hasn’t “officially” arrived yet, the South Pole station held their celebratory sunrise meal last week.
The Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is excited to begin collaboration with researchers at peer universities as part of the Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery (A3D3) institute, a multidisciplinary entity funded and established by the National Science Foundation’s Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) program. On September 28, 2021, NSF announced $75 million in funding to establish five new HDR institutes, including $15 million for A3D3.
