Wednesday, August 29 2018

    7:00pm to 8:15pm

    Wednesday Nite @ the Lab—Breakthrough in Multimessenger Astronomy talk

    talk • Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Auditorium, Room 1111, Madison, WI

    Professor Justin Vandenbroucke will be giving a talk about the breakthrough in multimessenger astronomy at Wednesday Nite @ the Lab on the UW–Madison campus in the Biotech building, Room 1111. This talk will be given at 7pm on August 29 and is a FREE event that's open to the public. For more information. visit: https://science.wisc.edu/wednesday-nite-at-the-lab/


    Past Events

    Thursday, July 26 2018 to Friday, July 27 2018

    2:00pm to 12:15pm

    Grandparents University at WIPAC

    internal event • WIPAC

    Grandparents University® is an intergenerational learning experience for children aged 7 to 14 who are accompanied by a grandparent(s) or older adult relative(s) who is not a parent. This program is supported by UW Alumni Association. A group of grandparents and their granchildren are coming to WIPAC for a fun filled 2-day outreach event.  We will be doing ice drilling competitions, talking about IceCube, detecting the invisible using sand boxes and much more.

    GPU schedule at WIPAC: Thursday July 26 from 2:00-5:15pm and Friday July 27 from 9:00-12:15pm

    For more information about Grandparents University go to: http://www.uwalumni.com/benefits-services/alumni-learning/grandparents-u...


    Thursday, July 12 2018

    9:30am to 11:30am

    Major breakthrough in multimessenger astrophysics event

    talk • Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall- Room 1111

    Please join us celebrating a major breakthrough in multimessenger astrophysics led by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory!

    UW-Madison scientists, Justin Vandenbroucke and John Gallagher, will briefly introduce the project and the leadership role that the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center has played for the last 30 years. After that, we will stream a live press conference organized by IceCube and NSF in Alexandria (VA).  At the end of the press conference, Prof. Vandenbroucke and Prof. Gallagher will answer questions from participants. Coffee and pastries will be provided. 

    If you can’t attend, but would like to learn more about this breakthrough, you can follow the press conference from wherever you are at https://www.youtube.com/c/VideosatNSF/live at 10 am US CDT. You can also  learn more about it and ask questions on a follow-up Reddit Ask Me Anything.

    Please, spread the word! We would like to have a full room and celebrate these results with the Badger community.


    Monday, June 18 2018 to Friday, June 22 2018

    9:00am to 5:00pm

    IceCube bootcamp 2018

    internal event • WIPAC, 222 W Washington Ave

    IceCube bootcamp on basic software and analysis techniques will take place from June 18-22, 2018 in Madison, WI at WIPAC.

    There is no pre-bootcamp this year.