Research, teaching and public engagement in Physics at UW–Madison
This story, featuring physics grad student Abhishikth Mallampalli, was originally published by the CMS collaboration The CMS experiment conducts the first search for dark matter particles produced in association with an energetic narrow jet—the pencil jet. Dark matter remains one of physics’ greatest mysteries. Despite making up about 27% of the universe’s energy content, its true …
A team of 13,508 scientists, including over 100 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, won the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced April 5. The Prize recognized work conducted at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) between 2015 and 2024. The Breakthrough Prize was created to celebrate the wonders of our scientific …
This post is modified from the original news story from Northwestern University A large multi-institutional collaboration— led by Northwestern University and including UW–Madison physics professors Keith Bechtol, Kyle Cranmer, and Moritz Münchmeyer — has received a $20 million grant to develop and apply new artificial intelligence (AI) tools to astrophysics research and deep space exploration. Jointly …
By Jason Daley, UW–Madison College of Engineering For millennia, humans have used optical telescopes, radio telescopes and space telescopes to get a better view of the heavens. Today, however, one of the most powerful tools for understanding the cosmos is the computer chip: Cosmologists rely on processing power to analyze astronomical data and create detailed …
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are certainly not new to physics research — physicists have been using and improving these techniques for several decades. In the last few years, though, machine learning has been having a bit of an explosion in physics, which makes it a perfect topic on which to collaborate within the department, …