Research, teaching and public engagement in Physics at UW–Madison
As he builds and fixes the museum’s 70-plus hands-on exhibits, Narf designs experiments, solves puzzles, and, well, tinkers — all in the service of physics education. In 2016, more than 4,000 schoolchildren visited the free museum to spin bicycle-wheel gyroscopes, crank electrical generators, and yank on pulleys. Each exhibit demonstrates a physical law, explained by …
Three Physics undergraduates have been awarded campus-wide scholarships by the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As pictured, from left to right: Patrick Dougherty - Theodore Herfurth Sophomore Scholarship Lauren Laufman - Merlin E. Silverthorn Scholarship Nikki Noughani - Gerald W. and Tui G. Hedstrom Scholarship
The 22nd volume of The Wisconsin Physicist provides a view of the UW–Madison Physics Department in 2017. This annual newsletter for friends and alumni brings you the best stories of the year, some science scoops and “what’s what” in the department. Previous editions may be found here.
Michael Leckrone • Music • 45 years Antony Stretton • Integrative Biology • 46 years Warren Porter ’61 • Integrative Biology • 46 years Oliver Ginther MS’66, PhD’67 • Veterinary Medicine • 47 years Robert Krainer ’57 • Business • 49 years Vernon Barger • Physics • 50 years Grace Wahba • Statistics • 50 …
George Ott, Electrical Engineer in High Energy Physics from 10/01/1967 until his retirement on 11/30/2007, passed away on February 12, 2018. He was 78 years old. He worked on many experiments, most notably CDF and CMS. One of his last efforts before he retired was the responsibility for an extraordinarily challenging project to provide the …
The Badgerloop POD III design is approved by SPACEX to build and run in the next Hyperloop competition. badgerloop homepage
With this first measurement, HAWC reveals fine structure in the cosmic-ray energy spectrum at the TeV scale. summary
The new measurement determines the cross section for neutrino energies between 6.3 TeV and 980 TeV, energy levels more than an order of magnitude higher than previous measurements. Photo: Martin Wolf/ IceCube NSF Full Story
By catching and counting particles of light streaming forth from these nearby stellar engines, the HAWC Collaboration has showed that these two pulsars are very unlikely to be the origin of the excess—despite being the right age and the right distance from Earth to contribute. Positrons from these sources simply haven’t spread far enough to …