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Research, teaching and public engagement in Physics at UW–Madison
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $218 million in funding for 85 research awards nationwide in the important emerging field of Quantum Information Science (QIS). The awards were made in conjunction with the White House Summit on Advancing American Leadership in QIS, highlighting the high priority that the Administration places on advancing this multidisciplinary …
A new book by Professor Emeritus Lee Pondrom. The book describes the lives of the people who gave Stalin his weapon — scientists, engineers, managers, and prisoners during the early post war years from 1945–1953. Many anecdotes and vicissitudes of life at that time in the Soviet Union accompany considerable technical information regarding the solutions …
Physics major, Alex Mahnke, presented his idea for a wearable with light sensors that create safer options for students, construction workers, and others traveling or working in low-light situations. Website
There’s significant value in a student receiving help from a peer, says Amihan, who has a Ph.D. in physics. “This is someone they can relate to, someone who just recently had the same experience as they did in that same classroom,” she says. “I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve learned from one …
ALL kicks off the school year with LAB³, a September exhibition featuring artworks inspired by scientific research done at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) and the Department of Physics at UW–Madison. The LAB³ project paired UW–Madison physicists and Madison-based artists and writers with 24 high school students from Madison, Middleton, Waunakee, Janesville, Wauwatosa, and Lake Mills. Over the summer, six teams (each composed …
Stefan Westerhoff, a professor in the physics department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away on Sunday, August 5, 2018, after a long illness. He was 50. Stefan was a leading physicist in the fields of cosmic ray physics and gamma ray astronomy and a faculty member at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC). …
Stefan Westerhoff, a professor in the physics department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away on Sunday, August 5, 2018, after a long illness. He was 50. Stefan’s colleagues and friends are deeply saddened by his passing and will remember him for his sharp mind, a witty sense of humor, his comforting voice and presence, …
Sau Lan Wu spent decades working to establish the Standard Model of particle physics. Now she’s searching for what lies beyond it. Full Story