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Mark Saffman awarded 2026 APS Ramsey Prize

Mark Saffman, the Johannes Rydberg Professor of Physics and director of the Wisconsin Quantum Institute, won the American Physical Society’s 2026 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests …

Q-NEXT quantum center renewed for five years

Ho Fung Tsoi PhD’24 wins CMS thesis award

Welcome, Prof. Mariel Pettee!

Interdisciplinary physicist Mariel Pettee uses techniques grounded in machine learning to study a range of topics that span high energy physics and astrophysics, with an ultimate goal of developing a better understanding of the fundamental …

Welcome, Prof. Josiah Sinclair!

When he was younger, UW–Madison assistant professor of physics Josiah Sinclair wanted to be a scientist-inventor when he grew up. In high school, he would ask questions in biology and chemistry classes that his teachers …

Nuclear physicist Paul Quin has passed away

Emerit professor of physics Paul Quin passed away on October 9, 2025. He was 84. Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1941, Quin received his doctorate in physics from the University of Notre Dame, where his …

“Rival” neutrino experiments NOvA and T2K publish first joint analysis

The combined results add to physicists’ understanding and validate the impressive collaborative effort between two competing — yet complementary — experiments. This story was published by Fermilab When the universe began, physicists expect there should …

UW fostering closer research ties with federal defense, cybersecurity agencies

Exploring Decades of Semiconductor Collaboration between Argonne National Lab & UW–Madison

Deniz Yavuz elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Congratulations to Prof. Deniz Yavuz, who was elected a 2025 Fellow of the American Physical Society! He was elected “for outstanding experimental and theoretical contributions to nanoscale localization of atoms with electromagnetically induced transparency and …

Vladimir Zhdankin earns DOE Early Career award

Congrats to Vladimir Zhdankin, assistant professor of physics, on earning a Department of Energy Early Career award! The five-year award will fund his research on energy and entropy in collisionless, turbulent plasmas.  Systems in equilibrium …

With major U.S. investment, UW-Madison leads effort to advance abundant fusion energy for all

Double the Higgs, Double the Mystery! The hunt for a new, heavy particle decaying to a pair of Higgs Bosons

This story, written by physics grad student Ganesh Parida, was originally published by the CMS collaboration CMS scientists are on the hunt for a new, heavy particle that decays into a pair of Higgs bosons. Using …

UW–Madison team awarded NSF grant to develop cameras for the world’s largest high-energy gamma-ray observatory

Hilldale Undergraduate Award Winners in Physics

Four physics majors have earned 2025 Hilldale Fellowships. They are: Ruben Aguiló Schuurs, Computer Sciences and Physics major, working with Mark Saffman Zijian Hao, Astronomy – Physics and Physics major, working with Paul Terry (Physics) Nathaniel …

Roman Kuzmin earns NSF CAREER Award

Congrats to Roman Kuzmin, the Dunson Cheng Assistant Professor of Physics, for being selected for an NSF CAREER award. The 5-year award will support Kuzmin and his group’s research on understanding fluxonium qubits and how …

Cranmer to lead campus RISE-AI Collaboration HQ

TeachQuantum helps high school teachers bring quantum to the classroom

Four professors earn promotions, including tenure for Ke Fang

Congratulations to Associate Professor Ke Fang on her promotion with tenure, to Professor Justin Vandenbroucke on his promotion to full professor, and to Profs. Dan Hooper and Britton Plourde who were both granted tenure!   Prof. …

New trapped-atom qubit technology translates to industry-ready quantum computing product