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Personal & Professional Development, for L&S Students
An innovative new career center launched by the largest college in the University of Wisconsin-Madison celebrated its grand opening with an event that brought together students, alumni, state government representatives, UW System Regents, donors and business leaders.
SuccessWorks helps College of Letters & Science students leverage and apply their skills to the most competitive and exciting jobs after graduation.
Steve Narf featured in OnWisconsin article about the Physics Museum
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 printed placards or in person by Narf and his student docents.
Campus-wide scholarships awarded to Patrick Dougherty, Lauren Laufman and Nikki Noughani. Congrats!
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 Wisconsin Physicist, 2017
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.
Venon Barger recognized for 50 years of teaching
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 years
Leon Shohet • Electrical and Computer Engineering • 51 years
George Ott obituary
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 power and control of the new state-of-the-art Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment calorimeter trigger electronics being built for the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. The task involved the circuitry for and installation of 20 redundant fail-over high-power (7 kW) supplies controlling 10 7’ racks of completely custom electronics that had to be monitored remotely over the Internet. Mr. Ott devised a system of 50 custom trays of fans with very high airflow that were precisely monitored for any malfunction. He also developed and installed a system of temperature monitors distributed over each rack. All of this is remotely monitored as well as having local shut-off protection. Mr. Ott worked on the design, assembly, and production of this system. His work on this was very creative and innovative. There was no turnkey or prepackaged solution possible given the very difficult requirements and complexity of the project. Mr. Ott had to take the initiative and break new ground in developing his solution. The result was outstanding. George traveled to CERN and installed this system in the CMS underground cavern.
George was a happy, magnanimous person, always willing to help with anything. He will be missed.
http://www.gundersonfh.com/obituaries/George-E-Ott?obId=2964968#/obituaryInfo
Badgerloop – We’re going to Cali!
The Badgerloop POD III design is approved by SPACEX to build and run in the next Hyperloop competition.
First measurement of the cosmic-ray spectrum with HAWC
With this first measurement, HAWC reveals fine structure in the cosmic-ray energy spectrum at the TeV scale.
Cross section for neutrino energies between 6.3 TeV and 980 TeV measured by IceCube
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