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Britton Plourde elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Congratulations to Prof. Britton Plourde for being elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society! Plourde was elected “For important contributions to the physics and operation of superconducting qubits, including the development of techniques for …
October 4, 2024Welcome, Prof. Elio König!
This fall, condensed matter theorist Elio König returned to Madison as an assistant professor of physics. König began his education in Germany and Italy, earning a PhD from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2014. …
September 12, 2024Rogerio Jorge receives first grant as a professor
Congrats to Prof. Rogerio Jorge who was awarded his first grant as a professor! The three-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation grant, titled “Moment Approach to Multiscale Plasmas,” will be used to fund a graduate student …
September 10, 2024New Chair to continue department’s strengths, commit to diversity and inclusion
The department of physics is pleased to announce that Prof. Kevin Black has been named new department chair. His three-year term began July 1, 2024, succeeding Prof. Mark Eriksson. Black says he is looking to …
September 10, 2024Daniel Den Hartog earns Progress Award from Laser Society of Japan
Congrats to plasma scientist Daniel Den Hartog who is part of a team that was recently awarded a Progress Award from the Laser Society of Japan. This award is given to research that has shown …
August 29, 2024Pupa Gilbert earns WARF Named Professorship
Physics professor Pupa Gilbert is one of eight UW–Madison faculty awarded WARF Named Professorships, which come with $100,000 and honor faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research …
August 1, 2024Mark Eriksson named Steenbock Professor
This story was originally published by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Mark Eriksson, professor of physics, and Mikhail Feldman, professor of mathematics, have been named recipients of UW–Madison Steenbock Professorships. “This professorship is …
July 30, 2024Madison Symmetric Torus operates stable plasma at ten times the Greenwald Limit
If net-positive fusion energy is to ever be achieved, density is key: the more atomic nuclei crashing into each other the more efficient the reaction will be. Nearly 40 years ago, Martin Greenwald identified a …
July 29, 2024Justin Edwards earns National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Physics PhD and ECE MS student Justin Edwards has been awarded the prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship in the category of Physics (including Optics), with a proposal titled “Multispectral imaging in the …
July 19, 2024First plasma marks major milestone in UW–Madison fusion energy research
A fusion device at the University of Wisconsin–Madison generated plasma for the first time Monday, opening a door to making the highly anticipated, carbon-free energy source a reality. Over the past four years, a team …
July 18, 2024DARPA Researchers Highlight Application Areas for Quantum Computing
This post is modified from one originally published by DARPA Amid efforts to explore quantum computers’ transformative potential, one foundational element remains missing from the discussion about quantum: What are the benchmarks that predict whether …
June 24, 2024New NOvA results add to mystery of neutrinos
The international NOvA collaboration presented new results at the Neutrino 2024 conference in Milan, Italy, on June 17. The collaboration doubled their neutrino data since their previous release four years ago, including adding a new low-energy sample …
June 18, 2024Mark Saffman part of team awarded in latest round of Research Forward funding
This story was originally published by the OVCR The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) hosts the Research Forward initiative to stimulate and support highly innovative and groundbreaking research at the University of …
June 18, 2024Entangled neutrinos may lead to heavier element formation
Elements are the building blocks of every chemical in the universe, but how and where the different elements formed is not entirely understood. A new paper in The Astrophysical Journal by University of Wisconsin–Madison physics …
June 6, 2024Four students named Hilldale Fellows
Four physics majors have earned 2024 Hilldale Fellowships. They are: Erica Magee, Mathematics and Physics major, working with Martin Zanni (Chemistry) Quinn Meece, Astronomy – Physics and Physics major, working with Mark Saffman (Physics) Elias Mettner, Physics major, …
May 31, 2024MSPQC’s Preetham Tikkireddi wins second place at QED-C student poster presentation
MSPQC student Preetham Tikkireddi won second place for his poster, “Understanding security side channel attacks on multi-tenancy quantum computers,” at the plenary meeting of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), held March 20-21 in Evanston, IL. …
May 23, 2024Welcome, Professor Tiancheng Song!
Tiancheng Song, a condensed matter experimentalist, joined the UW–Madison Physics Department as an assistant professor on May 20. His research interest lies in two-dimensional (2D) quantum materials with a focus on 2D magnetism, 2D superconductivity …
May 21, 2024- Physics News Archives