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“Sandwich” structure found to reduce errors caused by quasiparticles in superconducting qubits
Qubits are notoriously more prone to error than their classical counterparts. While superconducting quantum computers currently use on the order of 100 to 1000 qubits, an estimated one million qubits will be needed to track …
September 27, 2023
Physics has three winners in the Cool Science Image contest!
The winners of the UW–Madison 13th annual Cool Science Image contest were announced, and Physics has three winners! Our winners include graduate student Jacob Scott, the graduate student-professor pairing of Jimena González and Keith Bechtol, …
September 26, 2023
Jimena González wins 2023 OSG David Swanson Award
Early in her thesis research, Jimena González was waiting. A lot. To better understand the nature of dark energy, she uses machine learning to search Dark Energy Survey cosmology data for evidence of strong gravitational …
September 7, 2023
Stas Boldyrev earns DOE funding to investigate turbulence in relativistic plasmas
This post was adapted from a U.S. Department of Energy announcement The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced August 23 that it is funding $9.96M to support research in basic plasma science and engineering as well as …
September 5, 2023
Through machine learning maps, cosmic history comes into focus
By Jason Daley, UW–Madison College of Engineering For millennia, humans have used optical telescopes, radio telescopes and space telescopes to get a better view of the heavens. Today, however, one of the most powerful tools …
August 23, 2023
Mark Saffman part of team awarded NSF Quantum Sensing Challenge grant
This post was originally published by the College of Engineering The National Science Foundation has selected a proposal “Compact and robust quantum atomic sensors for timekeeping and inertial sensing” by an interdisciplinary team led by …
August 23, 2023
Ke Fang, Ellen Zweibel earn Simons Foundation funding to study electrodynamics in extreme environments
Much of what we understand about fundamental physics is based on experiments done in the convenient “lab” of earth. But our planet is just one location, with its own relatively mild electromagnetic field. Do forces …
August 22, 2023
Zain Abhari selected for SACLA graduate internship
Congrats to Physics PhD student Zain Abhari for being selected to the SACLA Research Support Program for Graduate Students. The one-year internship run by SACLA (the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free electron LAser) accepts graduate students …
August 2, 2023
Congrats to Prof. Joynt on his retirement!
37 years after joining the faculty of the department of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Prof. Bob Joynt has announced his retirement at the end of July. Joynt is a condensed matter theorist who …
July 31, 2023
Lu Lu receives 2023 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize
This story was originally posted by WIPAC IceCube collaborator and UW–Madison assistant professor of physics Lu Lu received a 2023 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Early Career Scientist Prize “for her contributions to …
July 27, 2023
Physics researchers named part of $18M NSF materials research center
The Department of Physics is part of a six-year, $18 million grant awarded to the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) by the National Science Foundation. The award creates a National User Facility …
July 18, 2023
Join us for Nite @ the Lab!
Professor Justin Vandenbroucke will present IceCube Detection of Neutrinos from a Galaxy Near, Nearby.
July 3, 2023
Keith Bechtol, Victor Brar promoted to Associate Professors
Congratulations to Keith Bechtol and Victor Brar, who were both promoted to associate professors of physics with tenure! Bechtol is an observational cosmologist with research interests in dark matter and dark energy, using the whole …
June 30, 2023
Longtime physics staff member Ed Slotten has passed away
Ed Slotten, a longtime physics department staff member who retired in 2005, passed away June 1. He was 75. Ed joined the department shortly after graduating from Madison Area Technical College and worked here for …
June 30, 2023
IceCube shows Milky Way galaxy is a neutrino desert
The Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, dominating all wavelengths of light and viewable with the naked eye as a hazy band of stars stretching from horizon to horizon. Now, …
June 29, 2023
Undergraduates named 2023 Hilldale Fellows
Physics major Dhanvi Hiriyanna Bharadwaj has been named a 2023 Hilldale Fellow, working with Ramathasan Thevamaran in Mechanical Engineering. Astronomy-physics major Vicki Braianova, who is working with physics professor Peter Timbie, has also received the …
June 26, 2023
Partnerships bring together UW–Madison quantum computing research, industry leaders
Two leading companies in semiconductor quantum computing are partnering with researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, itself a long-time academic leader in quantum computing. UW–Madison’s separate partnerships with Intel and HRL Laboratories are part of …
June 15, 2023
Alex Levchenko honored with H.I. Romnes Fellowship
This post is modified from one originally published by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education Physics professor Alex Levchenko was one of thirty-five of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty …
June 9, 2023
Federal grants to 2 Wisconsin startups highlight UW’s leading role in fusion energy
A pair of startups with University of Wisconsin–Madison roots — one spun out of Department of Physics technology — have received large federal grants to support their efforts to develop clean energy through fusion. Realta …
June 6, 2023
Astronomers Discover Planets in NASA Kepler’s Final Days of Observations
This story was originally published by NASA A team of astrophysicists — including a UW–Madison physics major — and citizen scientists have identified what may be some of the last planets NASA’s retired Kepler …
June 1, 2023- Physics News Archives