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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, and an amiable, generous, and straightforward personality. His legacy as a mentor leaves behind a cohort of scientists, not only in the IceCube and HAWC collaborations but also in other astronomy and astrophysics communities he was once a member of.
A memorial service for Stefan Westerhoff will be held on August 25 in Madison. It will be from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at the Alumni Lounge in the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street.
Sau Lan Wu spent decades working to establish the Standard Model of particle physics. Now she’s searching for what lies beyond it.
Observations, made by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station and confirmed by telescopes around the globe and in Earth’s orbit, help resolve a more than a century-old riddle about what sends subatomic particles such as neutrinos and cosmic rays speeding through the universe.
The international particle accelerator collaboration CERN announced Monday, June 4, that two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider discovered a link between the two heaviest known particles: the top quark and the Higgs boson.
Kevin Langhoff working with Professor Vernon Barger
Kangbo Li working with Professor Robert McDermott
Yiwen (Jerry) Zhang working with Professor Mark Rzchowski
Dr. Kimberly Palladino says, "We don’t know if we will find dark matter with LZ but in the worst case, by 2025, we may know more about what it isn’t."
In the photo, UW-Madison postdoctoral researcher Rachel Mannino and graduate student Shaun Alsum do a test fit of a high-voltage ring in a clean room at the LZ test facility at SLAC National Accelerator Lab. The UW’s Physical Sciences Laboratory designed and fabricated these high-voltage test parts.
The article about LZ is on page 24 of the Wisconsin State Journal special, UW Fueling Discovery.
A unique high-speed camera, designed to capture the fleeting effects of gamma rays crashing into the Earth’s atmosphere, will soon be on its way from the University of Wisconsin–Madison to Arizona’s Mount Hopkins.
The highest energy photons in the universe are gamma rays that carry essential information capable of answering leading questions in astrophysics and particle physics. Thanks to an innovative technique combining aspects of astronomy and particle physics, it is possible to detect gamma rays from the ground, when they collide with Earth’s atmosphere and produce a fleeting (a few billionths of a second in duration) flash of blue Cherenkov light
The Goldwater Scholarship is considered the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering in America.
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.
