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We are pleased to announce the 2017 APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison!
Conference dates: January 13-15, 2017
Conference location: Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conference website: https://cuwip.physics.wisc.edu
Application deadline: October 14, 2016
The American Physical Society (APS) Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) series is a series of regional conferences held simultaneously around the United States for undergraduate women interested in physics. The CUWiP conference series aims to encourage undergraduate women to pursue careers in physics by giving them the experience of a professional conference. This includes networking with women in physics of all ages and professional levels, plenary talks by prominent women in physics, and panel discussions providing information about graduate school and career opportunities in physics.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison CUWiP will feature presentations by female physicists in academia and industry, panel discussions about graduate school and careers in academia and industry, laboratory tours, a student poster session, and opportunities to network with accomplished women in the field.
Interested undergraduates are encouraged to apply!!
Questions: contact cuwip.uwmadison@gmail.com
Prof. Dan McCammon is being awarded a 2016 NASA Exceptional Public Service Achievement Medal in recognition for pioneering work in the study of the celestial diffuse x-ray background and the development of low temperature x-ray spectrometers that have enabled numerous NASA projects.
This award was presented to Dan at the Agency Honor Awards Ceremony, September 14, at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
Ellen Gould Zweibel has won the American Physical Society’s 2016 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.
The prize citation recognizes Zweibel for “seminal research on the energetics, stability and dynamics of astrophysical plasmas, including those related to stars and galaxies, and for leadership in linking plasma and other astrophysical phenomena.”
Walt Wigglesworth, former student/staff shop supervisor (02/20/1995-01/22/2002), and for whom our stockroom is named "Walt Mart," has passed away.
Members of the Department of Physics Board of Visitors Robert Leach, Gregory Piefer, Thomas Dillinger, Lloyd Hackel, and Craig Heberer (left to right) on an imagined trip in the frame of the Badgerloop pod prototype under construction in Chamberlin Hall, 6 May 2016.
Alexander 'AJ' Carver, (BS '06 physics and astronomy-physics), recently became an assistant professor at SolBridge International School of Business, Daejeon, South Korea where he teaches courses in quantitative methods and critical thinking.
Prototyping of a new, ultrasensitive “eye” for dark matter is making rapid progress at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: Researchers and engineers have installed a small-scale version of the future LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector to test, develop and troubleshoot various aspects of its technology.
Photo: Knut Skarpaas (left, SLAC) and Kimberly Palladino (SLAC/University of Wisconsin) during the assembly of the TPC prototype. (Photo Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
This award recognizes distinguished scholarship as well as standout efforts in teaching and service.
This award recognizes distinguished scholarship as well as standout efforts in teaching and service.
In an effort to probe the first few moments of time after the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, a consortium of researchers, including from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is planning a new observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
The $40 million initiative, known as the Simons Observatory, was announced today (May 9, 2016) and is being funded by major grants from the Simons Foundation and the Heising-Simons Foundation.
