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Peter Weix remembered for his technical, mentoring, and outreach efforts in physics
The Department of Physics mourns the loss of Peter Weix, who passed away January 13, 2023. Peter began his career as an electronics technician in the U.S. Navy in 1984, where he served until 1990. …
January 27, 2023Finding some wiggle room in semiconductor quantum computers
Classical computers rarely make mistakes, thanks largely to the digital behavior of semiconductor transistors. They are either on or they’re off, corresponding to the ones and zeros of classical bits. On the other hand, quantum …
January 25, 2023Beating the diffraction limit in diamonds
by Daniel Heimsoth Resolving very small objects that are close together is a frequent goal of scientists, making the microscope a crucial tool for research in many different fields from biology to materials science. The …
January 17, 2023Welcome, assistant professor Ilya Esterlis
When Lake Mendota freezes over in the winter and thaws in the spring, those water/ice phase transitions might seem mundane. But, says new assistant professor of physics Ilya Esterlis, interesting things happen during phase transitions, …
December 27, 2022Welcome, Roman Kuzmin, the Dunson Cheng Assistant Professor of Physics
In the modern, cutting-edge field of quantum computing, it can be a bit puzzling to hear a researcher relate their work to low-tech slide rules. Yet that is exactly the analogy that Roman Kuzmin uses …
December 27, 2022New technique reveals changing shapes of magnetic noise in space and time
This article was originally published by Princeton Engineering Electromagnetic noise poses a major problem for communications, prompting wireless carriers to invest heavily in technologies to overcome it. But for a team of scientists exploring the …
December 23, 2022Experimental condensed matter physics professor Marshall Onellion has passed away
UW–Madison physics professor Marshall Onellion passed away November 20, 2022. He was 72. After completing his BS in mathematics and physics at West Virginia University in 1972, Onellion served in the U.S. Air Force until …
December 20, 2022Plasma astrophysicist and emeritus professor Don Cox has passed away
Professor Emeritus Donald P. Cox passed away October 26, 2022. He was 79. A plasma astrophysicist, Cox contributed many years to research in his scientific field, to students with whom he worked, and to the …
December 20, 2022Gary Shiu awarded DOE funding to apply string theory lessons to AI
This post is modified from one originally published by the US Department of Energy The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $4.3 million in funding for 16 projects in artificial intelligence (AI) research for high energy physics (HEP), …
December 1, 2022Clint Sprott makes 2022 list of highly cited researchers
Sixteen UW–Madison researchers — including emeritus professor of physics Clint Sprott — were recently recognized on the Institute for Scientific Information™ list of Highly Cited Researchers 2022. The list identifies scientists and social scientists who …
November 29, 2022Department of Energy grant to train students at the interface of high energy physics and computer science
To truly understand our physical world, scientists look to the very small, subatomic particles that make up everything. Particle physics generally falls under the discipline of high energy physics (HEP), where higher and higher energy …
November 10, 2022UW–Madison physicists key in revealing neutrinos emanating from galactic neighbor with a gigantic black hole
On Earth, billions of subatomic particles called neutrinos pass through us every second, but we never notice because they rarely interact with matter. Because of this, neutrinos can travel straight paths over vast distances unimpeded, …
November 3, 2022Shimon Kolkowitz promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Shimon Kolkowitz on his promotion to Associate Professor of Physics with tenure! Professor Kolkowitz is an AMO physicist whose research focuses on ultraprecise atomic clocks and nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds, both …
November 1, 2022IceCube analysis indicates there are many high-energy astrophysical neutrino sources
This story was originally published by WIPAC Back in 2013, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory—a cubic-kilometer neutrino detector embedded in Antarctic ice—announced the first observation of high-energy (above 100 TeV) neutrinos originating from outside our solar system, …
October 31, 2022Alex Levchenko, Mark Rzchowski elected Fellows of the American Physical Society
Congratulations to Profs. Alex Levchenko and Mark Rzchowski, who were elected 2022 Fellows of the American Physical Society! Levchenko was elected for “broad contributions to the theory of quantum transport in mesoscopic, topological, and superconducting …
October 19, 2022Decades of work at UW–Madison underpin discovery of corona protecting Milky Way’s neighboring galaxies
This story was originally posted by UW–Madison News Two dwarf galaxies circling our Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, are losing a trail of gaseous debris called the Magellanic Stream. New research shows …
October 6, 2022Collaboration between NSF quantum centers finds path to fault tolerance in neutral atom qubits
Like the classical computers we use every day, quantum computers can make mistakes when manipulating and storing the quantum bits (qubits) used to perform quantum algorithms. Theoretically, a quantum error correction protocol can correct these …
September 12, 2022Margaret Fortman awarded Google quantum computing fellowship
This post was adapted from a story posted by the UW–Madison Graduate School Two UW–Madison graduate students, including physics grad student Margaret Fortman, have been awarded 2022 Google Fellowships to pursue cutting-edge research. Fortman received …
September 8, 2022The future of particle physics is also written from the South Pole
This post was originally published by the IceCube collaboration. Several UW–Madison physicists are part of the collaboration and are featured in this story A month ago, the Seattle Community Summer Study Workshop—July 17-26, 2022, at the …
September 1, 2022Zweibel receives Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s most prestigious award
This post is adapted from an Astronomical Society of the Pacific press release The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has awarded the 2022 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal to Ellen Zweibel. It is the …
September 1, 2022- Physics News Archives