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Mark Saffman named WARF professor
This post is adapted from the original Thirty-two members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty — including physics professor Mark Saffman — have been awarded fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research …
May 19, 2022
Congratulations to Professor Lawler on his retirement!
After 42 years on the UW–Madison faculty, Jim Lawler, the Arthur and Aurelia Schawlow Professor of Physics, has announced his retirement. Lawler is an atomic, molecular & optical physicist with a focus developing and applying …
May 16, 2022
Congrats, grads!
Congrats to all of the Physics and AMEP students who are graduating this weekend! Their names are listed below. Best of luck to all of you on your future endeavors — we know you’ll do …
May 12, 2022
Physics undergraduates named 2022 Hilldale Fellows
Three UW–Madison undergraduate physics majors have been named 2022 Hilldale Fellows, in addition to one engineering physics major who is conducting their research in the Physics Department. The Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship provides research training …
May 9, 2022
Lee Pondrom’s High Energy Physics textbook now available
Professor Emeritus Lee Pondrom’s textbook Introduction to High Energy Physics: Particle Physics for the Beginner has now been published. Summary: Elementary particle physics is a mature subject, with a wide variety of topics. Size considerations require …
May 6, 2022
“Physics in the Arts” earns Texty award
Congrats to Pupa Gilbert, whose Physics 109 textbook, Physics in the Arts, has earned a 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) “Texty” award for Textbook Excellence. Overall, forty-five textbooks have been awarded 2022 Textbook …
April 27, 2022
Alex Levchenko awarded NSF condensed matter and materials theory grant
Congrats to Alex Levchenko on his funded NSF proposal, Electronic phases and transport in quantum matter at strong coupling. It was funded through the Division of Materials Research, condensed matter and materials theory program. According …
April 27, 2022
UW–Madison, industry partners run quantum algorithm on neutral atom quantum computer for the first time
A university-industry collaboration has successfully run a quantum algorithm on a type of quantum computer known as a cold atom quantum computer for the first time. The achievement by the team of scientists from the …
April 20, 2022
Lucy Steffes awarded 2022 Goldwater Scholarship
This story was adapted from one first published by University Communications Four University of Wisconsin–Madison students have been named winners of 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarships, one of the most prestigious awards in the U.S. for …
April 11, 2022
UW–Madison celebrates the first World Quantum Day, April 14
Even quantum physicists do not understand quantum physics, or so the saying* goes. “The worst grade I ever got in any class was my first quarter of quantum mechanics, because it just was weird and …
April 8, 2022
Physics & math senior Gage Siebert awarded NSF GRFP
Congratulations to Gage Siebert for being awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Gage is a senior math and physics major who has been conducting research in radio astronomy and cosmology. He is working …
April 8, 2022
Fringe benefits: new technique makes x-rays more laser-like
Detecting a chemical change is often easy: colors may change, heat may be released, or something may smell different. Seeing reactions at the molecular level is not quite so easy, but knowing exactly when and …
March 16, 2022
Massive bubbles at center of Milky Way caused by supermassive black hole
New research reveals the origins of enormous bubbles of material emanating from the center of the Milky Way. The related structures — known as the eRosita and Fermi bubbles and the microwave haze — are …
March 10, 2022
Sridhara Dasu named a member of the International Committee on Future Accelerators
High energy physicist Sridhara Dasu was recently named a member of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), a term he’ll serve for three years. ICFA was created to facilitate international collaboration in the construction …
March 9, 2022
Blending the rules: how physics helps paint a new picture for artists of all mediums
This post was written by Rachael Lee, a student science writer with University Communications. A singer or a violinist’s performance produces sound waves that echo across a concert hall. A painter may mix different paint …
March 9, 2022
Design and performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope camera
The debut of a new detector has many “firsts”: the first assembly, the first shift, the first light, the first detection… But if there’s one thing that makes a debut official—sort of like a detector’s …
March 2, 2022
Theoretical physicist Bernice Durand was a leader of gender equity on campus and in her field
Bernice Durand, Professor Emerita and one of the first two female professors in the UW–Madison Department of Physics, passed away February 7. Durand was a theoretical physicist who specialized in particle theory and mathematical physics. …
February 22, 2022
Ultraprecise atomic clock poised for new physics discoveries
University of Wisconsin–Madison physicists have made one of the highest performance atomic clocks ever, they announced Feb. 16 in the journal Nature. Their instrument, known as an optical lattice atomic clock, can measure differences in …
February 16, 2022
Shimon Kolkowitz one of four UW professors awarded Sloan Fellowship
Four University of Wisconsin–Madison professors, including assistant professor of physics Shimon Kolkowitz, have been named to Sloan Research Fellowships — competitive, prestigious awards given to promising researchers in the early stages of their careers. “Today’s …
February 16, 2022
Physics of Climate Change project funded by WI Idea grant
Eleven research projects that illustrate how the Wisconsin Idea has evolved — including one from the Department of Physics — have now been funded by Extension and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research …
February 14, 2022- Physics News Archives