time
10:00am to
12:00pm
location
Remote Locations
event type
talk
description
Hear firsthand what it is like to live and work in one of the most extreme environments on Earth. Learn what people are doing at the South Pole to transform the ice into the biggest and strangest telescope in the world.
Learn about the wide range of people—cooks, pilots, and technicians of all sorts—needed to keep the National Science Foundation Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station running. Discover what the IceCube Collaboration is learning about the universe from neutrinos, invisible particles so hard to detect that they are called "ghost particles."
Sign up information: http://icecube.wisc.edu/outreach/webcasts
.