If you want to take inventory of a shipping container’s contents, you have to get inside first, and that can mean shoveling snow first.
Last week, a game of dodgeball was just the thing for the emergency response team to practice working in their fire gear.
On January 1, Professor Lu joined the Department of Physics and IceCube. Most recently, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Center for Hadron Astrophysics at Chiba University in Japan. To welcome her, we sat down for a (virtual) interview.
On January 1, astroparticle physicist Ke Fang joined WIPAC and the UW–Madison Physics Department as an assistant professor. To welcome Fang and learn more about her, we met up on Zoom for an interview.
It doesn’t snow much at the South Pole but there is lots of snow that accumulates there, and sometimes it needs to be moved.
The first full week of the year was a busy one! So much going on… The IceCube detector was well behaved, but there were still several maintenance items to take care of.
The 2021 Bruno Rossi Prize was awarded to Francis Halzen and the IceCube Collaboration “for the discovery of a high-energy neutrino flux of astrophysical origin.”
The South Pole has its traditions for ringing in the new year, which includes a ceremony at the geographic pole to set a new pole marker into place.