The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced the set of 21 codes and “grand challenge”-class science problems that will receive funding through the Characteristic Science Applications (CSA) program. Among the chosen applications was the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which will use advanced software to improve multimessenger astrophysics efforts.
It’s getting colder, and when temperatures get too low, the winterovers can’t use snow vehicles to get around.
At the South Pole, you get only two seasons, and last week the South Pole station closed for…winter!
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 birth certificate—it’s the detailed description of how the detector was built and how it performs.
Last week was quiet for the IceCube detector but not so quiet for the South Pole station—lots of activity going on there.
WIPAC is back with our IceCube display at the Holiday Fantasy in Lights event in Madison, WI!
WIPAC's Paolo Desiati is collaborating with UW astronomy professor Elena D’Onghia and Kieran Furlong, a senior fellow at UW–Madison’s COWS thinktank, to develop a magnetic shield that will divert space and cosmic ray radiation away from a volume.
The Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is excited to begin collaboration with researchers at peer universities as part of the Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery (A3D3) institute, a multidisciplinary entity funded and established by the National Science Foundation’s Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) program. On September 28, 2021, NSF announced $75 million in funding to establish five new HDR institutes, including $15 million for A3D3.