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Monday, March 31, 2014 - 10:00am
We are excited to announce that Armando Caussade, a STEM educator from Puerto Rico, will travel to the South Pole, Antarctica, during the 2014–2015 polar season to support maintenance work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 2:45pm
Last week, Nature published an article on the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, a gamma-ray observatory near Puebla, Mexico. WIPAC at UW–Madison is a collaborating institution.
The article details plans for HAWC, scheduled for completion in fall 2014. When complete, it will consist of 300 water-filled tanks housing particle detectors.
Monday, December 23, 2013 - 2:15pm
Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin–Madison physics professor and faculty member at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), was recently elected as an American Physical Society Fellow for 2013.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 12:00pm
Reina Maruyama, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and faculty member at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), has been named Woman Physicist of the Month by the American Physical Society. The award was designed to honor women who have positively impacted the lives and careers of others.
Data and Computing
Image: S. Lidstrom, NSF
Astrophysics research relies on large amounts of data collected by detectors located far from where scientists, usually in international collaborat...
The creation of WIPAC was made possible through the successful partnership of the University of Wisconsin–Madison with the National Science Foundation and the IceCube Collaboration to construct the ...
Career Opportunities
WIPAC is responsible to the National Science Foundation and the IceCube Collaboration for the maintenance and operation of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Cu...
Explore
WIPAC scientists study neutrinos, dark matter, cosmic rays and more, and invite young students—our future scientists—to learn about particle astrophysics through hands-on activiti...
The John Bahcall and the Balzan Fellowships
WIPAC offers two named postdoctoral fellowships, the John Bahcall Fellowship and the Balzan Fellowship. Fellowships are awarded for three- ...
The Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, or WIPAC, is a scientific center within the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Wisconsi...