Month: June 2016

Board of Visitors Examine Badgerloop Pod Prototype

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Members of the Department of Physics Board of Visitors Robert Leach, Gregory Piefer, Thomas Dillinger, Lloyd Hackel, and Craig Heberer (left to right) on an imagined trip in the frame of the Badgerloop pod prototype under construction in Chamberlin Hall, 6 May 2016.

Photo credit: Badgerloop.com, contact 
Claire Holesovsky 
Life Sciences Communication Junior | University of Wisconsin – Madison
Research Assistant  | BadgerLoop Project Manager | JUST Magazine Senior Editor 
(608) 712-1941 | holesovsky@wisc.edu

 

Alexander Carver (BS ’06) is now an assistant professor

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Alexander ‘AJ’ Carver, (BS ’06 physics and astronomy-physics), recently became an assistant professor at SolBridge International School of Business, Daejeon, South Korea where he teaches courses in quantitative methods and critical thinking.

Prototype of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector Tested at SLAC

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Prototyping of a new, ultrasensitive “eye” for dark matter is making rapid progress at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: Researchers and engineers have installed a small-scale version of the future LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector to test, develop and troubleshoot various aspects of its technology.

Photo: Knut Skarpaas (left, SLAC) and Kimberly Palladino (SLAC/University of Wisconsin) during the assembly of the TPC prototype. (Photo Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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