Position title: Professor
Email: danielchung@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-3133
Websites: Home Page, Theoretical Cosmology
Research Interests: topics at the interface of high energy theory and cosmology: axions, inflationary cosmology, superheavy dark matter, quantum field theory in curved spacetime, baryogenesis, electroweak phase transition, WIMP dark matter, alternate gravity, braneworld/string-inspired cosmology, supersymmetry, gravity waves, dark energy, cosmic rays
Position title: Professor, Data Science Institute Director
Pronouns: he/him
Email: kyle.cranmer@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-7929
Websites: Home Page, Data Science Institute, IRIS-HEP, Personal Homepage, GitHub, Twitter, ORCID, LinkedIn
Research Interests: High-energy experimental particle physics (ATLAS), machine learning for the physical sciences, statistical inference, data science
Kyle Cranmer is a professor in the Physics Department with affiliate appointments in Computer Sciences and Statistics. He is also the David R. Anderson Director of the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute (DSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining UW-Madison in 2022, Cranmer spent 15 years at New York University.
Professor Cranmer obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 and his B.A. in Mathematics and Physics from Rice University. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering in 2007 and the National Science Foundation’s Career Award in 2009 for his work at the Large Hadron Collider. Professor Cranmer developed a framework that enables collaborative statistical modeling, which was used extensively for the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. Cranmer has established himself as a leading figure on the interplay of machine learning and the physical sciences. He has served as a member of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) and was appointed to the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) in December 2022. He was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021, and he was selected as Editor in Chief of the journal Machine Learning: Science and Technology in 2022.
Position title: Professor
Email: dasu@hep.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-3678
Websites: Home Page, High Energy Physics, CMS
Research Interests: Study of fundamental properties of particles and fields using high energy physics.
My scientific interest is in the study of fundamental particles. Our latest physics adventure had begun with a bang, resulting in the discovery of the Higgs boson, at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, Geneva, using the CMS detector. Having firmly established the Standard Model of particle physics at the LHC energies, we are anticipating discoveries of new TeV-scale physics processes in the coming years. Lately, our group is working on building future colliders, which are necessary to make progress beyond the LHC. All our experiments are designed to answer unresolved questions about the current standard theory of matter and energy and enable an even deeper level of knowledge about fundamental interactions in nature.
Position title: Professor
Email: egedal@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-3628
Website: Plasma Physics
Position title: John Bardeen Professor and Steenbock Professor
Email: maeriksson@wisc.edu
Websites: Eriksson Group, Wisconsin Quantum Institute (WQI), Condensed Matter
Research Interests: Quantum computing; qubits in silicon; experimental studies of nanostructures, especially nanoscale electronic systems; thermal transport in nanoscale systems.
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: esterlis@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-4035
Website: Condensed Matter
Position title: Professor
Email: leverett@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-4699
Websites: Home Page, Phenomenology
Research Interests: Model-building and phenomenology of physics beyond the Standard Model at and beyond the TeV scale. Specific directions include supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model, models of supersymmetry breaking, and string phenomenology, with an emphasis on CP violation and flavor physics, cosmological connections, electroweak symmetry breaking and extended gauge sectors, and unified models of fermion masses and mixings.
Position title: Assistant Professor, Bernice Durand Faculty Fellow
Email: kefang@physics.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 890-0957
Website: Home Page
Research Interests: Multi-messenger Astrophysics with cosmic particles including high-energy neutrinos, gamma rays, and cosmic rays.
Position title: Prager Professor of Experimental Physics
Email: cbforest@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-0486
Websites: Home Page, Plasma Physics
Research Interests: Experimental Plasma Physics
Position title: Distinguished Scientist
Email: friesen@physics.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-2496
Websites: Home Page, Biophysics and Condensed Matter Physics, Wisconsin Quantum Institute
Research Interests: Quantum computing, semiconductor physics, device modeling
Mark Friesen is a condensed matter theorist, working mainly on problems related to quantum computing. A primary focus of his work involves the physics and operation of spin and charge qubits formed in semiconductor quantum dots. Research topics include the relation between semiconductor band structure and qubit operation, detrimental noise and noise mitigation in quantum devices, and simulations of realistic devices and the many-body qubit wave functions contained in them. All of these projects are closely aligned with ongoing experiments at UW-Madison and across the globe. A recent exciting direction involves topological qubits formed in germanium hole wires in contact with a superconductor. Friesen holds 6 patents and has authored or coauthored 129 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-factor of 46.