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  • LIGO And Virgo detect second neutron star smash-up

    May 6, 2019 8:51 am

    Originally posted by Laura Otto on the UWM report Nearly two years after a detecting gravitational waves from a neutron star collision, three detectors – the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and the European-based Virgo detector – have found waves from... Read more →

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    October 18, 2018 4:02 pm

    The Fall 2018 Awards Ceremony took place on October 17, honoring those who have shown exemplary service at UWM. Among the twenty-eight people recognized for their contributions to UWM were the department’s own David Kaplan and Philip Chang. Associate Professor... Read more →

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    October 3, 2018 8:45 am

    Article by Laura Otto In the last several years, UWM physicists have participated in experiments to capture images of atomic biology unfolding by using an X-ray free electron laser, equipment that creates slow-motion movies of molecular events happening at split-second... Read more →

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