Three members of the UWM Physics Department will be honored on October 11, 2017 at the Annual Fall Awards Ceremony. Please join us in congratulating them on their accomplishments. Dawn Erb is receiving the Office of Research’s UWM Foundation Research … Continue Reading »
UW-Milwaukee Physics Graduate Student Featured on Fox 6 Now Regarding Upcoming Solar Eclipse
UW-Milwaukee Physics Graduate Student Casey McGrath was featured on Tuesday, August 15th, regarding Monday’s upcoming solar eclipse. The hotly-anticipated eclipse will be celebrated by the Manfred Olson Planetarium in a NASA-sponsored viewing event from 11AM to 3PM on the UWM … Continue Reading »
UW-Milwaukee Physics in the News: Virus Visualization and Solar Eclipses
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Department of Physics was showcased last evening on TMJ4, highlighting the Manfred Olson Planetarium’s upcoming eclipse viewing and show, “The Sun’s Disappearing Act”, along with research performed by Biophysics on 3-D viral imaging and the first-ever … Continue Reading »
Physics Undergraduate Research in the Australian Outback
In the summer of 2016, four UWM physics undergraduates built and installed 576 antennas for the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in the Australian Outback. The array antennas gather data from the distant reaches of the universe in a search for … Continue Reading »
UWM Physicists Help Discover a Second Pair of Colliding Black Holes
Thirty University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) physicists, members of the Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics, as members of the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and the Virgo scientific collaborations, have participated in the detection … Continue Reading »
UWM Graduate School Dean Featured on Local TV “Spotlight Segment”
The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) Professor of Physics and Dean of the UWM Graduate School, Dr. Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska, was recently featured on a local TV station’s “Spotlight Segment”. The entire segment can be viewed at WDJT-Milwaukee “Spotlight Segment”.… Continue Reading »
UW-Milwaukee Receives Prestigious Carnegie R-1 Research Status
The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee research efforts have been rewarded with the highest rating (R1) from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions or Higher Learning. UWM Associate Professor of Physics Xavier Siemens, a member of the Leonard E. Parker Center … Continue Reading »
Current and Former UWM Physicists Lead in Effort to Track Structural Dynamics in Proteins
A mufti-national team, led by University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) physics Professor Marius Schmidt, have successfully used X-ray pulses emitted by a free-electron laser source (the XFEL at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) to track changes in a crystallized … Continue Reading »
UWM Researchers Develop a Machine-Learning Algorithm for Resolving Time Sequences in High-Speed Data Collection
Two University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) Physics department researchers, working with an international team of scientists, have developed and tested a machine-learning algorithm for reducing timing uncertainties during fast changing events. The efforts of UWM Distinguished Professor Abbas Ourmazd … Continue Reading »
UWM Physicists Participate in First Discovery of Gravitational Waves
Thirty University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) physicists, members of the Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics, have participated in the research leading to the first detection of gravitational waves initially predicted by the theories of Albert … Continue Reading »