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Featuring: Francis Halzen, Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics and Interim Director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
Date: March 18, 2014
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Executive Dining Room, UW-Madison Fluno Center
More than 20 years ago, astrophysicist Francis Halzen made an outlandish proposal: to build a particle detector deep in the ice at the South Pole in Antarctica. His aim was to detect neutrinos, tiny, invisible particles that come from violent events in space like supernova and black holes. In 2010, construction on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory was completed using more than 5,000 sensors embedded miles under the South Pole.
Now, the detector is living up to its scientific purpose of discovering neutrinos that originate outside the solar system. Join this exciting event to hear about how the South Pole ice has been transformed into a new type of telescope that is designed to help us learn more about neutrinos and some of the cosmic forces that produce them.