Congratulations to Puxin Lin @uwmadphysics.bsky.social for successfully passing the Prelim (PhD candidacy) exam!

Who was Amelia Frank? Amongst many important and well-researched answers presented in this piece is this one: she was a UW–Madison physics PhD alum, studying under John H. Van Vleck.

Congrats, Prof. Halzen!

Cary Forest directs the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory (WiPPL), which operates several multi-investigator plasma physics devices. #WARF100 @uwchancellor.bsky.social @uwmadphysics.bsky.social @uwmadisonls.bsky.social https://www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madison-inventor-profiles/forest/

DSI Director and @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Professor @kylecranmer.bsky.social has been honored with the inaugural Pritzker Prize in AI for Science for his role in establishing a powerful new approach to data analysis that leverages advances in machine learning and AI. dsi.wisc.edu/2025/11/10/d...

Robert McDermott's research group develops technologies to enable scaling to quantum processors involving thousands or millions of qubits. #WARF100 @uwchancellor.bsky.social @uwmadphysics.bsky.social @uwmadisonls.bsky.social https://www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madison-inventor-profiles/mcdermott/

Excited to share my 1st paper as a PhD student at @uwmadphysics.bsky.social working with @uwdsi.bsky.social! Our paper introduces a novel way to benchmark self-supervised ML models and evaluate mutual information estimators on realistic data. Glad to have worked with this group. More to come!

Mark Eriksson's group focuses on semiconductor quantum dot qubits, quantum computing and information, quantum measurement and more. #WARF100 @uwchancellor.bsky.social‬ @uwmadphysics.bsky.social‬ @uwmadisonls.bsky.social‬ https://www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madison-inventor-profiles/eriksson/

Excited to share with you an exciting project with Jacky Yip @uwmadphysics.bsky.social and Charles Arnal and Francois Charton at Meta where we develop a transformer model to automate the generation of Calabi-Yau manifolds, extra dimensional spaces in string theory: arxiv.org/abs/2507.03732

Stunning first images from the world’s largest digital camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. And big shoutout to @uwmadphysics.bsky.social associate professor Keith Bechtol who helped make this celestial milestone happen! 🔭🪐✨

At the #RubinFirstLook watch party @uwmadphysics.bsky.social

First images of the greatest cosmic movie ever made will be released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on Monday, and one of the “directors” is @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Prof. Keith Bechtol. Join the watch party to learn more about the observatory and UW–Madison’s involvement!

Congrats to physics instrument maker Bill Foster!

Today in @nature.com, Uwe Bergmann's group, with colleagues at SLAC, SACLA, and others, demonstrated generating the shortest (~100 attosecond!) X-ray pulses ever through the first demonstration of strong lasing phenomena. Our story ⬇️, study linked in comments www.physics.wisc.edu/2025/06/11/b...

Congrats to our 2025 Astronaut Scholars: Nathan Wagner (@uwmadphysics.bsky.social) & Nicholas Rienstra (Engineering) for their STELLAR dedication to innovation in STEM. 🚀🌟

I’m at a symposium in honor of Vernon Barger remembering the glory days of Pheno @uwmadphysics.bsky.social. Listening to Dieter Zeppenfeld (one of my PhD advisors) talking about the subject of my thesis: Vector Boson Scattering (jet veto & VBF H→ ττ). Nice memories. agenda.hep.wisc.edu/event/2212/

An action packed week in Japan: KEK workshop on Topological Analysis in Data Science: www.kek.jp/ja/research/... a seminar on the weak gravity conjecture: www.kek.jp/en/research/... and finally a talk on “Topology and Brain Science”: ithems.riken.jp/en @uwmadphysics.bsky.social

Visiting @nordita.org for 2 days giving a colloquium and a seminar. This is how a physics institute should look like: a place to cultivate deep thoughts without forgetting fun! @uwmadphysics.bsky.social

Congratulations to my undergraduate advisee Qing (Helena) Huang for winning the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship! While her major is in Statistics, Data Science and Information Science, her award winning work with me is deeply rooted in @uwmadphysics.bsky.social

Where pints and atoms collide! 🍻 Join us April 29, 2025, at 7 PM at Working Draft Beer Co. for Badgers on Tap with @uwmadphysics.bsky.social experts Noah Hurst and Juliana Pacheco Duarte. Bring your crew, grab a drink, and enjoy quick, engaging talks! For more info: hubs.li/Q03jzd_60 #BadgerTalks

Join us and the @uwmadphysics.bsky.social for a physics-themed Badgers on Tap at Working Draft Beer Co. on April 29 at 7 PM! Hear from UW experts Noah Hurst and Juliana Pacheco Duarte as they share the latest in plasma and nuclear research. Details: hubs.li/Q03j6tSD0 #BadgersOnTap

We're excited to have over 100 ATLAS and CMS researchers named on the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! Read about the work UW scientists contributed at www.physics.wisc.edu/2025/04/15/u...

Happy #WorldQuantumDay! Join @uwmadison.bsky.social CS professor and WI Quantum Institute member Swamit Tannu on @WPR today at noon CDT to hear the latest in quantum computing and UW–Madison's role in advancing research in the field. Listen to the live stream at www.wpr.org #MidwestQuantum

Congratulations to the @uwmadison.bsky.social physicists and @uwmadphysics.bsky.social collaborators at the Large Hadron Collider honored with the Breakthrough Prize, including DSI Director @kylecranmer.bsky.social. Data science and AI have been key to advancing particle physics. go.wisc.edu/6s5dn6

Great to have Craig Lawrie fron DESY visiting us @uwmadphysics.bsky.social this week. His talk on “Generalized symmetry constraints on deformed 4d (S)CFTs is now on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/ALKNwSCkhqg?si…

Videos for the UW-Madison HEP Theory and Cosmology Seminar @uwmadphysics.bsky.social: physics.wisc.edu/events/?name... are now on YouTube. You can find the first few talks this year by Asher Berlin, Alberto Castellano, and Gordon Krnjaic on my playlist: youtube.com/@gary_shiu

Great to have Sash Sarangi (EMAlpha) visiting @uwmadphysics.bsky.social for a couple of days and giving an interesting seminar on "Thinking Fast and Slow". The video recording of his talk is now on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=3WAa... Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@Gary_Shiu

In the search for the elusive sterile neutrino, UW–Madison and NOvA scientists *still* didn't find any — but their work puts the tightest constraints on parameter space to date for where sterile neutrinos could be found. #Physics #Neutrinos www.physics.wisc.edu/2025/02/26/n...

New paper alert! With Puxin Lin and Alessandro Mininno @uwmadphysics.bsky.social we formulate the Weak Gravity Conjecture in Anti de Sitter Space: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05862 Interesting plot twist about BPS states and the Weak Gravity Conjecture!

Great to have Zeeshan Ahmed (SLAC) giving our @uwmadphysics.bsky.social colloquium today on “Investigating cosmic origin and evolution with the oldest photons”.

UW–Madison physicists with the #NOvA collaboration led a new study in PRL that "sets some of the strongest limits on the existence of the sterile #neutrinos," according to lead author Adam Lister. @fermilab.bsky.social www.physics.wisc.edu/2025/02/26/n... #physics #HighEnergyPhysics

Yesterday, we also had the @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Physics Fair. Great job @scientistsarah.bsky.social organizing it all! Here we can see @garrettmerz.bsky.social, who works with me at @uwdsi.bsky.social, manning the Cloud Chamber exhibit!

Finally wrapped up the Wonders of Physics show at @uwmadphysics.bsky.social!

We're proud *every* day of the amazing #WomenInPhysics who choose to share their love of physics across our department. And on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we especially celebrate them! #WomenInScience #IDWGIS #IDWGIS2025

Our colloquium today is our own Prof. Baha Balantekin, presenting his work that led to his @apsphysics.bsky.social #BethePrize #Physics #Neutrinos #NuclearPhysics

It’s great to have Kendrick Smith from @perimeterinstitute.ca telling us about “Fast Radio Bursts with Chime” at our @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Colloquium.

Researchers from @uwmadphysics.bsky.social used Anvil to study turbulence and turbulent transport in astrophysical plasmas. The group utilized half the machine (512 nodes at once) to run a single simulation. Click the link to learn more! www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/6956

In case you missed arxiv.org/abs/2412.15405 which came out right before the winter holidays: Building on foundational work with Jacky Yip and Adam Rouhiainen @uwmadphysics.bsky.social: arxiv.org/abs/2308.02636 we showed how to Machine Learn cosmological parameters from topological statistics.

Today I will be talking about “The String Genome Project” based on work of my group @uwmadphysics.bsky.social in the beautiful campus of the University of Tokyo.

Congrats to Pupa Gilbert & team for earning the cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters! Their study "eCoral: How Electrolysis Could Restore Seawater Conditions Ideal for Coral Reefs" is available via @acspublications.bsky.social at pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #MyACSCover

If you are attending the Machine Learning and Physical Sciences workshop at #NeurIPS2024 #ml4ps2024, check out Haotian Cao's poster @uwmadphysics.bsky.social based on his paper with @garrettmerz.bsky.social @kylecranmer.bsky.social @uwdsi.bsky.social and me. ml4physicalsciences.github.io/2024/

I am thrilled to be talking about “The String Genome Project” at the ITS Symposium on “The Geometry and Phenomenology of String Compactifications” in NYC tomorrow: itsatcuny.org/calendar/202... based on a body of work with my group @uwmadphysics.bsky.social. A full day of talks ahead!

Proud of my student Puxin Lin @uwmadphysics.bsky.social who delivered a great talk based on our paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.02197 at the Worldline Seminars: sites.google.com/view/worldli... He showed great poise in front of the world experts of the worldline formalism!

Congratulations to Jacky Yip @uwmadphysics.bsky.social for passing the prelim exam: www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=9...

On to the next event for today! As a @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Outreach Fellow, I’m at Madison East High School performing a couple modern physics experiments with other Fellows.

That’s Josh from A3D3 explaining the 3 challenges! I can peep @kylecranmer.bsky.social there too. 👀 @garrettmerz.bsky.social is here hiding just outside the photo. A lot of people from UW Computer Science, Statistics, and @uwmadphysics.bsky.social! @uwdsi.bsky.social @uwmadscience.bsky.social

I'll be cohosting the NSF HDR Machine Learning Challenge UW-Madison kickoff event later today with Josh Peterson from A3D3 at the UW Data Science Institute. nsfhdr.org/mlchallenge

For those applying for postdocs in HEP theory, please consider joining us @uwmadphysics.bsky.social : academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28467

I am please to announce a seminar by Francois Charton (Meta) on “AI for the Working Mathematician” on Nov. 20 at 4pm in Room 1435 of Chemistry at UW-Madison: dsi.wisc.edu/2024/11/12/a... This kicks off a new "AI for Science Seminar Series” organized in partnership with the Data Science Institute.