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.

We're hiring two faculty members this year: one in experimental AMO physics and one in AI/ML applied to experimental physics. Both positions require a PhD in physics and at least one year of postdoctoral experience. AI/ML job: go.wisc.edu/AI-Physics-Faculty AMO job: go.wisc.edu/AMOfaculty

We're hiring two faculty members this year: one in experimental AMO physics and one in AI/ML applied to experimental physics. Both positions require a PhD in physics and at least one year of postdoctoral experience. AMO job: go.wisc.edu/AMOfaculty AI/ML job: go.wisc.edu/AI-Physics-Faculty

Congrats to outreach program manager Haddie McLean on earning the 2024 Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Engagement Award! www.physics.wisc.edu/2024/03/12/h...

We're celebrating #IDWGIS2024 to showcase the amazing #WomenInPhysics in our department. Follow along on our instagram page: instagram.com/uwmadphysics/