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Research, teaching, and outreach in Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Congratulations to Puxin Lin @uwmadphysics.bsky.social for successfully passing the Prelim (PhD candidacy) exam!
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UW–Madison Physics Department @uwmadphysics.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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.
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UW–Madison Physics Department @uwmadphysics.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Congrats, Prof. Halzen!
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WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) @warfnews.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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 www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madis…
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UW–Madison Data Science Institute @uwdsi.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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...
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WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) @warfnews.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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 www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madis…
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Raheem Hashmani @rkhashmani.me · 28/10/2025
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!
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WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) @warfnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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 www.warf.org/commercialize/uw-madis…
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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
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Interim Chancellor Eric M. Wilcots @uwchancellor.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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! 🔭🪐✨
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First images from world's largest digital camera reveal galaxies and cosmic collisions
Astronomers have been eagerly anticipating the images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which experts say could help solve some of the universe's most enduring mysteries.
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Kyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
At the #RubinFirstLook watch party @uwmadphysics.bsky.social
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UW–Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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!
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UW–Madison physicists play key role in international observatory
Physics professor Keith Bechtol and his research group have been key players in bringing the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile to the main stage. Now its state-of-the-art telescope has started taking
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UW–Madison Physics Department @uwmadphysics.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Congrats to physics instrument maker Bill Foster!
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UW–Madison Physics Department @uwmadphysics.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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...
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Bergmann Group achieves shortest hard X-ray pulses to date
Once only a part of science fiction, lasers are now everyday objects used in research, healthcare and even just for fun. Previously available only in low-energy light, lasers are now available in wave...
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Interim Chancellor Eric M. Wilcots @uwchancellor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Congrats to our 2025 Astronaut Scholars: Nathan Wagner (@uwmadphysics.bsky.social) & Nicholas Rienstra (Engineering) for their STELLAR dedication to innovation in STEM. 🚀🌟
A portrait of student Nathan Wagner.A portrait of student Nicholas Rienstra.
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Kyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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/
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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
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Badger Talks @uwbadgertalks.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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
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Badger Talks @uwbadgertalks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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
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UW–Madison Physics Department @uwmadphysics.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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...
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UW–Madison scientists part of team awarded Breakthrough Prize in Physics
A team of 13,508 scientists, including over 100 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, won the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced April 5. T...
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UW–Madison Physics Department @uwmadphysics.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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
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UW–Madison Data Science Institute @uwdsi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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
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The LHC experiment collaborations at CERN receive Breakthrough Prize
This weekend, the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were honoured with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. ...
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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…
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Generalized symmetry constraints on deformed 4d (S)CFTs - Craig Lawrie, DESY
YouTube video by UW-Madison HEP Theory and Cosmology Seminar
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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
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UW–Madison Physics Department @uwmadphysics.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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...
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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!
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Formulating the Weak Gravity Conjecture in AdS Space
We propose a version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture that applies to AdS spacetime. We find that the condition on the charge-to-mass ratio of a charged particle in AdS$_D$ spacetime is corrected compar...
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Great to have Zeeshan Ahmed (SLAC) giving our @uwmadphysics.bsky.social colloquium today on “Investigating cosmic origin and evolution with the oldest photons”.
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UW–Madison Physics Department @uwmadphysics.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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
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NOvA study sets tighter limit on sterile neutrinos
Neutrinos have always been difficult to study because their small mass and neutral charge make them especially elusive. Scientists have made a lot of headway in the field and can now detect three flav...
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Raheem Hashmani @rkhashmani.me · 17/02/2025
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!
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Raheem Hashmani @rkhashmani.me · 16/02/2025
Finally wrapped up the Wonders of Physics show at @uwmadphysics.bsky.social!
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UW–Madison Physics Department @uwmadphysics.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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
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UW–Madison Physics Department @uwmadphysics.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Our colloquium today is our own Prof. Baha Balantekin, presenting his work that led to his @apsphysics.bsky.social #BethePrize #Physics #Neutrinos #NuclearPhysics
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It’s great to have Kendrick Smith from @perimeterinstitute.ca telling us about “Fast Radio Bursts with Chime” at our @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Colloquium.
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Rosen Center for Advanced Computing @rcac-purdue.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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.
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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.
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UW–Madison Physics Department @uwmadphysics.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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
cover of a journal article that says "The Journal of Physical chemistry Letters" and has an artists rendering of corals in the shallow ocean with electrodes coming out of them
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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/
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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!
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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!
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Congratulations to Jacky Yip @uwmadphysics.bsky.social for passing the prelim exam: www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=9...
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Raheem Hashmani @rkhashmani.me · 05/12/2024
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.
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Raheem Hashmani @rkhashmani.me · 04/12/2024
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
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Raheem Hashmani @rkhashmani.me · 04/12/2024
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
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
For those applying for postdocs in HEP theory, please consider joining us @uwmadphysics.bsky.social : academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28467
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Gary Shiu @garyshiu.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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.
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AI for Science Seminar: AI for the Working Mathematician
DSI is launching a new seminar series focused on AI for Science, which will highlight advances in science fueled by machine learning and AI as well as advances in AI inspired by scientific challenges....
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