Last week marked the end of the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), the largest conference in the world for cosmic ray physics. The weeklong conference was held July 26-August 3 at Nagoya University in Nagoya, Japan. ICRC 2023 was the largest ICRC in history, with a record number of 1,406 participants (1,102 onsite and […]
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IceCube meets in Aachen for its spring 2023 collaboration meeting
The spring IceCube Collaboration meeting wrapped up last week in Aachen, Germany, which was hosted by RWTH Aachen University. Over 200 members of the IceCube community attended the meeting either in person or virtually. For the second straight year since the pandemic began, the biannual collaboration meeting was held in person, with virtual offerings for […]
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IceCube meets in Madison for its fall 2022 collaboration meeting
Last week, over 200 members of the IceCube community descended upon the University of Wisconsin–Madison for its fall collaboration meeting, which was hosted by the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC). For the second time this year, the biannual collaboration meeting was held in person, with virtual offerings for those who could not attend. The […]
The future of particle physics is also written from the South Pole
A month ago, the Seattle Community Summer Study Workshop—July 17-26, 2022, at the University of Washington—brought together over a thousand scientists in one of the final steps of the Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise. The meetings and accompanying white papers put the cherry on top of a period of collaborative work setting a vision for […]
IceCube at Neutrino 2022 – the 50th anniversary
The 30th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2022), the biggest conference on neutrino physics, concluded last Saturday after running from May 30–June 4. The meeting was held in Seoul, Korea, for the first time and was hosted by the Korean Institute for Advanced Study, the Institute for Basic Science, and the Korean […]
IceCube resumes in-person collaboration meetings
For the first time since 2019, the spring collaboration meeting was held in person last week from May 16–20. The in-person meeting took place at both the Fine Arts Museum and the Plaine campus of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels, Belgium. A total of 225 participants, including those who joined remotely, registered […]
Thomas K. Gaisser, former IceCube spokesperson, dies at 81
Thomas K. Gaisser, the Martin A. Pomerantz Professor of Physics at the University of Delaware, passed away on Sunday, February 20, 2022, after a short illness. He was 81. Tom, as his friends and colleagues called him, was a pivotal researcher in the field of cosmic-ray physics. Since the late 1970s, he has inspired […]
P. Buford Price, a pioneer of neutrino astronomy, died on December 28, 2021
On December 28, 2021, P. Buford Price, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the IceCube Collaboration, passed away. Buford, who defined himself as an experimentalist who liked to develop projects that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, was a founding member of the AMANDA project and collaboration, which demonstrated […]