- Thai engineer joins the IceCube Upgrade project
Thai engineer Chana Sinsabvarodom was recently selected to work on the IceCube Upgrade project, which will install seven more densely instrumented strings of light sensors near the center of the IceCube array at the South Pole. The IceCube Upgrade will significantly enhance IceCube’s sensitivity to lower-energy neutrinos, improve the fidelity of all past and future data, and test future technologies. Chiang Mai University in Thailand is an associate member of the IceCube Collaboration. Sinsabvarodom, a researcher and lecturer at Chiang Mai University, is the first Thai researcher to work at the South Pole for the IceCube project. He will begin […] - Download IceCube’s 2024 calendar!
It’s almost the new year, which means it’s time for the 2024 IceCube Calendar! Featuring breathtaking photos taken by our winterovers from the past few years, this calendar will teach you something new about the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the South Pole every month. The calendar is available to download in three different sizes in either full color or black-and-white. […] - IceCube back at holiday light display in Madison, WI
The Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) is back for another year at the Holiday Fantasy in Lights event in Madison, WI! WIPAC, a research center that is part of UW–Madison’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, participated in the annual holiday exhibit for the last three years. The lights will be on every night from dusk until dawn, November 11, 2023 – December 31, 2023, at Olin Park in Madison, WI. The drive-through event is free and open to the public! Our IceCube light display depicting the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is back again this year. […] - SCAR AAA meets above the Arctic Circle for 7th workshop
The seventh meeting of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Astronomy and Astrophysics from Antarctica (SCAR AAA) was held September 19-21, 2023, about 1400 km from the North Pole in the northernmost town in the world, Svalbard, Norway. The three-day workshop brought together dozens of researchers from nine countries to discuss, coordinate, and promote astronomical and astrophysical activities in Antarctica. […] - Second ThaisCube workshop strengthens partnership between IceCube, Thailand
Last week concluded the 2nd ThaisCube workshop held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, a program that developed from a partnership between Chiang Mai University (CMU) in Thailand, the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT), and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The workshop brought together IceCube researchers, Thai scientists, and aspiring young students. Held on August 8-11, the workshop hosted 40 high school, undergraduate, and master’s students pursuing degrees in physics, astronomy, mathematics, computer science, engineering, or related fields. For the first time, the program welcomed students from Thailand, USA, and the Philippines. Participants were able to interact with and hear from […] - IceCube Masterclass celebrates a decade of bringing students and scientists together
The tenth edition of the IceCube Masterclass hosted over 250 students across 20 research institutions in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and the United States. The masterclasses were held between the months of January and May, with many of them returning to an in-person program. This year, Queens University in Canada joined the masterclass program for the first time. The program, created in 2014, exposes high school students—mostly sophomore level and up—to research careers in astrophysics and IceCube science. Each host institution provides a day full of hands-on activities and lectures, including analysis of real IceCube data, lunch […] - Winners of IceCube machine learning competition announced
Last month, the IceCube Collaboration concluded their “IceCube – Neutrinos in Deep Ice” Kaggle competition that launched in January, 2023. Participants were challenged to devise a machine-learning solution that could quickly and accurately process a large number of events to identify the direction that neutrinos came from. Over the course of three months, 11,000 solutions were submitted by around 900 participants from 74 countries around the world. The top three teams with the best overall performance won prize money from a $50k pool. The top three winners are: · 1st Place winner of $18k: Tito · 2nd Place […] - Help IceCube decode signals from outer space
Every second, about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body unnoticed. At the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects these elusive particles and works to identify their astronomical origins to help unlock mysteries of the universe. Such an undertaking requires a massive amount of data, with one terabyte of data recorded daily by IceCube. But organizing the data can be labor intensive. This is where the public can help. Starting today, volunteers from anywhere can participate in the Name that Neutrino project led by IceCube researchers at Drexel University, which asks users to categorize IceCube data. Through the Zooniverse […] - IceCube launches machine learning competition for event reconstruction
The IceCube Collaboration, in conjunction with Kaggle, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1258, Excellence Cluster ORIGINS, and PUNCH4NFDI, announces the launch of the IceCube – Neutrinos in Deep Ice project. This outreach project invites everyone to present a machine learning solution that tackles the problem of IceCube event reconstruction. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which encompasses a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice, searches for nearly massless particles called neutrinos in order to better understand the cosmos. Scientists achieve this by estimating the direction of neutrino events, allowing them to trace […] - Pilot program offers childcare grants to scientists in 2023
The LSST Corporation (LSSTC) and the IceCube Collaboration (IceCube) are pleased to announce a pilot childcare support program generously funded by the Heising-Simons Foundation. This partnership program, a landmark in multimessenger astronomy, will provide childcare funding for four conferences over the next 12 months—two LSSTC-sponsored conferences and two IceCube-sponsored conferences. The program is designed to facilitate equitable participation in scientific meetings and reduce the burden of childcare costs for attending caregivers. “We’re thrilled to partner with IceCube on this initiative, to create a more inclusive culture of participation in collaboration meetings and also to learn about how caregiving needs impact […] - Download IceCube’s 2023 calendar!
It’s almost the new year, which means it’s time for the 2023 IceCube Calendar! Featuring breathtaking photos taken by our winterovers from the past few years, this calendar will teach you something new about the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the South Pole every month. The calendar is available to download in three different sizes in either full color or black-and-white. […] - IceCube back at holiday light display in Madison, WIThe Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), a research center that is part of UW–Madison’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and headquarters for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, is back for the 3rd year in a row at the Holiday Fantasy in Lights event in Madison, Wisconsin! WIPAC participated in the annual holiday exhibit the last two years with a display depicting IceCube detecting a neutrino from a hypernova. The same display will return for this winter’s event. The lights are on every night from dusk until dawn, November 12, 2022 – January 1, 2023, at Olin Park. The […]