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IceCube at ICRC 2023
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…
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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…
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IceCube at ICRC 2021
Last week marked the end of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, the largest conference in the world for cosmic ray physics. This year, the entire conference was hosted virtually, which allowed more people from an expanded geographic range to attend; there were approximately 1,800 participants from 55 countries who contributed around 1,350 papers. It…
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IceCube at Neutrino 2020
Today kicks off the second week of the 29th biennial Neutrino conference, the world’s biggest conference in neutrino physics. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Neutrino 2020 is being held virtually over the course of two weeks, starting last Monday, June 22, and ending this Friday, July 2. According to a press release by the Department…
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IceCube at ICRC 2019
The 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference finished up last week at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. From July 24 to August 1, over 800 cosmic ray physicists gathered at the Memorial Union on Lake Mendota to discuss the latest in cosmic ray research. The IceCube Collaboration had a large presence at this ICRC because UW–Madison is…
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IceCube 2014 in brief
Yet another year has come to an end for IceCube with plenty of new science results, an always growing international collaboration, and plans for an update to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. In the meantime, the detector’s performance has broken still another record, and many outreach activities, including the recently launched IceCube Masterclass, accompanied this hectic…
