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UW–Madison Physics Department

@uwmadphysics.bsky.social

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

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Raheem Hashmani@rkhashmani.me · 10mo ago

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!

Kyle Cranmer@kylecranmer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New paper, with @rkhashmani.me @marielpettee.bsky.social @garrettmerz.bsky.social Hellen Qu. We introduce a framework for generating realistic, highly multimodal datasets with explicitly calculable mutual information. This is helpful for studying self-supervised learning arxiv.org/abs/2510.21686

Interim Chancellor Eric M. Wilcots@uwchancellor.bsky.social · last yr.

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! 🔭🪐✨

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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UW–Madison@uwmadison.bsky.social · last yr.

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!

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 · last yr.

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...

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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UW–Madison Physics Department@uwmadphysics.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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 · last yr.

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 · last yr.

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

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 · last yr.

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!

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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