Natural & Physical Sciences

He joins the Department of Chemistry, bringing a research group that works primarily on organic and polymer chemistry.

He joins the Department of Computer Sciences with a focus on designing systems and algorithms for large-scale data analysis.

She brings a focus on high-energy physics to the Department of Physics.

In joining the Department of Statistics, she hopes to inspire students in learning about “numbers with context.”

In July 2012, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of a fundamental particle critical to our understanding of the universe: the Higgs boson.

By the time they graduate, more than half of the students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will have taken a chemistry course, a demonstration of the central role chemistry plays in preparing students for their career. Now, with the start of construction on a $133 million tower and other renovations, those students — as well as faculty and other researchers — will gain access to updated teaching and laboratory spaces to accommodate the next generation of chemical education and research.

He brings to the Department of Computer Sciences an interest in differential privacy. 

The new physics professor specializes in elementary particle physics. 

The LAB3 project teamed UW–Madison physicists and Madison-based artists and writers with high school students from the area. Over the summer, six teams — each composed of one scientist, one visual or performing artist, one writer, and three to four high schoolers — explored current areas of scientific research ranging from neutrinos to dark matter to cosmic rays.