Posted on 1 May 2009
After class, while many undergraduates are kicking back and reaching for the TV remote control, three students at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) are taking remote control of the world’s largest radio telescope – from their computers in the Physics Building.
Posted on 24 March 2009
Einstein@Home, based at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee (UWM) and the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Germany, is one of the world’s largest public volunteer distributed computing projects. More than 200,000 people have signed up for the project and donated time on their computers to search gravitational wave data for signals from unknown pulsars.
Posted on 9 February 2009
On Monday 2 February 2009, Astronomy Club started back up for the semester. At 7:10 pm, a group of 19 regular attendees met in the planetarium for a presentation on the winter skies by Jean Creighton. Although the previous meeting had been on December 8th--nearly two months ago--the organizers were pleased to find that Astronomy Club was still able to attract a large crowd.
