Freija Descamps, Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Ever wonder what it would be like to live at the South Pole for a year? Freija Descamps found out when she spent 13 months including a long, dark winter operating and maintaining the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Hear about her adventures working on the biggest and strangest telescope in the world.
Learn from researchers from around the world who are developing new ways to explore the Universe from the South Pole. Hear about neutrinos, the mysterious cosmic messengers that IceCube detects, and what they are telling us about the composition of matter, cosmic explosions, and more. Activities and displays will be open at 6pm outside of the Town Center Forum in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.