Glenn Spiczak
Dr.
Spiczak joined the Department in the Fall of 2001. Prior to coming to
River
Falls
he was a research scientist at the Bartol Research Institute of the
University
of
Delaware
studying Cosmic Rays (using
SPASE, South Pole Air Shower Experiment). The goal is to learn more about the
composition, origin and acceleration mechanisms of cosmic rays by studying the
resulting debris of high energy particles that rains down on Earth's surface
after one of these nuclei collides with a nucleus in Earth's atmosphere. This
work continues at UWRF and now includes the proposed IceCube cubic-kilometer
scale neutrino telescope under construction at the South Pole.
He earned both his B.S. and Ph.D. in Astrophysics from
Indiana
University
,
Bloomington
,
IN.
Specialties: |
Courses Taught:
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- Cosmic Rays
- Experimental Astroparticle Physics
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- Astronomy
- Astrophysics
- General Physics
- General Physics Lab
- Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Thermodynamics
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