UW-River Falls Physics Department

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.

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Specialties:

• Cosmic Rays
• Experimental Astroparticle Physics

Primary Courses Taught:

• Astronomy
• Astrophysics
• General Physics
• General Physics Lab
• Nuclear and Particle Physics
• Thermodynamics

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