Francis Halzen

Appointments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Vilas Research Professor and Gregory Breit Professor

Publications (selected from more than 1,000)

• Testing QCD in the Hadroproduction of Real and Virtual Photons (with D. Scott), Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 1117 (1978)
• Soft Hard Scattering in the TeV Range (with T. Gaisser), Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1754 (1985)
• High Energy Neutrino Detection in Deep Polar Ice (with J.G. Learned), Proceedings of the 5th Int’l Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, Lodz, Poland (1988)
• Observation of Muons Using the Polar Ice Cap as a Cerenkov Detector (with D.M. Lowder, T. Miller, R. Morse, P.B. Price and A. Westphal), Nature 353, 331 (1991)
• Delta r Beyond One Loop (with B. Kniehl), Nucl. Phys. B 353, 567 (1991)
• Particle Astrophysics with High Energy Neutrinos (with T.K. Gaisser and T. Stanev), Physics Reports 258, 173 (1995)
• Ultratransparent Antarctic Ice as a Supernova Detector (with J. Jacobsen and E. Zas), Phys. Rev. D 53, 7359 (1996)
• Tau Neutrino Appearance with a 1000 Megaparsec Baseline (with D. Saltzberg), Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4305 (1998)
• Observation of High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA (with the AMANDA collaboration), Nature 410, 441 (2001)
• An Absence of Neutrinos Associated with Cosmic Acceleration in Gamma Ray Bursts (with the IceCube Collaboration), Nature 484, 351 (2012).
• Search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector (with the IceCube Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 131302 (2013)
• First observation of PeV-energy neutrinos with IceCube (with the IceCube Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021103 (2013)
• Evidence for high-energy extraterrestrial neutrinos at the IceCube Detector (with the IceCube Collaboration), Science 342, 6161 1242856 (2013)
• Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A (IceCube, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, AGILE, ASAS-HN, HAWC, H.E.S.S., INTEGRAL, Kanata, Kiso, Liverpool Telescope, Subaru, Swift/NuSTAR, VERITAS and VLA/178-403 collaborations and teams), Science 361, 6398, eaat1378 (2018)
• Neutrino emission from the direction of the blazar TXS 0506+056 prior to the IceCube-170922A alert, Science 361, 6398, 147 (2018)

Recent Honors

• Homi Bhabha Prize and Medal, IUPAP (2021)
• Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society (2021)
• Yodh Prize of IUPAP (2019)
• Pontecorvo Prize (2018)
• Member Academia Europeae (2018)
• Julius Wess Award (2017)
• Doctor Honoris Causa Southern Methodist University (2017)
• Member Royal National Academy, Belgium (2016)
• Bethe lectures, Cornell (2016)
• Brinson lectures, University of Chicago (2016)
• Balzan Prize (2015)
• European Physical Society Prize for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (2015)
• International Francqui Professor, VUB–ULB–UGent–UMons–UA–ULg–KULeuven, Belgium (2014)
• Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Physical Sciences (2014)
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Ghent University, Belgium (2013)
• Physics World Breakthrough of the Year Award for making the first observation of cosmic neutrinos (2013)
• APS Highlights of the Year (2013)
• University of Wisconsin Hilldale Award (2013)
• Affiliated Distinguished Professor, Technische Universität München, Germany (2012)

Synergistic Activities

• IceCube principal investigator
• Service on advisory committees includes:
  • SNO and Telescope Array and the Auger-Upgrade experiments
  • Max Planck Institutes in Heidelberg and Munich
  • ICRR of the University of Tokyo
  • US Particle Physics Prioritization Panel
  • ApPEC particle astrophysics advisory panel in Europe
  • Member Fermilab PAC