The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
Author Reading & Presentation with Mark Bowen at the Chittenden Public Library.

Vermont writer and physicist, Mark Bowen, will read from his book about the building of IceCube, which Scientific American has called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy. IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to detect light. It employs a cubic kilometer of diamond-clear ice, more than a mile beneath the surface, to detect an elementary particle known as the neutrino. In 2010, it detected the first extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos from outer space and thus gave birth to a new field of astronomy.

This is the inside story of the people who built the instrument, the mistakes they made, the blind alleys they went down, the solutions they found, their conflicts, and their teamwork.

Bowen will also share a presentation and Q&A.
Free and Open to the public.