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Construction of IceCube is Complete

December 18, 2010

Construction of IceCube is Complete

IceCube Structure

Construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory was completed at the the South Pole in Antarctica on December 18, 2010 New Zealand time. This scientific milestone marks completion of the world's largest neutrino detector and a powerful tool for exploring the Universe.

The Ohio State University (OSU) joined the IceCube effort in 2008. The OSU IceCube group, which consists of four senior members: Prof. Jim Beatty, Prof. Amy Connolly, Dr. Carsten Rott, and Dr. Michael Stamatikos, has been primarily be involved with the data quality and analysis efforts.

Rott, a 5-year fellow with OSU's Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (CCAPP) and an IceCube member since 2005 is leading a new search for signals from dark matter annihilating in our Galaxy.
Stamatikos, who is also an experienced IceCube member since 2002, is pursuing multi-messenger searches from Gamma-Ray Bursts using NASA satellites such as Swift and Fermi.

Read the NSF Press Release...