Physics Department Colloquium

Bill Foster, U.S. congressman representing the 14th District of Illinois, is a high-energy particle physicist and UW-Madison physics alumnus who also did graduate work at Harvard on the IMB Proton Decay detector. Foster's career included 22 years at Fermilab, where he helped build the CDF experiment that discovered the top quark, built high-speed integrated circuits, 100kA superconducting magnets and particle beam damper circuits.