2. Neutrinos in icecap ? 1988: Ed Zeller (Kansas)  Francis John Learned

3. 1988: Pomerantz workshop, NSF Science and Technology Center for the South Pole (Andrew Westphal, Tim Miller, Doug Lowder, Buford Price) 1989: attempt of Westphal and Lowder to measure ice transparency in existing boreholes Jan. 89, ICRC, Adelaide: Decide to propose Amanda ( Buford Price, Doug Lowder, Steve Barwick, Bob Morse, Francis Halzen, Alan Watson)

4. Greenland, August 13-16 th 1990 Bruce Koci Tim Miller + Bob Morse

6. Nature Sept 91

7. Bruce Koci (  2006) The success of AMANDA stood on two pillars: the Amundsen Scott Station and Bruce Koci.

9. South Pole Summer 91/92

11. Serap Bob

13. Sweden joins (Stockholm, Uppsala)

17. Igor Liubarsky Pat Mock

18. 1 km 2 km 93/94 CATASTROPHAL DELAY OF LIGHT ! 40 m

19. Vostok Data Venice 1994

21. 1 km 2 km 93/94 40 m But the photomultipliers are ticking like Swiss watches !

22. „Amanda is nothing more than a big calorimeter“ „This is what Amanda sees ! „You are a son of a bitch!“ Sounds interesting!  DESY joins

23. „Amanda is nothing more than a big calorimeter“ „This is what Amanda sees ! „You are a son of a bitch!“ Sounds interesting!  DESY joins

24. „Amanda is nothing more than a big calorimeter“ „… and this is what DUMAND sees !“ „You are a son of a bitch!“ Sounds interesting!  DESY joins

25. „Amanda is nothing more than a big calorimeter“ „….and this is what DUMAND sees !“ „You are a son of a bitch!“ Sounds interesting  DESY joins

26. „Amanda is nothing more than a big calorimeter“ „….and this is what DUMAND sees !“ „You are a son of a bitch!“ Sounds interesting  DESY joins !

31. Albrecht Pat Mock

32. Albrecht fighting with the drill cable Christian Albrecht

33. Peter Wallenberg

34. Then Now

36. B4: first 2 neutrinos 

37. Astroparticle Physics 2000

38. + Mainz + Wuppertal + Brussels + Mons The AMANDA collaboration end of the nineties

40. 1 km 2 km IceCube will work ! 96/97 AMANDA - B10 120 m The EVA event

41. NATURE 2001

42. No George Smoot! I want to have only good papers on my record !

43. Skyplot of the very first 17 Nu candidates in B10 B10 skyplot published in Nature 2001

44. Winterovers 1997 Robert Gary Thanks to Gary for many pictures I have taken from his Pole talk!

45. Applause to those who kept Amanda running* * Including those at the Northern hemisphere

46. Marc Robert Ralf Pawel winterovers and DAQ experts in the pool

47. 1 km 2 km 120 m  3 long strings  study deep and shallow ice for future IceCube 97/98 0.02 0.1 0.5 Scattering coefficient (1/m) vs. depth

48. 1 km 2 km 120 m  3 long strings  study deep and shallow ice for future IceCube 97/98

53. Steve

54. Paolo Pat Mock Dima Azriel

55. 1 km 2 km AMANDA-II 99/00 200 m Nearly horizontal 

56. Point Sources: The Progress factor 1000 in 15 years !

57. Another factor 1000 ! see answer next slide !

58. Nothing is guaranteed but history is on our side !

59. Challenges

60. The bubble problem

61. The ice challenge

62. Reconstructing tracks

63. Working together and against Working together and not against each other

64. Working together and not against each other

65. Working together and against Working together and not against each other

66. Working together and against Working together and not against each other

67. Working together and against Working together and not against each other

68. The gain drop problem

69. The stuck string

70. The downhole camera

71. Finding the best technology copper cable digital optical fibre analog

72. copper cable digital optical fibre analog Coax cable Twisted pair cable Optical cable Optical cable, digital control (dAOM) Twisted pair cable, digital (DOM)  string 18

73. TWR SWAMPs SN counters Majority trigger analog  DMADDl

74. Spokesman Europe Spokesman US Principal Investigator „Invariants“

75. … watched by the ultimate “invariant“

76. … watched by the „ultimate invariant“

77. Joining two collaborations

78. October 2005: Amanda and IceCube collaborations join 2006/07: Amanda detector is integrated into IceCube

79. What was your happiest event with AMANDA ?

80. String 1 deployed ! (January 9, 1996)

81. What was your most tantalizing event with AMANDA?

82. 1 ES 1959+650 Year 2000200120022003 MayJuneJuly Flux of TeV photons (arb. units) 0 1 2 3 WHIPPLE Arrival time of neutrinos from the direction of the AGN ES1959+650

83. Nature is traditionally more imaginative than physicists are !

84. Hmm … with one exception

85. Me …

86. What was your most erotic event with AMANDA ?

87. The story with table-dancing Amanda

88. What could have been your most erotic event with AMANDA?

89. The story with Amanda in my dreams

90. What will be your most sentimental event with AMANDA ?

91. The day we switch it off !