All seminars are on Fridays
(unless otherwise noted) and start at 12:00 (noon) with a brief presentation
of the weekly scientific news. Typically the talks end by 13:00. The seminars
take place in Bldg. 50, room 5026 (the INPA common room).
The following Journal Club schedule for the Institute for Nuclear and Particle
Astrophysics is tentative. The seminar becomes final usually a few days before
the Friday of the talk.
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions please contact,
preferably via e-mail,
MailStop 50R5008
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, CA 94720-8158
Phone: 510-486-4427
Fax: 510-486-6738
20 November
Lucas Lombriser (University of Zurich)
Testing Modifications of General Relativity with Cosmological Observations
Abstract
4 December
Alberto Vallinotto (Fermilab)
Dark matter Under Different Angles
Abstract
11 December
James Loach (LBNL)
LETA - The SNO Low Energy Threshold Analysis
Abstract TBA
18 December (rescheduled from 30 October)
Lincoln Greenhill (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Outback Radio Cosmology: the Epoch of Reionization and the Murchison Wide-field Array
Abstract
19 February
Boris Kayser (Fermilab)
Title TBA
Abstract TBA
Bruce Buchholz (LLNL)
on recent advances in Radiocarbon dating
2009
13 November - Pascal Ripoche (LBNL) -
Type Ia Supernovae Rate as a Function of Redshift from the First 3 Years of the SuperNovae Legacy Survey -Abstract6 November - Guido D'Amico (SISSA) -
The Effective Theory of Quintessence and its Observational Signatures - Abstract
23 October - Mark Krumholz (UC Santa Cruz) -
The Formation of Massive Stars - Abstract
16 October - Charles Wohl (LBNL) -
Luis Alvarez and the Pyramid Burial Chambers, the JFK Assassination, and the End of the Dinosaurs - Abstract
9 October - Nico Hamaus (University of Zurich) -
Obtimizing Large Scale Structure Information from Biased Tracers - Abstract
29 September - Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber (University of Kiel) -
Solar Orbiter - Exploring the Sun-Earth Connection - Abstract
18 September - Andrew Wetzel (UC Berkeley) -
Satellite galaxy merging and disruption - Abstract
4 September -Stijn Buitink (LBNL) -
Radio Detection of Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos - Abstract
28 August - Francesco de Bernardis (Physics Department and Sezione INFN, University of Rome "la Sapienza") -
Determining the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy with Cosmology - Abstract
August - Weidong Li (UC Berkeley) -
The Luminosity Function, Rate, and Distance of Supernova -
Abstract
31 July - Pablo Saz Parkinson (UC Santa Cruz) -
New Gamma-Ray Pulsars discovered by Fermi and their TeV Pulsar-Wind Nebulae seen by Milagro -Abstract
24 July - Delia Tosi (DESY) -
Status of activities for acoustic neutrino detection at the South Pole - Abstract
17 July - Brad Cenko (UC Berkeley) -
Future directions in gamma-ray burst and supernovae studies - Abstract
10 July - Andreas Keiling (Space Sciences Lab) -
Electrical tornadoes in space as drivers of the Northern Lights - Abstract
26 June - Ian Parrish (UC Berkeley) -
Anisotropic Thermal Conduction and the Cooling Flow Problem in Galaxy Clusters - Abstract
19 June - Gabor Worseck (UCO/Lick Observatory) -
Constraining helium reionization with the HEII Lyman alpha forest in the HST/COS era - Abstract
12 June - Ryan Wiser (LBNL) -
Tracking the US Wind Industry: Annual Report on U.S. Wind Energy Markets: 2008 - Abstract
5 June - Nicola Farina (University of Rome "La Sapienza") -
Weak Response of Nuclear Matter - Abstract
22 May - Jensen Li (UC Berkeley) -
Cloaking at Optical Frequencies using Dielectrics - Abstract
15 May - Nepomuk Otte (UC Santa Cruz) -
Detection of the Crab Pulsar above 25 GeV with the MAGIC Cherenkov Telescope -Abstract
8 May - Andrew Howard (UC Berkeley) -
Searches for Low-Mass Extrasolar Planets - Abstract
1 May - Prof. Roland Burgmann (UC Berkeley) -
A tectonic time bomb in our backyard: Earthquake potential of the Hayward fault
24 April - Brian Metzger (UC Berkeley) -
Mini-Supernovae from Outflows from Accretion Disks formed by Compact Object Mergers and Accretion-Induced Collapse - Abstract
21 April - Michelle Leber (University of Washington) - Measuring the Neutrino Mass -
Abstract
17 April - Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl (UC Berkeley) -
Concerns on the Seismic and Blast Vulnerabilities of the New East Spans of the Bay Bridge - Abstract
10 April - Ryan Martin (Queen's University) -
Results from the Neutral Current Detector Phase of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory -
Abstract
27 March - William Carithers (LBNL) -
A perspective on the ATIC evidence for a 300-800 GeV electron excess in cosmic rays - Abstract
24 March - Greg Keefer (University of Alabama) -
Working Toward a Low Energy Solar Neutrino Measurement with KamLAND - Abstract
20 March - Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University) -
EXO: Status and Perspectives -Abstract
13 March - Nick Ross (Penn State) -
The Clustering and Evolution of Quasars over the last 10 billion years - Abstract
6 March - Norman Murray (CITA) -
Maximum Density of Baryons on Parsec and Larger Scales -
Abstract
27 February - Rollin Thomas (LBNL) -
Nearby Supernova Factory Showroom - Abstract
20 February - Joshua Bloom (UC Berkeley) -
SASIR: the Synoptic All-Sky Inrared Survey - Abstract
13 February - Thomas Schenkel (LBNL) -
Exploration of quantum computer architectures with spins in silicon and diamond - Abstract
6 February - Dinesh Loomba (University of New Mexico) -
The DRIFT Dark Matter Search - Abstract
30 January - Steve Asztalos (LLNL) -
Chasing Dark Matter Axions to the Quantum Limit - Abstract
23 January - Blake Simmons (LBNL) -
Energy Innovation at the Joint BioEnergy Institute - Abstract
16 January - Mike Sholl (SSL) -
Optics for space missions and space telescopes - Abstract
9 January - Eric B. Norman (LBNL, LLNL) -
Evidence Against Correlations Between Nuclear Decay Rates and the Earth-Sun Distance -
Abstract
2008
19 December - Eric Hsiao (University of Victoria) -
Spectroscopic Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae in the Near-Infrared -
Abstract
12 December - Guy Ron (Tel Aviv) -
The Proton Electromagnetic Form Factor Ratio at Low Q2 -
Abstract
5 December - Azriel Goldschmidt (LBNL) -
IceCube in Search of Point Sources and Dark Matter -
Abstract
21 November - Douglas Scott - University of British Columbia -
Crazy Things to do with the Cosmic Microwave Background -
Abstract TBA
14 November - William Holzapfel (UC Berkeley) -
The South Pole Telescope: A new probe of cluster cosmology -Abstract
7 November - Peter Capak (IPAC) -
New Perspectives on Galaxy Evolution From the COSMOS Survey - Abstract
31 October - Andrea Pocar (Stanford University) -
Latest results from Borexino - Abstract
24 October - Rikard Enberg (Uppsala / LBNL) -
High energy neutrinos from the atmosphere and from astrophysical sources - Abstract
17 October - Bob Budnitz (LBNL) -
Recent Progress in U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Safety - Abstract
10 October - Stella Offner (UCB - Astronomy) -
AMR Studies of Star Formation: Simulations and Simulated Observations - Abstract
3 October - Nevin Weinberg (UCB - Astronomy) -
Measuring the Properties of the Milky Way's Central Supermassive Black Hole with Stellar Orbits - Abstract
19 September - David Reyna (Sandia National Lab) -
Monitoring Nuclear Reactors with Neutrinos - Abstract
12 September - Bill Carithers (LBNL) -
Selected astrophysical topics from ICHEP08 International Conference - Abstract
12 September - George Smoot (LBNL) - Views of Northern Pakistan and the total solar eclipse
5 September - Rich Muller (UCB/LBNL) -
Physics for Future Presidents - Abstract
29 August - Yury Kolomensky (UCB/LBNL) -
Selected results from the International Conference on High Energy Physics 2008 - Abstract
22 August - Paul Vetter (LBNL) -
Cm3 detector neutrino science: search for neutrino oscillations in electron capture decay - Abstract
1 August - Jason X. Prochaska (UCSC) -
Baryons: What, When and Where? - Abstract
25 July - Maryam Modjaz (UCB Astronomy Miller Fellow) -
Supernova 2008D/ X-ray Transient 080109: Death of a Stripped Massive Star - Abstract
28 July - Corey Reed (CPPM [France]) -
In Search of High Energy Neutrinos with the Antares Underwater Telescope - Abstract
18 July - Eric Gawiser (Rutgers) -
Probing the Dark Matter-Galaxy Formation Connection with Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies - Abstract
27 June - Jose Alonso (SUSEL) -
Progress at the Sanford Lab at Homestake - Abstract
20 June - Bill Carithers (LBNL) -
Some thoughts on the recent DAMA/LIBRA papers on a direct detection dark matter search - Abstract
13 June - Dawei Liu (LBNL) -
The Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment - Abstract
6 June - Jonathan Eastwood (Space Science Lab) -
The Science of Space Weather - Abstract
30 May - Kirsten Howley (UC Santa Cruz) -
Darwin Tames an Andromeda Dwarf: Unraveling the Orbit of NGX 205 Using a Genetic Algorithm - Abstract19 May - Noah Oblath (University of Washington) -
Solar Neutrinos at the Conclusion of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory - Abstract (opens as pdf)
2 May - Dan Babich (CalTech) -
Cosmological non-Gaussianity - Abstract
13 May - D. J. Koskinen (University College London) -
NuMI Muon Monitor Studies and First Results from the MINOS Sterile Neutrino Search -
Abstract
25 April - David Fridley (LBNL) -
China's Energy and Environmental Crisis - Abstract
18 April - Adam Bernstein (LLNL) -
Dark Matter, Coherent Scatter, and Dual Phase Detectors - Abstract
11 April - Lindley Winslow (LBNL/UC Berkeley) -
KamLAND: Measuring Neutrinos from the Earth, the Sun and Nuclear Reactors - Abstract
28 March - Oliver Zahn (UC Berkeley) -
The state of the art of 21 cm science - Abstract
14 March - Douglas Spolyar (UC Santa Cruz) -
The effect of dark matter on the first stars: a new phase of stellar evolution - Abstract
7 March - Jim Bishop (UC Berkeley/LBNL) -
Fixes for a greenhouse planet: Why the jury is still out on Ocean Iron Fertilization (OIF) - Abstract
29 February - Michael Nauenberg (UC Santa Cruz) -
E.C. Stoner's Pioneering Work on White Dwarfs - Abstract
22 February - Carl Pennypacker (UC Berkeley/LBNL) -
Developing Dome A on the East Antarctic Plateau for Astronomy - Abstract
15 February - Tom Cahill (UC Davis) -
The Physics and Chemistry of Aerosols from the World Trade Center Collapse Piles - Abstract
1 February - Sally Heap (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) -
A Mission Concept for the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) - Abstract
25 January - Geoffrey Nelson (CSU Fresno) -
Facts from the Fallout - Seeking Answers in the Forbidden Zone - Abstract
18 January - Anton Tikhonov (St. Petersburg, Russia) -
Voids in the Local Volume galaxy sample and in high resolution simulations: Limit on appearance of a galaxy in a Dark Matter halo -
Abstract
2007
14 December - Michael Schneider (UC Davis) -
Control of systematic errors in obtaining dark energy
constraints from galaxy and weak lensing surveys - Abstract
7 December - Don Backer (UC Berkeley) -Progress with PAPER: Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization - Abstract
30 November - Robert Quimby (Caltech) - Big and Bright: Two Discoveries from the Texas Supernova Search - Abstract
15 November - Ryan Foley (UC Berkeley) - Utilizing Composite Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae - Abstract
16 November, Friday - Katie Mack (Princeton) -
Primordial black holes in the Dark Ages -
Abstract
9 November - Geoff Bower (UC Berkeley) -
FiGSS, RRATS, and Burpers: Low Hanging Fruit in the New Radio Sky - Abstract
2 November - David Rapetti (SLAC) -
New contraints on dark energy from X-ray galaxy cluster studies - Abstract
26 October - Lisa Gerhardt (UC Irvine) -
Results of the Search for Ultra High-Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA-II -
Abstract
25 October - Shahid Hussein (Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware) -
Radio Detection of Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos - Abstract
16 October - Kevin McCarty (Princeton) -
First real time detection of sub-MeV solar neutrino in Borexino
12 October - John Harte (UC Berkeley) -
Predicting Climate-Ecosystem Feedbacks: A Daunting Challenge - Abstract
5 October - Alvaro De Rújula (CERN and Boston University) -
Cosmic Rays, Gamma-Ray bursts, and their simple understanding - Abstract
21 September - Xiaofeng Wang (UC Berkeley) -
Optical and Infrared Observations of SN 2006X in M100 and a Possible Hint for the Presence of Circumstellar Dust - Abstract
7 September - Huan Tran (UC Berkeley) -Measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background; From
detection to probing Inflation -
Abstract
14 September - Thomas R. Bloxham (Birmingham-UK) - Neutrinoless double Beta decay and the use of pixelated Cadmium Zinc Telluride detectors to observe it. -
Abstract
24 August - Joanna Kiryluk (LBNL) -
Highlights of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC, July 3-11, Mexico)
3 August - Daniel Holz (LANL) -
Cosmology with Gravitational Waves - Abstract
27 July - Elsa Couderc and Spencer Klein (LBNL/INPA) - Photon interactions at the highest energies - Abstract
20 July - Justin Vandenbroucke (UC Berkeley) - Pop goes the neutrino: Acoustic detection of astrophysical neutrinos - Abstract
6 July - Jason Wright (UC Berkeley) -
Multiple Planet Systems and the Search for Solar System Analogs - Abstract
29 June - Edward Laws (LSU) -
Aquatic Pollution -
Abstract
22 June - Michael Ramsey-Musolf (CalTech) -
Neutrinos and Effective Field Theories
15 June - Lifan Wang (Texas A&M) - Site Survey and Science at Dome A, Antarctica - Abstract
6 June - Richard Firestone (LBNL) -
The Extraterrestrial Impact that Killed the Mammoths and Caused 1,300 years of Global Cooling - Abstract
23 May - Andrea Pocar (Stanford) - Radon suppression for the Borexino nylon vessels - Abstract
18 May - Eddie Baron (University of Oklahoma) - SNe Ia Models and Observations: A Spectroscopist's Point of View - Abstract
11 May - Steven Dazeley (LLNL) -
Double Chooz and Theta_13 - Abstract
4 May - Gregory Engel (UCB and LBNL/Physical Biosciences Division) -
Understanding Design Principles behind Photosynthesis: Insights from
Two Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy - Abstract
27 April - A. Paul Alivisatos (LBNL & UC Berkeley) -
Nanocrystal Based Solar Cells - Abstract
20 April - Michael Ware (Holland & Knight) -
Is the Global Carbon Market Working? - Abstract
5 April - Zeljko Ivazic (University of Washington) -
Reaching for the sky with SDSS and LSST - Abstract
30 March - Pisin Chen (SLAC) -
Magnetowave Induced Plasma Wakefield Acceleration for Ultra High
Energy Cosmic Rays - Abstract
23 March - Mark Wise (Caltech) -
Imprints of a Primordial Preferred Direction on the Microwave Background - Abstract
16 March - Lifan Wang (Texas A&M University) -
From Polarized SNe and the expansion of the Local Universe - Abstract
2 March - J. D. Jackson (LBNL) -
Examples of the Zeroth Theorem of the History of Science - Abstract
23 February - Matt Francis (Univ. Sydney) - Cosmological Structure: The Effects of Dark Energy - Abstract
21 February - Daniel Grin (Caltech) -
A Telescope Search for Decaying Relic Axions - Abstract
16 February - Rychard Bouwens (Lick Observatory) -
Galaxy Buildup During the First 1.5 Billion Years of Cosmic History - Abstract
9 February - Vincent Desjacques (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) -
The Probability Distribution of the Flux in the Lya Forest - Abstract
2 February - Cecile Roucelle (LBNL/INPA) -
Status and first results of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Abstract
26 January - Nathaniel Bowden (Sandia) -
Reactor Monitoring and Safeguards using Compact Antineutrino Detectors - Abstract
2006
15 December - Kyle Dawson (LBNL/INPA) - Decelerating and Dustfree: Targeting SNe Ia in High Redshift Galaxy Clusters - Abstract
8 December - Jennifer Carson (SLAC) - Studying Active Galaxies with GLAST - Abstract
1 December - Kristen Shapiro (UCB) - Testing Mass Assembly in the Early Universe - Abstract
17 November - David Williams (UCSC) - Progress and Prospects in Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astrophysics - Abstract
10 November - Francisco Prada (IAA-CSIC) - Halo properties of isolated galaxies - Abstract
3 November - Jason Wright
(UCB) - Characterizing Exoplanetary Systems: The Search for Solar System Analogs - Abstract
27 October - Richard Klein
(UCB) - The Formation of Massive Stars - Abstract
20 October - Alex Farrell
(UCB) - Fuel Ethanol: Separating the Confusion From the Uncertainties - Abstract
13 October - Robert Quimby (Univ Texas, Austin) - The Texas Supernova Search - Abstract
29 September - Peter Nugent (LBNL/INPA) - Discovery of a Super-Chandrasekhar Mass Type Ia Supernova: Implications for SN Ia Physics and Their Use as Cosmological Probes - Abstract
15 September - Brian Gerke (UCB) - Galaxy groups in DEEP2: Implications for cosmic evolution- - Abstract
8 September - Michael Boylan-Kolchin
(UCB) - Black holes and the assembly of massive galaxies - Abstract
1 September - Jacques Farine
(Laurentian Univ) - Low energy background techniques in low background experiments - Abstract
25 August - Wladek Walukiewicz
(LBNL/MSD) - New Semiconductor Materials for High Efficiency Solar Cell - Abstract
11 August - Hashem Akbari (LBNL/EETD) - Cool Surfaces and Shade
Trees Reduce Energy Use and Improve Urban Air Quality - Abstract
14 July - Jon Thaler (Univ Illinois) - The Lure of the Dark and Mysterious
- Abstract
7 July - Kem Cook (LLNL) - Microlensing based discovery of exoplanets and the
discovery of the lowest mass expoplanet orbiting a normal star.- Abstract
23 June - Paolo Gorla (Lab. Naz. del Gran Sasso) - Optimization of the CUORE
detector performance and background reduction - Abstract
16 June - Robert Lin (UCB/SSL) - The RHESSI space mission to study particle
acceleration and energy release in solar flares - Abstract
26 May - Jason Melbourne (UCSC) - Keck Laser Adaptive Optics, High Resolution
Infrared Studies of Distant Galaxies and Supernovae - Abstract
12 May - Ignacio Taboada (UCB) - Neutrino-induced cascades and neutrino telescopes
- Abstract
5 May - Dimitry Chirkin (LBNL/INPA) - IceCube: From inception to 1/8th of the
full detector - Abstract
14 April - Gianpaolo Carosi (LLNL) - A Search for Signatures of Dark Matter
in the AMS-01 Electron and Antiproton Spectrum - Abstract
7 April - Nao Suzuki (LBNL/INPA) - Listening to the Harmony of the Universe
- Abstract
31 March - Saurabh Jha (UCB) - Nearby Type Ia Supernovae - Abstract
24 March - Talso Chui (JPL) - Using the Moon as a Low-Noise Seismic Detector
for Strange Quark Matter - Abstract
17 March - Ryan Bay (UCB) - Chasing globally synchronous volcanic fallouts and
abrupt climate changes from pole to pole - Abstract
10 March - Robert Cahn (LBNL) - Presentation to HEPAP on DEFT - Abstract
3 March Valeri Korneev (LBNL/ESD) - Seismicity Precursors of San Andreas Fault
Earthquakes - Abstract
24 February - Sebastien Bongard (LBNL/INPA) - Type Ia Supernova Spectral Line
Ratios as Luminosity Indicators - Abstract
17 February - Zhaoming Ma (Univ. Chicago) - Impact of Photometric redshift on
SNAP - Abstract
10 February - Thomas Budinger (LBNL) - 3-D Imaging of Radionuclides(Gamma Emitters)
in the Human Body
3 February - Phil Marshall (SLAC) - Surveying for Strong Gravitational Lenses
- Abstract
27 January - Robert Bea - Looking Back and Forward: Failure of the New Orleans
Flood Defense System - Abstract
20 January - Tad Patzek (UCB/LBNL) - Are Biofuels Sustainable? - Abstract
13 January - Buford Price(UCB/LBNL) - Life in Ice on Earth (and Mars?) - Abstract
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