Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA) at LBNL
The INPA Seminar weekly talks are on Fridays, starting at 12:00 pm, unless informed otherwise. The seminar talk starts with a brief presentation of the weekly scientific news. Typically, the talks conclude by 1:00 pm. The seminars are held in the Sessler Conference Room, located in Bldg. 50A- 5132.
The committee members are:
The seminar schedule for the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA) is tentative and becomes final a few days before the Friday talk.
Please send all suggestions for future INPA talks and speakers to the INPA Committee.
To be added to the INPA News Mailing List, please contact Erica Hall.
Xavier Prochaska (UCSD) – Deep Learning of Quasar Spectra
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAI will describe our development of a convolutional neural network (CNN) to learn to search for and characterize absorption lines in quasar spectra. Specifically, the algorithm discovers and measures the […]
Noah Kurinsky (Stanford) – Pushing to Low Mass with SuperCDMS SNOLAB: New Developments in Ultra-Low Threshold Dark Matter Detectors
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAIn the last few years, the dark matter field has bifurcated into experiments focused on wimp-scale dark matter with massive liquid noble detectors and experiments focused on so-called ‘hidden sectors’ […]
Katelin Schutz (UCB) – Excluding a thin dark matter disk in the Milky Way with Gaia DR1: Resurrecting the Dinosaurs
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAIf a component of the dark matter has dissipative interactions, it could collapse to form a thin dark disk in our Galaxy coincident with the baryonic disk. It has been […]
Yuan Mei (LBL) – TPC without charge multiplication: a CMOS direct readout towards neutrinoless double-beta decay and other applications
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAHigh-pressure gaseous TPCs provide a unique combination of excellent energy resolution, event tracking for background discrimination, and scalability, which are ideal for neutrinoless double-beta decay searches. We are developing a […]
Anna Zsigmond – GERDA neutrinoless double beta decay experiment
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAHirotaka Ito – Numerical Simulations of Photospheric Emission from Collapsar Jets
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAWe explore the photospheric emission from a relativistic jet breaking out from a massive stellar envelope based on relativistic hydrodynamical simulations and post- process radiation transfer calculations in three dimensions. […]
Bjoern Lehnert (Carleton University) – Dark Matter Search with DEAP-3600 and the Importance of Rare Nuclear Decay Searches
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe DEAP-3600 experiment is searching for dark matter with a single phase liquid argon (LAr) target, located at SNOLAB. For a background-free exposure of 3000 kg·yr, the projected sensitivity to […]
Elizabeth Wills (Drexel) – Probing Cosmic Ray Anisotropy in the Northern Hemisphere with Atmospheric Neutrinos
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CACosmic Rays have remained an enigma for over a hundred years since their discovery. This talk focuses on a well-measured, yet similarly elusive feature; an unexplained structure in arrival direction […]
Jason Bono (Fermilab) – Muon Anomalies and Their Future Investigations
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe muon is 200 times heavier than the electron and still lighter than any hadron, which make it’s interactions, at once, potentially sensitive to undiscovered phenomena, and predictable to high […]
Wing Yan Ma (Imperial College London) – Recent Neutrino Oscillation Results from T2K
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAT2K is a long baseline neutrino experiment situated in Japan. A muon neutrinos and antineutrinos beam is produced and fired 295km across the country and observed using the 50 kTon […]
Special – Danielle Leonard (CMU) – Measuring the scale-dependence of intrinsic alignments using multiple shear estimates
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe next generation of cosmological surveys promises significant advancements in the field of weak gravitational lensing. As such, it is crucial that relevant systematic effects such as the intrinsic alignment […]
Samuele Sangiorgio (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) – Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with nEXO: Experiment Concept, R&D, and Sensitivity
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe next-generation Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) is a proposed experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay whose observation would imply lepton number violation and confirm the existence of […]
Dan Wilkins (Stanford) – Seeing to the Event Horizons of Supermassive Black Holes
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAFrom the reflection and reverberation of X-rays off the innermost regions of AGN accretion discs, a three-dimensional picture is starting to emerge of the extreme environments around supermassive black holes […]
Andre Walker-Loud (LBNL) – Lattice QCD for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAIn recent years, lattice QCD has matured to the stage where it is now routine for calculations to be performed at or near the physical pion mass, with fully controlled […]
Giorgia Pollina – Unveiling cosmic voids in large-scale structure surveys: the impact of tracer bias
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe large-scale structure of the Universe can only be observed directly via luminous tracers of the underlying matter density field. However, luminous tracers, such as galaxies, do not precisely mirror […]
Ana Bonaca (Harvard-CfA) – What are the tidal streams constraining?
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CACold stellar streams, remnants of tidally disrupted globular clusters, have been employed as exquisite tracers of dark matter in the Milky Way. Because of their different positions in phase space, […]
Krista Lynne Smith (Stanford) – A New Regime of Optical Variability in AGN: Light Curves from Exoplanet Satellites
The optical light curves of AGN provide a unique window into the conditions and behavior within the accretion disk. The development of a specialized pipeline for AGN science with the […]
Dr. Leila Haegel (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) – Testing general relativity with gravitational waves
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAGravitational waves have been directly detected by the LIGO experiment in 2015. Since then, five black holes and one neutron star binaries merging have been observed during the two observational […]
INPA guests from campus can now come to the lab early on Fridays. The INPA Common Room (50-5026) is reserved for our guests from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Note that the seminars are now held in 50A-5132 to accommodate a more significant number of attendees.
CPTea Series (also known as INPA Tea Series)
The Physics Division CPTea Series invites you to an In-Person Tea Series 1st Friday of every month at 3:30 pm INPA Conference Room 50-5026.
Everyone is welcome to attend the open forum. Tea and light refreshments will be served.
INPA Common Room (50-5026)
Fridays
3:30 pm
Access to the Lab
For a shuttle pass, please email Erica Hall. The pass is only valid for the day of the seminar.