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.

Special INPA SEMINAR – Karthik Ramanathan (University of Chicago)

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Speaker: Karthik Ramanathan (University of Chicago)   Title: Dark Matter Taking Selfies: The DAMIC Experiment  Abstract: The DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) experiment uses silicon charge-coupled devices (CCDs), traditionally employed for imaging […]

INPA Seminar – Harikrishnan Ramani (LBNL)

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Speaker: Harikrishnan Ramani (LBNL)   Title: Nuclear Isomers as Dark Matter accelerators Abstract: Weak-scale dark matter particles, in collisions with nuclei, can mediate transitions between different nuclear energy levels. In particular, […]

Speaker: Vishal Gajjar (UC Berkeley)

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Title: Breakthrough Listen's search for intelligent life in the Universe  Abstract: The discovery of the ubiquity of habitable extrasolar planets, combined with revolutionary advances in instrumentation and observational capabilities, have ushered […]

Special INPA SEMINAR – Wouter Van De Pontseele (Harvard/Oxford)

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Speaker: Wouter Van De Pontseele (Harvard/Oxford)   Title: The MicroBooNE Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab Abstract: MicroBooNE is a liquid argon time projection chamber in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. The […]

INPA Seminar – Chiara Capelli (University of Zurich)

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Speaker: Chiara Capelli (University of Zurich) Title: Data analysis at high-energies for the XENON1T experiment and light calibration system of XENONn  Abstract: The XENON1T experiment searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles […]

Special INPA Seminar – Gulden Othman (University of North Carolina)

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Speaker: Gulden Othman (University of North Carolina) Title: CAGE Scanner: Investigating Surface Backgrounds in HPGe Detectors for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches Abstract: A potential source of problematic backgrounds in a […]

Special INPA SEMINAR – Rebecca Carney (SLAC)

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  Speaker: Rebecca Carney (SLAC)   Title: Silicon tracking in the search for rare processes    Abstract: The ATLAS Detector, below the surface of the Swiss-French border, measures the remnants of high-energy […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Zara Bagdasarian (UC Berkeley)

Speaker: Zara Bagdasarian (UC Berkeley) Title: Borexino. Sun. Earth. Neutrinos Abstract: Borexino experiment is a 280-ton liquid scintillator detector located at a 3800 m w.e. depth in the Laboratori Nazionali […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Ethan Bernard (UC Berkeley)

Speaker: Ethan Bernard (UC Berkeley) Title: The Construction of the LZ Dark Matter Detector Abstract: The assembly of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector within the Homestake mine in Lead, […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Rémi Adam (LLR/CNRS)

Speaker: Rémi Adam (LLR/CNRS) Title: Diffuse gas in galaxy clusters: on the thermal and non-thermal components Abstract: The clusters of galaxies represent the last step of the formation of large […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Zachary Marshall (LBNL)

Speaker: Zachary Marshall (LBNL)  Title: Unidentified New Physics: LHC Searches for SUSY and Dark Matter Abstract: ATLAS and CMS, two large, general-purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Chia-Cheng Chang (LBNL)

Speaker: Chia-Cheng Chang (LBNL)  Title: Time evolution of open quantum many-body systems Abstract: The increasing interest and efforts put forth towards the development of quantum computing have lead to a […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Luca Pagani (UC Davis)

Speaker: Luca Pagani (UC Davis) Title: Recent results from the ACED and the ARTIE experiments Abstract: Liquid argon is becoming a popular medium for particle detection, with applications ranging from […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Micah Buuck (SLAC)

Speaker: Micah Buuck (SLAC) Title: Neurtrinoless Double-Beta Decay and Radioactive Backgrounds in the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Abstract: Neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) is a lepton-number-violating process whose existence would indicate that neutrinos […]

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.

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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.

Erica Hall