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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

Speaker: Nicholas Rodd (LBNL)   Title: Evidence the 3.5 keV line is not from dark matter decay Abstract: X-ray observations of nearby clusters and galaxies have reported an unexpected X-ray […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Speaker: Eric Charles (Stanford) Title: Indirect Dark Matter Detection: Status and Summary of WIMP Searches     Abstract:  The nature of dark matter is a longstanding enigma of physics; it may consist of […]

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 […]

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 […]

Speaker: Jorge Morales (SLAC) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

Speaker: Jorge Morales (SLAC) Title: Simulation of Dark Matter and Standard Model Interactions in the SuperCDMS Soudan Experiment Abstract: Astronomical observations lead us to believe that dark matter constitutes the […]

Speaker: Bradley Kavanagh (IFCA - Spain) Title: Detection Dark Matter around Black Holes with Gravitational Waves Abstract: The observation of Gravitational Waves (GWs) has opened up a whole new avenue […]

Speaker: Matthew Szydagis (UALbany) Title: The Road to Discovering Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using Supercooled Liquids Abstract:The latest developments in the search for low-mass dark matter with the snowball chamber technology, […]