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.

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Bradley Kavanagh (IFCA – Spain)

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 […]

VIRTUAL INPA Seminar – Matthew Szydagis (UALbany)

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, […]

SPECIAL VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Benjamin Schmidt (LBNL)

Speaker: Benjamin Schmidt (LBNL) Title: A new limit from the search for 0νββ of 100Mo from the CUPID-Mo experiment Abstract: The CUPID-Mo experiment, currently taking data at the Laboratoire Souterrain de […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Gioacchino Ranucci (INFN) Italy

Speaker: Gioacchino Ranucci (INFN) Italy Title: First detection of solar neutrinos from the CNO cycle with Borexino Abstract: The liquid scintillator detector Borexino reported recently the direct observation of neutrinos […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Jared Vann (Univ. of Liverpool)

Speaker: Jared Vann (University of Liverpool) Title: ARIADNE: Fast Optical Readout of Dual-Phase LArTPCs with Timepix3 Cameras Abstract: The ARIADNE experiment is a 1-ton dual-phase LArTPC with a novel optical […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Stefan Schoppmann (UC Berkeley)

Speaker: Stefan Schoppmann (UC Berkeley) Title: the STEREO Experiment: Search for Sterile Neutrinos Abstract: In recent years, two unsolved anomalies have appeared from the study of reactor neutrinos: the reactor […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Stephane Zsoldos (UCB)

Speaker: Stephane Zsoldos (UC Berkeley) Title: An overview of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment Abstract: Hyper-Kamiokande, which started construction in April 2020, is a next generation underground water Cherenkov detector, based on […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Adrien Hourlier (MIT)

Speaker: Adrien Hourlier (MIT) Title: MiniBooNE Oscillation Results with Complete Dataset Abstract: The MiniBooNE experiment, located on the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab, reports a total excess of 638.0+/-132.8 electron-like […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Scott Kravitz (LBNL)

Speaker: Scott Kravitz (LBNL)    Title: CrystaLiZe - Solid Xenon Detector R&D   Abstract:  Radon and its daughter decays limit the sensitivity of direct WIMP dark matter searches, despite extensive screening programs, […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Kev Abazajian (UC Irvine) 

Speaker: Kev Abazajian (UC Irvine)    Title: Arising and demising candidate dark matter signals on the sky, and the potential of future searches   Abstract:  New  technologies searching are observing the […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Sukanya Chakrabarti (RIT)

Speaker: Sukanya Chakrabarti (Rochester Institute Technology) Title: Measuring Accelerations— Near & Far Abstract: Recent technological advances and observational programs now make it possible for us to directly measure the Galactic […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Livia Ludhova (RWTH)

Speaker: Livia Ludhova (RWTH Aachen/Forschungszentrum Jülich)   Title: JUNO: the first multi-kton liquid scintillator based neutrino detector   Abstract:   The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a neutrino experiment under construction in […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Julieta Gruszko (UNCCH)

Speaker: Julieta Gruszko (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Title: Shedding ‘Nu’ Light on the Nature of Matter: NuDot and the Search for Majorana Neutrinos Abstract: Why is the […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Tomi Akindele (LLNL)

Speaker: Tomi Akindele (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)  Title: Antineutrinos as a Nuclear Safeguards Tool Abstract: To date, antineutrino experiments built for the purpose of demonstrating a nonproliferation capability have typically […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Liang Dai (UCB)

Speaker: Liang Dai (UC Berkeley) Title: A New Window Into the Universe: Gravitational Waves From Compact Binary Coalescence  Abstract: Detection of chirping gravitational waves (GWs) at ground-based laser interferometry observatories LIGO and Virgo […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Tongyan Lin (UCSD)

Speaker: Tongyan Lin (UC San Diego) Title: Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter with the Migdal Effect in Semiconductors Abstract: As direct detection experiments expand the search for sub-GeV dark […]

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