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 | Andreas Biekert (UC Berkeley)

Speaker: Andreas Biekert (UC Berkeley) Title: Scintillation Yield From Electronic and Nuclear Recoils In Superfluid 4He  Abstract: HeRALD is a proposed sub-GeV scale dark matter detector based on a superfluid 4He target and […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Kevin Thieme (Univ. of Zurich)

Speaker: Kevin Thieme (University of Zurich) Title: A Measurement of the Mean Electronic Excitation Energy of Liquid Xenon Abstract: Detectors using liquid xenon as target are widely deployed in rare event searches. Conclusions […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Peter Taylor (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory )

Speaker: Peter Taylor (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ) Title: The RSD Sorting Hat  Abstract: Redshift-space distortions (RSD) and weak lensing (WL) studies yield some of the tightest cosmological constraints. Large overlapping data sets from […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Noah Kurinsky (SLAC )

Speaker: Noah Kurinsky (SLAC) Title: Quantum Sensors for Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter  Abstract: Over the last 20 years, searches for dark matter above the proton mass have advanced significantly across direct […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Luca Pagani (UC Davis )

Speaker: Luca Pagani (UC Davis) Title: First Results From The ARTIE Experiment Abstract: A measurement of the transmission coefficient for neutrons through a thick (~3 atoms/b) liquid natural argon target in the energy […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Chiara Salemi (MIT)

Location: via Zoom Speaker: Chiara Salemi (Massachusettes Institute of Technology) Title: Seeing the Invisible: Search for Low-Mass Axion Dark Matter Abstract: Multiple astrophysical and cosmological observations have shown that the visible matter […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Jason Sun (CalTech )

Speaker: Jason Sun (CalTech) Title: Understanding the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxies with Intensity Mapping  Abstract: The intensity mapping (IM) technique has been devised as a powerful tool to investigate the formation/evolution of the […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Matthew Ho (Carnegie Mellon)

Speaker: Matthew Ho (Carnegie Mellon) Title: Galaxy Cluster Mass Estimation Using Deep Learning  Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss how we use modern deep learning models to infer galaxy cluster masses […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Lingyuan Ji (John Hopkins)

Speaker: Lingyuan Ji (John Hopkins) Title: Cosmological Neutrino Perturbations Without The Boltzmann Hierarchy  Abstract: We present a formulation of cosmological perturbation theory where the Boltzmann hierarchies that evolve the neutrino phase-space distributions […]

VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Julie Pagès (University of Zurich)

Location: via Zoom Speaker: Julie Pagès (University of Zurich) Title: Different Flavors For Different Particles: Mass Hierarchies, B Anomalies, and Neutrinos  Abstract: Despite many advances in neutrino physics, their masses are […]

[UPDATE] VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Sherry Song (Princeton University)

Location: via Zoom Speaker: Sherry Song (Princeton University) Title: Integration and Analysis of the Balloon-borne Telescope, SPIDER Abstract: Ever since the discovery of cosmic microwave background(CMB) in the year of 1965, its […]

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