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 | 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 […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Ralph Massarczyk (LANL)
Location: via Zoom Speaker: Ralph Massarczyk (LANL) Title: Results from the BEST Sterile Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Abstract: The Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST) searches for the oscillations between active and sterile […]
Joint Special RPM and INPA Seminar | Chelsea Bartram (U of Washington)
Location: via Zoom Speaker: Chelsea Bartram (U. of Washington) Title: "Combing the Cosmos: A Deep Dive Into the Nature of (Dark) Matter and Fundamental Symmetries" Abstract: One of the most striking […]
Diego Redigolo (CERN) “Is Dark Matter Electroweak? Towards a final test of WIMP Dark Matter”
Abstract: The possibility that the DM sits inside an EW multiplet is still viable in scenarios where Z-mediated elastic scattering of DM with nucleons is absent. Using an effective field […]
Artur Ankowski (SLAC) “Determination of the argon spectral function from (e, e’p) data”
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAAbstract: Reliable reconstruction of neutrino energy in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and in the Fermilab-based short-baseline oscillation program requires a realistic description of the ground state properties of the […]
Andrei Puiu (Gran Sasso Science Institute) “Direct Dark Matter Search with COSINUS”
50A-5132 / https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 One Cyclotron Road, 50A-5132, Berkeley, CAABSTRACT: The search for dark matter is one of the most important challenges in modern physics. In my presentation I will make a brief introduction to the direct detection of […]
Christopher Grant (University of Boston) – New Results from KamLAND-Zen 800 with Nearly a Ton-Year Exposure of Xe-136
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAKamLAND-Zen is searching for neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay in Xe-136 using a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator. The KamLAND-Zen detector was recently upgraded with almost double the amount of xenon and an […]
Speaker: Zhelei Xu (MIT) – Precision Cosmology: from CMB and 21cm
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CADate: Friday, September 2, 2022 Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location: Conference Room B50-5132 Speaker: Zhelei Xu (MIT) Title: Precision Cosmology: from CMB and 21cm This is a HYBRID […]
SPEAKER: Yuuki Omori – University of Chicago
50A-5132 / https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 One Cyclotron Road, 50A-5132, Berkeley, CADate: Friday, September 16, 2022 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Speaker: Yuuki Omori (University of Chicago) Title: “Constraining cosmology and astrophysics using the combination of CMB x LSS, and […]
Jeff Cooke (Swinburne University) “The Keck Wide-Field Imager and the future direction of the Keck Observatory”
50A-5132 / https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 One Cyclotron Road, 50A-5132, Berkeley, CAABSTRACT: The Keck Wide-Field Imager (KWFI) is a 1 degree diameter field of view wide-field optical imager for Keck that will be the most powerful wide-field imager in the world […]
Henry Klest (Stony Brook University) Physics and Detectors at Nuclear Colliders: Prospective interdisciplinary measurements and technologies at U.S based facilities in the coming decades
50A-5132 / https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 One Cyclotron Road, 50A-5132, Berkeley, CAAbstract: High energy nuclear physics in the U.S. is undergoing a revitalization 22 years after the turn on of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab. Two […]
Speaker: Dan Werthimer (UC Berkeley (SETI) “What’s New in SETI and High Performance Signal Processing, and The PANOSETI IR/Visible Ultra-Wide Field Nanosecond Time Scale Transient Search”
50A-5132 / https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 One Cyclotron Road, 50A-5132, Berkeley, CAAbstract: Dan will review current and SETI radio and optical searches, and also review CASPER open source technologies for real time signal processing instrumentation. The CASPER collaboration develops open source […]
SPEAKER – Peter Craig (LBNL) – TITLE: “Effects of Microlensing on Time Delay Measurements from Strongly Lensed Supernovae”
50A-5132 / https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 One Cyclotron Road, 50A-5132, Berkeley, CAABSTRACT: Strongly lensed supernovae are highly valuable cosmological probes, sensitive to both the Hubble constant and the distribution of dark matter. Measuring time delays in strong lensing systems allows for […]
SPEAKER – Nick Kokron (Stanford University) – TITLE: Pen-and-Paper Meets Supercomputing: Building Accurate Models for Cosmological Surveys
LOCATION: IN-PERSON - Sessler Conference Room Building 50A-5132 TITLE: Pen-and-Paper Meets Supercomputing: Building Accurate Models for Cosmological Surveys ABSTRACT: Stage-IV cosmological surveys are poised to revolutionize our understanding of the […]
SPEAKER: Daniel Kodroff (Penn State University) – TITLE: Background Modeling and First Results From The LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThis is a VIRTUAL Event TITLE: Background Modeling and First Results From The LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment ABSTRACT: LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a dark matter experiment located at the Sanford Underground […]
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.