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.
SPEAKER: Alexander Leder (UCB) – TITLE: Current status of the cavity and resonance based experiments
This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: February 10, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: Current status of the cavity and resonance based experiments ABSTRACT: Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate, which currently have a wide open and accessible parameter space, with few constraints on their mass and coupling […]
SPEAKER: R.G. Hamish Robertson (Univ of Washington)- TITLE: The direct road to neutrino mass
This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: February 17, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: The direct road to neutrino mass ABSTRACT: The discovery of neutrino oscillations gave us proof that neutrinos have mass, a direct contradiction of the minimal standard model of particle physics. But how much mass? Oscillations […]
Speaker: Daniel Carney (LBL)-TITLE: Proposal for a Levitated Invisible Particle Sensor
This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: March 3, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: Proposal for a Levitated Invisible Particle Sensor ABSTRACT: Recently Dave Moore (Yale), Kyle Leach (Mines) and I proposed the use of a levitated mechanical quantum sensor combined with a pixelated electron/photon detector to look for […]
[EVENT CANCELED]:SPEAKER: Jonathan Echevers (UCB)-TITLE: The EXO program: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches in Xe-136
EVENT CANCELED This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: March 17, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: The EXO program: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches in Xe-136 ABSTRACT: Neutrinoless double beta (0vBB) decay is currently one of the most compelling searches in nuclear and particle physics. If found, it would […]
[NO INPA SPEAKER] -SPEAKER: TBA
- FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023 This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: March 24, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: TBA ABSTRACT: TBA ZOOM INFORMATION – Join Zoom Meeting:https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEY mRWZlVVZz09 Meeting ID: 950 1669 6011 Passcode: 247722
SPEAKER: Agnes Ferte (KIPAC, SLAC)-TITLE: Preparing for discovery of new physics with the Rubin Observatory
This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: March 31, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: Preparing for discovery of new physics with the Rubin Observatory ABSTRACT: The coming decade will offer a unique opportunity to tests physics using cosmological probes, thanks to the new generation of galaxy surveys such as […]
SPEAKER: Noah Sailer (UC Berkeley)- Title: Accurate cosmology from CMB lensing and galaxy surveys
This is an In-Person Event Date: April 7, 2023 Time: 12:00- 1:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Noah Sailer (UC Berkeley) Title: Accurate cosmology from CMB lensing and galaxy surveys Abstract: Joint analyses of CMB lensing and spectroscopically-calibrated galaxies have the ability to measure the evolution of matter fluctuations out to high redshifts […]
Speaker: Gabriela Rodrigues Araujo (University of Zurich)- Title: Light-sheet microscopy of color centers: A new venue for neutrino and dark matter detection with passive crystals
SPECIAL INPA SEMINAR This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: April 10, 2023 TIME: 4:00 pm TITLE: Light-sheet microscopy of color centers: A new venue for neutrino and dark matter detection with passive crystals ABSTRACT: Most of the techniques currently used to detect nuclear recoils from dark matter and […]
SPEAKER: Lisa Schlueter (TU Munich)-TITLE: Neutrino-Mass Analysis with sub-eV Sensitivity and Search for Light Sterile Neutrinos with the KATRIN Experiment
SPECIAL INPA SEMINAR This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: April 11, 2023 TIME: 12:00 pm TITLE: Neutrino-Mass Analysis with sub-eV Sensitivity and Search for Light Sterile Neutrinos with the KATRIN Experiment ABSTRACT: The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is designed to determine the effective mass of the electron-antineutrino […]
SPEAKER: Prof. Christian Weinheimer (University of Münster)-TITLE: The dark matter experiment XENONnT and first WIMP results
This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: April 14, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM TITLE: The dark matter experiment XENONnT and first WIMP results ABSTRACT: Evidence for about 6 times more matter in the universe than normal matter is coming from cosmological observations and analyses on all scales. What […]
Speaker: Antoine Armatol-Title:Investigation of the Majorana nature of neutrinos at a few meV level of the neutrino mass scale: from CUPID to BINGO
This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: May 5, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM TITLE: Investigation of the Majorana nature of neutrinos at a few meV level of the neutrino mass scale: from CUPID to BINGO ABSTRACT: The search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0ν2β) is one of the […]
Speaker: Raquel Castillo Fernandez (University of Texas Arlington)- Title: In the hunt for 0νββ at the NEXT experiment
This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: May 12, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM TITLE: In the hunt for 0νββ at the NEXT experiment ABSTRACT: In the last decades, oscillation experiments have demonstrated that neutrinos are not massless particles, and the lepton number is not conserved. Thus, revealing the […]
[SPECIAL] Speaker: Roohi Dalal (Princeton University)- Title: Cosmology and Systematics from Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 Data
This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room 50A-5132 DATE: June 2, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM TITLE: Cosmology and Systematics from Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 Data ABSTRACT: The Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey is the deepest Stage III weak lensing experiment, going to ~26 mag with exquisite seeing. The depth and image quality achieved by […]
Speaker: Brendan Crill (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) Title: SPHEREx: NASA’s all-sky near-infrared spectral survey
This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: INPA Common Room – 50- 5026 DATE: June 9, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM TITLE: SPHEREx: NASA's all-sky near-infrared spectral survey ABSTRACT: SPHEREx is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission to produce a near-infrared all-sky spectrophotometric survey. The 2-year mission will measure spectra of every 6-arcsecond pixel on the sky between […]
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.