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: 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 […]
Speaker: Ben Smithers (UTA)- Title: A Multi-Channel Search for Signatures of eV-Scale Sterile Neutrinos in IceCube
This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler CR, 50A-5132 DATE: June 16, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM TITLE: A Multi-Channel Search for Signatures of eV-Scale Sterile Neutrinos in IceCube ABSTRACT: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer-scale neutrino observatory built using a gigaton of instrumented ice near the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica; it measures […]
Speaker: Konrad P. Nesteruk (Harvard)- Title: The Power of Protons: Unleashing Precision in Cancer Treatment
This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler CR, 50A-5132 DATE: June 30, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM SPEAKER: Konrad P. Nesteruk, Ph.D. (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School) TITLE: The Power of Protons: Unleashing Precision in Cancer Treatment ABSTRACT: This seminar will provide a comprehensive overview of proton therapy, focusing on its advantages over conventional […]
Speaker: Barbara Skrzypek (Harvard)- Title: Ice-Breaking Neutrino Energies: Astrophysical Messengers of Planck-Scale Physics
This is an In-Person Event Location: Sessler CR, 50A-5132 Date: July 7, 2023 Time: 12:00- 1:00 PM Speaker: Barbara Skrzypek( Harvard) Title: Ice-Breaking Neutrino Energies: Astrophysical Messengers of Planck-Scale Physics Abstract: In recent decades, particle physics has made significant advances in our understanding of high-energy phenomena, both on theoretical and experimental fronts, culminating in the […]
Speaker: Jonathan Echevers (UC Berkeley)- Title: The EXO program: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches in Xe-136
DATE: August 4, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM SPEAKER: Jonathan Echevers (UC Berkeley)- Title: The EXO program: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches in Xe-136 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 […]
Speaker: Damian Goeldi (ETH Zurich)- TITLE: Testing weak equivalence with the LEMING experiment
DATE: August 11, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM SPEAKER: Damian Goeldi (ETH Zurich) TITLE: Testing weak equivalence with the LEMING experiment ABSTRACT: The LEMING experiment aims to test weak equivalence in leptonic antimatter. We will employ atomic interferometry to measure the vertical deviation of a horizontal cold muonium (M = μ+ + e−) beam. Existing muonium […]
Speaker: Naim Göksel Karaçaylı (Ohio State University) Title: 1D Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum from the DESI early data
DATE: September 8, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM LOCATION: 50A-5-5132-CR-Sessler SPEAKER: Naim Göksel Karaçaylı (Ohio State University) TITLE: 1D Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum from the DESI early data ABSTRACT: The one-dimensional power spectrum P1D of the Lya forest provides important information including constraints on warm dark matter models, the sum of the neutrino masses, and the […]
Speaker: Wenbo Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)-Title: Search for solar neutrino and light dark matter with the PandaX-4T experiment
DATE: September 15, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM LOCATION: 50A-5-5132-CR-Sessler SPEAKER: Wenbo Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) TITLE: Search for solar neutrino and light dark matter with the PandaX-4T experiment ABSTRACT: The PandaX-4T experiment aims to search for potential dark matter interactions. With significant technical improvements, PandaX-4T achieves unprecedented sensitivity at the low-energy edge of LXe […]
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.