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.
Ana Bonaca (Harvard-CfA) – What are the tidal streams constraining?
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CACold stellar streams, remnants of tidally disrupted globular clusters, have been employed as exquisite tracers of dark matter in the Milky Way. Because of their different positions in phase space, […]
Krista Lynne Smith (Stanford) – A New Regime of Optical Variability in AGN: Light Curves from Exoplanet Satellites
The optical light curves of AGN provide a unique window into the conditions and behavior within the accretion disk. The development of a specialized pipeline for AGN science with the […]
Dr. Leila Haegel (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) – Testing general relativity with gravitational waves
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAGravitational waves have been directly detected by the LIGO experiment in 2015. Since then, five black holes and one neutron star binaries merging have been observed during the two observational […]
Vincent Fischer (UC Davis) – Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE)
The next generation of large scale neutrino detectors, such as DUNE or Hyper-Kamiokande, will heavily rely on a precise understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions to reach their goal of measuring leptonic […]
Helion Mas du Bourboux ( University of Utah) – Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations in SDSS and DESI using the intergalactic medium absorption
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAWe present the measurement of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale from the correlation between absorption in the intergalactic medium and the positions of galaxies and quasars in the SDSS […]
Heidi Newberg (RPI) – Dwarf galaxies and dark matter in the Milky Way
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAIn the past fifteen years, dozens of tidal streams of stars pulled from dwarf galaxies and globular clusters have been discovered in the Milky Way's stellar halo. Recently, it has […]
Rebecca Canning (Stanford) – Understanding Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the most massive cosmic laboratories
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CASupermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) lurk in the centers of all massive galaxies, a fraction of these SMBHs are actively accreting and this can result in powerful outbursts which have important […]
Dan Dwyer (LBNL) – Demonstration of a true 3D micro-power sensor for liquid argon time projection chambers
Time projection chambers (TPCs) based on the ionization of cryogenic liquids are a prominent tool for neutrino oscillation, neutrinoless double beta decay, and dark matter experiments. Over the past two […]
Shirley Li (SLAC) – DUNE as the next-generation solar neutrino experiment
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAKe-Jung (Ken) Chen (ASIAA) – The First Billion Years of the Universe – Rising Galaxies
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAOne of the paramount problems in modern astrophysics is to understand the end of the cosmic dark ages when the first stars, supernovae, black holes, and galaxies transformed the simple […]
Jyoti Joshi (BNL) – Recent Results from MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAMicroBooNE is a large (85-ton active mass) liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiment operating near the surface at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. The detector observes neutrino interactions from the […]
Chris Benson (UCB) – Using MiniCLEAN and measurements of microphysical material properties in the vacuum ultraviolet regime to inform next-generation dark matter and neutrino detectors
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CASingle phase, zero-field, liquid noble gas scintillator detectors are a simple, scalable and cost-effective approach for dark matter and neutrino detection. MiniCLEAN is a liquid argon dark matter detector located […]
Jyoti Joshi (BNL) – Recent Results from MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAMicroBooNE is a large (85-ton active mass) liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) experiment operating near the surface at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. The detector observes neutrino interactions from the […]
Arka Banerjee (Stanford) – Signatures of massive neutrinos on Large Scale Structure
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CANeutrino oscillation experiments have shown that there are at least two massive neutrino eigenstates, in a mass range that can produce observable signatures in current and future cosmological surveys. I […]
Marco Raveri (UChicago)
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Douglas Finkbeiner (Harvard) – Making neural net classifiers more robust and explainable: Lessons from Adversarial AI
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAAs deep neural nets achieve ever greater successes, efforts to break them and learn about their failure modes are also ramping up. Security experts and malicious actors are interested in […]
Andrej Dvornik (UNLV) – KiDS and biases
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe current ongoing large imaging surveys are an excellent tool for studying the origin and evolution of the Universe and the galaxy - dark matter connection, using the weak gravitational […]
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.