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.
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 […]
Simon Foreman (CITA, Toronto) – Gravitational lensing of line intensity maps
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAGravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has emerged as a powerful cosmological probe, made possible by the development and characterization of nearly-optimal estimators for extracting the lensing signal […]
Carlos García García (IFF, Madrid) – Theoretical priors for quintessence
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CADark energy is a key unsolved problem. An enormous number of theories try to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe, ranging from the simplicity of a cosmological constant to […]
Kimmy Wu (KICP Chicago) – Delensing, Neural Networks, the H_0 problem — a perspective from the CMB
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe cosmic microwave background (CMB) contains a wealth of information about the early and the late universe. In this talk, I will focus on the search of primordial gravitational waves. […]
Matt Shaw (JPL) – Silicon nanowire single photon detectors
INPA Common Room 50-5026TBA
Aleksandar Cikota (LBNL)
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Silvia Scorza (Snolab, Sudbury) – Updates from SNOLAB
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAAstroparticle physics experiments searching for rare events, such as neutrinoless double beta decay and dark matter particles interactions, have to be shielded from background radiation that would interact and hide […]
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50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CASPECIAL – Brittany Kamai (CalTech) – Looking further back with LIGO
INPA Common Room 50-5026Gravitational wave detectors require constant innovation in detector technology to meet the growing needs of the astrophysics community. With improved sensitivity, we can move beyond the measurements in the local […]
Hillary Child – Nonlinear Structure Formation at Two Scales: from Bispectrum Baryon Acoustic Oscillations to Evolution of Halo Profiles
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe “cosmic web” of dark matter halos forms via the collapse of post-inflation density fluctuations. While linear perturbation theory describes this process well at large scales and low densities, it […]
Sinead Griffin (LBL) – Materials considerations for New Dark Matter Detectors
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CANew discoveries in quantum information science and in dark matter detection rely on finding more sensitive detectors than those in state-of-the-art experiments. Traditional detector technologies, based on nuclear and electron […]
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.