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.
Matt Shaw (JPL) – Silicon nanowire single photon detectors
INPA Common Room 50-5026TBA
Aleksandar Cikota (LBNL)
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CATBA
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 […]
NO INPA SEMINAR MTG
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 […]
Alexander Fieguth (Stanford) – Recent results of the Xenon-1t dark matter experiment
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CABeyond the Standard Model of particle physics there exists a form of matter, which seems to be dark in all interaction channels but in its gravitational influence. The nature of […]
Jia Liu (Princeton) – Nonlinear cosmology with massive neutrinos
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe non-zero mass of neutrinos suppresses the growth of cosmic structure on small scales. Since the level of suppression depends on the masses of the three active neutrino species, the […]
Dr. Quentin Riffard (LBL) – Direct detection of Dark Matter: from LUX to LZ
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CALiquid xenon two-phase time projection chamber (TPC) is one of the most promising technologies for WIMP dark matter direct detection. By using this technology, the LUX, XENON1T, and PANDAX-II collaborations […]
NO INPA SEMINAR MTG
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CANO INPA SEMINAR MTG
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAAaron Manalaysay (UC Davis) – 178 nm: The magic of liquid xenon and the search for dark matter
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThe introduction of liquid-xenon (LXe) to the field of dark-matter direct detection caused a paradigm shift in this search. Primarily focused on the search for the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, […]
Morgan Askins (UCB) – Search for invisible nucleon decay in the SNO+ detector
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAMany Grand Unified Theories predict processes that would allow baryons to decay to leptons, violating baryon number conservation. The observation of baryon number violation in nucleon decay would be a […]
Giovanni Benato (UCB, LBL) – Waiting for neutrinoless double beta decay with cryogenic calorimeters
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CANeutrinoless double beta decay is the matter-creating process that is most accessible with the current technology. Its discovery would demonstrate the non-conservation of lepton number and that neutrinos have a […]
SPECIAL – Rajesh Sankaran – (ANL) – Waggle and Array of Things
50-AuditoriumThe Waggle Platform is a research project at Argonne National Laboratory to design, develop, and deploy a novel wireless sensor platform with advanced edge computing capabilities to enable a new […]
NO INPA SEMINAR MTG
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAKarl van Bibber (UCB) – A Primer on the Axion
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThis is the first of a two-part series on the axion and the current experimental campaign to find it. This first seminar will focus on the history and motivation of […]
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.