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.

Jeff Cooke (Swinburne University) “The Keck Wide-Field Imager and the future direction of the Keck Observatory”

50A-5132 / https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 One Cyclotron Road, 50A-5132, Berkeley, CA, United States

ABSTRACT: The Keck Wide-Field Imager (KWFI) is a 1 degree diameter field of view wide-field optical imager for Keck that will be the most powerful wide-field imager in the world for the foreseeable future. KWFI has extreme sensitivity from 10000A down to 3000A that will enable new science from the high redshift Universe, to time-domain […]

Henry Klest (Stony Brook University) Physics and Detectors at Nuclear Colliders: Prospective interdisciplinary measurements and technologies at U.S based facilities in the coming decades

50A-5132 / https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 One Cyclotron Road, 50A-5132, Berkeley, CA, United States

Abstract: High energy nuclear physics in the U.S. is undergoing a revitalization 22 years after the turn on of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab. Two major upcoming experimental efforts, sPHENIX at RHIC, planned to turn on next year, and the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), planned to start running in 2032, are […]

Speaker: Dan Werthimer (UC Berkeley (SETI) “What’s New in SETI and High Performance Signal Processing, and The PANOSETI IR/Visible Ultra-Wide Field Nanosecond Time Scale Transient Search”

50A-5132 / https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 One Cyclotron Road, 50A-5132, Berkeley, CA, United States

Abstract: Dan will review current and SETI radio and optical searches, and also review CASPER open source technologies for real time signal processing instrumentation. The CASPER collaboration develops open source hardware, software, GPUware, FPGA gateware, tools, libraries, reference designs, tutorials, training videos, and workshops for astronomy instrumentation. CASPER instrumentation is utilized mostly for radio astronomy, […]

SPEAKER – Peter Craig (LBNL) – TITLE: “Effects of Microlensing on Time Delay Measurements from Strongly Lensed Supernovae”

50A-5132 / https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEYmRWZlVVZz09 One Cyclotron Road, 50A-5132, Berkeley, CA, United States

ABSTRACT: Strongly lensed supernovae are highly valuable cosmological probes, sensitive to both the Hubble constant and the distribution of dark matter. Measuring time delays in strong lensing systems allows for independent measurements of the Hubble constant, providing a mechanism to resolve the current Hubble tension. These time delays are also sensitive to the dark matter […]

SPEAKER – Nick Kokron (Stanford University) – TITLE: Pen-and-Paper Meets Supercomputing: Building Accurate Models for Cosmological Surveys

LOCATION: IN-PERSON - Sessler Conference Room Building 50A-5132 TITLE: Pen-and-Paper Meets Supercomputing: Building Accurate Models for Cosmological Surveys ABSTRACT: Stage-IV cosmological surveys are poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Universe. The vast data sets collected by surveys like DESI, Rubin and CMB-S4 will be orders of magnitude more powerful than their precursors from the […]

SPEAKER: Daniel Kodroff (Penn State University) – TITLE: Background Modeling and First Results From The LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment

50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CA

This is a VIRTUAL Event TITLE: Background Modeling and First Results From The LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment ABSTRACT: LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a dark matter experiment located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA employing a 7 tonne active volume of liquid xenon in a dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC). It’s surrounded by […]

SPEAKER: Arun Persaud (LBNL-ATAP) – TITLE: Applications of Associate Particle Imaging at Berkeley Lab from Carbon in Soil to Nuclear Data

This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room - 50A - 5132 DATE: February 3, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: Applications of Associate Particle Imaging at Berkeley Lab from Carbon in Soil to Nuclear Data ABSTRACT: We developed an Associated Particle Imaging(API) system that uses inelastic neutron scattering reactions to measure 3d density maps […]

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: 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 […]

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.

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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.

Erica Hall