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.
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 […]
Maria Simanovskaia (UCB) – Searching for Dark Matter Axions with HAYSTAC
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAContinuing on the topic of axion searches from last week, this seminar will highlight one experiment, HAYSTAC, which looks for an axion-induced power excess spectrally coincident with the resonance of […]
NO INPA SEMINAR MTG
INPA Common Room 50-5026Ben Land (UCB) – Solar neutrinos with SNO, SNO+, and Beyond
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CAThis seminar gives a brief historical introduction to solar neutrino detection, and motivates the use of solar neutrinos as a tool to probe physics beyond the standard model. An analysis […]
Vid Irsic (UW) – Lyman-alpha forest
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CATBA
Adam Bernstein (LLNL) – The Watchman Experiment
50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CATBA
Speaker: Daniel Whiteson – What has the Machine Learned?
INPA Common Room 50-5026Speaker: Katherine Rawlins – University of Alaska at Anchorage
The title and abstract are forthcoming.
Speaker: Solène Chabanier – IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay
The title and abstract are forthcoming.
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.