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.
SPECIAL VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Geertje Heuermann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Speaker: Geertje Heuermann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Title: Active Shielding for Future Large-Scale Dark Matter Experiments Abstract: In this talk I will present the conceptual design of a water Cherenkov detector […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Gioacchino Ranucci (INFN) Italy
Speaker: Gioacchino Ranucci (INFN) Italy Title: First detection of solar neutrinos from the CNO cycle with Borexino Abstract: The liquid scintillator detector Borexino reported recently the direct observation of neutrinos […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Jared Vann (Univ. of Liverpool)
Speaker: Jared Vann (University of Liverpool) Title: ARIADNE: Fast Optical Readout of Dual-Phase LArTPCs with Timepix3 Cameras Abstract: The ARIADNE experiment is a 1-ton dual-phase LArTPC with a novel optical […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Stefan Schoppmann (UC Berkeley)
Speaker: Stefan Schoppmann (UC Berkeley) Title: the STEREO Experiment: Search for Sterile Neutrinos Abstract: In recent years, two unsolved anomalies have appeared from the study of reactor neutrinos: the reactor […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Stephane Zsoldos (UCB)
Speaker: Stephane Zsoldos (UC Berkeley) Title: An overview of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment Abstract: Hyper-Kamiokande, which started construction in April 2020, is a next generation underground water Cherenkov detector, based on […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR – Adrien Hourlier (MIT)
Speaker: Adrien Hourlier (MIT) Title: MiniBooNE Oscillation Results with Complete Dataset Abstract: The MiniBooNE experiment, located on the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab, reports a total excess of 638.0+/-132.8 electron-like […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Scott Kravitz (LBNL)
Speaker: Scott Kravitz (LBNL) Title: CrystaLiZe - Solid Xenon Detector R&D Abstract: Radon and its daughter decays limit the sensitivity of direct WIMP dark matter searches, despite extensive screening programs, […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Kev Abazajian (UC Irvine)
Speaker: Kev Abazajian (UC Irvine) Title: Arising and demising candidate dark matter signals on the sky, and the potential of future searches Abstract: New technologies searching are observing the […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Sukanya Chakrabarti (RIT)
Speaker: Sukanya Chakrabarti (Rochester Institute Technology) Title: Measuring Accelerations— Near & Far Abstract: Recent technological advances and observational programs now make it possible for us to directly measure the Galactic […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Livia Ludhova (RWTH)
Speaker: Livia Ludhova (RWTH Aachen/Forschungszentrum Jülich) Title: JUNO: the first multi-kton liquid scintillator based neutrino detector Abstract: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a neutrino experiment under construction in […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Julieta Gruszko (UNCCH)
Speaker: Julieta Gruszko (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Title: Shedding ‘Nu’ Light on the Nature of Matter: NuDot and the Search for Majorana Neutrinos Abstract: Why is the […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Tomi Akindele (LLNL)
Speaker: Tomi Akindele (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Title: Antineutrinos as a Nuclear Safeguards Tool Abstract: To date, antineutrino experiments built for the purpose of demonstrating a nonproliferation capability have typically […]
Special Double feature Virtual INPA seminar | Anton Baleato Lizancos (Cambridge) and Utkarsh Giri (PITP)
Speaker: Anton Baleato Lizancos (Cambridge) Title: “Understanding biases to CMB lensing and delensing on the road to precision science” Abstract: For cosmologists, CMB lensing can be both a blessing and […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Liang Dai (UCB)
Speaker: Liang Dai (UC Berkeley) Title: A New Window Into the Universe: Gravitational Waves From Compact Binary Coalescence Abstract: Detection of chirping gravitational waves (GWs) at ground-based laser interferometry observatories LIGO and Virgo […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Tongyan Lin (UCSD)
Speaker: Tongyan Lin (UC San Diego) Title: Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter with the Migdal Effect in Semiconductors Abstract: As direct detection experiments expand the search for sub-GeV dark […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Elena Gramellini (Fermilab)
Speaker: Elena Gramellini (Fermilab) Title: Seeing the Light in Pixelated TPCs: Q-Pix and LILAr Abstract: Noble elements Time Projection Chambers (TPC) are the detector technology of choice for the next generation of discovery […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Patrick Komiske (MIT)
Speaker: Patrick Komiske (MIT) Title: Optimizing Particle Physics With Machine Learning Abstract: Exciting new advances in particle physics, particularly in the area of jet physics at colliders such as the LHC, are being […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Kelly Stifter (Stanford)
Speaker: Kelly Stifter (Stanford University) Title: The LZ Dark Matter Experiment: From Detector Development to First Physics Abstract: LZ is a next generation dark matter search designed to significantly extend our […]
Virtual INPA SEMINAR| Nguyen Phan (LANL)
Speaker: Nguyen Phan (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Title: “Understanding Electrical Breakdown in Liquid Helium through Analysis of the Empirical Breakdown Field Distributions” Abstract: Many present and future large-scale detectors in […]
VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Yifan Chen (Univ. of Bern)
Speaker: Yifan Chen (University of Bern, Switzerland) Title: Just A Little Kick: Low-Energy Transfer Muon-Neutrino νμ Charged-Current Interactions on Argon Abstract: Accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments provide a sensitive way to […]
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.