Research Progress Meeting Date: August 15, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Sinead Griffin (LBL) Title: Party like it's LK99? Abstract: A recent report of room temperature superconductivity at ambient pressure in Cu-substituted apatite (`LK99') has invigorated interest in the …
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Research Progress Meeting Date: September 7, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Paul Stankus (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Title: Quantum-Enhanced Astronomy for Both Fun and Profit Abstract: Quantum devices are finding their way to improving many kinds of technologies, at an …
Research Progress Meeting Date: September 14, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Uros Seljak (LBNL) Title: AI for Physics, Physics for AI Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning) is revolutionizing many aspects of our life, but its success stories in physics …
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Research Progress Meeting Date: September 21, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson (Drexel) Title: Neutrino Astronomy, From Dream to Reality Abstract: The Universe has been studied using light since the dawn of astronomy, when starlight captured the …
Research Progress Meeting Date: September 26, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Jia Liu (Kavli IPMU University of Tokyo) Title: Neutrinos, baryons, cosmic web, and COVID19 Abstract: This won't be your usual seminar, but rather a report back since I …
Research Progress Meeting Date: September 28, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Chris Polly (Fermilab) Title: New results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment Abstract: The Muon g-2 collaboration recently published their latest results for the determination of the anomalous …
Research Progress Meeting Date: October 5, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati) Title: From quarks and gluons to hadrons Abstract: Monte Carlo event generators for particle collisions are composed of three block, the calculations of …
Research Progress Meeting Date: October 12, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Luke Kelley (UC Berkeley) Title: Nanohertz Gravitational Waves: Exploring the most massive black holes in the Universe Abstract: Earlier this year NANOGrav, along with other pulsar timing arrays, …
Research Progress Meeting Date: October 19, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Joshua Batson (Anthropic AI) Title: More is Different: Generalization in Large (Language) Models Abstract: Specialized machine learning models have been successfully applied in science and industry for decades. …
Research Progress Meeting Date: October 26, 2023 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Kelly Stifter (Fermilab) Title: Leveraging quantum sensors to shine new light on searches for low-mass dark matter Abstract: While dark matter accounts for approximately 85% of the mass in …