Speaker: Ben Allanach (Cambridge) – Title: Z’ bosons in light of B-anomalies

Research Progress Meeting Date: August 28, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Ben Allanach (Cambridge) Title: Z' bosons in light of B-anomalies Abstract: Many measurements of b->s transitions (when accompanied by a di-muon pair) disagree with state-of-the-art Standard Model (SM) …

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Speaker: Heather Gray (LBNL) and Simone Pagan Griso (LBNL) – Title: What’s next for CERN? Summary of the 2025 European Strategy for Particle Physics Open Symposium

Research Progress Meeting Date: September 4, 2025 Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm   Location: 50-4-Auditorium Speaker: Heather Gray (LBNL) and Simone Pagan Griso (LBNL) Title: What's next for CERN? Summary of the 2025 European Strategy for Particle Physics Open Symposium Abstract: CERN is undergoing a …

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Speaker: Alan Poon (LBNL) – Title: Recent Results and Status of the Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment LEGEND

Research Progress Meeting Date: September 11, 2025 Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm   Location: 70A-3-3377 Speaker: Alan Poon (LBNL) Title: Recent Results and Status of the Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment LEGEND Abstract: The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless ββ Decay (LEGEND) is a phased international …

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Speaker: Daniel Baxter (Fermilab) – Title: A QUIET place: Fermilab’s Underground Facilities for Quantum Sensing

Research Progress Meeting This is a joint seminar with the Interdisciplinary Instrumentation Colloquium (IIC).  Date: September 16, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: 50-4-Auditorium     Speaker: Daniel Baxter (Fermilab) Title: A QUIET place: Fermilab’s Underground Facilities for Quantum Sensing Abstract: The infrastructure associated with …

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Speaker: Jim Strait (LBNL) – Title: CMB-S4: birth, life and death of a major science project

Research Progress Meeting Date: September 25, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Jim Strait (LBNL) Slides: Download slides Title: CMB-S4: birth, life and death of a major science project Abstract: CMB-S4 was envisioned to be a comprehensive ground-based CMB experiment …

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Speaker: Xinran Li (LBNL) – Title: Athermal phonon detectors for light dark matter search, go small and go large

Research Progress Meeting Date: October 2, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Xinran Li (LBNL) Title: Athermal phonon detectors for light dark matter search, go small and go large Abstract: Light dark matter below 100MeV could only deposit sub-eV energies in …

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Speaker: Tim Nelson (SLAC) – Title: Light Dark Matter eXperiment: A Discovery Experiment for Sub-GeV Dark Matter at SLAC

Research Progress Meeting Date: October 14, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Tim Nelson (SLAC) Title: Light Dark Matter eXperiment: A Discovery Experiment for Sub-GeV Dark Matter at SLAC Abstract: As searches for WIMPs approach fundamental sensitivity limits, interest in …

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Speaker: Chuan-Hong Liu (LBNL) – Title: Nonequilibrium Quasiparticles in Superconducting Quantum Bits

Research Progress Meeting Date: October 16, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Chuan-Hong Liu (LBNL) Title: Nonequilibrium Quasiparticles in Superconducting Quantum Bits Abstract: The ideal superconductor offers a pristine host for the fragile quantum states of a superconducting quantum computer. …

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Speaker: Daniel Carney (LBNL) – Title: Experimental quantum gravity

Research Progress Meeting Date: October 23, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Daniel Carney (LBNL) Title: Experimental quantum gravity Abstract: This will be an informal talk on some ideas related to testing aspects of quantum gravity in experiments. There are …

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Speaker: Dan Dwyer (LBNL) – Title: Development of the DUNE Near Detector

Research Progress Meeting Date: October 28, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Dan Dwyer (LBNL) Title: Development of the DUNE Near Detector Abstract: The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is an ambitious effort to measure neutrino properties via long-distance (1300 …

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