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SUMMARY:Speaker: Anže Slosar (BNL) - Title: LuSEE-Night: A lunar radio-astronomy pathfinder.
DESCRIPTION:Research Progress Meeting \nDate: March 26\, 2026 \nTime: 4:00- 5:00 pm \nLocation: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 [In-Person and HYBRID]  \nSpeaker: Anže Slosar (BNL) \nTitle: LuSEE-Night: A lunar radio-astronomy pathfinder. \nAbstract: LuSEE-Night is a novel collaborative effort between NASA and DOE aiming to land a path-finder radio telescope on the far side of the Moon. The instrument consists of 4 monopole antennas and will observe the radio sky between 0.1Mhz and 50MHz. This observational band is largely inaccessible from the Earth due to ionosphere and radio interference\, but offers potentially transformational information about the early universe. The instrument is manifested for launch on the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 2\, targeting a landing in spring 2027. The mission will attempt numerous firsts: the first US landing on the lunar far side; the first far-side landing by a private company; the first modern US attempt to survive and operate through a lunar night; the first demonstration of radio calibration from an in-orbit calibrator around any planetary body; and\, crucially\, the first far-side radio instrument to deliver science-grade data. This talk describes the science case\, the instrument design\, and future opportunities for fundamental physics enabled by the lunar far side. \nhttps://lbnl.zoom.us/j/98854322464?pwd=K2tKUm1VZjRlV1J5RHE3cXdHQzRxdz09 \nMeeting ID: 988 5432 2464\n\nPasscode: 142239
URL:https://rpm.physics.lbl.gov/event/speaker-anze-slosar-bnl-title-lusee-night-a-lunar-radio-astronomy-pathfinder/
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SUMMARY:Speaker: Elliot Lipeles (U Penn) - Title: The Hadron Collider Option
DESCRIPTION:Research Progress Meeting \nDate: April 2\, 2026 \nTime: 4:00- 5:00 pm \nLocation: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 [In-Person and HYBRID]  \nSpeaker: Elliot Lipeles (U Penn) \nTitle: The Hadron Collider Option \nAbstract: Hadron colliders have enormous physics reach\, but were sidelined in the current cycle of large project planning primarily because of cost. I review the physics motivation and reach of a hadron collider\, along with the technology options\, the interplay of energy and luminosity constraints\, and what they mean for the ultimate project cost as we currently understand it. \n  \nhttps://lbnl.zoom.us/j/98854322464?pwd=K2tKUm1VZjRlV1J5RHE3cXdHQzRxdz09 \nMeeting ID: 988 5432 2464\n\nPasscode: 142239
URL:https://rpm.physics.lbl.gov/event/speaker-elliot-lipeles-u-penn-title-the-hadron-collider-option/
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SUMMARY:Speaker: Thomas Essinger-Hileman (NASA Goddard) - Title: Science with CLASS and Future CMB Space Missions
DESCRIPTION:Research Progress Meeting \nDate: April 16\, 2026 \nTime: 4:00- 5:00 pm \nLocation: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 [In-Person and HYBRID]  \nSpeaker: Thomas Essinger-Hileman (NASA Goddard) \nTitle: Science with CLASS and Future CMB Space Missions \nAbstract: The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a unique probe of the state of the early universe and its evolution since recombination approximately 380\,000 years after the Big Bang. CMB observations have been critical in building a concordance model of cosmology consisting of a spatially flat universe dominated by dark matter and dark energy. Current CMB projects from the ground and balloons continue to address fundamental questions in astrophysics\, cosmology\, and particle physics: Did cosmic inflation create our Universe? What is the nature of dark energy? When and how did the first stars reionize the universe? and What is the mass of the neutrinos? I will highlight ongoing work to constrain reionization and the mass of neutrinos with the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)\, which observes more than 65% of the sky from the Atacama Desert of Chile\, as well as need for future CMB space missions like LiteBIRD and a NASA CMB Probe satellite to make the ultimate measurements of the CMB at large angular scales. \nhttps://lbnl.zoom.us/j/98854322464?pwd=K2tKUm1VZjRlV1J5RHE3cXdHQzRxdz09 \nMeeting ID: 988 5432 2464\n\nPasscode: 142239
URL:https://rpm.physics.lbl.gov/event/speaker-thomas-essinger-hileman-nasa-goddard-title-science-with-class-and-future-cmb-space-missions/
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