Speaker: Brendan Crill (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) – Title: Sensitivity limits to cosmological constraints on early Universe physics: lessons from Planck for future measurements

Research Progress Meeting Date: February 27, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm  Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Brendan Crill (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Title: Sensitivity limits to cosmological constraints on early Universe physics: lessons from Planck for future measurements Abstract: The past several decades …

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Speaker: Petra Merkel (Fermilab) – Title: Detectors for Future Colliders

Research Progress Meeting Date: February 29, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Petra Merkel (Fermilab) Title: Detectors for Future Colliders Abstract: I will present detector capabilities that need to be developed in order to address physics requirements at future collider …

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Speaker: Roy Aleksan (CEA-Saclay) – Title: Status of the Future Circular Collider (FCC)

Research Progress Meeting Date: March 5, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm  Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Roy Aleksan (CEA-Saclay) Title: Status of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Abstract: While the LHC is continuing its outstanding program, one needs to decide what the …

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Speaker: Cameron Geddes (LBL Accelerator Division) – Title: Accelerators for Future Colliders

Research Progress Meeting Date: March 7, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Cameron Geddes (LBL Accelerator Division) Title: Accelerators for Future Colliders Abstract: Particle physics motivates next generations of colliders ranging from a fraction of a TeV for precision Higgs …

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Speaker: Colin Hill (Columbia) – Title: Uncovering Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the Cosmic Microwave Background

Research Progress Meeting Date: March 12, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm  Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Colin Hill (Columbia) Title: Uncovering Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the Cosmic Microwave Background Abstract: The cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy remains the cleanest, most …

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Speaker: Matthias Hohenberger (LLNL) – Title: Demonstrating fusion ignition in the laboratory for the first time

Research Progress Meeting Date: March 14, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Matthias Hohenberger (LLNL) Title: Demonstrating fusion ignition in the laboratory for the first time Abstract: At approximately 1 am on December 5th, 2022, a fusion experiment at the …

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Speaker: Christian Reichardt (Melbourne) – Title: Observing the oldest light in the Universe from the South Pole: Gravitational waves, Neutrinos and more!

Research Progress Meeting Date: March 19, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm  Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Christian Reichardt (Melbourne) Title: Observing the oldest light in the Universe from the South Pole: Gravitational waves, Neutrinos and more! Abstract: The cosmic microwave background (CMB) …

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Speaker: Tom Shutt (SLAC) – Title: GammaTPC: A novel next generation Compton telescope

Research Progress Meeting Date: March 21, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Tom Shutt (SLAC) Title: GammaTPC: A novel next generation Compton telescope Abstract: I will talk about GammaTPC, a new instrument concept for measuring astrophysical gamma rays in the …

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Speaker: Raphael Flauger (UC San Diego) – Title: Deciphering the Beginning

Research Progress Meeting Date: March 26, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm  Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Raphael Flauger (UC San Diego) Title: Deciphering the Beginning Abstract: The cosmic microwave background (CMB) contains a wealth of information about cosmology as well as high-energy …

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Speaker: Chiara Salemi (SLAC) – Title: ­­Seeing the invisible: the search for axion dark matter

Research Progress Meeting Date: March 28, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Chiara Salemi (SLAC) Title: Seeing the invisible: the search for axion dark matter Abstract: The presence of dark matter provides some of the most persuasive evidence for the …

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