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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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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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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Special Research Progress Meeting - note special time and location. Date: October 30, 2025 Time: 3:00- 5:00 pm Location: Building 50 Auditorium Panelists: Benjamin Safdi (UC Berkeley & LBNL) Gabriel Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley & LBNL) Simone Pagan Griso (LBNL) Michael Levi …
Research Progress Meeting Date: November 6, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Gianpaolo Carosi (LLNL) Title: Tuning into Dark Matter with the ADMX experiment Abstract: The primordial axion remains one of the best solutions to both dark matter and the …
Research Progress Meeting Date: November 20, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Xiaochen Ni (University of Washington) Title: Development of TopmetalSe: CMOS/aSe Hybrid Detectors for Neutrino Physics Abstract: The Selena experiment couples an amorphous selenium (aSe) ionization target to a …