Research Progress Meeting Date: April 23, 2026 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Ritoban Basu Thakur (JPL) Title: Quantum sensing, Dark Matter Searches & Astrophysics in the Far-IR. Abstract: Advances in superconducting kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) are opening new windows in …
Special Research Progress Meeting Date: April 28, 2026 Time: 3:00- 5:00 pm Location: Building 50 Auditorium Panelists: Luigi Capodieci Katie Copic Tobias Ostermayr Nadav Outmezguine Khilesh Mistry Title: Industry Career Panel Summary: The Industry Career Panel will consist of panelists that …
Research Progress Meeting Date: April 30, 2026 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Rupert Croft (CMU) Title: Cosmological simulations, AI and the high redshift Universe Abstract: AI assistance can turn complex astrophysical supercomputer simulations into easily accessible tools. I will introduce …
Research Progress Meeting Date: May 7, 2026 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Jo Dunkley (Princeton) Title: Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background Abstract: The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is our earliest image of the universe. I will review what our …
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Research Progress Meeting Date: May 14, 2026 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Emanuele Castorina (University of Milan) Title: Probing the nature of Dark Matter with the Large Scale Structure of the Universe Abstract: In the standard cosmological model, the main …
Research Progress Meeting Date: May 28, 2026 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Chelsea Bartram (Stanford) Title: Dialing into the Dark Matter with Novel Quantum Techniques Abstract: The QCD axion is a well-motivated dark matter candidate that could solve the strong …
Research Progress Meeting Date: July 16, 2026 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Marina Artuso (Syracuse) Title: LHCb at the frontier of flavor physics: the three movements of the flavor sonata Abstract: The LHCb experiment is the first experiment designed to …
Research Progress Meeting Date: July 30, 2026 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: José Bernal (IFCA) Title: Line-Intensity Mapping: progress and lessons learned Abstract: Line-Intensity mapping (LIM) uses the integrated flux along the line of sight as tracer of the LSS. …
Research Progress Meeting Date: September 1, 2026 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Diego Tonelli (INFN) Title: First measurement of decay-time-dependent CP violation in B0->pi0pi0 decays Abstract: The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB e+e- collider is pushing the intensity frontier …
Research Progress Meeting Date: September 10, 2026 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 (Hybrid) Speaker: Aaron Manalaysay (LBNL) Title: Who ordered that? An anomalous event in a search for high-energy nuclear recoils in LZ Abstract: The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment (LZ), managed by LBL, employs …