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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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SUMMARY:Speaker: Ritoban Basu Thakur (JPL) - Title: Quantum sensing\, Dark Matter Searches & Astrophysics in the Far-IR.
DESCRIPTION:Research Progress Meeting \nDate: April 23\, 2026 \nTime: 4:00- 5:00 pm \nLocation: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 [In-Person and HYBRID]  \nSpeaker: Ritoban Basu Thakur (JPL) \nTitle: Quantum sensing\, Dark Matter Searches & Astrophysics in the Far-IR. \nAbstract: Advances in superconducting kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) are opening new windows in both astrophysics and fundamental physics. This talk presents two connected applications at the frontier of photon sensitivity. (i) For PRIMA\, the PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics\, we have developed single-photon-sensitive KID arrays operating at 25 μm. This first photon-counting array demonstrated in the 3–18 THz band\, will enable background-limited imaging and spectroscopy for a cryogenic space telescope targeting galaxy evolution\, planet formation\, and cosmic dust. (ii) QUALIPHIDE (QUAntum LImited PHotons In the Dark Experiment) applies these photon-counting MKIDs to search for hidden photon dark matter beyond the standard quantum limit\, which will also empower broadband experiments such as BREAD. Basu Thakur’s group is also developing nonlinear kinetic inductance devices for advanced quantum sensing\, promising a new generation of THz detectors that will serve both next-decade astrophysics observatories and unexplored dark matter phase space. \nhttps://lbnl.zoom.us/j/98854322464?pwd=K2tKUm1VZjRlV1J5RHE3cXdHQzRxdz09 \nMeeting ID: 988 5432 2464\n\nPasscode: 142239
URL:https://rpm.physics.lbl.gov/event/speaker-ritoban-basu-thakur-jpl-title-quantum-sensing-dark-matter-searches-astrophysics-in-the-far-ir/
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SUMMARY:Special RPM: Industry Career Panel
DESCRIPTION:Special Research Progress Meeting   \nDate: April 28\, 2026 \nTime: 3:00- 5:00 pm [Note Start Time] \nLocation: Building 50 Auditorium [In-Person and HYBRID] [Note Location] \n\nPanelists:\nLuigi Capodieci [Synopsis]\nKatie Copic [Fieldwork]\nTobias Ostermayr [Nvidia]\nNadav Outmezguine [Microsoft AI]\nKhilesh Mistry [Block Inc.] \nTitle: Industry Career Panel \nSummary: The Industry Career Panel will consist of panelists that have backgrounds similar to postdocs and graduate students at LBNL and/ or have extensively worked in departments that often employ people with these backgrounds. This event is especially geared towards postdocs and graduate students preparing to apply for jobs in industry. Attendees are encouraged to bring questions about any aspect of the industry job application process. \n\nhttps://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95679892182?pwd=RU5xU2dDRFNabnR1U3pQMklkYWFIdz09 \nMeeting ID: 956 7989 2182 \nPasscode: 169037
URL:https://rpm.physics.lbl.gov/event/special-rpm-industry-career-panel/
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