Past Seminars in 2015 | |||
DATE |
NAME | TITLE | ABSTRACT |
December 18 |
Ting Li (Texas A&M University) |
Exploring Milky Way Halo Substructure with Large-Area Sky Surveys | Abstract |
December 15 |
Ke Han (Yale University) |
PROSPECT: the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment | Abstract |
December 11 |
Douglas Scott (UBC) |
Cosmic, Monopoles, Dipoles and Quadrupoles | Abstract |
December 4 |
Pat Kelly (UCB) |
Supernovae, Strong Lensing, and Cosmology | Abstract |
November 20 |
Fabian Köhlinger (Leiden Observatory) |
Cosmological constraints from weak lensing: present measurements and future challenges | Abstract |
November 20 |
Kevin O'Sullivan (LBNL) |
Sensitivity of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Search with the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment | Abstract |
November 13 |
Andrey Elagin (University of Chicago) |
Directional Liquid Scintillator Detector for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay | Abstract |
November 6 |
Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro | Massive neutrino signatures on the large-scale structure of the Universe | Abstract |
October 30 |
Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille | Fast and Furious: Young Supernova and Their Progenitors | Abstract |
October 23 |
Pierre-Francois Leget | Describing time spectral energy distribution of Type Ia Supernova with spectral indicators computed atmaximum light. | Abstract |
October 23 |
Yi Cao (Caltech) | Fast and Furious: Young Supernovae and Their Progenitors | Abstract |
October 16 |
Marco Raveri (SISSA) |
The Effective Field Theory approach to gravitation on cosmological scales | Abstract |
October 9 |
David Jones (JHU) |
Studying Host Galaxy Biases and Measuring w with Over 1,000 Photometrically Identified Type Ia Supernovae from Pan-STARRS | Abstract |
October 2 |
Matteo Biagetti (University of Geneva) | Looking for Primordial non-Gaussianity in Large Scale Structure: a new insight from the peaks approach to halo clustering |
Abstract |
September 25 |
Ashley Ross (Portsmouth) |
Rovust and Precise Physical Measurements using Galaxy Surveys: Successes from BOSS and Lessons for the Future |
Abstract |
September 18 |
Brad Welliver (University of Florida) |
WIMP Searches with the SuperCDMS Experiment | Abstract |
September 4 |
Xiang Xiao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) |
The PandaX experiment and new results | Abstract |
September 1 |
Mark Phillips (Carnegie Observatories) |
Near-Infrared Observations of Type Ia Supernovae | Abstract |
August 21 |
Dongming Mei (Univ. South Dakota) |
Development of large-size germanium detectors for rare event physics | Abstract |
July 17 |
Brian Metzger (Columbia University) |
A Zoo of Tidal Disruption Flares | Abstract |
June 26 |
Michael Wood-Vasey (University of Pittsburgh) |
SweetSpot: Near-Infrared Observations of Type Ia Supernovae in the Nearby Hubble Flow | Abstract |
June 19 |
Ginevra Fabole (Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid) |
Star-forming galaxies as tools for cosmology in next-generation redshift surveys | Abstract |
June 12 |
Chang Hyon Ha (Center for Underground Physics at the Institute) |
Center for Underground Physics at Institute for Basic Science | Abstract |
June 11 |
Luca Pattavina (LNGS) | Scintillating bolometers for the LUCIFER project | Abstract |
June 5 |
Yu Feng (BCCP) |
Milky way-mass disk galaxies in a z=8 universe | Abstract |
May 22 |
Dr. Jon Ouellet (UC Berkeley) |
Results from the search for 0nbb decay of 130Te with CUORE-0 | Abstract |
April 24 |
Eric B. Norman (Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley) |
Seaborg's Plutonium? A Case Study in Nuclear Forensics | Abstract |
April 17 |
Miguel Zumalacarregui (ITP, Heidelberg) | Non-linear evolution of the BAO scale in alternative theories of gravity | Abstract |
April 10 |
Barbara Wang (Department of Nuclear Engineering, UCB) |
Cosmogenic-neutron activation of TeO2 and implications for the CUORE neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment | Abstract |
April 3 |
Michael Blomqvist (UC Irvine) |
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the BOSS Lyman Alpha Forests | Abstract |
March 27 |
Irshad Mohammed (Zurich) |
Towards precision cosmology: the halo model and necessary modifications | Abstract |
March 20 |
Zvonimir Vlah (Stanford) |
On the Statistics of Biased Tracers in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures | Abstract |
March 13 |
Gary Binder (LBNL) |
Recent results on astrophysical neutrinos from IceCube | Abstract |
March 6 |
Simeon Bird (CMU, Pittsburgh) |
Simulating Massive Neutrinos | Abstract |
February 27 |
Nicolas Tejos (UC Santa Cruz) |
The intergalactic medium in the cosmic web | Abstract |
February 20 |
Jingke Xu (Princeton) |
Searches for dark matter with radio-pure argon and NaI(Tl) | Abstract |
February 13 |
Eric Linder (Berkeley/LBNL) |
New Probes of Cosmology | Abstract |
February 6 |
Blake Sherwin (BCCP) |
Towards a Clear View of the Early Universe: Methods for Delensing Near-Future CMB Polarization Surveys | Abstract |
January 16 |
Javier Caravaca (LBNL) |
Sterile neutrino searches at the T2K experiment | Abstract |
January 23 |
Philipp Mertsch (Stanford University) |
The CR anisotropy problem and the rise in the positron fraction | Abstract |
Past Seminars in 2014 | |||
December 12 |
Keenan Thomas (LBNL) |
The Berkeley Low Background Facility | Abstract |
December 5 |
Daan Meerburg (Princeton University) |
Putting inflation to the test | Abstract |
November 21 |
Ryan Cooke (UC Santa Cruz) |
The primordial deuterium abundance and the search for new physics | Abstract |
November 14 |
Cora Uhlemann (LMU Munich) |
Large scale structure formation with the Schrödinger method | Abstract |
November 7 |
Xiangdong Ji (University of Maryland) |
First result from PandaX: A Liquid Xe dark matter experimenter at JinPing Underground Lab in China | TBA |
October 31 |
Liang Dai (University of Chicago) |
Conformal Fermi coordinates and the local universe formalism | Abstract |
Ocotober 29 |
Moshe Friedman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
Measurement of the Proton Form Factor Ratio at Low Momentum Transfer | Abstract |
October 24 |
Phil Bull (University of Oslo) |
Measuring ultra-large scales with the Square Kilometre Array | Abstract |
Ocotober 20 |
Joulien Tatar (University of Washington & UCI) |
Toward Completion of the Hexagonal Prototype Antarctic Ross Ice-shelf ANtenna Neutrino Array | Abstract |
October 17 |
Roland de Putter (Caltech) |
Constraining fundamental physics with weak lensing and galaxy clustering | Abstract |
Ocotober 10 |
Nicolas Zweibaum (University of Berkeley) |
Fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) technology: recent advances and experimental support activities at UC Berkeley | Abstract |
October 3 |
Yin Li (University of Chicago) |
The power spectrum super-sample effect | Abstract |
Septmber 12 |
Jacob Feintzeig (University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
Searches for Point Sources of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory | Abstract |
September 5 |
Adam Solomon (University of Cambridge) |
Are Two Metrics Better Than One?: The Cosmology of Massive (Bi)gravity | Abstract |
August 22 |
David J. E. Marsh, Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Canada) |
Quintessence in a quandary: on prior dependence in dark energy models | Abstract | July 25 |
Christopher Grant (UC Davis) |
CAPTAIN: An experiment dedicated to addressing the challenges of neutrino science in liquid Argon TPCs | Abstract |
July 11 |
Marc Bergevin (UC Davis) |
An overview of the WATCHMAN project | Abstract |
June 25 |
Geraint Lewis (USydney) |
Lessons learnt from PAndAS: Cosmic Evolution and the Great Plane of Dwarfs | Abstract |
June 5 |
Jeremy Mock (UC Davis) |
Probing low-mass dark matter with the LUX detector | Abstract |
May 30 |
Anna Franckowiak (KIPAC/SLAC) |
The Spectrum and Morphology of the Fermi Bubbles | Abstract |
May 23 |
Emilija Pantic (UC Davis) |
The DarkSide direct dark matter search program at LNGS | Abstract |
May 16 |
Janet Luhmann (UCB/SSL) |
On Living with a Star: Updates from Heliophysics Research | Abstract |
May 15 |
Christina Ignarra (MIT) |
MiniBooNE and The Status of Sterile Neutrinos | Abstract |
May 13 |
Attila Dobi (Maryland University) |
LUX: WIMP search results, background monitoring and calibrating with tritium | Abstract |
April 25 |
Igor Ostrovskiy (Stanford) |
Search for Majorana neutrinos with the first two years of EXO-200 data | Abstract |
April 18 |
Andrea Dotti (SLAC) |
Geant4: a toolkit for the simulation of the interaction of radiation with matter. Overview, validation and recent developments | Abstract |
April 11 |
Tom Banks (UCB) |
Latest progress on the CUORE experiment | Abstract |
April 4 |
Yuji Chinone, Blake Sherwin, Aritoki Suzuki (UCB) |
POLARBEAR's CMB B-modes, Bolometers, and the Future | Abstract |
March 28 |
Andrey Vladimirov (Colfax Research) |
Xeon Phi computing for physicists at Berkeley | Abstract |
March 21 |
Carl Pennypacker (SSL) |
The Fire Urgency Estimator on Geosynchronous Orbit (FUEGO): Aiding Early Detection and Management of Wildland Fires with a small Satellite Imager | Abstract |
March 7 |
Laura Kogler (Pivotal Labs) |
Software best practices for physicists: lessons learned in a year as a professional software engineer | Abstract Talk PDF |
February 28 |
Richard Allen (UCB Seismology) |
Earthquake Alert: Harnessing BIG data to satisfy societal needs (and facilitate new science) | Abstract |
February 26 |
Kei Ieki (Kyoto University) |
Neutrino oscillation results from the T2K experiment | Abstract |
February 21 |
Guillaume Plante (Columbia University) |
Results from XENON100 and Prospects for Direct Detection of Dark Matter with XENON1T | Abstract |
February 19 |
Mario Juric (LSST) |
Preparing for the Era of Data Driven Astronomy | Abstract |
February 14 |
Donough Regan (Sussex) |
What CMB non-Gaussianity tells us about Effective Field Theories of Inflation | Abstract |
February 7 |
Samuele Sangiorgio (LLNL) |
Neutrinos and Dark Matter at Low Energies in Liquid Argon - New results from LLNL | Abstract |
January 31 |
Francisco Prada (Madrid) |
Hunting down the acoustic scale after the cosmic high noo | Abstract |
January 10 |
Susanne Mertens (LBNL) |
Searching for Sterile Neutrinos at Katrin | Abstract |
January 17 |
Ken Chen (UCSC) |
The Cosmic Dawn - Physics of the First Luminous Objects | Abstract |
January 24 |
Dan Werthimer (SSL) |
IS ANYBODY OUT THERE? New SETI Instrumentation and Search Strategies | Abstract |
Past Seminars in 2013 | |||
December 13 |
Amir Hajian (CITA) |
Exploring the microwave sky beyond CMB using cross correlations | Abstract |
December 12 |
Adam Wade Bradley (Case Western Reserve University) |
The LUX Dark Matter Hunt | Abstract |
December 6 |
Andrew Renshaw (UC Irvine) |
Solar Neutrino Results from Super-Kamiokand | Abstract |
November 8 |
Ixandra Achitouv (Munich) |
Accurate predictions for the abundance of dark matter halos and voids: | Abstract |
November 15 |
Anthony Pullen (Caltech/JPL) |
Large-Scale Structure: Big Surveys, Systematics, and Intensity Mapping | Abstract |
November 13 |
Belina von Krosigk (Dresden University of Technology) |
Solar and supernova neutrinos in SNO+ and measurements of the scintillator response | Abstract |
November 8 |
Ixandra Achitouv (Munich) |
Accurate predictions for the abundance of dark matter halos and voids: | Abstract |
November 7 |
Julia Lee (Harvard) |
Exploring the Third Dimension: Why Imaging Dark Energy experiments need DESI | Abstract |
November 1 |
Andreu Font (LBL) |
The Dirt on Cosmic Dust: An X-ray Perspective through Black Hole and Neutron Star Eyes | Abstract |
October 25 |
Jeff Newman (Pittsburgh) |
Exploring the Third Dimension: Why Imaging Dark Energy experiments need DESI | Abstract |
October 18 |
Ely Kovetz (UT Austin) |
Cosmic Bandits: Exploration vs. Exploitation in Cosmological Surveys | Abstract |
October 11 |
Jeremy Sakstein (DAMTP) |
Astrophysical Tests of Gravity | Abstract |
Septemer 27 |
Paul M. Sutter (Paris) |
Cosmology and astrophysics with cosmic voids | Abstract |
September 26 |
Kevin Hinkerson (UCLA) |
Using ultracold neutrons to measure fundamental symmetries of the Standard Model and beyond | Abstract |
Septemer 20 |
Cameron Bates (UCB/LLNL) |
Metallic Magnetic Calorimeters for Nuclear Science and Security | Abstract |
September 17 |
Stijn Buitink (Groningen/Radboud) |
Radio detection of cosmic rays with LOFAR | Abstract |
Septemer 13 |
Soma De (Arizona State University) |
Effect of Galactic and primordial Magnetic Field on polarization of CMB and 21 cm radiation. | Abstract |
September 6 |
Brian Hayden (ND/LBNL) |
Improving Type Ia Supernovae as Distance Indicators | Abstract |
August 30 |
David Harvey (ROE) |
On measuring the cross-section of dark matter using substructure infall into galaxy clusters | Abstract |
August 23 |
Miguel Zumalacárregui (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) |
Tension in the Void: New constraints on inhomogeneous cosmologies | Abstract |
August 9 |
Julien Guy (Paris) |
Improved cosmological constraints from the joint analysis of the SDSS and SNLS Type Ia supernova samples | Abstract |
July 19 |
Spencer Klein (LBNL & UCB) |
Evidence for ultra-high energy (above 100 TeV) astrophysical neutrinos | Abstract |
June 21 |
Freija Descamps (LBNL) |
Wintering at the South Pole for IceCube | Abstract |
May 31 |
Jeff Hartnell (University of Sussex) |
NOvA: Exploring Electron (Anti)Neutrino Appearance | Abstract |
March 24 |
Carsten Rott (CCAPP) |
Novel Searches for Dark Matter in the Sun | Abstract |
March 22 |
Jason Koskinen (Penn State University) |
Project 8: Towards a radiometric neutrino mass measurement | Abstract |
March 1 |
Mary Bishai (Stanford/SLAC) |
The Why, What and Where of the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment. | Abstract |
February 22 |
Jason Koskinen (Penn State University) |
Atmospheric neutrino hierarchy measurement | Abstract |
February 15 |
Edward Macaulay (Oxford) |
Cosmology with Galaxy Redshifts and Peculiar Velocities - Current Mysteries and Future Prospects | Abstract |
February 13 |
Yifang Wang (IHEP) |
Reactor Neutrinos at Daya Bay II | Abstract |
February 8 |
Paul Ricker (UIUC) |
AGN Feedback and Mass-Observable Scatter in Galaxy Clusters | Abstract |
January 25 |
Eric Baxter (University of Chicago) |
Dark Matter Annihilation and Non-Gaussianity: Looking for Signals of New Physics in the Presence of Astrophysical Backgrounds | Abstract |
January 18 |
Morag Scrimgeour (University of Western Australia) |
Large-scale homogeneity vs. small-scale inhomogeneities: testing ΛCDM with large-scale structure | Abstract |
January 16 |
Iair Arcavi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel) |
What Are the Different Core Collapse Explosions? | Abstract |
Januay 15 |
Tamara Davis (Queensland) |
The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey - Final Results | Abstract |
January 11 |
Norihiro Tanahashi (UC Davis) |
Gravitational wave signal from massive gravity | Abstract |
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