We offer seminar series in which all the mentoring scientists will present their work, at level appropriate to the student body. All the seminars are recorded and available at this link.
Past seminars:
April 9 2026
Taylor Aralis (SLAC): SQUATs- Qubit based sensors for particle detection [recording]
April 2 2026
Karthik Ramanathan (WUSTL): Superconducting and Quantum sensors for Rare-Event Searches [recording]
March 12 2026
Jingke Xu (LLNL): Optical Imaging for Particle-induced Scintillation [no recording at speakers request]
February 26 2026
Aaron Manalaysay (LBL): Nobel liquid detectors in searches for dark matter and neutrino-less double beta decay [recording]
2025
June 4th 2025
Daniel Whiteson (UCI): Learning to find weird particles [recording]
April 30th 2025
Shawn Westerdale (UCR): Dual-phase LAr TPCs for dark matter detection [recording]
April 16th 2025
Rory Vincent O’Dwyer (Stanford): HLS TS Firmware and the LDMX [recording]
March 12th 2025
Maria Elena Monzani (SLAC): Data Intensive searches for Dark Matter with LUX-ZEPLIN [recording]
February 26th 2025
Robert Svoboda (UCD): Neutron Energy Calibration of Neutrino Detectors [recording]
2024
May 22 2024
Tom Shutt (SLAC): GammaTPC – a novel next generation Compton telescope [recording]
May 15th 2024
Simone M. Mazza (UCSC): Development of 4/5D detectors for near-future Higgs factories and nuclear physics experiments [Mazza_HEPCAT_seminar]
May 1 2024
Carl Grace (LBL): Custom Integrated Circuits for Physics Research [recording of 2023 talk]
April 17th 2024
Joseph Levine (UCD): Searching for dark photons with the Dark E-field Radio Experiment [recording]
April 3rd 2024
Matthew Citron (UCD): Exploring the Dark Sector [recording]
2023
June 1st 2023
Thibault Laplace (UCB): Scintillator physics and applications
May 4th 2023
Aishik Ghosh (UCI): Machine Learning for detectors: simulations and more [recording]
April 6th 2023
Carl Grace (LBNL): Custom Integrated Circuits for Physics Research [recording]
Mar. 9th, 2023
Verena Martinez Outshoorn (UMAmherst/Stanford): Muon Detectors in Collider Physics Experiments [recording]
Feb. 9th, 2023
David Caratelli (UCSB): Neutrinos in High Definition: Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers for Neutrino Detection [recording]
