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Heather Gray - Professor, Physics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesYury Kolomensky - Professor, Physics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Mu2e is a medium-scale Particle Physics experiment currently under construction at Fermi National Lab, with UCB and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as collaborating institutions. Mu2e will search for the ultra-rare process whereby a muon particle converts directly into an electron, without the emission of any neutrinos. Though not...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesYury Kolomensky - Professor, Physics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Superconducting sensors, such as Transition-edge sensors (TESs) coupled with superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), are used in many applications, from quantum computing to astrophysics to particle physics. For rare-events search experiments, such as neutrinoless double beta decay, a multiplexed readout is necessary for low-temperature experiments which operate...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAdrian Lee - Professor, Physics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
We are working on precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the relic thermal radiation that decoupled from the primordial plasma when the universe was just 0.003% of its current age. Measurements of the CMB have been central to the formation of the modern picture of the universe, and...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAdrian Lee - Professor, Physics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a unique window to fundamental physics. It can be used to probe primordial gravitational waves, which are a distinct sign that the early universe has experienced an exponentially rapid expansion at its age of ~10^-32 seconds. The CMB photons also probe the properties...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAdrian Lee - Professor, Physics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Our team specializes in the development, production, and evaluation of highly sensitive detectors, antennas, and readout electronics for a diverse range of cosmology experiments. These endeavors capitalize on the extraordinary properties of superconductivity and the principles of microwave engineering. Through the application of these cutting-edge techniques, we are interested...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAdrian Lee - Professor, Physics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the oldest light in the Universe, and carries invaluable information about the Universe’s history and evolution. The detection of primordial gravitational waves in the CMB polarisation, a smoking gun for cosmic inflation, is one of the biggest challenges in observational cosmology. To achieve the...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Developing a deep understanding of complex public policy issues often requires more time than most citizens can reasonably devote. Because of this, political polls tend to measure people’s first impressions rather than what their more informed opinions might be. Deliberative Polling is a process designed to address this limitation. Participants...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSaul Perlmutter - Professor, Physics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
It has been thought that the accelerated expansion of our universe is caused by an unknown "dark energy" which has a constant energy density. However, there are currently hints that dark energy is actually evolving over time. If this were true, there would be implications on fundamental physics and potentially...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
LBNL researchers developed a novel method to restore early sound recordings using methods from precision optical metrology and data analysis (see: irene.lbl.gov). These methods have been applied to a number of important historical collections of early recorded sound. Over the past two years a project at the Smithsonian Institution in...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & Humanities