Name: Workshop on Microwave Cavity Design for Axion Detection
Start: 2015-08-25T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2015-08-27T18:05:00-07:00
Location: Livermore Valley Open Campus

Workshop on Microwave Cavity Design for Axion Detection

from Tuesday, 25 August 2015 (09:00) to Thursday, 27 August 2015 (18:05)

Monday, 24 August 2015
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
09:00
09:00 - 09:50
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

09:00 Greetings and Welcome

09:10 Axion Dark Matter Detection with Microwave Cavities - Overview of Challenges - Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:40 Cavity Design considerations for ADMX
09:50
09:50 - 10:50
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

09:50 Introduction to RF-Structures and Their Design - Frank Krawczyk (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:10
Room: Yosemite Room
11:10
11:10 - 12:00
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

11:10 ACE3P for RF structure simulation - Daniel Bowring (Fermilab)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Yosemite Room
13:00
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

13:00 Superconducting Microresonators - Jonas Zmuidzinas (California Institute of Technology)
14:00
14:00 - 14:50
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

14:00 Simulation of Superconducting Qubit Devices Using COMSOL - Nick Materise (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:30 Microstrip Resonator Design work at LLNL - Matt Horsley (LLNL)
14:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:50 - 15:10
Room: Yosemite Room
15:10
15:10 - 16:10
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

15:10 A Varactor Tuned Microstrip SQUID amplifier for axion searches - Sean O'Kelley (UC Berkeley)

15:40 Josephson Parametric Amplifiers: Theory and Application
16:10
16:10 - 16:50
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

16:10 Piezoelectric Tuning of Microwave Cavities for Axion Searches - Christian Boutan (University of Washington)

16:30 A Prototype Piezoelectric Drive System for ADMX
17:20

17:20 - 17:40
Room: Yosemite Room
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:10
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

09:00 4-9 GHz Cavity Development at CAPP - Harry Themann (Center for Axion and Precision Physics)

09:35 The ADMX-HF Experiment - Karl van Bibber (UC Berkeley)
10:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:10 - 10:30
Room: Yosemite Room
10:30
10:30 - 11:40
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

10:30 Open Cavity Resonators - Project Orpheus - Gray Rybka (University of Washington)

11:05 Cross-spectral measurement techniques for axion cavity searches - Stephen Parker (The University of Western Australia)
11:40 Lunch
Lunch
11:40 - 12:40
Room: Yosemite Room
12:40
12:40 - 13:35
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

12:40 Novel Microwave Cavities for Precision Measurement and Testing Fundamental Physics. - Michael Tobar (The University of Western Australia)

13:15 Searching for Hidden Photons - Jeremy Mardon (Stanford)
13:35
13:35 - 14:25
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

13:35 Slow Wave Cavity Axion Search - Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

13:45 LC Circuit Based Low Frequency Axion Search - Nicole Crisosto (University of Florida ADMX)

14:05 Reentrant Cavity for Low Mass Axion Search - Akash Dixit (University of Chicago)
14:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:25 - 14:45
Room: Yosemite Room
14:45
14:45 - 16:45
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

14:45 Novel Aluminum-based High-Q Cold RF Resonators for ADMX - Katsuya Yonehara (Fermilab)

15:15 Primer on Superconducting Radiofrequency Cavities - Daniel Bowring (Fermilab)

15:45 Magnetic Field Limits of SRF Cavities - Sam Posen (Fermilab)

16:15 An RF sputtering system for thin film superconducting cavity R&D - Maria Simanovskaia (UC Berkeley)
16:45
16:45 - 17:05
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

16:45 Electric Tiger - James Sloan (UW)
Thursday, 27 August 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

09:00 Cavities march in step - David Tanner (University of Florida)

09:30 Active Q Cavities
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:20
Room: Yosemite Room
10:20
10:20 - 12:10
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

10:20 Photonic Bandgap Cavities - Samantha Lewis (University of California - Berkeley)

10:50 Superconducting photonic band gap structures for high-current applications - Dmitry Shchegolkov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:20 Directly characterization of cavities with a bead-pull technique

11:50 Progress on mode-locking cavties at U. of Florida
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:10
Room: Yosemite Room
13:10
13:10 - 14:20
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

13:10 Accelerating cryogenic axion searches with one and two mode squeezed states. - Konrad Lehnert (JILA, University of Colorado)

13:50 Generation and Reconstruction of Propagating Quantum Microwaves - ling zhong (Walther Meissner Institute)
14:20 Coffee
Coffee
14:20 - 14:40
Room: Yosemite Room
14:40
14:40 - 15:30
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

14:40 Electronic Tuning with Non-Linear Dielectrics - Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermilab)

15:10 Electronic Tuning & Coupling of Cavities - Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

15:30 University of Florida High-Frequency Microwave Cavity Research - Ian Stern (University of Florida)

16:00 Resonator design strategies for high and low mass axion searches - Aaron Chou (Fermilab)

16:30 Microwave and Millimeter-wave Cavity Research and Develpment at SLAC - Emilio Nanni (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
17:00
17:00 - 17:40
Room: Yosemite Room
Contributions

17:00 Lattice QCD Input to Axion Cosmology - Berkowitz Evan (LLNL)

17:20 Workshop Close-Out - Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)