News

CAL-Pathfinder featured in Berkeley Lab dark matter video, premiered at Chabot Space and Science Center's Spooky Science Day. Group members Emily Perry, Shreya Puranam, and Brennan Coffey went out to share our science with local kids.

CAL-Pathfinder's hunt for axions makes the cover of the Berkeley Physics magazine. Photo: PI Salemi and Shreya Puranam with Carol and Leif Langensand, whose generous contribution makes this work possible along with the Templeton Foundation, Berkeley Lab, and UC Berkeley.

Congratulations to Alain Fauquex for receiving the Graduate Instrumentation Research Award (GIRA) from the Coordination Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD), funded by the DOE Office of High Energy Physics.

Congratulations to Alain and Brennan on their award-winning poster presentations!
• Alain won best poster at the 2026 Quantum Device Design Workshop at UCLA!
• Brennan won best poster at 2026 Radiation Impact on Superconducting Qubits (RISQ) at U. Wisconsin!

At the end of the academic year, we wish a fond farewell to some of our members.
• Anish: post-bacc --> graduate school at UIUC.
• Aarav: post-bacc --> graduate school at Yale.

We also congratulate graduating members who are staying in the group!
• Brennan: undergrad --> post-bacc in our group.

Congratulations to Shreya for recieving the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award!

Congratulations to Evan on being selected in the Pi2 Scholar Program! Evan is working with grad student Penelope on superconducting magnet design.

Congratulations to Emily on completion of the Shining Lights program! (Photo: A.J. Gubser)

Congratulations to Tabitha on presenting her research at the SULI Poster Session!

Podcast: The Search for Dark Matter

Congratulations to Holden for recieving the H2H8 Undergraduate Research Grant!

First axion-like particle results from BREAD.

Four new faculty hires are a quantum leap for experimental physics.