The Brighter Side of Dark Matter

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Speaker(s): Simona Murgia

“Evidence for dark matter is overwhelming. From experimental data,  we can infer that dark matter constitutes most of the matter in the Universe and that it interacts very weakly, and at least gravitationally, with ordinary matter. However we do not know what it is. It is plausible that dark matter is made of a new kind of particle (or particles) and, as a result of this,  it could be shining at different wavelengths.  I will discuss how we are sifting through data searching for this brighter side of dark matter to ultimately unveil its nature.”

Colloquium

Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 p.m. in Shanahan B460. The talks are open to all students and to the public, and are frequently attended by scientists from the other Claremont Colleges, Cal Poly Pomona, and others. The series features speakers from a broad range of institutions and fields of physics.