Colloquium – Kimberly Boddy

Kimberly Boddy, University of Texas at Austin

Opportunities for Dark Matter Searches in Cosmology

Understanding the fundamental nature of dark matter is one of the major challenges facing the physics community today. There are dedicated experimental efforts to search for dark matter interactions with the Standard Model of particle physics, but no concrete evidence of such interactions has been observed. In this talk, I will demonstrate how cosmological and astrophysical observations offer exciting, new possibilities for understanding dark matter beyond its gravitational impact. I will describe the effects of dark matter scattering and annihilation processes in the early Universe and show how observational data constrain broad classes of dark matter models.

Jan 26, 2023 @ 4:00pm Central in Stevenson 4327; reception beforehand at 3:30pm in Stevenson 6333

Host: R. Scherrer; co-hosted by VandyGRAF

To join via Zoom, please contact Reina Beach (reina.beach@vanderbilt.edu) to request the Zoom link.