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November 1, 2024 past

PUG Seminar

Whitmore 321 (IGC Lounge)

PUG Seminar

A complete model for dark matter should be able to capture most, if not all, of the well-known phenomenology. Many attempts have been made to paint a complete picture of dark matter which reveal interesting observables that can be probed directly or in-directly. Exotic models of dark matter can include self-interactions (SIDM) or dissipation channels that can lead to the formation of compact objects. I will give a brief discussion on dark matter models and highlight their observable signatures.

Program

Date Time Speaker Title
2024-11-01 14:00 Jeysen Flores-Velázquez Dark Matter Phenomenology
About our wordmark
Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.