Seminar

Speakers: Dr Andrej Seljak (Jozef Stefan Institute) https://indico.phys.hawaii.edu/event/2807/

Speakers: Tongyan Lin (University of California, San Diego) Stellar streams are a promising way to probe the gravitational effects of low-mass dark matter (DM) subhalos. In recent years, there has been a remarkable explosion in the number of stellar streams detected in the Milky Way, and hundreds more may be discovered with future surveys such ... Read more

Speakers: Dr Isabelle Goldstein (Texas A&M University) The stellar kinematics in dwarf galaxies can provide a wealth of information about its underlying dark matter distribution. Line-of-sight velocity dispersion measurements from six classical dwarf galaxies can be used to show that axion-like particles with masses of order m ~ 10^(−22) eV are inconsistent with the potential distribution in ... Read more

Speakers: Prof. Shawn Westerdale (University of California, Riverside) The Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration (GADMC) is the union of the ArDM, DarkSide, DEAP, and MiniCLEAN dark matter direct detection experiments, aiming to fully explore the experimentally accessible dark matter parameter space down to the neutrino fog. This talk will discuss the status, latest results, and ... Read more

Speakers: Prof. Nicholas Rodd (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) In this talk I'll describe how a magnet can be used as a Weber bar for the detection of gravitational waves. The concept is applicable to a broad class of magnets, but can be particularly well exploited by the powerful magnets being deployed in search of axion dark matter, ... Read more