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SUMMARY:Dark Matter in Astrophysical Laboratories (KICC Science Focus meet
 ing) - Various speakers
DTSTART:20240621T083000Z
DTEND:20240621T160000Z
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CONTACT:Alison Wilson
DESCRIPTION:The nature of dark matter remains one of the key mysteries of 
 modern day science. However\, more than 50 years after pioneering observat
 ions by Vera Rubin that indicated the existence of dark matter around gala
 xies\, we are still in the dark about the nature of this unknown component
  of matter. The theoretical bounds for the dark matter particle mass remai
 n staggering\, spanning at least 90 orders of magnitude from 10−21eV to 
 about that of a solar mass. In the last two decades direct detection exper
 iments have made enormous strides in sensitivity and parameter space explo
 ration. The complementary\, indirect astrophysical observations\, however\
 , are indispensable laboratories of dark matter science as identified by b
 oth the STFC roadmap and the Snowmass 2021 process. The focus of this meet
 ing will be to examine the status of rich and diverse fields of astrophysi
 cs to constrain the properties of dark matter\, and to foster collaborativ
 e projects between theoretical and observational explorations of dark matt
 er signatures in different environments – from large-scale structure to 
 dark matter halos and the local Universe.
LOCATION:Hoyle Lecture Theatre\, Institute of Astronomy
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