Dark matters

The Universe is 25% made of a substance known as Dark Matter (DM). Evidences indicating the DM presence can be obtained at very dif ferent scales: from cosmological ones through the analysis of the angular anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation, down to galactic scales considering lensing and galaxy dynamics studies. However, all these evidences are not able to provide us with complete information on the nature of DM, beyond the fact that it has to be mainly non-baryonic. Since, within the standard model of particle physics there are no viable non-baryonic candidates, the existence of DM represents one of the most compelling evidences for physics beyond the standard model.

In the Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT UAM-CSIC) and the UAM Department of Theoretical Physics there are many researchers working in different aspects of the DM problem. The idea of the meetings is to hear short personal/group talks (even about work-in-progress), overviews of dark matter searches, experiments, theories, simulations, and discuss recent papers as well as hot dark matter topics, in an informal format.

Biweekly meetings, Wednesdays 11:00 - 12:00 AM. Discussion room fourth floor, IFT Building.