Dark Interactions 2018

BSA Distinguished Lecture

Prof. Neal Weiner
Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics (NYU)
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Neal Weiner is a Professor of Physics in the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics at NYU. He has worked widely on physics beyond the standard model, with a special emphasis on dark matter. His work has focused on dark matter with dark sectors – new interactions, multiple states – and how such particles might be discovered.

Weiner studied Physics and Math at Carleton College. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2000, was a postdoc at the University of Washington from 2000-2004 and has been at NYU since 2004. He was recently named a Simons Fellow, and has previously been named a Kavli Fellow, and a recipient of the DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator award and the NSF CAREER award.

Lecture

Title: Illuminating Dark Matter

Abstract: We have understood robustly that the overwhelming majority of matter throughout our galaxy and the universe is something other than what we are made of. We remain profoundly ignorant of what it is. In this talk, Neal Weiner will describe the range of ideas that have arisen as to what this mysterious stuff might be, where it came from, and how to look for it. He will detail the progress made in the search to understand the nature of dark matter, and what questions this era hopes to answer, including perhaps the central one: what does the dark universe have to do with the one we can see?