Physics Colloquium, March 25, 2008
Dark Matter in the Cosmos and in the Laboratory Michael E. Peskin

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University

80% of the matter in the universe is "dark matter", a neutral, diffuse, and weakly-interacting material made of an unknown elementary particle. In this colloquium, I will explain how we know this, and how we might try to directly observe dark matter particles in the galaxy. I will then examine dark matter from a particle physicist's viewpoint and explain how we will use data from high-energy particle colliders to discover and identify the dark matter particle.

Dr. Peskin's Web Site

4:00 p.m., Physics Research Building (PRB), Room 1080

Reception at 3:45 p.m., Atrium, PRB