Visible light exposure of galaxy cluster Abell 2744 from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope, X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory & math reconstruction of dark matter location. D. Coe & J. Merten/ESO/NASA/ESA/CXC

Physics Theory Seminar with Nassim Bozorgnia on Galactic Dark Matter Distribution

Nassim Bozorgnia (Hosted by Ferrer) from York University will be presenting the seminar "The Galactic Dark Matter Distribution from Simulations"

Identifying the nature and distribution of dark matter in our Galaxy is a central problem in astroparticle physics and has important implications for attempts to discovering dark matter. In particular, determining the dark matter distribution in the Solar neighborhood and
throughout the Galaxy is crucial for the correct analysis and interpretation of data from dark matter direct and indirect searches, respectively. High resolution cosmological simulations of galaxy formation can provide important information on the properties of the dark matter halo, and can significantly improve our understanding of the Galactic dark matter distribution. I will present the dark matter density and velocity distribution of Milky Way-like galaxies extracted from state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations. I will also discuss the implications for direct dark matter detection, as well as indirect searches for velocity-dependent dark matter annihilation models.

Zoom link available upon request at physics@wustl.edu.
Post-docs and students' Q&A with the speaker starts at 2:15 pm.  Contact Garrett King for the Q&A Zoom link.