Speaker
Przemek Mróz
Description
The field of gravitational microlensing has been closely linked, since its inception, to the search for compact objects (including primordial black holes) as candidates for dark matter. The seminal idea by Bohdan Paczyński to use microlensing as a probe of dark matter launched a field that continues to deliver cutting-edge scientific results.
Microlensing is particularly sensitive to primordial black holes across a wide mass range, from objects with masses comparable to that of the Moon up to thousands of solar masses.
In this talk, I will review the current status of microlensing experiments, focusing on the latest results from OGLE and Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam, and discuss their implications for primordial black holes as dark matter.