Speaker
Prof.
Michael S. Turner
(University of Chicago)
Description
There has never been a more exciting time in cosmology. But our current paradigm is built upon three pillars that involved unresolved new physics: dark matter, dark energy and inflation. To make cosmology real — and not just an exciting story — we have to resolve the new physics. The dark matter challenge seems especially ripe to solve, perhaps with a triple verification of the particle dark matter hypothesis: particle production at the LHC, direct detection of dark matter particles in the halo and detection of dark matter annihilation products.
