Dr. Ted
Baltz
Stanford Linear
Accelerator Collider
Title: Understanding
Dark Matter: from Accelerators to Galaxies
Many types of
astronomical observations indicate that most of the clustering matter in the
universe is non-baryonic and unobserved except for gravitational effects. This
material seems to behave as a collisionless gas.
Understanding the nature of this component is one of the biggest problems in
physics. I briefly describe experimental efforts to understand dark matter, then describe a few recent theoretical developments that may
help shed light on the issue.