The Mystery of Dark Matter rescheduled to Aug 5th 2016

rescheduled to Aug 5th 2016

 

Dark matter is believed to pervade our universe, and drives the growth of structure across cosmic times. Yet we have few probes to hunt for this mysterious stuff that does not emit any light. Dr. Chakrabarti will talk about how astronomers first inferred the existence of dark matter and current methods to search for it.

Speaker: Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, Rochester Institute of Technology