Since our Monday Night Mooch is canceled as is the presentation from the Keck Observatory, we want everyone to know they welcome to see the same prsentation at Mauna Lani tomorrow, Tuesday, March 15th.
Here are the particulars:
The Fairmont Orchid at Mauna Lani Resort
6:45 – 7:15 p.m. Pre-Lecture Reception
7:15 – 8:30 p.m. Lecture Presentation
8:30 – 9:30 p.m. Reception and Afterglow
Astronomer, Tommaso Treu
Dark Matter Mysteries and Galaxy Evolution
Dr. Tommaso Treu
Tuesday, March 15
According to our current understanding, most of the mass of the universe is in the form of a mysterious substance that does not emit or absorb light, known as dark matter. We do not know what dark matter is made of, but we see it manifest itself at astronomical scales through its gravitational effects. Although the cosmological model based on dark matter works quite well on very large scales, there appears to be tension at subgalactic scales, where dark matter interacts with regular matter. Professor Treu will present his research on this shadowy component of the cosmos and discuss some intriguing questions in dark matter cosmology.
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