Hualalai Resort Pacific Heritage Series and Keck Observatory presents
“Dark Matter Mysteries and Galaxy Evolution”
Tommaso Treu
Monday, March 14
5 PM at the Hotel Ballroom
Astornomer, Tommaso Treu
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.
A native of Italy, Tommaso Treu earned his undergraduate degree at University of Pisa and his Ph.D. in physics from the Scuola Normale Superiore. A post doctoral fellow from Caltech and a Hubble Fellow at UCLA before joining the UCSB faculty in 2004, his many distinctions include a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, a Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and a Research Fellowship from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, all received in 2007. In 2010, his research earned him the 2010 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize from the American Astronomical Society, recognizing outstanding achievement from an astronomer under the age of 36.
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