[astroseminar at Sapienza] today at 15:00: Chris Brook

[Elia Battistelli]

Title: The Galaxy Dark Matter Connection
Speaker: Chris Brook
Institution: Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
Date: Monday, 11 November 2019
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Aula Conversi, Marconi Building, Dept. of Physics, Sapienza 
University

Abstract:
The existence of dark matter was first postulated by exploring the 
velocities of stars within galaxies, as well as the velocities of 
galaxies themselves, within galaxy clusters. This talk will review the 
evidence for dark matter that comes from studying galaxies, with a 
particular emphasis on the role of modern cosmological simulations, and 
look at constraints that can be placed on the properties of dark matter. 
The 'cusp/core', 'missing satellite', and 'too big to fail' problems of 
Cold Dark Matter cosmology will be explained and adressed.

web: https://agenda.infn.it/event/20763/