DR. KEITH OLIVE
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, and
Director of the Fine Theoretical Physics Institute,
University of Minnesota
The nature and identity of the dark matter and dark energy of the Universe is one of the most challenging problems facing modern cosmology. Only ~5% of the energy density of the Universe can be associated with known forms of matter. In this talk, the observational evidence and theoretical motivation for dark matter will be presented. Problems for baryonic and neutrino dark matter imply the necessity to search beyond the standard model
of particle physics for dark matter candidates.
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