A new era in the quest for dark matter

by Gianfranco Bertone (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam )

Friday 13 Mar 2020, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G.Marconi)

The nature of dark matter remains today poorly constrained,
with proposed candidates spanning 90 orders of magnitude in mass, ranging
 from ultra-light bosons to massive primordial black holes. I will discuss
what we have learned about the nature of dark matter from past
experiments, and argue that a new era has begun for dark matter searches.
I highlight in particular the importance of diversifying the experimental
effort, and of exploiting the extraordinary opportunities offered by
upcoming astronomical surveys and gravitational wave interferometers.