Dark matter across all scales: From large scale structure to laboratory searches

Session

Astrophysical Searches for Dark Matter

11 May 2026, 09:00

DIAS Seminar Room (University of Southern Denmark)

Conveners

Astrophysical Searches for Dark Matter

• Manuel Meyer (University of Hamburg)

14. Welcome

Manuel Meyer (University of Hamburg)

11/05/2026, 09:00

Invited talk

3. Decoding Dark Matter with Stellar Streams from Beyond the Milky Way

Sarah Pearson (DTU Space)

11/05/2026, 09:10

Astrophysical Dark Matter Searches

Invited talk

Upcoming and ongoing surveys will enable the detection of thousands of stellar streams around external galaxies. These streams form when dwarf galaxies or star clusters are tidally disrupted by their host gravitational potentials, producing elongated structures of stars with coherent, ordered motion. In this talk, I discuss recent advances in the study of extragalactic stellar streams and...

8. Satellite galaxies challenging cold dark matter expectations – moving from specific hosts to demographic samples

Dr Marcel Pawlowski (AIP / SDU)

11/05/2026, 09:50

Astrophysical Dark Matter Searches

Invited talk

Low-mass dwarf satellites of more massive hosts have been used to test cold dark matter expectations, in particular in their internal dynamics, distributions and motion. The latter identified phase-space correlations such as the planes of satellite galaxies and lopsided asymmetries as serious challenges. These build on several well studied systems of satellite galaxies around hosts in the...