Speaker
Andrew Benson
Description
Constraining the particle properties of dark matter from astronomical observables requires detailed forward modeling that can connect those two regimes. I will discuss recent progress in implementing generic dark matter phenomenology (e.g. cut-offs in the power spectrum, self-interactions) into models of structure and galaxy formation - in particular in the context of fast and flexible semi-analytic models. I will focus on the range of observable quantities that can be predicted by such models, and the precision and robustness that can be achieved.
