- Chair: Niklas Becker
- Co-Chair: Saeed Rastgoo
Mentor: Sean Tulin
Junior mentor: Reuben Blaff
Dark matter halos are a fundamental unit of structure in the Universe: from the very first stars born in small mini-halos, all the way up to the supermassive halos that hold together clusters of thousands of galaxies. This research will study how dark matter's particle dynamics – its...
- Chair: Laura Sagunski
- Co-Chair: Nassim Bozorgnia
Stars and planets can be ideal playgrounds to discover dark matter. In this talk, I will review a range of dark matter searches using celestial objects, including neutron stars, exoplanets, solar-system planets, and our Sun. I will discuss different search strategies, their opportunities and limitations, and the interplay of regimes...
- Chair: Y. Fabian Bautista
- Co-Chair: Nassim Bozorgnia
Mentors: Laura Sagunski, Saeed Rastgoo
Junior mentors: Niklas Becker, Julia Lienert
Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are surrounded by gigantic dark matter halos. Near these black holes, the dark matter density is extremely high and forms a so-called dark matter density spike. Due to its extremely high...
- Chair: Alejandro Cruz-Osorio
- Co-Chair: Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich
Mentors: Laura Sagunski, Saeed Rastgoo
Junior mentors: Niklas Becker, Julia Lienert
Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are surrounded by gigantic dark matter halos. Near these black holes, the dark matter density is extremely high and forms a so-called dark matter density spike. Due to its extremely...
- Chair: Reuben Blaff
- Co-Chair: Sean Tulin
Mentor: Nassim Bozorgnia
Junior Mentor: Yilber Fabian Bautista
In this project, we will use cosmological simulations of self-interacting dark matter (including baryons) to study the dark matter distribution in Milky Way–like galaxies. The complicated interplay between astrophysical processes and dark matter self-interactions can result in...
- Chair: Julia Lienert
- Co-chair: Laura Sagunski
Mentor: Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich
Junior mentor: Alejandro Cruz-Osorio
In this project, we explore the properties of astronomical objects which can be formed by dark matter and the properties of neutron stars in the presence of a dark matter component. First, we will get ourselves acquainted with the properties of interacting bosons...
