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SUMMARY:Searching for Dark Matter with the Universe's Highest-Energy Light
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 "Gamma rays, with frequencies billions of 
 times higher than visible light, provide a window 
 on extremely energetic astrophysical processes 
 occurring in our Milky Way Galaxy and 
 beyond. At the same time, the mysterious dark 
 matter of the universe could imprint a range 
 of clues to its existence in the gamma-ray 
 sky. Disentangling the two isn't always easy, 
 but I will discuss how scientists try to distinguish 
 possible dark matter signals from high-energy 
 astrophysics, what we are currently 
 seeing in the data, and what new clues the next 
 generation of gamma-ray telescopes are expected 
 to provide."\n
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 Bio\n
 Tracy Slatyer 
 is a theoretical physicist who works on particle 
 physics, cosmology and astrophysics. Her 
 research is motivated by questions of fundamental 
 particle physics - in particular, the 
 nature and interactions of dark matter - but 
 she seeks answers to these questions by studying 
 possible signatures of new physics in astrophysical 
 and cosmological data. Her particular 
 areas of focus include research into scenarios 
 where the dark matter experiences new forces 
 of nature, precision theoretical predictions 
 for photon signals from heavy colliding 
 dark matter particles, modeling of the possible 
 effects of dark matter interactions on the 
 history of the early cosmos, and hands-on data 
 analysis of high-energy gamma-ray data in 
 search of dark matter signals. She was a co-discoverer 
 of the giant gamma-ray structures 
 known as the "Fermi Bubbles" erupting 
 from the center of the Milky Way.\n
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 Slatyer 
 was born in the Solomon Islands and grew up 
 in Australia and Fiji. She completed her undergraduate 
 work with honors in theoretical physics 
 at the Australian National University 
 in 2005 and her doctoral work in physics at Harvard 
 in 2010 under the direction of Douglas 
 Finkbeiner. Slatyer was a postdoctoral researcher 
 at the Institute for Advanced Study in 
 Princeton from 2010-2013, and joined the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology Physics Department 
 as a junior faculty member in July 2013. 
 She was promoted to associate professor in 
 2018 and received tenure in 2019.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Bob Patterer\n
 Contact email: events@frib.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://frib.msu.edu/gateway/events/talk-24nov2024\n
LOCATION:Virtual
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