Kimberly Boddy UT Austin
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Abstract: Understanding the fundamental nature of dark matter is one of the major challenges facing today's physics community. There are dedicated efforts to search for dark matter interactions with the Standard Model of particle physics, but no concrete evidence of such interactions has been observed. In this talk, Dr. Boddy will demonstrate how cosmological and astrophysical observables provide complementary information to laboratory searches. She will describe the effects of dark matter scattering in the early Universe and show constraints using data from the cosmic microwave background and the abundance of Milky Way satellites. She will also discuss the impact on 21-cm observations. *Please join us for refreshments at 3:00 pm near the Moon Tree on the mall-side of