Title:
Dark matter, and how we would not be alive without it

dc.contributor.author Abel, Tom
dc.contributor.corporatename Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Stanford University en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Physics en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2012-09-19T19:52:50Z
dc.date.accessioned 2012-09-18T15:55:39Z
dc.date.available 2012-09-19T19:52:50Z
dc.date.issued 2012-08-30
dc.description Dr. Tom Abel of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology is a man with a mission: "My long term goal is to build a galaxy, one star at a time" (via computer modeling, of course). Among Abel's research interests are the processes and events of "the dark ages", the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Abel & colleagues' visualizations and simulations of dark ages events, in addition to some 100 publications in the technical literature, have been featured on PBS and The Discovery Channel and in numerous newspapers and magazines, including the covers of Discover in December 2002 and of National Geographic in February 2003. Dr. Abel studied at the Max Planck Institut fuer Astrophysik at Garching and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Urbana/Champaign prior to earning a PhD in physics in 2000 from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany. Abel was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, England and at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a Wempe Lecturer at the Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, in 2001, and merited a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, 2002. Dr. Abel served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor for 2.5 years at The Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is now an Associate Professor of Physics in the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at both the Stanford University Physics Department and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford and Menlo Park, California. en_US
dc.description Frontiers in Science Public Lecture presented on August 30, 2012 from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building room 1116. en_US
dc.description Runtime: 57:08 minutes en_US
dc.description.abstract Most of the mass in the Universe is of some unknown form of matter. While we have some guesses what it might be we are not sure. In this talk for a non-specialist audience, Professor Abel will explain how observations using telescopes convinced the scientists that Dark Matter must exist. He will also show how without it we would not even be here. Using videos produced from his supercomputer calculations we can see how stars and galaxies are formed in virtual universes that have a striking resemblance to our own. Without dark matter none of this would work. The talk will also explain current experiments on the way that have the hope of discovering what this dominant part of the Universe may be made of. en_US
dc.format.extent 57:08 minutes
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44692
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Physics Public Lecture Series
dc.subject Cosmology en_US
dc.subject Physics en_US
dc.subject Dark matter en_US
dc.title Dark matter, and how we would not be alive without it en_US
dc.type Moving Image
dc.type.genre Lecture
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.relation.ispartofseries School of Physics Public Lecture Series
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