Media

News

My work has been highlighted in a number of press releases, including:

• UC Riverside News: New dark matter theory explains two puzzles in astrophysics (12/6/2023);

• Quanta Magazine: In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness (8/29/2023);

• KIPAC Research Highlight: Between the worlds of the visible and invisible lies: Dark Matter (9/26/2021);

• Fermilab Press Release: Dark Energy Survey census of the smallest galaxies hones the search for dark matter (8/4/2020);

• SLAC Press Release: The Milky Way’s satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formation (3/31/2020);

• AAS Nova Research Highlight: Constraining Collisions of Dark Matter (9/11/2019).

• SLAC Press Release: Light dark matter is a thousand times less likely to bump into regular matter than previous astrophysical analyses allowed (7/11/2019);

• KIPAC Research Highlight: Dark matter subhalo disruption: Insights from simulations and machine learning (4/19/2018).

Talks

I have given over fifty contributed and invited talks, listed on my CV, several of which are highlighted below:

• KITP: Blackboard Talk: Dark Matter Physics in the Sky (6/17/2024) (video);

• LBNL: Fundamental Physics from Future Spectroscopic Surveys: Forecasts for Galaxy Formation and Dark Matter Constraints from Dwarf Galaxy Surveys (5/8/2024) (slides);

• Pollica Physics Centre: Self-Interacting Dark Matter Models, Simulations and Signals: SIDM (Sub)halos in Milky Way and Strong Lens Analogs (6/27/2023) (slides);

• KITP: Building a Physical Understanding of Galaxy Evolution: The Faint End of the Galaxy–Halo Connection (1/27/2023) (video);

• CERN: New Physics from Galaxy Clustering: Dark Matter Constraints from Small-scale Structure (11/25/2022) (video);

• CosmoPalooza: CMB-S4, DES, DESC, DESI: Dark Matter Physics + Rubin LSST (1/12/2022);

• Fermilab: Cosmic Physics Center Seminar: Towards Precision Near-Field Cosmology (11/22/2021) (video);

• International Centre for Theoretical Sciences: Less Travelled Path of Dark Matter: Constraints on (Fuzzy) Dark Matter Microphysics from Dwarf Galaxies (11/12/2020) (video, slides);

• KICP: Cosmic Controversies: Milky Way Satellites: Probes of Dark Matter Microphysics (10/7/2019) (slides);