Title: New Directions in Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Ningqiang Song (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Time: 1:30 pm，Sept 26 (Thursday) 2024

Venue: W361，Physics Building

Abstract: Tremendous progress has been made in the past decades in searching for dark matter，the most elusive particles of the Universe. As the theoretical and experimental studies have entered the precision era, I will discuss some of the most well-motivated dark matter models in direct and indirect searches, with special focus on light dark matter. This incudes the novel detection technique of light dark matter, the searches for wave-like dark matter with astrophysical observations and the signature of dark matter at neutrino experiments.

Bio: Dr. Ningqiang Song obtained his PhD degree at C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University in 2018. After graduation he joined Queen's University and Perimeter Institute as a postdoctoral fellow from 2018 to 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, he was a research associate at the University of Liverpool. He is now an associate professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include dark matter, neutrinos and new physics.