Abstract

In this talk, the speaker will discuss recent work on the implications of an ultra-light axion (ULA) as a dark matter candidate.

About the speaker

Prof. Hui Lam received his BA from University of California at Berkeley and his PhD in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. He has held postdoctoral positions at Fermilab and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and faculty positions at the University of Chicago and Fermilab. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from the US Department of Energy, and was a finalist in the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists. He is currently Professor of Physics at Columbia University.

Prof. Hui’s research interests include theoretical astrophysics, high energy physics, large scale structure and cosmology.

About the program

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