【Special Colloquium】Dark Matter Searches and Implications for Theory
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Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Hall
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute
Recorded video link: https://vshare.sjtu.edu.cn/open/9bf45f6bc1b203240a52b7c90f0e3594bbe203fbe9c97b52ed703f1f1496da61
HOST：Prof. Shao-Feng Ge (葛韶锋)
Abstract:
There is overwhelming evidence supporting the existence of dark matter in the Universe. This is one of the most important and intriguing questions in contemporary fundamental physics since it requires new phenomena beyond our current understanding. The talk will briefly cover some of the evidences and the motivation for specific search efforts. We will also examine the implications of the findings so far on theoretical concepts, offering a fresh perspective on the evolving situation.
Bio:
Manfred Lindner earned his PhD in physics in 1987 from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Chicago, followed by a research fellowship at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Subsequently, he moved with a Heisenberg Fellowship to Heidelberg University, Germany. In 1993, he was appointed as a professor at the Technische Universität München, Germany. From 2006 to 2025, he served as the director of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 2007, he has also held a professorship at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at Heidelberg University.
Manfred Lindner is a researcher who seamlessly integrates theoretical and experimental research in the fields of particle and astro-particle physics. His past experimental endeavors include significant contributions to projects such as Double Chooz, which focused on reactor neutrino oscillation, STEREO, aimed at searching for sterile neutrinos, and Gerda, which investigated neutrino-less double beta decay. Currently, he serves as the co-spokesperson for the XENON collaboration, which is dedicated to the direct detection of dark matter, and as the spokesperson for the CONUS collaboration, which explores coherent neutrino scattering. His theoretical research spans a broad range of fundamental physics topics, including neutrinos, dark matter, and phenomena beyond the standard model.
Manfred Lindner has achieved various awards and held significant positions throughout his career. He was selected as a Heisenberg Fellow by the DFG and received an honorary doctorate from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. In 2020, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Lindner served as the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) from 2009 to 2011. He has been a member of the APPEC scientific advisory committee and several other national and international advisory or steering committees. Additionally, he has participated in numerous advisory boards for international conferences and has organized various workshops and conferences, including the prestigious NEUTRINO 2018 conference on neutrino physics held in Heidelberg.
