Wednesday 12 June 2013 

Speaker: Gabrijela Zaharijas (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)


Title: "Indirect searches for dark matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope" 

Abstract: High energy gamma-rays are one of the most promising ways to 
constrain or reveal the nature of dark matter.  After the four years 
of the Fermi mission, the indirect constraints on the dark matter cross 
section to various particle channels are moving well into the theoretically 
motivated region of the parameter space with several groups claiming an 
intriguing hints of a signal. I will present an overview of the recent 
Fermi LAT dark matter and relevant astrophysical results and comment 
on the prospects for the near term improvements.