Presented at
The Last HOPE (2008),
July 20, 2008, noon
(60 minutes)
This talk will describe recent progress in the field of cosmic structure formation and will mainly focus on computational problems and methods carrying out such large simulations on the fastest supercomputers available today. It will also present very recent results on a new simulation of the Milky Way dark matter components. There will be a discussion of virtual maps of gamma-ray annihilation radiation seen by a NASA satellite. If this satellite can discover dark matter by its annihilation, this would mark a new very large step in science.
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Mark Vogelsberger
Mark Vogelsberger studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe and theoretical physics and mathematics at the University of Mainz. In 2006 he finished his diploma thesis on dissipation processes in quantum mechanics. At the moment he is a PhD student of astrophysics at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich. There he is working on numerical methods and simulations to explore the small scale structure of dark matter. The goal is to make predictions for direct and indirect dark matter searches. Besides his research interests he has been working for the last ten years for the German Linux Magazin writing the monthly �InSecurity News� and other security related articles. He developed the Secumod security kernel module for SuSE Linux and worked for a while at the computing center of the University of Karlsruhe.
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