Towards Detecting the Invisible: Dark Matter
Marie-Cécile Piro
University of Alberta

Dark matter is pivotal to explaining the evolution of our Universe, including the emergence of stars, planets and even life. Representing 85% of the total mass in our Universe, dark matter has never been directly detected on Earth, making it one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of modern cosmology. Over the past decades, dark matter detector technologies have undergone impressive developments and achieved such levels of sensitivity that neutrinos emitted by the Sun will constitute the 'big problem' for all experiments. After reviewing the evidence of dark matter and the detection challenges, I will present our current efforts to reduce critical sources of background and develop detectors that are more sensitive to incoming particles.

Date:	Mardi, 24 février 2026
Time:	15:30
Where:	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)