ScientiFikART 🎨🔬
We’re doing something a little different this time — welcome to ScientiFikART! 🎨
Instead of our usual Friday science format, we’re hosting a Science & Art showcase. Bring a piece that connects — loosely or tightly — to science, research, nature, tech, data, the academic life, or simply the way you see the world.
How it works: each participant presents their piece for a few minutes, and the audience votes for their favorite at the end. Most presentations will receive a prize! 🏆 All levels of artistic experience are welcome — this is about expression, not expertise.
The event is open to everyone. 🌍
📅 Deadline to submit: April 15th — Sign up here!
Participants may be featured on our website and Instagram. 📸
Upcoming
Friday 16:00 @ Nordita 6th floor
Dark matter constitutes roughly 85% of all matter in the universe, yet its fundamental nature remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in modern physics. In this talk, we dive into the 50+ year ongoing journey of studying its properties. After a brief review of the key evidence for dark matter, from galaxy rotation curves to the Bullet Cluster, I will discuss the conventional methods used to search for it, including direct detection, indirect detection, and collider experiments. I will then present the current results and constraints on dark matter interactions with normal matter, highlighting both what we have learned and what remains elusive. Beyond the established approaches, I will also explore some novel and fun ways that physicists have devised to look for dark matter. Along the way, I will highlight some of the research directions that scientists in Stockholm are actively involved in, spanning both experimental and theoretical efforts. Ultimately, I hope to demonstrate how dark matter is one of the central subjects of interest across diverse communities in physics and astronomy, uniting particle and condensed matter physicists, cosmologists, and astrophysicists in a common pursuit.
Image Credit:
2: Ciaran O’Hare 3, 4: Symmetry magazine