The Space Telescope Science Institute is hosting the annual Spring Symposium May 2-5, and this year the topic is Dark Matter
Good lineup of speakers.
The whole week is webcast at https://webcast.stsci.edu/webcast/ including live talks and archives of previous talks.
For those who enjoy that sort of thing and didn't get the e-mail...
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https://webcast.stsci.edu/webcast/
I would much rather have copies of the presenter's presentations (Powerpoint or PDF or whatever) than video of their talks. It's much faster to scan printed material than to scan video.
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I agree that pdfs of the presentations would be better, but in practise harder to organise. Take what you can get.
Also this way I can check if our grad students are attending conscientiously ;-)
The best part of the symposium was the panel debate. Lots of "loaded"
questions and discussions.
Nobody in the symposium discussed or asked about Luc Blanchet's model
about dipolar dark matter. No one discussed primordial black holes (are they ruled out)?