Dan Gilman describes his academic path and introduces the research questions behind his work. The conversation turns toward using the structure of dark matter to investigate its physical nature.
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3:43>> Yeah, so I bounced around a little bit. I was in Toronto first as a post-doc. So, after grad school you do some uh research contracts. So, I did one at the University of Toronto, and now I'm at the University of Chicago doing another one. >> Beautiful. And for those who are joining us who are long-time listeners, we've talked about dark matter before on the pod. Uh, it's usually been around the classic galaxy rotation curve argument, uh, and we covered the dark matter halo story uh, that came out earlier this year, which is, you know, one line of or way to think about the question of dark matter. And I think part of what's
4:24going to be so interesting about our conversation today is, you know, in the research that you do, you're coming at it from a different angle that kind of looks at large-scale structure, and we'll get into that. But just to kind of start because it's always still a little bit murky to me, you know, what Let's start with just the