Speaker Night – Dr. J. Luna Zagorac

What we can’t see in the Universe (and why it might be fuzzy)

Synopsis: Most people look up at the night sky to admire its host of shiny, glittering objects; and yet, it’s really the stuff we don’t see that’s shaping our cosmos. Tune in to hear about how so-called dark matter is instrumental in building galaxies and why some scientists think it might be fuzzy.

Bio: Luna Zagorac is a postdoctoral researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, ON. Luna received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2022, where her dissertation focused on computer simulations and observational signatures of ultralight (or fuzzy) dark matter. When not thinking about the things we can’t see in the Universe, Luna works on mapping Ancient Egyptian diagonal star tables to observational astronomical data. Apart from research she enjoys science communication and writing for astrobites.org, playing video games, and roller skating.