DARK MATTER In Our Universe

Welcome to my Dark Matter Web Page!
I am currently a sophomore (math major!) at Union College, in Schenectady, New York. As a member of the Union College Scholars Program, I was required to do 2 terms of research (in any field I wished) during my sophmore year.
At the end of my freshman year, I decided it would be cool to do something in astronomy. I thought it would be fun to use the telescope here and look at the stars! Professor Koopmann (physics) agreed to advise my project, and (ironically) we decided I would do research on Dark Matter (not what I had planned on!!). I began my research over the summer and finally finished everything (research and paper) about 10 months later.
I thought it would be neat to create a website so that other students, or anyone interested, could view my paper and even take a look at the power point presentation I gave at the Steinmetz Symposium on May 10, 2002.

LINKS TO MY PAPER

Abstract

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Dark Matter in Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters

Chapter 2: MACHOs and WIMPs

Chapter 3: Dark Matter and the Universe

Chapter 4: Arguments Against the Existence of Dark Matter

Chapter 5: Conclusions

Bibliography

LINK TO MY POWER POINT PRESENTATION

Steinmetz Presentation 2002

Cosmic Hide and Seek: The Search for the Missing Mass

The MOND Pages

The MACHO Project Home Page

Space Stuff!

What Is the Most Likely Nature of Dark Matter?

Finally, I would like to thank Professor Koopmann for all her time and effort, as well as the
Union College Scholars Program for giving me this research opportunity!

Questions or Comments? Email me:

yurkovic@union.edu