Session Y6 - Cosmology, Particle Astrophysics and Gravitational Wave Astronomy.
ORAL session, Tuesday afternoon, April 23
Aztec, Albuquerque Convention Center
I summarize the latest constraints on dark matter and dark energy from the cosmic microwave background, large-scale structure, lensing, LyA forest clustering, etc, focusing on the following questions: By postulating complicated unseen matter with sufficiently many free parameters, one can fit almost any observational data, so how can we test the underlying physics in a model-independent way? What current and upcoming cosmological constraints can be robustly connected with dark matter properties that can be probed experimentally?