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  • 2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to understanding the nature of dark matter, including the theory of relic abundance and detection of particle dark matter, and the theory, discovery, and interpretation of gravitational microlensing
  • 1994 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Kim Griest is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their academic focus spans a range of topics within physics, particularly involving the nature of dark matter and gravitational microlensing phenomena.

Their recognized contributions include advancing the theoretical understanding of relic abundance and detection mechanisms for particle dark matter. Additionally, they have contributed to the theory, discovery, and interpretation of gravitational microlensing, which is a technique used to detect objects that emit little or no light by observing the bending of light from distant stars.

Kim Griest has been acknowledged by professional organizations with notable awards. In 2001, they were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation emphasizing contributions to dark matter research and gravitational microlensing. Earlier, in 1994, they were awarded a Fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Supersymmetric Dark Matter

    Gerard Jungman;Marc Kamionkowski;Marc Kamionkowski;Kim Griest

  • Three exceptions in the calculation of relic abundances

    Kim Griest;David Seckel

  • The MACHO Project: Microlensing Results from 5.7 Years of Large Magellanic Cloud Observations

    Charles Alcock;Charles Alcock;Robyn Allsman;David R Alves;Tim Axelrod

  • Possible gravitational microlensing of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud

    C. Alcock;C. Alcock;Carl W. Akerlof;Carl W. Akerlof;R. A. Allsman;T. S. Axelrod

  • The MACHO Project: Microlensing Results from 5.7 Years of LMC Observations

    C. Alcock;R. A. Allsman;D. R. Alves

  • Unitarity limits on the mass and radius of dark-matter particles

    Kim Griest;Marc Kamionkowski;Marc Kamionkowski

  • The MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing Results from the First Two Years and the Nature of the Galactic Dark Halo

    C. Alcock;C. Alcock;R. A. Allsman;D. Alves;D. Alves;T. S. Axelrod

  • The MACHO Project LMC Microlensing Results from the First Two Years and the Nature of the Galactic Dark Halo

    C. Alcock;R. A. Allsman;D. Alves;T. S. Axelrod

  • The Use of High-Magnification Microlensing Events in Discovering Extrasolar Planets

    Kim Griest;Neda Safizadeh

  • The Use of High Magnification Microlensing Events in Discovering Extra-solar Planets

    Kim Griest;Neda Safizadeh

  • Cosmic asymmetry, neutrinos and the sun☆

    Kim Griest;David Seckel;David Seckel

  • Galactic microlensing as a method of detecting massive compact halo objects

    Kim Griest

  • The Macho Project: 45 Candidate Microlensing Events from the First Year Galactic Bulge Data

    C. Alcock;C. Alcock;R. A. Allsman;D. Alves;T. S. Axelrod;T. S. Axelrod

  • MACHO Project Limits on Black Hole Dark Matter in the 1-30 Solar Mass Range

    C. Alcock;R. A. Allsman;D. R. Alves

  • EROS and MACHO combined limits on planetary-mass dark matter in the galactic halo

    C Alcock;C Alcock;RA Allsman;D Alves;D Alves;R Ansari

  • First Observation of Parallax in a Gravitational Microlensing Event

    C. Alcock;C. Alcock;R. A. Allsman;D. Alves;D. Alves;T. S. Axelrod;T. S. Axelrod

  • The MACHO Project: 45 Candidate Microlensing Events from the First Year Galactic Bulge Data

    C. Alcock;R. A. Allsman;T. S. Axelrod;D. P. Bennett

  • EXPERIMENTAL LIMITS ON THE DARK MATTER HALO OF THE GALAXY FROM GRAVITATIONAL MICROLENSING

    C. Alcock;C. Alcock;R. A. Allsman;T. S. Axelrod;T. S. Axelrod;D. P. Bennett;D. P. Bennett

  • Cross sections, relic abundance, and detection rates for neutralino dark matter.

    Kim Griest;Kim Griest

  • The MACHO Project: Microlensing Optical Depth Toward the Galactic Bulge from Difference Image Analysis

    Charles Alcock;Charles Alcock;Robyn Allsman;David R Alves;Tim Axelrod

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Bennett
David P. Bennett Goddard Space Flight Center
Charles Alcock
Charles Alcock Harvard University
Christopher W. Stubbs
Christopher W. Stubbs Harvard University
Kenneth C. Freeman
Kenneth C. Freeman Australian National University
Bruce A. Peterson
Bruce A. Peterson Australian National University
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
Dante Minniti
Dante Minniti Andrés Bello University
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Marc Kamionkowski
Marc Kamionkowski Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Gould
Andrew Gould The Ohio State University

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