KIM GRIEST
Professor, Emeritus
Physics Department 0319,
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
k g r i e s t @ u c s d . e d u
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My main interests are the dark matter and the vacuum energy (aka dark energy) that are thought to make up more than 95% of the mass of the Universe. I am also interested in gravitational lensing, especially microlensing as it is used to search for normally invisible objects such as dark matter, black holes, dim stars, and extra-solar planets. I also work on other aspects of the early universe such as the production of supersymmetric dark matter, as well as other issues in theoretical and observational astrophysics and particle-astrophysics.

Information on research in the Physics Department, and on UCSD Astrophysics research, can be accessed through the Physics Department home page.

last updated: 3 May 2017