Carsten Rott (Ohio State)

Unraveling the mysterious nature of dark matter is one of the most exciting scientific goals of this decade. While there is overwhelming evidence for its existence, its properties remain literally in the dark. New approaches in the search for dark matter might finally allow us to shed light on its properties and distribution in our Galaxy.

The newly completed giga-ton size IceCube neutrino telescope offers exciting opportunities for the detection of neutrinos produced by dark matter. I will present the results of a novel analysis that looks for neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Galactic dark matter halo. I will further discuss searches for annihilation signals from dark matter captured by the Sun; the principle sensitivity is to the scattering cross section, complementary to direct detection. I will conclude by providing an outlook on searches for dark matter.