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The LambdaCDM model has enjoyed considerable success in describing the
clustering of mass, on large scales. On smaller scales, in regions of
high DM density, there have been tantalizing suggestions of departures
from the predictions of the simplest cold dark matter models. In
particular, CDM predictions for halo substructure, central halo profiles
and concentrations, and halo triaxiality have all presented possible
discrepancies with observations. In this talk, I will discuss how
gravitational lensing, and in particular strong lensing, may be used as a
probe of these three aspects of dark matter halos for objects ranging in
mass from 10^8 Msun up to the most massive galaxy clusters. I will give
the most recent constraints derived from lensing analyses, and lastly will
discuss future prospects for the use of lensing to study dark matter.
18 02 2005, ISCAP Seminar Room Pupin 908, 2:00 pm
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