`Dark Matter, Effective Field Theory, and the LHC' Draft Abstract: The interactions of Dark Matter with nucleons can be probed at the MeV scale in Direct Detection experiments, and at the TeV at the LHC. If the dark matter is the only new particle below the TeV, then its interactions with the Standard Model can be parametrised by contact interactions. "Monojet" searches at the LHC have been used to set bounds on contact interactions between dark matter and quarks, and it is often argued that these bounds preclude the detection of dark matter in spin-dependent direct detection experiments. However, in an Effective Field Theory parametrisation of unknown new physics, dark matter interactions with the Higgs and Z should also be allowed for, and these contribute differently at colliders from at low energy. So in this talk, I include the Z...