TopIcAl WorkShop oN Dark Matterthat dark matter outweighs visible matter by at least five to one, but the identity of dark matter remains a mystery even now. This workshop will feature

Institute of Advanced Studies

Sponsored by Co-organiser

ASEAN Federationof Physics Societies

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13 to 15 November 2017Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

TopIcAl WorkShop oN

Dark Matter

Co-ChairsLars Brink (chalmers University of Technology)

Lars Bergström (Stockholm University)

Kok-Khoo Phua (Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU)

Elisabetta Barberio (University of Melbourne)

Karim Benabed (IAp)

Lars Bergström (Stockholm University)

Gianfranco Bertone (University of Amsterdam)

Alexey Boyarsky (leiden University)

Ali Chamseddine (University of Beirut)

Jin Chang (chinese Academy of Sciences)

Ilias Cholis (John hopkins University)

Joakim Edsjö (Stockholm University)

Carlos Frenk (Durham University)

Richard Gaitskell (Brown University)

Luca Grandi (The University of chicago)

Jianglai Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Kentaro Miuchi (kobe University)

Oleg Ruchayskiy (Niels Bohr Institute, University of copenhagen)

Pierre Sikivie (University of Florida, Gainesville)

Michael Tobar (University of Western Australia)

Erik Verlinde (University of Amsterdam)

Frank Wilczek (Nobel Laureate in Physics 2004; MIT)

Henry Tsz-King Wong (Academia Sinica Taiwan)

Speakers

O ne of the most intriguing problems in present-day physics, astrophysics and cosmology revolves around the nature

of dark matter — the dominant form of matter in the universe. Discovered first by pioneers such as Lundmark and Zwicky in the early decades of the last century, the prominence of the dark matter problem has become more acute in recent years. Theoretical and observational evidence agree that dark matter outweighs visible matter by at least five to one, but the identity of dark matter remains a mystery even now.

This workshop will feature the most up-to-date research in this field and introduce various candidates for dark matter. The axion is one such candidate proposed by Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek, who will be at the workshop in person for discussion. The workshop will also cover the ongoing hunt for dark matter signatures at accelerators and in underground and space experiments, the verification of the existence of dark matter from studies of the cosmic microwave background, and new theoretical ideas about dark matter and dark energy paradigms.

Frank WilczekNobel Laureate in

Physics 2004