WORKSHOP IFPU
The Nature of Dark Matter
IPFU, Via Beirut 2, Trieste
13-16 June 2022
Gauri Sharma gsharma@uwc.ac.za
The Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU) is a joint initiative of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). The institute aims at hosting and promoting a vigorous and innovative multi-disciplinary research program focused on investigating the fundamental laws of Nature under a Cosmological and Astrophysical perspective.
One of the most important open issues of Cosmology and of the entire Physics, concerns the actual nature of the Dark Matter. Namely, of that elusive substance that comprises the 84% of the entire matter content of the Universe without emitting any radiation at the rate at which the elementary particles of the Standard Model do. At SISSA there is a long tradition of investigating such mystery by means of the observational properties of this dark component surrounding every galaxy with a dark halo. The results obtained, supported also by independent investigations, point, for the Dark Matter Phenomenon, towards the need of a change of the 30 years old Paradigm according to which the Scenario for DM has to be the simplest, the most elegant and the most theoretically favored and expected. It is well known that while the latter lead us to the collisionless LCDM scenario, the inferred distribution of DM in galaxies of different mass and morphology points to a much more complex and unpredicted one. In this Workshop we will recap on how the astrophysics of galaxies has become a Portal to the nature of dark matter and, accordingly, we will plan future strategies of investigation able to exploit such an opportunity.
Name | Surname | Institution |
Giorgio | Arcadi | (Univ Messina) |
Maria | Felicia Delaurentis | (Univ Napoli) |
Antonino | Del Popolo | (Univ Catania) |
Ivan | De Martino | (Univ of Salamanca) |
Eleonora | Di Valentino | (Sheffield School Mat & Stat,UK) |
Amr | El Zamt | (BUE, Egypt) |
Carmelo | Evoli | (GSSI) |
Jonathan | Freundlich | (Strasbourg Obs.) |
Hao | Fu | (Univ Southampton) |
Viviana | Gammaldi | (UNAM, Madrid) |
Giovanni | Gandolfi | (SISSA) |
Marika | Giulietti | (SISSA) |
Valeria | Grisoni | (Univ Bologna) |
Sandeep | Haridasu | (SISSA) |
Man | Ho Chan | (Honk Kong Univ.,Cina) |
Andrea | Lapi | (SISSA) |
Gaadha | Lekshmi | (National Institute of Technology, Surat, India) |
Veronica | Lora | (Univ Mexico) |
Subha | Majumdar | (TIFR, India) |
Antonino | Marasco | (Padova Obs.) |
Aldo | Morselli | (Univ Roma 2) |
Fabrizio | Nesti | (Univ L’Aquila) |
Ester | Piedipalumbo | (INAF Napoli) |
Alessandro | Pizzella | (Univ Padova) |
Tommaso | Ronconi | (SISSA) |
Paolo | Salucci | (SISSA) |
Norma | Sanchez | (CNRS, Obs de Paris) |
Gauri | Sharma | (UWC, ZA) |
Amy | Smith | (Univ Southampton) |
Sabine | Thater | (Univ of Wien) |
Nicola | Turini | (CERN, Univ Siena) |
Daniela | Vergani | (Oss. Astrof. E Scienza dello Spazio, Bologna) |
Jed | Young | (Univ Southampton) |
Gabrijela | Zacharias | (Univ of Nova Gorica, SLO) |
Stefano | Zibetti | (Oss Astron Firenze) |
In addition to the participants above listed:
The institute is located in the Miramare campus at Via Beirut 2, Trieste, Italy. It can be easily reached from Trieste train station by bus number 6. Some accomodation place are at walking distance from the institute, others along the N 6 bus route Trieste-Miramare.
This line connects IFPU BUS Station (Centro Fisica ICTP Bus Station) with Adriatico Guest house (Final Stop at Grignano) and, in the opposite direction to Trieste Stazione dei treni.