June 11 - 13, 2009
Perimeter Institute

In the last few years, a new observational window has opened on the dark sector of matter. The recent flood of experimental results on direct and indirect dark matter detection has potentially revolutionized our view of the nature of dark matter.
 
As the non gravitational nature of dark matter may well be revealing itself for the first time, initial results have lead to a reexamination of WIMP physics with the aim of enhancing the annihilation cross section through various means, and encouraged theorists to think of more exotic possibilities. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together leading theorists in this area, as well as representatives of the recent experiments, to encourage the sharing and debating of recent results and approaches to probing and describing the dark matter sector.

Scientific Organizers:
Cliff Burgess, Perimeter Institute and McMaster University
Maxim Pospelov, Perimeter Institute and University of Victoria
Michael Trott, Perimeter Institute
Brian Batell, Perimeter Institute