International School on AstroParticle Physics 2008

The aim of this school is to provide to the students the latest information on Dark Matter research. The theoretical and experimental efforts to identify the nature of this evasive component of the Universe will be reviewed.

Topics of the school:

• Introduction to particle physics and cosmology
• Observational evidences of dark matter
• Structure formation in dark matter models
• Direct and indirect searches
• Candidates for dark matter
  • Axions , WIMPs, Supersymmetric particles