Goal of the meeting

Dark matter is a long outstanding problem in modern astrophysics and one of the biggest mysteries physicists are currently struggling to understand. Its presence throughout the Universe is inferred by its gravitational effects on normal matter. More specifically, two observational aspects, namely, the behaviour of the galactic rotation curves and the mass discrepancy in clusters of galaxies led to the necessity of considering the existence of dark matter at a galactic and extra-galactic scale. Physicists have taken different paths to approach this problem. One of the