Symmetry Webinar | The Dark Universe: The Harbinger of a Major Discovery, Held on 25 May 2023

On 25 May 2023, MDPI and the journal Symmetry (ISSN: 2073-8994) organized a webinar The Dark Universe: The Harbinger of a Major Discovery. The webinar focused on the questions “What is dark matter?” and “What is dark energy?”. The webinar provided new perspectives, highlighted current impacts, and encouraged new challenges in global research on the Dark Universe.

Prof. Ariel Zhitnitsky first developed the new theory for DM and charge asymmetry in the Universe. Prof. Michael Tobar showed us the impacts of novel techniques to detect DM axions. Prof. Abaz Kryemadhi introduced the DM streams as a new detection concept. Dr. Javier Miguel gave a short presentation of a new proposal for DM axion detection (DALI).

After all the presentations, Prof. Konstantin Zioutas organized the discussion (Q&A) session. The chair and speakers answered questions raised by scholars one by one. The webinar then came to a successful conclusion.

Relevant feature papers:

"Comparing Instrument Spectral Sensitivity of Dissimilar Electromagnetic Haloscopes to Axion Dark Matter and High Frequency Gravitational Waves"
by Michael E. Tobar, Catriona A. Thomson, William M. Campbell, Aaron Quiskamp, Jeremy F. Bourhill, Benjamin T. McAllister, Eugene N. Ivanov and Maxim Goryachev
Symmetry 2022, 14(10), 2165; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14102165

"Gaia, Fundamental Physics, and Dark Matter"
by Michael Perryman and Konstantin Zioutas
Symmetry 2022, 14(4), 721; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14040721

"Infrasonic, Acoustic and Seismic Waves Produced by the Axion Quark Nuggets"
by Dmitry Budker, Victor V. Flambaum and Ariel Zhitnitsky
Symmetry 2022, 14(3), 459; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14030459

You can watch the recorded webinar at the following link:

Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:

• Dr. Konstantin Zioutas, Department of Physics, University of Patras, Patra, Greece and CAST Spokesperson at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland;
• Dr. Ariel Zhitnitsky, Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;
• Dr. Michael Tobar, Department of Physics, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia;
• Dr. Abaz Kryemadhi, Department of Physics, Messiah College, Mechanicsburg, United States;
• Javier De Miguel, Riken, Japan.