Status of the Dark Matter search
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(Ubi Wichoski -- Universite de Montreal)

Our present understanding of the Universe, based on the most recent 
observations, is that approximately 70% of its energy density is in the 
form of dark energy and the remaining 30% in the form of gravitating 
matter. According to the big-bang model of cosmology, only approximately 
15% of the gravitating matter in the Universe can be made of baryons. This 
leads to the conclusion that 85% of the matter content of the Universe is 
made of non-baryonic and, in the sense that it does not emit nor absorb 
electromagnetic radiation, dark matter. The first suggestion for the 
existence of dark matter appeared more than 70 years ago to explain the 
rotation curves of the spiral galaxies. Nowadays, dark matter is expected 
to exist in scales ranging from galactic to cosmological. On the 
theoretical side, there is a profusion of dark matter candidates, the 
majority coming from extensions of the standard model of particle physics. 
There is also a wealth of experiments searching for dark matter both 
directly and indirectly. In this talk we will give an overview and discuss 
future perspectives in the light of recent developments.