Dark Matters Jonathan Feng, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Chancellor's Fellow, University of California, Irvine

A quarter of the Universe is composed of dark matter, but the microscopic identity of dark matter remains a deep mystery. I will review recent progress in resolving this puzzle, focusing on several well-motivated classes of dark matter candidates, including WIMPs and related possibilities. I will discuss the theoretical motivations for these candidates, their diverse implications at the interface of particle physics, astroparticle physics, and cosmology, and the prospects for identifying dark matter in the coming years.