Dark matter research is one of the most fascinating and active fields among current high-profile scientific endeavors. It holds the key to all major breakthroughs to come in the fields of cosmology and astroparticle physics. The present volume is particularly concerned with the sources and the detection of dark matter and dark energy in the universe and will prove to be an invaluable research tool for all scientists who work in this field.

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I Overview of Cosmological Parameters and Concept.- Cosmological Parameters.- The Cosmological Constant Problems.- The Cosmological Constant from the Viewpoint of String Theory.- The Dark Matter Telescope.- II The Cosmological Constant Evidence.- Dust Versus Supernova Cosmology.- Measurement of the Cosmological Constant from Galactic Velocity Rotation Data.- An Introduction to Quintessence.- Is the ACDM Model Consistent with Observations of Large-Scale Structure?.- Light Scalars in Cosmology.- III Precision Cosmology Measurements.- Optimal Supernova Search Strategies.- The Second Peak: The Dark-Energy Density and the Cosmic Microwave Background.- Latest Cosmological Constraints on the Densities of Hot and Cold Dark Matter.- Prospects for MAP & PLANCK.- Studying Dark Matter with ACBAR on Viper.- Resonant Photon-Graviton Conversion as a Probe into Inflationary Universe.- IV Baryonic Dark Matter.- Death of Stellar Baryonic Dark Matter.- EROS Microlensing Results: Not Enough Machos in the Galactic Halo.- Neutralino Dark Matter Versus Galaxy Formation.- Cosmological Relativity: A General-Relativistic Theory for the Accelerating Expanding Universe.- V Theory of Dark Matter Processes.- Relic Neutralinos and Dark Matter.- CP Violation and Dark Matter.- Mirror Dark Matter.- Neutralino Proton Cross Sections for Dark Matter in SUGRA and D-BRANE Models.- Antimatter from Supersymmetric Dark Matter.- Relic Abundances and the Boltzmann Equation.- Supersymmetry, Q-Balls, and Dark Matter.- SIMP (Strongly Interacting Massive Particle) Search.- Self-Interacting Dark Matter.- Prediction of ?M and Estimate of ??.- Accurate Dark Matter Theory and Exact Solutions.- VI Possible Evidence for Dark Matter Particles.- Recent DAMA Results.- Annual Signal Modulation to Search for WIMPs and Direct Searching.- Recent Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles.- Pulse Shape Discrimination and Dark Matter Search with NaI (Tl) Scintillator at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane.- Interpretation of the Anomalous NaI Events.- Combining Information from Direct and Indirect Searches for WIMPs.- VII Search for Dark Matter Particles Around the World.- Progress on the Boulby Mine Dark Matter Experiments.- Status of the EDELWEISS Experiment.- Status of Dark Matter Search with the HDMS Experiment and the GENINO Project.- The CRESST Dark Matter Search.- Dark Matter Experiments in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory.- Dark Matter Results in the MIBETA Experiment.- Search for Dark Matter WIMPs Using Upward-Going Muons in Super-Kamiokande.- Search for SUSY Dark Matter with CMS at LHC.- VIII New Detectors for the Dark Matter Search.- Design of the ZEPLIN II Detector.- Development of a Two-Phase Xenon Discriminating Detector for Use in Dark Matter Searches at the Boulby Underground Laboratory.- A Project of a New Detector for Direct Dark Matter Search: MACHe3.- Status and Prospects for SIMPLE.- Measurement of Scintillation Amplification in a Xenon Detector with a CsI-Luminescence Plate.- Hot and Cold Dark Matter Search with GENIUS.- IX Hot Dark Matter.- Large Extra Dimensions and Hot Dark Matter.- Detecting Ultra High Energy Neutrinos by Upward Tau Airshowers and Gamma Flashes.- Super-Kamiokande 0.07 eV Neutrinos in Cosmology: Hot Dark Matter and the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays.- Future Neutrino Astrophysics Projects at the UK Boulby Mine.- Symposium Agenda.