Proceedings of the 12th "Patras" Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs
PATRAS 2016, June 20-24, 2016, Jeju Island, South Korea
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The 12th Patras workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs took place in the beautiful resort Jeju Island
of South Korea from June 20th to 24th, 2016. It was the first time this conference moved to Asia
without the best direct access from most international airports. Nonetheless we broke again a record
in the number of registered participants, toping 130 of them from Korea and all around the world. The
increased number of active participants is a testament to the vitality of the field, one that is growing
in numbers but also in scope of research goals. The workshop presentations covered a wide range of
activities, both in theory and experiments with several new ideas that have a great promise. From the
level of the talks one can safely conclude that the progress in the field of dark matter is destined to reach
major breakthroughs in the coming years. During the workshop the weather was mostly decent allowing
occasional visits to the nearby beautiful sandy beaches, great walking expeditions to the volcanic island
gorgeous scenery, but also providing the unique experience of whole-day torrential rain! The food
combined Korean and Western cuisine for all tastes.
This workshop continues a rich and successful series, reviewing recent theoretical advances, laboratory
experiments, as well as astrophysical and cosmological results in the fields of axions, WIMPs and
WISPs. The program was complemented with a reach poster session on a large variety of subjects and
a Patras Poster Prize was also awarded as was done the previous year in Spain. The committee for
the Patras Poster Prize 2016 was composed by Axel Lindner (chair), Paola Arias and Chanda Prescod-
Weinstein. The committee evaluated formal and scientific contents of the posters as well as the oral
presentations of the participants. Due to the high quality of the posters, the committee agreed to award a
first prize (300 e) and two second prizes (150 eeach). The winner of the Patras Poster Prize 2016 (first
place) was Samantha M. Lewis (University of California), for her excellent presentation “Microwave
resonators R&D in support of the ADMXHF/Extreme Axion Experiment”. The winners of the second
places of the Patras Poster Prize 2016 were Younggeun Kim (KAIST, and IBS/CAPP) for his presentation
“3He gas handling system and RF discharge for optical pumping” and YoungIm Kim (IBS/CAPP)
for her presentation “Design and performance of a signal processing system for CULTASK experiment”.
Reading the present proceedings one cannot help notice the high quality of the contributions, that the
field is picking up momentum and with so many new ideas and efforts the competition is indeed increasing.
It is clear that the field is healthy and it is a great time to be involved in this line of research.
Enjoy!
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YounIm Kim