Direct and indirect dark matter searches

The field of dark matter research is focused on few main directions: search for possible particle interactions in low-background detectors or accelerators, the direct search approach, or astrophysical indirect searches exploiting the expected dark matter densities in the Earth, the Sun, the center of our Galaxy or other astrophysical objects. In the first part of this seminar I will present an overview of the current results, focusing on IceCube and XENON1T experiments as examples. In the last four decades of searches there has been no clear detection of a dark matter candidate. In the last part I will briefly describe the future detectors and the expected sensitivities.