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Concluding Remarks Lawrence Jones University of Michigan It has been a pleasure to be here again (my 11 th Vulcano Workshop), to see many old friends and to make new friends; to climb the vulcano, weim and to enjoy the comforts of the

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Concluding Remarks

Lawrence Jones University of Michigan

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It has been a pleasure to be here again

(my 11th Vulcano Workshop), to see many

ld friends and to make new friends; to

climb the vulcano, weim and to enjoy the comforts of the Eolian Hotel.

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To be sure, I was reminded again that I

am not an astronomer, and am ignorant of galactic dynamics, galactic clusters, etc.

etc. However I did learn a good deal and

appreciated the talks on this lively field of physical science.

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Closer to my own fields of particle physics

and cosmic ray physics, I was very pleased to be brought up to date on the news from Pamela, the ARGO-Yangbajing detector array, AUGER and the status of

ur understanding of the highest energy

cosmic rays, Ice-Cube and other neurtino astronomy activities, the status of LIGO, VIRGO, and other gravity wave searches, and of many other on-going programs and studies.

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Indeed we still have many unsolved
problems. I appreciated the up-date on

the DAMA/LIBRA dark matter research program, but confess that I feel it necessary to see evidence of dark matter in at least one other, independent search before I can feel confident that we have indeed solved this problem.

It is noteworthy that we did not have a

dark-energy search experiment reported at this meeting. Hopefully, in two years there will be searches worth discussing.

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We all look forward to results from the

LHC experiments; not just the inclusive data which will be invaluable for improving

ur Monte Carlo models (for interpreting

air shower data), but also the searches for the Higgs particle, Super-Symmetric particles, and other new physics.

And in cosmic rays, AUGER and the

Telescope Array will have relevant new results, while at lower energies, AMS will be operating (due to be launched in November).

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Finally, I would like to thank Franco

Giovannelli, Gianpaoloo Mannocchi, and Maria Cristina D’Amato for the excellent

rganization, program, and arrangements.