Invitation for community participation

Dear Colleagues,

First of all, we apologize if you unintentionally receive this more than once. Nonetheless, we hope you will circulate this to others that you think may be interested.

Over the two weeks of July 13-24, there is a workshop on "Shedding Light on the Nature of Dark Matter" sponsored by the JPL+Caltech Keck Institute for Space Studies. The intent is to develop a framework that will allow numerous astrophysical, indirect, and direct measurements to constrain very general characteristics of dark matter, with an emphasis on broad extensions to the 'canonical' LCDM picture.

Though practical considerations have limited us to a modest number of resident participants, we would like to invite everybody who is interested to *actively participate* in all of the ideas and developments of our meet-up. To that end, we have established several complementary collaboration and networking means that we hope you and your colleagues will use. In particular, we have a dedicated Wikipage (to participate in), a blog (to comment on and discuss), and a twitter account (to follow).

KISS Mini-program webpage -- general information.
http://www.kiss.caltech.edu/mini-study/darkmatter/index.html

Workshop wiki -- to participate substantively, use this. An account is required, please contact Andrew Benson.
http://kissdm.pbworks.com/

Workshop Blog -- we expect several updates daily, and encourage comments and
discussions there.
http://kissdarkmatter.blogspot.com/

Workshop twitter.
http://twitter.com/kissdarkmatter

Future notes directed to the community at large will be posted on the blog, to not inundate mailboxes further. Please bookmark the link above, and follow there for highlights and more information. You may set up an RSS feed through your web-browser, if you like.

We welcome feedback and suggestions by all. Ideally, please post these on the blog itself, though personal email is always gratefully received!


Best wishes,
lm & ab