Dear all,
 
This email announces the first town hall meeting of the Initiative for Dark Matter in Europe and beyond (iDMEu), a JENA (Joint ECFA-NuPECC-APPEC) activity to bring together researchers from different communities searching for dark matter. 
 
The iDMEu town hall takes place on the last day (Friday September 1st, 2023) of the XVIII International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2023), at the University of Vienna and online on Zoom at a link that will be sent to registrants prior to the event. 
 
In this meeting, we will have three talks of general interest on experimental and theoretical directions:
• on the efforts on dark matter complementarity within the Snowmass process (Deborah Pinna)

• on the ongoing ECFA Detector R&D (DRD) process (Anyssa Navrer-Agasson)

• on the theory landscape (Giorgio Arcadi)

During this town hall meeting, we will also present a preliminary version of the virtual platform for the dark matter meta-repository developed by the organizers and Early Career curators. 
There will be plenty of time for discussion after the talks, as well as space to talk about the feedback on the virtual platform. 
 
The agenda can be found here: https://indico.cern.ch/e/idmeu-townhall-taup
 
Coffee will be available in the meeting room prior to starting the meeting, and we will open the virtual room at 14:15 for anyone who may want to have informal discussions prior to the talks starting at 14:30. The coffee and the room hosting are possible thanks to the sponsorship of ECFA, APPEC and NuPECC. It would help keeping track of numbers if participants (especially those who would like coffee) registered on the event page: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1309317/registrations/
 
Thank you, and hope to see you either in Vienna or online, 
The iDMEu organizers
Marco Cirelli
Caterina Doglioni
Federica Petricca
Gabrijela Zaharjias