This conference is designed to foster multi-disciplinary collaboration across diverse fields to decode dark matter through its gravitational effects. Dark matter's only confirmed interaction with ordinary matter is gravity, yet extracting its properties from astronomical observations requires expertise spanning particle phenomenology, time-domain precision measurements, stellar dynamics, and galaxy simulations — communities that rarely converge.

The conference is structured to build bridges: each day opens with an invited review establishing the current frontier in a key area — direct acceleration measurements, stellar stream dynamics, non-cold dark matter simulations, or observational constraints on dark matter models — followed by contributed talks from early-career researchers presenting new results and methods. Extended discussion sessions and daily panel summaries focus explicitly on identifying connections, open questions, and opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Topics include extreme-precision time-series measurements from pulsar timing, eclipsing binaries, and extreme-precision radial velocities to directly measure Galactic accelerations; stream perturbations as probes of dark matter substructure; simulations of self-interacting, fuzzy, and dissipative dark matter; and machine-learning approaches to dynamical inference.