DARK-MATTER - ABSTRACTS FROM A 2-DAY WORKSHOP HELD IN FEBRUARY 1994 BY THE AUSTRALIA-TELESCOPE-NATIONAL-FACILITY - INTRODUCTION

A Dark Matter Workshop was held at the CSIRO Radiophysics Laboratory i n Marsfield, Sydney, on 24-25 February 1994. The workshop, sponsored b y the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), was a meeting of d ark matter (DM) specialists as well as astronomers interested in the f ield, and attracted about 80 participants from nine institutions. The program consisted of 22 oral contributions (15-45 minutes), followed b y lively discussions, as well as podium discussions at the end of each day. Abstracts of most of the contributions are presented here, arran ged by subject groups which range from 'Gravitational Lensing and DM i n Clusters', 'DM in Elliptical Galaxies', 'The Nature of DM', and 'The Shapes of Dark Halos' to 'Alternatives to DM'.