International Conference on Auroral Physics

国际极光物理学会议

• 批准号: 8802569
• 负责人: Ching-I Meng
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-04-01 至 1989-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8802569&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Conference; Auroral; Physics

The purpose of this grant is to provide financial support for an International Conference on Auroral Physics which will take place at St. Johns College in Cambridge, England from July 11 to 15, 1988. Space physics, particularly the subject of solar terrestrial interaction, has progressed very rapidly since the late 1960's. The various spaceborne low altitude particle and field measurements over the polar region and the global auroral imaging capability on several spacecraft have brought auroral physics into a new era. On the other hand, because of the complication of each specific instrumentation, and the need for a higher level of knowledge in interpreting the observations, many scientists doing auroral-related investigations focus on relatively narrow topics. Communication and information interchange have not matched the recent rapid progress in both observations and theoretical work. This interchange is particularly difficult in auroral physics because activities are spread over many disciplines: atomic and molecular physics, geomagnetism, ionospheric physics, spectroscopy, magnetospheric physics, optics, theoretical plasma physics, space instrumentation, etc. There has not been any dedicated conference on auroral physics for over ten years, even though there have been numerous conferences on magnetospheric topics which included only certain parts of auroral phenomena. The purpose of the international conference is to bring scientists who are working and interested in different aspects of auroral research, and scattered in the various disciplines together to review and discuss the state of knowledge of auroral phenomena. More importantly, scientists must know others' present endeavors. This meeting will, of course, stimulate further collaboration is auroral research across different disciplines. A monograph will be published. Furthermore, this conference will be able to encourage young scientists to participate and identify future research in his/her specialized discipline as well as an opportunity to broaden into other disciplines.

这笔赠款的目的是为将于1988年7月11日至15日在英国剑桥圣约翰斯学院举行的极光物理国际会议提供资金支持。空间物理学，特别是日地相互作用的研究，自20世纪60年代末以来得到了迅速的发展。极地上空各种星载低空粒子和场的测量以及几个航天器上的全球极光成像能力将极光物理带入了一个新的时代。另一方面，由于每个具体仪器的复杂性，以及在解释观测结果时需要更高水平的知识，许多从事极光相关研究的科学家集中在相对狭窄的主题上。通信和信息交流未能与最近在观测和理论工作方面取得的快速进展相匹配。这种交流在极光物理中尤其困难，因为活动涉及许多学科：原子和分子物理、地磁、电离层物理、光谱学、磁层物理、光学、理论等离子体物理、空间仪器等。十多年来，没有任何关于极光物理的专门会议，尽管已经有许多关于磁层专题的会议，其中只包括极光现象的某些部分。这次国际会议的目的是将分散在不同学科的对极光研究不同方面感兴趣的科学家聚集在一起，回顾和讨论极光现象的知识状况。更重要的是，科学家必须了解其他人目前的努力。当然，这次会议将促进不同学科之间在极光研究方面的进一步合作。将出版一本专著。此外，这次会议将能够鼓励青年科学家参与并确定其专业学科的未来研究，以及扩大到其他学科的机会。