Workshop on Astronomical Instrumentation at Inter-UniversityCentre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Poona University Campus, India, December 10-13,1989

描述：该项目支持五名美国天文学家参加1989年12月10日至13日在印度浦那的大学间天文和天体物理中心(IUCAA)举行的天文仪器研讨会。印度的组织者是IUCAA主任Jayant Narlikar博士。讲习班的目的是明确一个可行的仪器方案，该方案将由IUCAA与印度大学和机构的各个研究小组合作执行。要考虑的活动包括：光学、红外和紫外线望远镜的焦面仪器；空间飞行任务的有效载荷；图像处理；以及探测器和干涉仪的制造。该仪器计划将使IUCAA和印度大学的科学家能够使用印度广泛的天文学研究设施，包括光学、太阳、红外、毫米波、射电和空间天文学。希望这一结果还将使印度天文学家能够与美国和其他国家的类似设施合作，并参与一些主要的重力波探测器项目。范围：尽管印度在天文学科学研究方面有着良好的记录，但最近国际天文学联合会的成立代表了印度为将天文学和天体物理学研究的状况加速到更先进国家所达到的水平所作的重大努力。这将使印度科学家能够更有效地与这些国家的科学家互动和合作。研讨会的结果将促进这些目标，并极大地增加印度和美国在天文学方面合作的潜力。美国公安局和印度公安局在该领域享有盛誉，最有能力主持这次研讨会。

Description: This project supports five U.S. astronomers to attend a workshop on astronomical instrumentation to be held December 10-13, 1989, at the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune, India. The Indian organizer is Dr. Jayant Narlikar, Director of the IUCAA. The workshop is aimed at crystallizing a viable instrumentation program which would be carried out by the IUCAA in collaboration with the various research groups in Indian universities and institutions. Among the activities to be considered are: focal plane instrumentation for optical, IR, and UV telescopes; payload for space missions; image processing; and fabrication of detectors and interferometers. The instrumentation program would enable the IUCAA and scientists from Indian universities to use the extensive facilities for research in astronomy in India, including optical, solar, infrared, millemeter-wave, radio, and space astronomy. It is hoped that the result will also enable Indian astronomers to work with similar facilities in the U.S. and other countries, and to participate in some of the major gravity wave detector programs. Scope: Although India has a strong record of scientific research in astronomy, the recent establishment of the IUCAA represents a major effort by India to accelerate the state of astronomy and astrophysics research to levels attained by more advanced countries. This will enable Indian scientists to interact and collaborate more effectively with scientists from these countries. The results of the workshop would further these objectives and greatly increase the potential for Indo-U.S. collaboration in astronomy. The U.S. P.I. and the Indian counterpart are world renowned in the field and are most capable of conducting the workshop.