Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) Symposium: Clusters, Lensing, and the Future of the Universe, College Park, Maryland, June 26-28, 1995

9424246莱文塔尔该奖项将为1995年6月26日至28日在马里兰大学学院公园举行的“星团、透镜和宇宙的未来”科学研讨会提供部分支持。马里兰大学天文学系将于1995年6月24-28日主办太平洋天文学会年会。作为这次会议的一部分，天文学系独自负责组织一次科学研讨会。研讨会的题目是“星团、透镜和宇宙的未来”。它将于1995年6月26日至28日在马里兰大学马里兰校区的学院公园举行。预计将有大约150名专业天文学家出席并参加研讨会。数量较少且数量不详的业余天文学家也可能参加。这次研讨会的主要目的是将致力于研究现代天体物理学中三个尚未解决的主要问题的人们聚集在一起，期望这些问题(及其希望的解决方案)在某些方面有共同之处。粗略地说，这些问题可以表述为：(A)我们应该如何描述宇宙中最大规模的结构？(B)在宇宙微波背景辐射中，这些结构是如何在没有产生更强印记的情况下形成的？和(C)标准宇宙学参数和膨胀宇宙模型参数中的哪个值最能描述星系形成时期、现在和长期未来的宇宙？研讨会的预定形式包括由受邀演讲者进行的大约20次审查，每次都伴随着几次简短的演讲；以及一些关于相关主题的海报论文。

9424246 Leventhal This award will provide partial support for a science symposium on "Clusters, Lensing, and the Future of the Universe", June 26-28, 1995, at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. The University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy, is hosting the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) from June 24-28, 1995. As part of this meeting, the Department of Astronomy has sole responsibility for organizing a Science Symposium. The title of the symposium is "Clusters, Lensing, and the Future of the Universe". It will be held at the College Park, Maryland campus of the University of Maryland from June 26 to 28 , 1995. It is anticipated that approximately 150 professional astronomers will attend and participate in the symposium. A smaller and unknown number of amateur astronomers are also likely to attend. The primary purpose of this symposium is to bring together people working on three of the major unsolved problems of modern astrophysics, in the expectation that the problems (and their hoped-for solutions) have aspects in common. Roughly, the questions can be phrased as (a) How should we describe the largest-scale structures in the universe? (b) How did the structures form without producing stronger imprints in the cosmic microwave background radiation? and (c) Which values of the standard cosmological parameters and of the inflationary universe model parameters best describe the universe during the epoch of galaxy formation, the present time, and the long range future? The intended format of the symposium includes about 20 reviews by invited speakers, each accompanied by a couple of shorter contributed talks; and a number of poster paper contributions on related topics.