International: Astronomical Image Processing Workshop, to be held September 2006, Dubrovnik, Croatia

这次研讨会由华盛顿大学的Zeljko Ivezic和他的克罗地亚同行Split大学的Mile Dzelalija组织，将把来自美国和欧洲的不同研究人员小组聚集在一起，他们拥有天文图像处理方面的专门知识，他们的工作依赖于不断演变和复杂性增加的仪器的巨大数据集。会议议程与更主流的专业研讨会不同，它提供的教程旨在让没有直接参与观测，但关心可能已由另一个团队处理的电子数据的有效性的天文学家受益。这尤其及时，因为天文学和天体物理学必须越来越多地依赖大型全球系统，这些系统是远程的，由使用其他人设计的软件包的复杂计算机处理控制。研讨会讨论的主题涵盖了天文图像处理管道的大部分方面，从真实世界探测器的细节、它们的硬件和物理限制开始，然后转移到隐藏的假设和数据减少和处理软件背后的陷阱。其目的是为包括美国研究生在内的参与者提供所需的分析技能，以了解现代图像处理以及当前和下一代天文测量的结果。如果成功，参加的初级和成熟的研究人员将更好地为算法开发做出贡献，这是使新的数据密集型天文项目成为现实所必需的。这次研讨会通过使美国和欧洲的专家能够结合互补的人才并在相互感兴趣和能力很强的领域共享研究资源来实现促进科学知识的计划目标。更广泛的影响包括将美国初级研究人员和研究生在职业生涯早期介绍给国际研究界的顶尖天文学家，以及在一个如此具有变革性的主题上发表具有教学意义的论文和数字演示文稿，以至于目前的文学几乎不存在。

0613639IvezicThis workshop organized by Zeljko Ivezic from the University of Washington and his Croatian counterpart, Mile Dzelalija at the University of Split, will bring together a diverse group of researchers from the United States and Europe who have expertise in astronomical image-processing and whose work depends upon huge datasets from instrumentation that continues to evolve and increase in complexity. The meeting agenda differs from more mainstream professional workshops by offering tutorials designed to benefit astronomers who are not directly involved in observations but are concerned with the validity of electronic data that may have been processed by another team. This is especially timely because the astronomy and astrophysics community must increasingly rely on large, global systems that are remote and controlled by sophisticated computer processing that uses software packages designed by others. Workshop topics for discussion cover most aspects of the astronomical image-processing pipeline, starting with details of real-world detectors, their hardware and physical limitations, and moving to hidden assumptions and pitfalls behind data reduction and handling software. The intent is to provide participants, including U.S. graduate students, with the analytical skills needed to understand modern image processing and the outputs of the current and next generation of sky surveys. If successful, the attending junior and established researchers will be better positioned to contribute to algorithm development that is needed to make new data-intensive astronomical projects a reality.This workshop fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Europe to combine complementary talents and share research resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence. Broader impacts include early career introduction of U.S. junior researchers and graduate students to leading astronomers in the international research community and to pedagogically written papers and digital presentations in a subject so transformative that current literature is almost nonexistent.