A Symposium on Seeing; Waikoloa - Hawaii, Hawaii; Winter 2007

该奖项是为一个关于提高我们对大气光学湍流对地面天文学影响的理解的会议颁发的。近年来，人们越来越努力地观察和量化大气湍流和折射率梯度对不同波长望远镜图像稳定性的影响。与此同时，最近在模拟这些大气效应方面取得了进展，以支持缓解望远镜图像退化的方法方面的进展。这是取得进一步进展的重大机会，这将通过一次关于可持续发展的专题讨论会来促进。专题讨论会将汇聚大气光学湍流构成的复杂挑战的各个方面的专家。

This award is for a conference on improving our understanding of the impact of atmospheric optical turbulence on Earth-based astronomy. There have been increased efforts in recent years to observe and quantify the effects of atmospheric turbulence and refractivity gradients on telescope image stability at various wavelengths. At the same time, there has been recent progress in modeling these atmospheric effects to support advances in methods that mitigate resulting telescope image degradation. There is significant opportunity for further progress, which would be facilitated by a symposium on seeing. The symposium would bring together experts in the various facets of the complex challenge posed by atmospheric optical turbulence.