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

这个奖项是为了表彰一个会议，该会议旨在提高我们对大气光学湍流对地球天文学的影响的理解。近年来，人们越来越努力地观测和量化大气湍流和折射梯度对不同波长望远镜成像稳定性的影响。与此同时，最近在模拟这些大气效应方面取得了进展，以支持减轻望远镜图像退化的方法的进步。有很大的机会取得进一步的进展，关于视觉的专题讨论会将促进这一进展。该专题讨论会将汇集大气光学乱流所带来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.