2007 Adaptive Optics Roadmap Update Meeting

该奖项将资助一个重要的研讨会，该研讨会与美国未来十年的天文自适应光学高度相关。这是2000年和2004年举办的前两次讲习班的及时后续活动。本次研讨会的任务是：1)根据AO路线图目标（2004年更新）评估技术进展；2)评估自适应光学投资的国际竞争环境；3)整合1 ~ 30米口径望远镜AO发展目标；4)推荐下一轮自适应光学发展计划提案征集的优先领域。该路线图将1)提供自适应光学技术现状的总结，以指导对高角分辨率科学主题感兴趣的新入学天文学研究生的教育和研究领域；2)为教育工作者提供资源，包括研究生和本科生，就当前天文学的突出问题开展研讨会级别的课程；3)通过描述天文学家感兴趣的关键技术，为教育、商业和政府研究机构提供明确的社区指导。

This award is to fund a critical workshop highly relevant to the future of astronomical adaptive optics in the US over the next decade. This is a timely follow-up to two previous workshops held in 2000 and 2004. The charge of this workshop is to 1) Evaluate technical progress against the AO Roadmap goals (as updated in 2004); 2) Assess the competitive international environment for adaptive optics investment; 3) Integrate AO development goals for telescopes of apertures from 1 to 30 meters; and 4) Recommend priority areas for the next round of Adaptive Optics Development Program proposal solicitation(s).This roadmap will 1) Provide a summary of the state of adaptive optics technology that will guide the educational and research areas of newly enrolling astronomy graduate students interested in high-angular-resolution science topics; 2) Provide a resource for educators, both graduate level and undergraduate, conducting seminar-level courses on current outstanding questions in astronomy; and 3) Give clear community guidance to educational, commercial, and governmental research organizations by describing the technologies of critical interest to astronomers.