The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Asteroids to Cosmology, Chicago, IL

在八年的观测中，斯隆数字巡天计划（SDSS）为天文学的许多领域做出了贡献，从我们太阳系中不同小行星家族的识别到最遥远的发光类星体的发现，绘制了我们银河系中令人惊讶的复杂恒星分布和追踪宇宙中最大尺度结构的星系分布。 这次范围广泛的专题讨论会将审查进展和前景，将SDSS和其他主要调查的观测贡献与结果的理论解释相结合，并讨论下一代大型天文调查项目的计划。 组织者计划有200名参与者，其中大约一半来自SDSS协作组织（该组织本身有大约300名科学参与者），另一半来自其他地方。 七个主要的科学会议将是：太阳系，恒星，银河系及其邻居，银河系，类星体，大规模结构和星系团，超新星宇宙学。 会议将包括特邀评论，贡献的演讲和海报展示。会议的主要目标是回顾斯隆数字巡天15年来的成果，并向更广泛的社区展示这些成果。 这笔赠款的资金将用于资助学生参与者的注册费和差旅费。

Over eight years of observations, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has contributed to many fields of astronomy, from the identification of distinct families of asteroids in our own solar system to the discovery of the most distant luminous quasars, mapping both the surprisingly complex distribution of stars in our own Milky Way and the distribution of galaxies that trace the largest scale structures in the Universe. This broad-ranging symposium will review progress and prospects, integrating observational contributions from the SDSS and from other major surveys with theoretical interpretation of the results, and to discuss plans for the next generation of large astronomical survey projects. The organizers plan on 200 participants, about half of them from the SDSS Collaboration (which itself has some 300 scientific participants) and half from elsewhere. The seven main science sessions will be: The Solar System, Stars, The Milky Way and Its Neighbors, Galaxies, Quasars, Large-Scale Structure and Galaxy Clusters, and Supernova Cosmology. Sessions will include invited reviews, contributed talks, and poster presentations.The major goal of the conference is to review results from the 15-year effort on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and present these to the broader community. Funds from this grant will support reduced registration fees and travel expenses for student participants.