Conference: From Stars to Galaxies - Connecting our Understanding of Star and Galaxy Formation; April 2010; Gainesville, Florida

会议：从恒星到星系——连接我们对恒星和星系形成的理解；

• 批准号: 0944019
• 负责人: Jonathan Tan
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-10-01 至 2010-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0944019&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Stars; Galaxies; Connecting; our

This award will provide travel grants for graduate students and invited speakers to participate in the international conference "From Stars to Galaxies - Connecting our Understanding of Star and Galaxy Formation", to be hosted by the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, Florida on April 7 - 10, 2010. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from the often separate star and galaxy formation communities to share recent research results and help motivate future projects to improve our understanding of these processes. The meeting comes at a time when many exciting results are appearing from large, high resolution surveys of our Galaxy's star-forming regions. Properties of individual stars and protostars can be determined to build up an accurate census of the star formation activity in entire giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and GMC populations, thus probing the questions: what drives star formation and how does it proceed in different environments such as the local solar neighborhood, dense stellar clusters, and the Galactic center region? At the same time a large number of nearby galaxies have now had their star formation activity and gas content resolved down to sub-kiloparsec scales, providing a wealth of information to test theories of star formation on these larger scales. With increasing computational resources, theoretical and numerical models are catching up to try to explain these observations.As a part of the conference program, there will be a public event, "Starry Night: Building the Galaxies" to be held at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus, featuring a few public lectures by selected conference participants, star viewing, and planetarium tours. This event will follow the same format as the successful Starry Night events organized previously by Dr. Jonathan Tan (UF) and his collaborators, involving the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Museum Nights student organization and the Alachua Astronomy Club, with attendances surpassing 600 people, including many school children. In addition, the presentations of the conference speakers will be posted on the conference web site, which will provide a valuable electronic resource for the attendees and other astrophysicists unable to attend the meeting in person.

该奖项将为研究生和受邀演讲者提供旅费补助，以参加由佛罗里达大学 (UF) 于 2010 年 4 月 7 日至 10 日在佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔主办的国际会议“从恒星到星系 - 连接我们对恒星和星系形成的理解”。本次会议的目标是将来自通常独立的恒星和星系形成社区的研究人员聚集在一起，分享最新的研究成果，并帮助激励未来的项目，以提高我们对这些过程的理解。这次会议召开之际，对银河系恒星形成区域进行的大型高分辨率调查正在得出许多令人兴奋的结果。可以确定单个恒星和原恒星的属性，以建立对整个巨分子云（GMC）和GMC群体中恒星形成活动的准确普查，从而探讨以下问题：是什么驱动恒星形成以及恒星形成在不同环境（例如当地太阳邻域、密集星团和银河中心区域）中如何进行？与此同时，大量附近星系的恒星形成活动和气体含量现已解析到亚千秒差距尺度，为在这些更大尺度上检验恒星形成理论提供了丰富的信息。随着计算资源的增加，理论和数值模型正在迎头赶上，试图解释这些观测结果。作为会议计划的一部分，佛罗里达大学校园内的佛罗里达自然历史博物馆将举办一场名为“星夜：建造星系”的公共活动，其中包括由选定的会议参与者进行的一些公开讲座、观星和天文馆之旅。此次活动将采用与 Jonathan Tan 博士（佛罗里达大学）及其合作者之前成功举办的星夜活动相同的形式，涉及佛罗里达自然历史博物馆、博物馆之夜学生组织和阿拉楚阿天文学俱乐部，出席人数超过 600 人，其中包括许多小学生。 此外，会议发言人的演讲将发布在会议网站上，这将为与会者和其他无法亲自参加会议的天体物理学家提供宝贵的电子资源。