Chandrasekhar Centennial Symposium; Chicago, IL; October 16-17, 2010

这笔奖金将用于参加将于2010年10月16日至17日在芝加哥大学举行的科学研讨会，以纪念Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar诞辰100周年。作为诺贝尔奖得主，钱德拉塞卡因其最早的研究成果而闻名，该研究表明白矮星的质量不能大于“钱德拉塞卡极限”，这一结果在当前对恒星演化、超新星和引力坍缩的理解中起着核心作用。完成这项工作后，钱德拉塞卡又相继进行了恒星结构、恒星动力学、辐射传递、等离子体物理、流体力学和磁流体力学、牛顿引力下旋转体平衡解等方面的分析。然后，他把生命最后35年的大部分时间都投入到广义相对论的研究中，他在后牛顿分析、黑洞理论和许多其他领域做出了重大贡献。研讨会将汇集国际领先的物理学家和天体物理学家，对他的工作进行透视，并阐明他的工作在当前研究中的许多分支。研讨会应该为参加的学生和博士后提供一个关于广义相对论和天体物理学的一些关键研究领域的优秀介绍。这可能是一个足够“高调”的事件，吸引当地、全国和国际媒体的注意，从而引起更广泛的公众对钱德拉塞卡工作的更大兴趣。

This award supports travel to a scientific symposium to be held October 16 - 17, 2010 at the University of Chicago in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. A Nobel Prize winner, Chandrasekhar is best known for his earliest work showing that white dwarf stars cannot have a mass greater than the "Chandrasekhar limit," a result that plays a central role in current understanding of stellar evolution, supernovae, and gravitational collapse. After completing this work, Chandrasekhar went on, successively, to the analysis of stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative transfer, plasma physics, hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics, and equilibrium solutions for rotating bodies in Newtonian gravity. He then devoted most of the last thirty-five years of his life to research in general relativity, where he made major contributions to post-Newtonian analysis, the theory of black holes, and many other areas. The symposium will bring together internationally leading physicists and astrophysicists to put his work in perspective and elucidate many of the ramifications of his work in current research. The symposium should provide an excellent introduction to some key areas of research in general relativity and astrophysics for students and postdocs who participate. It may be a sufficiently "high profile" event to attract attention in the local, national, and international media, leading to greater interest by the broader public in the work of Chandrasekhar.