Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) Symposium: Clusters, Lensing, and the Future of the Universe, College Park, Maryland, June 26-28, 1995

该奖项将为1995年6月26日至28日在马里兰大学学院公园举行的“星团、蓝星和宇宙的未来”科学研讨会提供部分支持。马里兰大学天文学系将于1995年6月24日至28日主办太平洋天文学会（ASP）年会。作为本次会议的一部分，天文系全权负责组织一次科学研讨会。研讨会的题目是“星系团、透镜和宇宙的未来”。它将于1995年6月26日至28日在马里兰大学马里兰校区的学院公园举行。预计约有150名专业天文学家将出席和参加研讨会。人数较少且未知的业余天文学家也可能参加。这次研讨会的主要目的是把致力于现代天体物理学三个主要未解决问题的人们聚集在一起，期望这些问题（以及他们希望的解决方案）有共同的方面。粗略地说，这些问题可以概括为(a)我们应该如何描述宇宙中最大规模的结构？(b)这些结构是如何形成的，而不会在宇宙微波背景辐射中产生更强的印记？(c)标准宇宙学参数和暴胀宇宙模型参数的哪个值最能描述星系形成时期、现在和长期未来的宇宙？研讨会的预定形式包括约20次邀请发言者的评论，每一次都附有几次较短的发言；以及一些相关主题的海报论文。

9424246 Leventhal This award will provide partial support for a science symposium on "Clusters, Lensing, and the Future of the Universe", June 26-28, 1995, at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. The University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy, is hosting the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) from June 24-28, 1995. As part of this meeting, the Department of Astronomy has sole responsibility for organizing a Science Symposium. The title of the symposium is "Clusters, Lensing, and the Future of the Universe". It will be held at the College Park, Maryland campus of the University of Maryland from June 26 to 28 , 1995. It is anticipated that approximately 150 professional astronomers will attend and participate in the symposium. A smaller and unknown number of amateur astronomers are also likely to attend. The primary purpose of this symposium is to bring together people working on three of the major unsolved problems of modern astrophysics, in the expectation that the problems (and their hoped-for solutions) have aspects in common. Roughly, the questions can be phrased as (a) How should we describe the largest-scale structures in the universe? (b) How did the structures form without producing stronger imprints in the cosmic microwave background radiation? and (c) Which values of the standard cosmological parameters and of the inflationary universe model parameters best describe the universe during the epoch of galaxy formation, the present time, and the long range future? The intended format of the symposium includes about 20 reviews by invited speakers, each accompanied by a couple of shorter contributed talks; and a number of poster paper contributions on related topics.