U.S. - Japan Joint Seminar: Cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

O244144 Carlstrom该奖项支持美国科学家参与美国- 2003年6月16日至20日在日本清里举行关于宇宙学与Sunyaev-Zel'dovich效应的日本联合研讨会。 共同组织者是芝加哥大学的John Carlstrom教授和日本东京上智大学的Naoki Itoh教授。 会议将汇集来自美国和日本的研究科学家，这两个国家的新仪器和技术以及这一科学领域的新理论发展正在成为宇宙学的强大探测器。 日本的与会者将包括拉希德·A博士。Sunyaev，田野之父。 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich效应是宇宙微波背景辐射（大爆炸的残余辉光）在穿越宇宙时与大尺度结构相互作用而产生的一种小的光谱畸变。 SZE可以作为一个强有力的宇宙学探针，因为它提供了一个敏感的宇宙结构的形成和演化历史的探针。 共同组织者在该领域具有互补的科学专门知识。 这使他们能够评估和吸引最好的物理科学家参与。 预计新的SZE调查提供了一种独立的方法来探测神秘的暗能量的性质，这种暗能量被认为是当今宇宙中占主导地位的能量密度，但却无法用传统物理学来解释。 研讨会的组织者作出了特别努力，使大量的博士后和研究生作为与会者和观察员参加。 与该领域的日本专家交流想法和数据将使美国参与者能够推进自己的工作，并为未来的合作项目奠定基础。 研讨会之后，组织者计划建立一个研讨会网页。 会议记录将在本网站上公布。

O244144CarlstromThis award supports the participation of American scientists in a U.S.-Japan joint seminar on cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) to be held in Kiyosato, Japan from June 16-20, 2003. The co-organizers are Professor John Carlstrom at the University of Chicago and Professor Naoki Itoh at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting will bring together research scientists from the U.S. and Japan, two countries where new instrumentation and technologies, as well as new theoretical developments in this area of science are now emerging as a powerful probe of cosmology. The Japanese participants will include Dr. Rashid A. Sunyaev, the father of the field. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect is a small spectral distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (the remnant glow from the big bang) due to its interaction with large-scale structure as the radiation traversed the universe. The SZE can be used as a powerful probe of cosmology as it provides a sensitive probe of the formation and evolution history of structure in the universes. The co-organizers have complementary scientific expertise in the field. This enables them to evaluate and attract the best physical scientists to participate. It is expected that the new SZE surveys offer an independent method for probing the properties of the enigmatic dark energy which is believe to be the dominate energy density in the universe today and yet defies explanation by conventional physics. The seminar organizers have made a special effort to involve a large number of postdocs and graduate students as both participants and observers. The exchange of ideas and data with Japanese experts in the field will enable U.S. participants to advance their own work, and will set the stage for future collaborative projects. Following the seminar the organizers plan to establish a workshop web page. Conference proceedings will be published on this web site.