A Workshop on The Nature and Evolution of Disks around Hot Stars, to be held at Eastern Tennessee State University July 7-9, 2004

这个关于热恒星周围盘的性质和演化的研讨会定于2004年7月举行，为期三天，将由东田纳西州立大学（Johnson City， TN）主办。出席人数限制在60-75人左右。这是第一次把热恒星盘作为一个整体来讨论。最近观测数据的改进和新的理论发展使得召开这样一次会议的时机已经成熟。每天有三个会议，分别是磁盘的属性、星盘连接和热恒星中的磁场。一些更广泛地涉及磁盘物理和较冷恒星的磁盘的讲座被包括在内，以促进该学科的交叉受精。小组形式的会议安排在下午早些时候就这些主题进行小组讨论。会议的一个独特组成部分是在下午晚些时候的“焦点会议”，本质上是辅导课，给会议增添了一种“暑期学校的味道”。重点主题包括诊断、建模问题和光学/红外干涉测量。焦点会议旨在引起研究生和初级科学家的兴趣，并为这些特定领域的非专业人员提供信息。研讨会的会议记录将与ASP会议系列一起出版，会议综述和海报的摘要将通过互联网发布。＊＊＊

AST-0423719Ignace, RichardThis workshop on The Nature and Evolution of Disks around Hot Stars is scheduled for three days, in July 2004, and will be hosted by East Tennessee State University (Johnson City, TN). Attendance is limited to about 60-75 participants. This is the first meeting that has focussed entirely on the disks of hot stars as a class. Recent improvements in observational data and new theoretical developments make the time right for just such a meeting. Each day there are three sessions, falling under the themes Properties of Disks, The Star-Disk Connection, and Magnetic Fields in Hot Stars. Some talks that deal more generally with disk physics and disks of cooler stars, are included to promote cross-fertilization in the discipline. A panel format session orchestrates group discussion on these topics in the early afternoons. A unique component of the meeting is the inclusion of "Focus Sessions" in the late afternoons that are tutorial in nature, lending a kind of "summer-school flavor" to the meeting. The focus topics include Diagnostics, Modeling Issues, and Optical/IR Interferometry. The Focus Sessions are designed to interest graduate students and junior scientists, as well as providing information for non-specialists in these particular areas. Proceedings for the workshop will be published with the ASP Conference Series, and abstracts for the review talks and poster contributions will be made available through the internet. ***