The Monster's Fiery Breath: Black Hole Feedback in Galaxies, Galaxy Groups, and Galaxy Clusters; Summer 2009; U.Wisconsin-Madison

怪物的炽热呼吸：星系、星系群和星系团中的黑洞反馈；2009年6月1日至5日；威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校。大量的工作已经得出这样的结论：黑洞反馈在星系的演化和它们所处的大尺度环境中起着至关重要的作用。然而，目前还不清楚什么时候反馈是最重要的，或者它是否是一种可行的方式来提供加热星团、星群和星系所需的能量。这次会议将把该领域的顶尖研究人员聚集在一起，讨论目前的技术状况，并提出在迈出下一大步之前必须解决的关键问题：一个基于观测的、定量的、自一致的黑洞反馈图像。这个由理论家、数字学家和观测者组成的小组，应该在结构形成的背景下，综合出一个更全面的黑洞生长图景，明确定义突出的理论和观测问题，并让下一代科学家参与讨论天体物理学的前沿问题。由于他们积极的招聘工作，组织者希望来自代表性不足群体的学生能积极参与。会议包括与会议发言人共进午餐和公开演讲，将会议重点放在广泛的公众听众可以访问的背景下。

AST-0855306WilcotsThe Monster's Fiery Breath: Black Hole Feedback in Galaxies, Galaxy Groups, and Galaxy Clusters; June 1-5, 2009; University of Wisconsin-Madison.A large body of work has led to the conclusion that black hole feedback can play a critical role in the evolution of galaxies and of the large scale environment in which they reside. However, it remains unclear when feedback is most important, or even if it is a viable way to deliver the energy needed to heat clusters, groups, and galaxies. This meeting will bring the leading researchers in this field together, to debate the state of the art and to formulate the critical questions that must be addressed before the next big step: an observationally grounded, quantitative, self-consistent picture of black hole feedback. This assembly of theorists, numericists, and observers, should synthesize a more comprehensive picture of black hole growth in the context of structure formation, define clearly the outstanding theoretical and observational issues, and engage the next generation of scientists in discussing a frontier problem of astrophysics.The organizers expect significant involvement by students from underrepresented groups, due to their active recruitment effort. The meeting includes undergraduate lunches with conference speakers and a public lecture, to place conference highlights into a context accessible to a broad, public audience.