Conference: From Stars to Galaxies - Connecting our Understanding of Star and Galaxy Formation; April 2010; Gainesville, Florida

该奖项将为研究生和受邀演讲者提供旅行赠款，以参加2010年4月7日至10日在佛罗里达盖恩斯维尔由佛罗里达大学（UF）主办的国际会议“从星星到星系-连接我们对星星和星系形成的理解”。本次会议的目标是将来自通常独立的星星和星系形成社区的研究人员聚集在一起，分享最近的研究成果，并帮助激励未来的项目，以提高我们对这些过程的理解。这次会议是在我们银河系恒星形成区的大型高分辨率调查中出现许多令人兴奋的结果的时候召开的。单个恒星和原恒星的性质可以被确定，以建立一个准确的人口普查的星星的形成活动在整个巨大的分子云（GMC）和GMC人口，从而探讨的问题：是什么驱动星星的形成，以及它是如何进行在不同的环境，如当地的太阳附近，密集的星团，银河系中心区域？与此同时，大量邻近星系的星星形成活动和气体含量现在已经分解到千秒差距以下的尺度，为在这些更大尺度上测试星星形成理论提供了丰富的信息。随着计算资源的增加，理论和数值模型正在迎头赶上，试图解释这些观测结果。作为会议计划的一部分，将有一个公共活动，“星空：建立银河系”将在佛罗里达大学校园的佛罗里达自然历史博物馆举行，精选的会议参与者，星星观赏，和天文馆图尔斯旅游的一些公开讲座。本次活动将遵循相同的格式作为成功的星夜活动之前举办的博士乔纳森谭（UF）和他的合作者，涉及自然历史的佛罗里达博物馆，博物馆之夜学生组织和阿拉楚阿天文俱乐部，与出席人数超过600人，其中包括许多学童。 此外，会议发言人的发言将张贴在会议网站上，这将为与会者和其他无法亲自出席会议的天体物理学家提供宝贵的电子资源。

This award will provide travel grants for graduate students and invited speakers to participate in the international conference "From Stars to Galaxies - Connecting our Understanding of Star and Galaxy Formation", to be hosted by the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, Florida on April 7 - 10, 2010. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from the often separate star and galaxy formation communities to share recent research results and help motivate future projects to improve our understanding of these processes. The meeting comes at a time when many exciting results are appearing from large, high resolution surveys of our Galaxy's star-forming regions. Properties of individual stars and protostars can be determined to build up an accurate census of the star formation activity in entire giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and GMC populations, thus probing the questions: what drives star formation and how does it proceed in different environments such as the local solar neighborhood, dense stellar clusters, and the Galactic center region? At the same time a large number of nearby galaxies have now had their star formation activity and gas content resolved down to sub-kiloparsec scales, providing a wealth of information to test theories of star formation on these larger scales. With increasing computational resources, theoretical and numerical models are catching up to try to explain these observations.As a part of the conference program, there will be a public event, "Starry Night: Building the Galaxies" to be held at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus, featuring a few public lectures by selected conference participants, star viewing, and planetarium tours. This event will follow the same format as the successful Starry Night events organized previously by Dr. Jonathan Tan (UF) and his collaborators, involving the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Museum Nights student organization and the Alachua Astronomy Club, with attendances surpassing 600 people, including many school children. In addition, the presentations of the conference speakers will be posted on the conference web site, which will provide a valuable electronic resource for the attendees and other astrophysicists unable to attend the meeting in person.