Whistle Down The Wind

看会议的综述和PPT是学习的重要一部分，也是很有趣的一部分，开会本身也是很好玩的一件事情，看过Lonely Hearts Over Cosmos的人一定知道像在Colorado的Aspen开的不少会议都有很多重要的意义

08年Extragalactic Astronomy 重要会议

Surveys and Simulations of Large-Scale Structure: A Celebration of Marc Davis’ 60th Birthday
Date	Wednesday, 16 January 2008 - Friday, 18 January 2008
Location	Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley. California

网页：http://deep.berkeley.edu/davisfest/Davisfest08/Welcome.html

大牛过生日就是好，可以拉一堆大牛一起开会玩

Science with the new Hubble Space Telescope after Servicing Mission 4
Date	Tuesday, 29 January 2008 - Thursday, 31 January 2008
Location	Bologna, Italy

网页：http://www.iasfbo.inaf.it/bawhst/

不知道HST这样的会还能开多少

The Evolution of Galaxies through the Neutral Hydrogen Window
Date	Friday, 1 February 2008 - Sunday, 3 February 2008
Location	Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico

网页：http://www.naic.edu/~astro/hiconference/

这个我看了下Programe更像是冬季学校，当然，只是看题目……….

The Dark Side of the Universe through Extragalactic Gravitational Lensing
Date	Monday, 4 February 2008 - Friday, 8 February 2008
Location	Leiden, The Netherlands

网页：http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2008/286/info.php3?wsid=286

了解一些自己搞不懂的前沿热门也是没有坏处的

The First Two Billion Years of Galaxy Formation: The Reionization Epoch and Beyond
Date	Monday, 11 February 2008 - Friday, 15 February 2008
Location	Aspen, Colorado, USA

网页：http://www.ucolick.org/~gdi/AspenWinter08/

高红移现在是要多热有多热，不过在Aspen开会非常不好，貌似Lecture从来不放到网上

Nuclear Star Clusters across the Hubble Sequence
Date	Monday, 25 February 2008 - Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Location	Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany

网页：http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/NC08/

题目很好玩，看了下报告的题目，更好玩

38th Saas-Fee Advanced Course: Millimeter Astronomy
Date	Monday, 3 March 2008 - Saturday, 8 March 2008
Location	Les Diablerets, Switzerland

网页：http://obswww.unige.ch/saas-fee2008/

套用上面的话，毫米波和亚毫米波，现在要多热有多热

Star Formation Across the Milky Way Galaxy
Date	Monday, 3 March 2008 - Thursday, 6 March 2008
Location	Santiago de Chile

网页：http://www.sc.eso.org/santiago/science/MilkyWayStarFormation/

这个虽然不是Extragalactic…但是毕竟银河系是白给我们的标本嘛

When the Universe Formed Stars
Date	Friday, 14 March 2008 - Thursday, 20 March 2008
Location	La Martinique Island, France

网页：http://nirvana.oamp.fr/conf/martiniq08/

现在还看不到Programe，不过貌似很有意思，而且用Nirvana做会议题目很引人遐想

Galactic Structure and the Structure of Galaxies
Date	Monday, 17 March 2008 - Friday, 21 March 2008
Location	Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

网页：http://www.galaxiesconf.org/

牛人超多，我一直觉得没有什么比在Mexico这样一个热情四溢，美女如云的国家讨论天文更爽的事情了

Deep Surveys of the Radio Universe with SKA Pathfinders
Date	Monday, 31 March 2008 - Friday, 4 April 2008
Location	Perth, Australia

网页：http://ska2008.ivec.org/

可能对很多科学家来说，SKA这样的计划就是一辈子的梦想了

Astronomy in the Next Decade: Synergies with the Square Kilometre Array
Date	Monday, 14 April 2008 - Friday, 18 April 2008
Location	Bonn, Germany

网页：http://www.mpifr.de/div/mcct-skads/

同上，上个会议貌似更注重技术，这个更注意科学规划

Galaxy Formation as Revealed by Cosmic Gas
Date	Thursday, 17 April 2008 - Saturday, 19 April 2008
Location	University of California, Irvine

网页：http://www.physics.uci.edu/Galaxy-Formation/details.html

还没有Programe，仅仅是感兴趣

The Warm & Hot Universe
Date	Wednesday, 7 May 2008 - Friday, 9 May 2008
Location	Columbia University, New York City

网页：http://warmhot.gsfc.nasa.gov/

The Fifth Harvard-Smithsonian Conference for Theoretical Astrophysics, 21cm Cosmology?
Date	Monday, 12 May 2008 - Thursday, 15 May 2008
Location	Cambridge, MA, USA

网页：http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2008/cos2008/

牛人很多，看到了Xiaohui,Fan和Xiangping,Wu的名字

The X-ray Universe 2008
Date	Tuesday, 27 May 2008 - Friday, 30 May 2008
Location	Granada, Spain

网页： http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/workshops/2008symposium/

The Central Kiloparsec: Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Hosts
Date	Wednesday, 4 June 2008 - Friday, 6 June 2008
Location	Elounda, Crete, Greece

网页：http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/vlbi/ckp08/

IAU Symposium No. 254: The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context
Date	Monday, 9 June 2008 - Friday, 13 June 2008
Location	http://www.nbi.dk/IAU254/

网页：http://www.nbi.dk/IAU254/

这个也是绝对看不到Presentation的，不过还是很感兴趣的，BTW，这次会议是向Stromgren致敬的回忆，那个o上面应该还有两个点的

Gas and Stars in Galaxies:A Multi-Wavelength 3D Perspective
Date	Tuesday, 10 J une 2008 - Friday, 13 June 2008
Location	ESO, Garching, Germany

网页： http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/gal3D2008/

很感兴趣的题目，貌似R.Kennicutt是组织者

后半年的这些会议还有些没有确定和定下报告计划的

IAU Symposium 255 : Low-Metallicity Star Formation: From the First Stars to Dwarf Galaxies
Date	Monday, 16 June 2008 - Friday, 20 June 2008
Location	Rapallo (GE), Liguria (Italy)

网页：http://www.arcetri.astro.it/iaus255/

非常感兴趣的题目，尤其是Low-Metallicity IMF那一节，到时候一定要把PPT给我放上来

Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era
Date	Tuesday, 8 July 2008 - Friday, 11 July 2008
Location	Cambridge, MA

网页： http://cxc.harvard.edu/radiogals08/

The Astrophysics of Clusters of Galaxies
Date	Tuesday, 15 July 2008 - Friday, 25 July 2008
Location	Varenna, Italy

网页：还没有….

The Role of Disk-Halo Interaction in Galaxy Evolution: Outflow vs. Infall?
Date	Monday, 18 August 2008 - Friday, 22 August 2008
Location	Espinho, Portugal

网页：http://disk-halo2008.multimeios.pt/

Probing Stellar Populations out to the Distant Universe
Date	Sunday, 7 September 2008 - Friday, 19 September 2008
Location	Cefalu’ (Sicily), Italy

网页： http://www.oa-roma.inaf.it/cefalu2008/

Back to the Galaxy II
Date	Monday, 29 September 2008 - Friday, 3 October 2008
Location	KITP, UC Santa Barbara

网页：http://www.ctcp.caltech.edu/BTMW/

会议主题是，Building the Milky Way…….主页上什么都没有，只有一行字：
No doubt this will be the most important meeting in the history of science…………..
靠，开个会还玩什么神秘

400 Years of Astronomical Telescopes - A Review of History, Science and Technology
Date	Monday, 29 September 2008 - Thursday, 2 October 2008
Location	ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

网页：

这个……和河外天文没有直接联系，不过的确很感兴趣

Local Group Cosmology : XX Canary Island Winter School of Astrophysics
Date	Monday, 17 November 2008 - Friday, 28 November 2008
Location	Tenerife, Canary Island, Spain

网页：还没，联系人：ddelgado@iac.es

06年的Emission Line Universe很棒，08年的题目也很好，不知道能不能申请？