Great Surveys of Astronomy Workshop
This meeting brought together the community to talk about common issues such as scientific goals, survey strategy, telescope and information technology, follow-up observations, coordination of Multi-wavelength resources, theoretical frameworks, simulations, data management, data products, and other cross-cutting problems or solutions. Over 70 participants representing projects and research interests spanning wavelength, technique, astrophysical area, and primary funding agency attended the 3 day workshop.
The Great Surveys of Astronomy Workshop was held 20-22 November 2008 in Santa Fe, NM and was sponsored by the LANL Institute for Advanced Study (as part of the ACCent focus-activity center) and Associated Universities Inc. (AUI). To summarize the spirit of the meeting: "This meeting will bring together the key workers in the field to exchange ideas, and identify areas of cooperation, complementarity, and coordination between surveys and with the greater astronomical community. The vision is for a future where a variety of surveys and follow-up programs are underway and flourishing."
There were no formal conference proceedings, but the themes of the meeting were summarized in the "Great Surveys of Astronomy" white paper submitted as input to the U.S. National Academies Astro2010 Decadal Survey (http://sites.nationalacademies.org/bpa/BPA_049810), and made available at the Astro2010 website and on the ArXiv preprint server: http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.2593 The agenda and talks from the meeting can be found online at the conference website: http://t8web.lanl.gov/people/salman/grsurveys
Contact: Steven T. Myers, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, smyers@nrao.edu
Salman Habib, Los Alamos National Laboratory, habib@lanl.gov
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