Objective
'Tracing matter' in astrophysics is about finding the very ingredients and recipe of the Universe: how did the chunks of matter we see (stars, galaxies, quasars, etc) and don't see (the so-called 'dark' matter) come to form and evolve into today's sky?
Observational cosmology - the field of astrophysics we propose to cover in this High-Level Scientific Conference - has become a prominent area of European scientific research in recent years. Observational cosmology has indeed undergone a spectacular expansion in the last 10 years, due to the great technological progress in astronomical instrumentation. New sensitive, wide-field detectors and multi-object spectrographs on large telescopes now provide astronomers with a wealth of data at all wavelengths of the electro-magnetic spectrum. After decades of mostly theoretical research, due to the sparsity of the data, cosmologists are now flooded with truly astronomical amounts of images and spectra, allowing them to reconstruct three-dimensional pictures of increasing volumes of the Universe.
In the 90's, spectroscopic surveys of a few thousand objects unveiled, for the first time, a patch of the distant Universe. A new generation of surveys, sampling millions of galaxies, is now underway, currently tracing the baryonic content of the Universe to unprecedented distances, allowing us to probe the very origin of the Cosmos. Results from these surveys will become available next year. We are thus planning to organize a High-Level Scientific Conference in Marseille (France) in June 2001, to bring together the leading experts and the many up-and-coming young researchers in the field. The proposed meeting aims at offering the community the opportunity to present these exciting new discoveries, to discuss their theoretical interpretations, compare and develop new data analysis methods, and finally coordinate and optimise future worldwide research in the field of observational cosmology.
ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/improving/docs/HPCF-2000-00274-1.pdf(opens in new window)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences data science
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy astrophysics dark matter
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy physical cosmology
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