Frontiers of Astronomy with the
World's Largest Radio Telescope
September 12-13, 2007, Washington, DC

The focus of the meeting is to explore scientific frontiers that require large collecting area and state of the art instrumentation over the next 5 to 15 years. It is expected that transformational science will involve a mixture of large-scale surveys, including those that go beyond the current ALFA surveys, and long-term monitoring, such as the timing of millisecond pulsars to detect nano-Hertz gravitational waves, as well as targetted projects. The meeting will form the basis for an Arecibo scientific and instrumentation roadmap that takes into account developments in electromagnetic and non-photonic astronomy and, in particular, development of the Square Kilometer Array.

Topics to be covered:

• PULSARS & FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS
• COSMOLOGY & GALAXY EVOLUTION
• GALACTIC STRUCTURE FORMATION & EVOLUTION
• PRECISION ASTROMETRY & HIGH RESOLUTION CONTEXTS
• TRANSIENTS & SETI
• NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS & THE ARECIBO RADAR
• EXPLOITING ARECIBO'S BREADTH of CAPABILITY
• INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT

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