12月9日至10日，首届“多通道测光巡天望远镜(Mephisto)”科学研讨会在云南大学呈贡校区召开。此次研讨会由云南大学中国西南天文研究所和物理与天文学院联合举办。来自国内外19所科研院校和单位的66位专家学者应邀参加本次研讨会。云南大学副校长张力、中国西南天文研究所所长刘晓为、国家自然科学基金委数理学部副主任董国轩等出席会议并发表讲话。

作为云南大学中国西南天文研究所的一个重点在研项目，Mephisto将通过创新性的光学设计，在国际上首次实现较大通光口径、较大视场、多通道高精度测光巡天。此次研讨会围绕Mephisto的设计方案、巡天策略、台址选址及科学目标展开。

研讨会上，各专家学者结合自身的研究领域，以学术报告的形式为Mephisto的台址选择、相机研发、科学目标等建言献策，并进一步就Mephisto的海量数据存储与管理、高精度数据处理与定标、建立同其他观测设备的合作等问题展开详细讨论。

此次研讨会取得了丰硕成果，与会专家学者均对Mephisto表现出极大兴趣，并积极建言。研讨会的成功举办不仅扩大了研究所的影响力，也为加强研究所与国内各单位的合作、深化开展Mephisto的各项科学目标提供了重要平台。

On December 9th to 10th, 2017, the first Multi-channel Photometric Survey Telescope (Mephisto) workshop, organized by the South-Western Institute for Astronomy Research (SWIFAR), was held at Yunnan University. In total, 66 colleagues from 19 institutes participated the workshop. Dr. Li Zhang, the vice president of Yunnan University, Dr. Xiaowei Liu, the founding director of SWIFAR, and Dr. Guoxuan Dong, the associate director of Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), gave opening remarks.

Being a key project led by SWIFAR, Mephisto is planned to have a 1.6m primary mirror and a 3.14 deg2 field of view. Through innovative designs, it will be expected to be the first in the world that can realize wide-field observations simultaneously with 3 optical bands, resulting colored documentary of the sky.

During the workshop, participants discussed enthusiastically the potentials of using unique Mephisto data in a wide range of studies, from Solar system to cosmic structures. Suggestions on potential observing sites, camera design, and data management techniques were also presented. The workshop is an excellent starting point for the Mephisto project, which is well received by the community. With the support from Yunnan University and also from the community, we are working hard to push the project forward.

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