2019年4月1日-3日，首届东陆天体物理论坛在云南大学新落成启用的天文楼报告厅召开。来自澳大利亚国立大学、北京大学、莫斯科大学、南京大学、清华大学、日内瓦大学、中国科学院国家天文台、紫金山天文台等国内外26个科研机构和高等院校的专家学者参加了此次论坛。云南大学副校长张力教授主持开幕式，云南大学校长林文勋教授、云南天文台台长白金明研究员、云南大学中国西南天文研究所所长刘晓为教授分别致欢迎辞。

此次论坛以“大规模巡天时代：近场宇宙学和时域天文”为主题。与会专家学者介绍了国内外在建和未来的大视场测光及时域巡天项目，并就相关天文数据处理方法、银河系结构和化学性质、变源和系外行星以及时域天文学等前沿科学问题进行交流，并围绕云南大学在建的1.6米多通道测光巡天望远镜(Mephisto)展开热烈讨论，为其巡天策略、数据分析及科学研究建言献策。

此次论坛系云南大学新天文楼落成后举办的第一次国际学术研讨会。论坛的召开为促进Mephisto项目的发展，加强与国内外其他天文单位的合作起到了重要的推动作用。

From April 1st to 3rd, 2019, the first Donglu Astrophysics Forum was held in the auditorium of the new Astronomy building at Yunnan University. About 150 researchers and students from 26 international and domestic institutes and universities participated the conference. President of Yunnan University Prof. Wenxun Lin, Director of Yunnan Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences Dr. Jinming Bai, and Director of SWIFAR Prof. Xiaowei Liu, delivered welcome speeches at the opening ceremony, chaired by Vice President of Yunnan University Prof. Li Zhang.

The subject of this forum is: The era of large-scale sky surveys: near field cosmology and time domain science. The participants introduced ongoing and upcoming large-scale surveys, discussed data processing methodology and techniques, and presented frontier research on Galactic studies, time-domain astronomy and cosmology. Mephisto science and data analysis strategies were also intensively discussed. 

This forum was the first international conference organized by SWIFAR after the new Astronomy building was brought into use. It further enhanced the international and domestic collaborations of SWIFAR, and provided a boost for the development of Mephisto project.