Conference Summary: AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

TL;DR

This conference summary reviews recent progress and emerging trends in AGN physics research facilitated by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, highlighting advances across multiple wavelengths and collaborative efforts.

Contribution

It synthesizes recent developments and identifies new standards and trends in AGN research based on discussions from the 2003 SDSS conference.

Findings

Significant progress in understanding AGN physics.

Emergence of new research standards.

Advances across radio to X-ray wavelengths.

Abstract

The ``AGN Physics with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey'' conference was held at Princeton University in July 2003 to bring together groups working inside and outside of the SDSS collaboration at radio through X-ray wavelengths to discuss the common goal of better understanding the physics of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Although we still do not have a full understanding of AGN, much progress has been made in recent years. In this conference summary, we concentrate on those topics discussed at the meeting where we believe that there has been significant change or where there is a new standard of comparison, as well as on important new trends in AGN research.