Photometric Redshifts and High‐Redshift Galaxies

The Workshop "Photometric Redshifts and High‐Redshift Galaxies" was held at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in Pasadena, California, on 1999 April 28–30. The 70 participants were greeted with atypically cool, overcast weather, but this did not cloud or dampen the discussions. The application of photometric redshift techniques and studies of high‐redshift galaxies are evolving so rapidly that the time seemed right to gather together the active workers in these fields and determine what is the current state of the art. Ray Weymann posed several questions that were the motivating factors in convening the workshop. Although we did not expect all of them to be answered in this forum, they provide a framework in which to examine current work and focus our future efforts.