AAS Presentations
AAS #237 virtual meeting, January 2021
US-ELTP session (14 January 2021)
- The US ELT Program: Building a Unique Capability for the US Community
- Patrick McCarthy (NOIRLab) - US-ELTP User Services: Enabling Transformational Community Research
- Mark Dickinson (NOIRLab) - US-ELTP Research Inclusion Initiative
- Dara Norman (NOIRLab) - Thirty Meter Telescope Project Status
- Fengchuan Liu (TMT International Observatory) - Giant Magellan Telescope Project Status
- James Fanson (GMTO) - Discussion
AAS #235, Honolulu, January 2020
Evening US-ELTP open house (5 January 2020)
- The US ELT Program - Patrick J. McCarthy (NOIRLab)
- The US ELT Program: Capabilities - Rebecca Bernstein (GMTO and Carnegie Observatories)
- Revealing the Dark and Hidden Universe with the US ELT Program - Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley)
Daytime US-ELTP session (7 January 2020)
- The US ELT Program - Patrick J. McCarthy (NOIRLab)
- Status of the Giant Magellan Telescope Project - James Fanson (GMTO)
- Status of the Thirty Meter Telescope Project - Michael Bolte (U.C. Santa Cruz)
- US-ELTP: Extrasolar Planetary Systems - Nikole Lewis (Cornell) and Quinn Konopacky (UC San Diego)
- Dynamical Searches for Black Holes with ELTs - Jonelle Walsh (Texas A\&M)
- US-ELTP: Cosmological Applications of Gravitational Lensing - Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (Univ. of New Mexico)
AAS #233, Seattle, January 2019
Daytime US-ELTP session presentations (7 January 2019)
- The US Extremely Large Telescope Program - David Silva (NOAO)
- Extrasolar Planets: Formation, Discovery & Characterization - Quinn Konopacky (UC San Diego) & Nikole Lewis (Cornell)
- The First Stars and the Origin of the Elements - Ian Roederer (University of Michigan)
- Origins and Fundamental Physics of Supermassive Black Holes - Jenny Greene (Princeton University)
- Dissecting Galaxy Assembly at Cosmic Noon from 1 Mpc to 100 pc Scales - Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh)
- The Nature of Dark Matter - Josh Simon (Carnegie Observatories)
- Discovery Frontiers in Time-Domain Astrophysics: Multi-Messenger Astronomy - Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern University).
Evening US-ELTP open house presentations (7 January 2019)
- The Giant Magellan Telescope - Rebecca Bernstein (GMTO and Carnegie Observatories)
- The Thirty Meter Telescope - Shelley Wright (UC San Diego)
- The US Extremely Large Telescope Program - Debra Elmegreen (Vassar College; AURA)
Updated: 7 June 2021